Horror and supernatural fiction

Substitutions - Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith recalls: "e;This story came about in the simplest way, the way I always enjoy most - something happening in real life that makes you think 'What if?

An anthology of tales by four Italian wordsmiths, ranging from horror to steampunk!

Alec Sheldon owns the Rosebud Theatre, an old-style movie palace, and worries about the future, and mortality - a fear made all the sharper by the knowledge that his beautiful old theatre is haunted .

The Rider on the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature.

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

It was a dark and stormy night.

I carried the bones of this story around for quite a few years before I finally stumbled upon its beating heart,"e; explains the author.

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

John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children.