Classic horror and ghost stories

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm.

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;.

This vintage book contains John Meade Falkner's 1895 novella, "e;The Lost Stradivarius"e;.

The Call of Cthulhu is H.

It was a colour that had no place on Earth.

Everything that terrifies, from a ghostly touch to a Devil's pact, is gathered within these pages.

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.

The darkness of the Victorian age was not only Gothic, it was powerfully, terrifyingly female.

Against the boundless, dark ocean, the only certainty is dread.

Beyond Tiny Tim and Oliver Twist: Discover the Dark Imagination of the Victorian Era's Greatest Storyteller.

Against the howling gale, a spectral ship sails for eternity, bearing the ultimate curse.

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.

The Devil has occupied a unique and unrivalled position in art, literature and the mind of humankind.

In the Caribbean heat and the American deep South, the dead are restless.

The Devil has occupied a unique and unrivalled position in art, literature and the mind of humankind.

This collection features some of Robert Louis Stevenson's most disturbed tales, including the prolific gothic thriller The Strange Case of Dr.

The fog over the Liffey holds more than just secrets.

Step into the shadows of the 19th and early 20th centuries, where every mystery hides a horror.

Meet Edogawa Rampo, the undisputed master of Japanese suspense, psychological terror, and the grotesque widely known as "e;The Edgar Allan Poe of Japan.

Where the sea whispers secrets and ancient horrors never die.

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.

A young man inherits a peculiar family trait: a series of psychic visions that bind his life to the past.

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.

Love can be a terrifying binding spell.

Death is not the end.

Under the Pyramids, the King of Illusion is about to meet the King of Terrors.

What happens when an ancient British phantom meets modern American pragmatism?

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.

Ghost stories reached the height of popularity in the late nineteenth century.

Apocalyptic survival at its most terrifying.

The nightmare begins before you sleep .

Now a major film called The Unholy starring The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

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.

A special fiftieth-anniversary edition of a horror classic from James Herbert, bestselling author of The Rats.

This collection of Poe's finest stories comprises all the terrifying and bewildering tales that typify his work.

This antiquarian volume contains a collection of some of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous tales, including "e;The Gold-Bug"e;, "e;Ms.

An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.

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.

Ernest Favenc (1845-1908) is a neglected master of Australian supernatural and mystery fiction.

Multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-traveling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins.

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.