Browse by category
An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc
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
Australian Ghost Stories by James Doig
Category: Australiana | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. Journey through the dark byways of Australia's Gothic past in the rare stories gathered in this memorable new collection. Work by acclaimed Australian writers such as Marcus ...Show more
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Rex Collings
Category: Classics | 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
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
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
Couching at the Door by D. K. Broster
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - 'The Second of September 1792' is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist ...Show more
Dracula and Dracula's Guest by BRAM STOKER
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of th ...Show more
Drug and Other Stories by ALASTAIR CROWLEY
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Classics | 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: Sci-Fi & Fantasy 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: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | 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