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A Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
He was very fat indeed, yet he walked with the light dainty step of a woman. His cheeks were as chubby as a baby's, his skin ivory tinted, his black hair close-cropped, his amber eyes slanting.' A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks...Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable ...Show more
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Rex Collings
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.Some of these sto ...Show more
Drug and Other Stories by ALASTAIR CROWLEY
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery the Supernatural
This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection ...Show more
Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
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 ...Show more
Gothic Short Stories by David Blair
Category: Horror | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ...Show more
Haunted Hotel and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Edited and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?’ This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a cleve ...Show more
Haunter of the Dark: Volume 3 by H. P. LOVECRAFT
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. 'They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding ...Show more
Horror in the Museum: Volume 2 by H. P. LOVECRAFT
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
With an Introduction by M.J. Elliott. 'My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion...' A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane... A businessman is tr ...Show more
In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: Horror | 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
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other ...Show more
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E. F. Benson
Category: No Category | 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