Horror Historia

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumor with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.With She, H. Rider Haggard polished the literary "lost world" odyssey. Coming upon an underground civilization more ancient than the world of pharaohs, a group of adventurers catch the attention of Ayesha, the sorceress queen.Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection. Collect each volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.

"It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful." The three self-contained novels in William Hope Hodgson's "elemental" horror trilogy do not share central characters or locations, instead-through transcribed testimonies and "found" manuscripts-they weave narratives of growing dread and unease among sailors in peril, haunted house residents, and unknown monsters from the deep. Enjoy the unspoken horrors of The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The House on the Borderland and The Ghost Pirates. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?Is it possible to hunt a supernatural predator without becoming its prey? With Dracula, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece that changed vampire lore forever. After Count Dracula sets sail for England from his native Transylvania, the countryside is soon afflicted with sickness, giant wolves, and suspicions that a vampire stalks the night. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"Here is foam from a mad dog's lips, gather'd beneath the moon's eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast!" Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth took the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trials and turned them into a "triple decker" novel, The Lancashire Witches, centered around the claims of necromancy allegedly committed by the Chattox and Demdike families. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror-so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape-as I am sure I am talking to you." Whether creepily eccentric, dangerously ambitious, or downright villainous, the mad scientist has been influential on the horror genre ever since Dr. Victor Frankenstein created his monster. His literary descendants-found in notable works by writers as varied as Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, and H. G. Wells-are collected here in Satan's Signature. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood curdling collection.

"Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair. The preservation of his youth demands the perversion of his existence. In his creeping, controversial tale of Dorian Gray and his Faustian bargain to remain beautiful and young forever, Oscar Wilde portrays a damning philosophical tale of society, sexuality, and moral sensibilities. This book collects Wilde's original and revised published editions. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.