Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Love is good. It's positive, a source of joy, nourishment and all over goodness. But sometimes other more malevolent forces come to play. They infect that love, they see their form as better. Instinctively we would shy away but sometimes its pull is too powerful, almost attractive. We are drawn closer into the shadows.

1 - Dark Love - Short Stories - An Introduction

2 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol

3 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

5 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

6 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France

7 - From the Dead by Edith Nesbit

8 - Lost in a Pyramid (or, The Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

9 - Amour Dure - Part 1 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

10 - Amour Dure - Part 2 by Violet Paget writing as Vernon Lee

11 - The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling

12 - The Force of Blood by Miguel de Cervantes

13 - Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu

14 - The Dream Woman by Wilkie Collins

15 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

16 - The Devil's Mother-in-Law by Fernan Caballeron

17 - An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr

18 - The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce

19 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards

20 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit

21 - The Second Generation by Algernon Blackwood

22 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach

23 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach

24 - The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet

25 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman

26 - Uncle Abraham's Romance by Edith Nesbit

27 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee

28 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee