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...

Leonora, a 16-year-old girl, likes to walk in the moonlight...until she meets a fascinating stranger who invites her to ride in his automobile. A classic dark fantasy from Weird Tales magazine, originally published in 1927.

This selection of horror stories has been published for Halloween 2014. It includes the very first publication of "Night Should Be Black," by classic WEIRD TALES author Everil Worrell -- an unpublished story found among her papers after her death. Good stuff!Included are:"The Eyes," by Edith Wharton"Mysterious Maisie," by Wirt Gerrare"The Open Door," by Margaret Oliphant"The Moonlit Road," by Ambrose Bierce"Night Should Be Black," by Everil Worre...

Fifteen stories told through the recovered pages of diaries/journals.Contents:What Killed Granded? by Ian Gordon (HorrorBabble, 2020)An investigation told through a series of audio logs.The Diary of Alonzo Typer by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, 1938)An occult researcher disappears without a trace.The Horror in the Lighthouse by E. A. Poe and R. Bloch (Fantastic, 1953)Bloch co...

We return for another selection of 25 ghost stories in the classic tradition -- chosen from the vast storehouse of history's fiction for your personal delectation. As in our last meeting, we remind you that there are many kinds of ghosts, from the kind to cruel, the savage to the sad, and readers should not always assume they know just which they've gotten in any particular tale. Included are:THE SEVENTH MAN, by A.T. Quiller-CouchTHE PHANTOM COACH, by Amelia B. Edwards...

Emil Petaja (1915 - 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror stories, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of "weird fiction." You can find echoes not only of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard in his wo...

Nictzin Wilstone Dyalhis (1873–1942) was an American chemist and short story writer who specialized in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. He wrote as Nictzin Dyalhis. During his lifetime he attained a measure of celebrity as a writer for the pulp fiction magazine Weird Tales. This volume collects 6 of his stories from Weird Tales, plus one from Argosy. Included are:THE SEA-WITCHHEART OF ATLANTANTHE ETERNAL CONFLICTTHE RED WITCHTHE SAPPHIRE SIREN

We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press. If you've read the first 3 volumes in the Ghost Story MEGAPACK™ series, plus The Macabre MEGAPACK™ series, you’re pretty well caught up with the classic supernatural fiction we've been reading lately. Don't worry, though -- we'll keep digging for more classic horror tales!Included in this volume are:THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS, by Amelia B. EdwardsTHREE SPANISH LADIES, by Walter E MarconetteBRICKETT BOTTOM, by Amyas N...

The Fifth Ghost Story MEGAPACK™ presents a great collection of 25 more classic ghost stories from 19th and 20th century masters (plus a new introduction by editor Shawn M. Garrett). Included are:A TALE OF A GAS-LIT GHOST, by AnonymousDOG OR DEMON? by Theo GiftTHE STORY OF MEDHANS LEA, by E. Heron & H. HeronHOW FEAR DEPARTED FROM THE LONG GALLERY, by E. F. BensonON THE BRIGHTON ROAD, by Richard MiddletonTHE NEW PASS, by Amelia B. EdwardsTHE ...

Wildside Press's new line of MEGAPACK™ ebook anthologies focusing on 20th Century masters of Weird Fiction gets off to a great start with this new selection of tales by Henry S. Whitehead, famed Weird Tales contributor. Whitehead, who penned dozens of stories over the course of his career, set many of them with a West Indies theme. His tales of "jumbees" (zombies) represent some of the earliest zombie stories in literature. Included in this volume are:The "Gerald Canevin" series:

George T. Wetzel (1921-1983) was, for decades, the leading researcher into the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft. His scholarly essays (which Wildside Press is working on collecting) appeared in numerous books and magazines from the 1940s through the 1970s. All the time he dabbled in writing weird fiction on his own, but never pursued it beyond the occasional contribution to a small press anthology or fan-produced magazine. Like his idol, H.P. Lovecraft, he dabbled in the art. We are please...

Monsters have become one of the great guilty pleasures of our age. From the zombies of The Walking Dead to the werewolves of Teen Wolf, from the vampires of The Strain to the wide assortment of creatures in Penny Dreadful, they are everywhere in mass media. Here, for your guilty reading pleasure, are 22 more tales of monsters, by some of the greatest writers ever to set typewriter to paper! Included are:AFTER I STOPPED SCREAMING, by Pamela SargentTHE LADY AND THE VAMPIRE, by...