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The Black Veil and Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths by Mark Valentine
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
The Gateway of the Monster...The Red Hand...The Ghost Hunter To Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume brings together sixteen chilling cases of these supernatural sleuths, pitting themselves a ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto /nightmare Abbey/Vathek by Horace Walpole
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the vogue in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries. This unique collection presents the best and the most diverse of this fascinating genre. In ...Show more
The Crimson Blind and Other Stories by H. D. Everett
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special thrills without piling on the agony. 'I always know', says one of her characters, 'how ...Show more
The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions by Oliver Onions
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 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. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heig ...Show more
The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind - and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight.'Lose one sense and the others, touch, taste, smell, hearing improve...with a little dedicated trai ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Elizabeth Wharton; Edith Wharton
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. W ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ...turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and ...Show more
The King in Yellow by R.W. CHAMBERS
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, th ...Show more
The Shadow on the Blind and Other Stories by Lettice Galbraith; Patrice Baldwin; Louisa Baldwin; David Stuart Davies (Contribution by); Lettuce Galbraith
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
The late Victorians had an insatiable appetite for the macabre and sensational: stories of murder and suspense, ghosts, the supernatural and the inexplicable were the stuff of life to them. The two writers in this volume well represent the last decade of the nineteenth century, and are of interest in th ...Show more
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire.Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woma ...Show more
To the Devil a Daughter by Dennis Wheatley
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house on the French Riviera only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn't know, and was certainly not aware of the terrible appointment which had been made for her long ago and was now dr ...Show more