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A Night on the Moor and Other Tales of Dread by R. Murray Gilchrist
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Robert Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) is perhaps best known for his interest in topography, and for his stories set in Derbyshire's Peak District. But he was also a master of mystery and horror, as this richly varied collection shows. If you are looking for a conventional horror story, in which the supern ...Show more
An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the 'Prince of Thieves', one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome, laughing his way through difficulties and danger, Lupin is also the master of disguise and ...Show more
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R ...Show more
In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most celebrated volumes, purports to be the caseboo ...Show more
Lurking Fear: Volume 4 by H. P. LOVECRAFT
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastat ...Show more
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E. F. Benson
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping ...Show more
Not Exactly Ghosts & Fires Burn Blue by Sir Andrew Caldecott
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Here together for the first time in one volume are the twenty five spooky stories created by Sir Andrew Caldecott in two collections the 1940s: "Not Exactly Ghosts" and "Fires Burn Blue". Caldecott, who only turned to fiction after retiring from the civil service, allowed his lifelong fascination with t ...Show more
Oriental Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
' - and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth - and he screamed.' Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as 'stories and stu ...Show more
Phantom of the Opera by LEROUX Gaston
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
'...the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan...' Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has ...Show more
The Beetle by Richard Marsh
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him... and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe... 'From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of horror, 'born of neither God nor man', which can change its form at will. ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto /nightmare Abbey/Vathek by Horace Walpole
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the vogue in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries. This unique collection presents the best and the most diverse of this fascinating genre. In ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Elizabeth Wharton; Edith Wharton
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. W ...Show more