The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

The finest vampire tale you've never read.This rare classic of Edwardian horror introduces Professor Arnold Rhymer, M.D., the brilliant "Spook Specialist" utilised by Scotland Yard to investigate cases that baffle conventional logic.The Broken Fang is Uel Key's most famous and unsettling work, a tense, atmospheric investigation into a terrifying case of vampirism hitting the London elite. Blending the deductive rigor of Sherlock Holmes with the ter...

The Plymouth Express Affair Agatha Christie - A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christies The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of short mystery fiction all featuring Hercule Poirot as the investigator.

Winner of the Booker Prize'The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired, the self-effacing, the respected patrons of an earlier era'Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused t...

John Buchan was a Scottish writer and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan wrote a vast amount of books including the Richard Hannay novels that have recently been turned into a popular British television show. This edition of The Island of Sheep includes a table of contents.

For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen**Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.Dark Entries** was first published in 1964 and contains six curious and macabre storie...

The powerful story, set in a quiet London square in the 1920s, of Henry Earlforward, a miserly book dealer, and the consequences of his decision to marry Violet Arb, who owns the confectionery shop across the square. Contains much sexual symbolism and is a complete departure from Bennett's Five Towns work.

John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan - to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world is not ready for such a change ...

This vintage book contains H. G. Wells's 1916 masterpiece of wartime literature, "Mr. Britling Sees it Through". It tells the story of Mr. Britling, a famous writer and obvious alter ego of the author who lives with his family in the fictional town of Matching's Easy, England. This masterful novel is highly recommended for those with an interest in wartime literature, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Wells's seminal work. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was an English w...

Previously published in the print anthology The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories.John Seagrove, a young city clerk, awakens early one morning in his London bedsit, desperately clinging to a dream that has just transformed his life. The next day, while dining at his boss’s house, he meets the enigmatic Allegra Kerr. Falling in love with her at first sight, John instantly realizes this is the overwhelming joy his dream foreshadowed … but could darker forces be at work?