The Haunted and the Haunters (also known as The House and the Brain) features a wealthy, rational-minded narrator who, armed with scientific instruments and skeptical determination, volunteers to spend a night alone in a notoriously and violently haunted London house.
This volume contains three novels by English novelist Thomas Love Peacock, including "e;Headlong Hall"e;, "e;Nightmare Abbey"e;, and "e;Crotchet Castle"e;.
Showcasing the literary prowess of the Victorian era's women writers, this collection of short stories features haunting works of gothic horror in a celebration of the macabre.
This haunting anthology is an enthralling collection of chilling tales infused with Edith Wharton's masterful exploration of human psychology and the hidden recesses of the human heart.
Meet Edogawa Rampo, the undisputed master of Japanese suspense, psychological terror, and the grotesque widely known as "e;The Edgar Allan Poe of Japan.
This rare venture into the supernatural by the master of realism, George Eliot, is a devastating psychological horror story that asks: What is the true price of seeing too clearly?
From the mind of Edgar Wallace, the legendary English author known as the master of the classic thriller and fast-paced crime fiction, comes a mystery where the supernatural clashes with cold-blooded logic.
From the prolific pen of John Oxenham (the pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley), a popular Edwardian novelist and adventurer, comes a thrilling piece of speculative fiction that utilizes the burgeoning, sprawling infrastructure of the capital.
First published in 1859 for the weekly periodical "e;All the Year Round"e;, "e;The Haunted House"e; is a collection of short stories by Charles Dickens and others, with Dickens writing the opening and closing stories.
From the brilliant mind of Johann Ludwig Tieck, a cornerstone figure of German Romanticism and master of the Schauerroman (Gothic horror), comes a mesmerising and melancholic tale of doomed, eternal love.
By the Master of Horror, in James Herbert's The Jonah, detective Jim Kelso is sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling and stumbles on a dangerous organization.
When Lea Sutter visits the Caribbean island of Chat Noir and witnesses a devastating earthquake, she is moved to adopt two beautiful, blue-eyed orphan twins, Daniel and Samuel, and take them home to America.
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics.
Acting on behalf of his firm of solicitors, Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountainsto finalize the sale of Englands Carfax Abbey to Transylvanian noble Count Dracula.
Classic Supernatural Stories is a cornucopia of thrills and chills, featuring twenty-five tales of the uncanny and macabre regarded to be among the finest weird tales in the English language.
Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
In a land where the wolves howl 'yassss kween' and Bloody Marys are the only cocktail on offer, Jonathan Harker (a most basic b*tch) makes a series of horrifying discoveries at the House of Dragula.
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood.
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, dark angel Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless - and if he isn't careful, he'll lose his wings.