A guided descent through the Gothic tradition, beginning with haunted places and psychological unease, moving through vampires and uncanny doubles, and culminating in the genre's most enduring monsters. Included works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) — The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) — The Haunted House (Charles Dickens) — The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) — The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) — Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M...

The shadows grow darker with another collection of unforgettable tales from the supernatural tradition. The Book of Shadows Vol. 3 brings together atmospheric and unsettling stories by Mary Elizabeth Penn, Sir Herbert Stephen, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Oliphant, M. R. James, Ellen Glasgow, W. F. Harvey, Sir Hugh Walpole, and E. F. Benson. This collection explores the mysterious boundary between the ordinary and the supernatural, taking readers into worlds of ghostly encoun...

Descend into the dark heart of the Gothic tradition with fifteen complete works of terror, mystery and the supernatural. Gothic Shadows moves from haunted landscapes and psychological unease to vampires, doubles and the enduring monsters that transformed world literature. The collection includes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Turn of the Screw, Carmilla, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, Dracula and seven furt...

Open the door to haunted houses, cursed portraits and creatures that changed horror forever. Gothic Shadows gathers fifteen complete classics including Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera. Moving from elegant ghost stories to dark psychological terror, this carefully ordered collection reveals the many faces of the Gothic tradition. Clear book dividers and a detailed contents structure create a seamless reading exp...

Open the door to haunted houses, cursed portraits and creatures that changed horror forever. Gothic Shadows gathers fifteen complete classics including Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera. Moving from elegant ghost stories to dark psychological terror, this carefully ordered collection reveals the many faces of the Gothic tradition. Clear book dividers and a detailed contents structure create a seamless reading exp...

A forged papal seal, a country house with a very unwelcome guest, a stained-glass window that shows more than it should — M.R. James returns with five more stories built on his signature trick: ordinary scholars and clergymen stumbling into something that was better left undisturbed. Nothing jumps out. Something worse happens — it simply arrives, and won't leave. James is credited with inventing the modern ghost story's understated dread, and this collection shows the technique at its most...

A cursed whistle dug up on a beach, a manuscript that seems to write back, a cathedral stall carved with something that watches — M.R. James built his reputation on scholars and academics who go looking for old secrets and find them entirely too well-preserved. No castles, no lightning: just quiet libraries, dusty archives, and the growing certainty that you are no longer alone in the room. The collection that essentially founded the modern ghost story genre — still cited by horror writers...

'Inspector Morse would appear to have a rival' - Scotland on Sunday'A perfect accompaniment to a sunny afternoon, a hammock and a glass of Pimms' - Guardian'An undiluted pleasure' - Scotsman_______________Sidney Chambers, the Vicar of Grantchester, is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Sidney is an unconventional clergyman and can go where the police cannot.Tog...

Some doors should never be opened. Some secrets should never be uncovered. Yet the stories in this collection invite you to cross that threshold into the unknown. Discover "The Book of Shadows Vol. 3," a spellbinding anthology featuring timeless tales by celebrated authors including Mary Elizabeth Penn, Sir Herbert Stephen, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Oliphant, M. R. James, Ellen Glasgow, W. F. Harvey, Sir Hugh Walpole, E. F. Benson, and others. Bringing together an exceptio...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween surveys the Gothic imagination from its Romantic origins to the weird fiction of the early twentieth century. Its stories range from graveyard reverie, spectral visitation, and ancestral curse to psychological terror, scientific transgression, maritime dread, and cosmic horror. Alongside familiar vampire, phantom, and doubles narratives, the volume offers unsettling excursions into decaying houses, forbidden manuscripts, and malign landscapes, making ...

In 1960, Eddie, a paperboy from Queens, NY, stumbles upon a ritualistic setup in the garage of one of his customers while making collections. He finds a cage designed to carry animals and is determined to find out if the garage and cage have anything to do with the disappearance of his friend, a street dog named Sampson.Eddie, a thirteen-year-old boy from a fractured family, finds freedom and purpose as a paperboy. Though hard-working and cocky, he masks his insecurities and yearnin...