Classic horror and ghost stories

Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is an enduring masterpiece of gothic horror, exploring the corruption of humanity, our desire to sin, and the extremes vanity will lead us to.

One of America's greatest gothic tales, this Halloween classic takes place in a small New York town on the edge of the forest where whispers of a horrifying ghost are slipping from one person to the next.

First published in 1831, "e;Crotchet Castle"e; is the sixth novel by Thomas Love Peacock.

First published in 1818, "e;Nightmare Abbey"e; Is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock and his third long work of fiction.

"e;Gryll Grange"e; is an 1861 novel by Thomas Love Peacock.

Witty, lyrical, and deeply unsettling, these are tales where the sea is wide and the line between humor and horror is thin.

A Fragment of Life is a quietly subversive and deeply evocative novella by Arthur Machen, contrasting the drab, soul-crushing routine of modern London life with the profound, mystical truth of the natural world.

This compelling fable tells the story of a figure who possesses a haunting power: the ability to build and shape shadows, sorrowful things that begin to take on a life of their own.

On a stormy summer in 1816, a group of pioneering writers gathered in a mansion on Lake Geneva and wrote some of English literature's most influential Gothic Horror stories, including Frankenstein and The Vampyre.

She doesn't drink blood, but she drains the very life from those around her.

From the visionary mind of Edgar Allan Poe, this collection is a must-have for all lovers of classic horror, mystery fiction, and the enduring imaginative power of one of America's most influential writers.

This essential collection of short fiction by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) offers a rare glimpse into the poet's profound, lifelong fascination with the supernatural, Celtic myth, and occult philosophy.

When a young woman discovers her father unconscious and bloodied in his study, she is thrust into a terrifying mystery tied to his obsession with a long-dead Egyptian queen.

A groundbreaking, yet forbidden, experiment in manufactured life achieves the unimaginable: the creation of a diminutive, artificial human.

When a young boy, struggling with his multiplication tables, falls asleep during class, he enters a dreamscape where the number seven has gone mad and disappeared.

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During Christine's childhood, which is described retrospectively in the early chapters of the book, her father tells her many stories featuring an 'Angel of Music', who, like a muse, is the personification of musical inspiration.

Dr Jekyll, a "e;large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty"e;, occasionally feels he is battling between the good and evil within himself, thus leading to the struggle between his dual personalities of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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

There was an old Simorgyan legend, Fafhrd had insisted, according to which on the seventh day of the seventh moon of the seventh year of the Sevens-Cycle the king of the sea journeyed to the other end of the earth, leaving his opalescently beautiful green wives and faintly silver-scaled slim concubines free to find them lovers if they could .

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Three things warned the wizard's apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path-he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.

This is the story of a beautiful woman.

"e;I, the Mind Spider as you name me-the deathless one, the eternally exiled, the eternally imprisoned-or so his overconfident enemies suppose-coming in.

It all started with the green kitten.

The fog-finger touched the taut arm.

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Jamie Bingham Walsh should have been known as Schizo Jimmie.

Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.

An archaeologist discovers the remains of an intelligent species, here on Earth.

In the Plaza of Dark Delights, which lies seven blocks south of the Marsh Gate and extends from the Fountain of Dark Abundance to the Shrine of the Black Virgin, the shop-lights glinted upward no more brightly than the stars glinted down.

Fritz Leiber was a giant in the genre field.

Time traveling, which is not quite the good clean boyish fun it's cracked up to be, started for me when this woman with the sigil on her forehead looked in on me from the open doorway of the hotel bedroom where I'd hidden myself and the bottles and asked me, "e;Look, Buster, do you want to live?

A grim tale of torture, and the blind men who were chained to pillars in an underground cave.

Creeping, writhing, insidiously crawling and groping, the long arm reached out in its ghastly errand of death.

A powerful story of stark horror, and the dreadful thing that happened in a lone house in the Maine woods.

In a tale "e;too horrible for the tender sensibilities of a delicately nurtured publick,"e; a man uncovers his family's dark, cannibalistic past.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.

Young Dick Haldane sets out on his first sea voyage aboard the S.

William Hope Hodgson was one of the finest writers to ever write horror.

Here is a collection of five spooky Victorian stories by Elizabeth Gaskell.

The Magician (1909) is a novel by W.

The Three Impostors (1895) is a novel by Arthur Machen.

The White People (1904) is a short story by Arthur Machen.

The Great God Pan (1894) is a novella by Arthur Machen.