"Pull up a velvet chair. The candles are lit, the pages turn slowly tonight — Dracula upstairs, Carmilla in the parlour, Edgar Allan Poe by the hearth."
Bram Stoker · 1897
Mary Shelley · 1818
Emily Brontë · 1847
Oscar Wilde · 1890
Stevenson · 1886
Walpole · 1764
Radcliffe · 1794
Matthew Lewis · 1796
Maturin · 1820
Le Fanu · 1872
Collins · 1859
All the tales
Ghost stories
The river madness
Candle-gold accents, a serif face made for lamp light, and the warm texture of an aged book. Reading as it should feel.
Every tale opens with a one-paragraph atmospheric invitation written for this app — a curator's whisper before the page turns.
Tap any underlined archaic word — wight, ghoul, charnel — and a period-appropriate definition appears inline.
Mark passages and leave margin notes the way a Victorian reader once did. Your annotations live in the text.
Period illustrations that have always lived between the chapters. Pre-1928 engravings and drawings from the original editions.
A fresh tale lands on your desk every evening. Come back nightly, build a reading streak, and let the library deepen.
Effective as of 2026-06-18
This privacy policy applies to the Crimson Library app for mobile devices, together with any related services operated by Tomas Padravy (collectively, the "Application"). Tomas Padravy is hereby referred to as the "Service Provider".
The Application does not collect, log, or store any personal information when you download and use it. Registration is not required. If the Application is used with an active internet connection, technical protocol data (such as your ephemeral IP address) is transmitted to facilitate network connectivity, but this data is not retained or used for tracking.
This Application does not collect precise information about the location of your mobile device.
Since the Application does not collect any information, no data is shared with third parties.
Since the Application does not collect personal information through normal use, uninstalling it simply removes the Application from your device.
If you contact the Service Provider directly or voluntarily provide information by other means, you may request deletion of that information by contacting [email protected].
The Application is not intended for children under 13 years of age, or such higher age as required by applicable law. The Service Provider does not knowingly solicit data from children or market to them. Since the Application does not collect personal information through normal use, children's data is not at risk from use of the Application alone. If you voluntarily provide personal information through other means and are under 13 years of age, your parent or guardian must provide consent on your behalf where permitted by law.
Because the Application does not collect personal data, the risk of personal data exposure is minimal. However, no security system is completely secure. The Service Provider implements reasonable safeguards to protect systems and any data it holds.
Since the Application does not collect personal data through normal use, the risk of a data breach affecting your personal data is minimal. If a breach occurs involving any data you have voluntarily provided, the Service Provider will notify you as required by applicable law.
The Service Provider may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The Service Provider will notify you of material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy with an effective date. Where required by law, the Service Provider will seek your consent to material changes before they take effect.
Previous versions of this Privacy Policy will be maintained and made available upon request by contacting the Service Provider at [email protected].
If you voluntarily provide information to the Service Provider and processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting processing carried out before withdrawal.
If you have any questions regarding privacy while using the Application, or have questions about the practices, please contact the Service Provider via email at [email protected].