Another collection of sixteen classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “John Charrington's Wedding”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” Arthur Conan Doyle - “The Leather Funnel” and “The Horror of the Heights”M.R. James - “Lost Hearts” and “A Warning to the Curious”Saki - “ Sredni Vashtar” and “Gabriel Ernest”Hugh Walpole - “The Tarn” and “The Tiger”E.F. Benson - “Naboth's Vineyard” and “Mrs Amworth”F....

The story follows the eponymous hero and his tutor Doctor Pangloss through a series of adventures and misfortunes all the time doggedly attempting, against the odds, to adhere to the Doctor's philosophy that “all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.”

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this third volume there are 21 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. L...

Robert Browning (1812-1889) playright and poet is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse of which he is a recognized master. He was not always popular in his own time but is now considered one of the foremost poets of Victorian England.This volume contains some of the best of the monologues including “Porphyria's Lover”, “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix”,”The Bishop orders his Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church”, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came” and“...

There was a verse writer named LearWho said “in the future I fearThat the verses I write be recorded (they might)for all who desire so to HEAR”(R.M. with apologies to E. L.)Edward Lear is justly renowned as a writer of humorous verse. His “Nonsense Songs”were published in 1871 and includes probably his best known and most loved poem “The Owl and the Pussycat”. “Laughable Lyrics “ (1877) contains other popular rhymes including “The Dong with a Luminous Nose”, “The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bo...

Charles Dickens saw his fictional work in print for the first time in 1833 when he was only twenty-one. It was a story called “Mr Minns and his Cousin” and was published in the Morning Chronicle. He wrote more tales and sketches for newspapers and magazines which were collected and published in book form in two series in 1836 as “Sketches by Boz”. Here are nine of them.Horatio SparkinsMr Minns and his CousinThe Great Winglebury DuelMrs Joseph PorterThe Bloomsbury ChristeningMiss Evans and ...

The author of the famous Alice books also wrote many poems notably in the humorous and nonsense genres. The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) published in 1876 and possibly his best known and most accomplished verse is presented here together with another of his longer poems Phantasmagoria and Melancholetta, Sea Dirge, Size and Tears plus five poems from Alice: Father William, Humpty Dumpty's Song, Jabberwocky, The Lobster Quadrille, and The Walrus and the Carpenter.

E. Nesbit is rightly best known for her children's books but she also wrote works for adults including short stories in the genres of the uncanny, macabre and supernatural. There are five of these in this collection. They are: “The House of Silence”“The Power of Darkness”“The Ebony Frame”“The Pavilion”“The Detective”

E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as “The Railway Children”, the “Psammead” series. and the stories of the “Bastable” family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre. “Man-Size in Marble” is one of her strangest and most unsettling.

A selection of sonnets by William Shakespeare. There are 24 in number in this first selection. They are in order:Numbers: 18, 33, 11, 3, 5, 6, 29, 10, 22, 2, 4, 7, 1, 9, 27, 8, 30, 116, 34, 54, 12, 66, 77, 60.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is celebrated for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural. In this example of the genre the narrator tells of his adored wife Ligeia, of her tragic death, and of his remarrying another beautiful woman Rowena who after a short and loveless marriage also dies but returns from the dead metamorphosed into his true love Ligeia.

Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known mainly for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural and is an acknowledged master of these genres, he thought of himself primarily as a poet. Here is a collection of over thirty of his poems including two of the best known “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”