Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
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The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume Four
Collected Short Stories, Volume Four
by H. P. Lovecraft
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
'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 devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity. ' Only the expansive imagination of H. P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as The Picture in the House, The Music of Erich Zann and The Rats in the Walls, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime. H. P. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature.
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Terror by Night
Classic Ghost & Horror Stories
by Ambrose Bierce
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and the unfairness of life, which he channelled into his fiction.
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Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories
Classic Vampire Stories
by David Stuart Davies
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. This book presents vampire stories, some familiar, some less so.
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Night Terrors
The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson
by E. F. Benson
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
'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 step go down the passage outside. 'E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill.
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The Haunter of the Dark
by H. P. Lovecraft
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century.
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The Italian
by Ann Radcliffe
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
From the novel's opening chapters the reader is ushered into a shadowy world in which crime and religion are mingled. In the church of Santa Maria del Pianto in Naples, Ellena Rosalba and Vincentio di Vivaldi first meet; but their love is ill-omened. Leagued against them are the proud and ambitious Marchese di Vivaldi and her confessor Father Schedoni. When Ellena vanishes on the death of her guardian, Vivaldi sets out in pursuit of her across the mountainous regions of southern Italy before himself falling prey to the Holy Inquisition.
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The Whisperer in Darkness
by H. P. Lovecraft
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last. This work brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H P Lovecraft.
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Gothic Short Stories
by David Blair
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M. R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.
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Collected Ghost Stories
Books #1-2
by M. R. James
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
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. James, 'Stories I Have Tried To Write', which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are 'Casting the Runes', 'Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, My Lad', 'The Tractate Middoth', 'The Ash Tree' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook'. 'There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M. R. James is one of these'. Ruth Rendell
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The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories
by Wilkie Collins
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work, from Gothic horror to the first modern detective stories.
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Varney, the Vampyre
by James Malcolm Rymer
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Varney, the Vampyre, is one of the greatest of the Victorian penny romances, by one of its finest exponents -- the inimitable James Malcolm Rymer. First serialised between 1845 and 1847, it is one of the world's most enjoyable reads. It is also one of the major sources for Stoker's later masterpiece, Dracula.
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The Horror in the Museum
by H. P. Lovecraft
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume.
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The Dead of Night
The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
by Oliver Onions
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. Long out of print, these classic tales are a treasure trove of nightmarish gems.
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In Ghostly Company
by Amyas Northcote
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Amyas Northcote's "In Ghostly Company" is a rare and splendid collection of strange and disturbing tales from the golden age of ghost stories. His style is akin to that of the master of the genre M. R. James.
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The Lair of the White Worm & The Lady of the Shroud
by Bram Stoker
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula", together in one volume for the first time
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Ghost Stories of Henry James
by Henry James
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone and type. They include 'The Jolly Corner', a compelling story of psychological doubling; 'Owen Wingrave', which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; 'The Friends of the Friends', a strange story of uncanny love; and 'The Private Life', which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme. The volume also includes James's great novella The Turn of the Screw, perhaps the most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story ever written.
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In a Glass Darkly
by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
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A collection of tales of the supernatural, in which the patients of Dr. Heselius are plagued by malignant apparitions and vampires, or are drugged into a state of living death.
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The Monk
by Matthew Lewis
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Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest.
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Voodoo Tales
The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead
by Henry S. Whitehead
Part of the Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural series
'And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl…'Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by the spirits of the dead. In this collection of rare and out of print stories you will encounter the curses of the great Guinea-Snake, the Sheen, the weredog whose very touch means certain death, the curious tale of the 'magicked' mirror, and fiendish manikins who make life a living hell. Included in this festival of shivering fear is the remarkable narrative 'Williamson' which every editor who read the story shied away from publishing. With deceptive simplicity and chilling realism, Whitehead's Voodoo Tales are amongst the most frightening ever written.
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