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In Ghostly Company by Amyas Northcote
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
A grey cloud formed on the summit of the altar, diminishing, thickening and turning into a Shape, a shape of evil and fear. The silent group by the fire once more broke forth into wild gesticulations and cries, Stella prostrated herself, the Form on the altar grew clearer and with a cry of horror Mr Fow ...Show more
In a Glass Darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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
Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer by Terry Lynch
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. They never succeeded in apprehending him, and to this day the mystery of his identity remains an enigma. But ...Show more
Lurking Fear: Volume 4 by H. P. LOVECRAFT
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy 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: Classics | 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: 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
Category: Fiction | 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
Phantom of the Opera by LEROUX Gaston
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
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by EDGAR ALLEN POE
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste ...Show more
Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by GASKELL Elizabeth
Category: Accessories | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but ...Show more
Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by ...Show more
The Beast with Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories by W. F. Harvey
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
' ...the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. 'We'll keep it there until it dies,' he said. 'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again.' The brilliant and scary 'The Beast with Five Fingers', is the first entry in ...Show more