Classic horror and ghost stories

On the surface, the sleepy little town of Dublin in East Tennessee seems like a wonderful place to live.

What is it about the town of Elbow?

Julie Sullivan is a young women's historian who loves her life in Charleston, South Carolina.

John Thornton returns home from the war in Iraq, being wounded, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from his combat experiences and attending the United States Homeland Security School and returns to his job at the Center City, Oklahoma, Police Department as a detective.

Graveyard Society is an adult comedy story about a young gravedigger, Neal Sounders, who is murdered by his neighbor.

These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature.

This historically significant novel of love and betrayal led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris.

Up above a lonely hill in the mysterious Viktor's Hill, California, a mysterious and abandoned mansion stands alone.

Is there such a thing as ghosts?

Semper Fi with a Side of Donuts or Bacon is a hybrid of fact and fiction.

Because Tom King's flight was late, his hotel cancels his reservation.

Frozen Ghost is about three kids from the tiny hamlet of Eclectic, Alabama--Isaiah, Elijah, and Ruth Knight--who, upon seeing a black ghost dog guarding a Native American and African American slave graveyard, accidentally disturbed that graveyard.

From the creator of Sherlock Holmes, a coming-of-age combination of detective fiction and thrilling adventure.

An old manuscript unleashes the great priest Cthulhu from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, for him to rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.

'The Mysterious Island' tells the exciting story of five Americans stranded on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.

Once in a long time a man is fished out when it is just too late, and dies in the boat before you can get him aboard, and-well, I don't know that I ever told that story since it happened-I knew a fellow who went over, and came back dead.

This Gothic novella tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla.

This novel is the story of Conrad, son of Manfred of the house of Otranto.

In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.

Here is the original Christmas classic that is often credited with returning the true spirit of Christmas to the holiday.

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes.

Professor William Dyer of the the Miskatonic University knew that the Antarctic was a forlorn, dangerous place, but nothing could have prepared him and his expedition for what they would find in the Mountains of Madness.

The King in Yellow is a collection of short stories written by Robert W.

The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the nineteenth century toward women's physical and mental health.

Edward Prendick finds himself adrift at sea, a lone survivor of a ship wreck.

In a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, an extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham Van Brunt, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel.

Mysterious things begin happening to a young advertising man after visiting The Haunted Bookshop.

Jonathan Harker has business in Transylvania with the mysterious Count Dracula.

Courval has asked Florville to marry him.

Justine was an early work of the Marquis de Sade, written while imprisoned in the Bastille.

It was a dark and stormy night.

With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley's paragon of horror vividly back to life-published to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous night of its creation.

A surreal dreamscape in which the narrator wanders through his garden in the moonlight and sees strange and bizarre things.

After passing through the Ultimate Gate, a man encounters an entity which explains that all conscious beings are facets of much greater beings, which exist outside the traditional model of three dimensions.

A lighthouse keeper engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a robed, bearded man is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full, walking out across the water on a bridge of moonbeams to join him, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.

Could old legends about monsters living in uninhabited hills, who abduct people who venture too close to their territory, actually be true?

In a dream, the countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible hill people who kidnap citizens and perform cruel rituals at a Sabbath.

An entity haunts a dilapidated house near a cemetery, and because it cannot be perceived by the five senses, it earns itself the term unnamable.

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it.

A very deep chasm in uncovered in a mine, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom.

A self-confessed day-dreamer has an unhealthy obsession with a tomb.

A man and his wife may not always be who they appear to be.

Three men attempt to rob a strange elderly man who possesses a bizarre collections of stones and carries on conversations with bottles.

The history of a New England street, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately followingWorld War I.