Meet Dr. John Silence, a physician of extraordinary gifts who treats ailments no ordinary doctor can cure. Independently wealthy and rigorously trained in "psychical medicine," Silence investigates haunted houses, elemental forces, shapeshifting cults, and intrusions from beyond our reality.In this landmark 1908 collection by Algernon Blackwood, the pioneering occult detective applies both scientific rigor and psychic sensitivity to six supernatural cases. From a comedy writer torm...

Rediscover a forgotten masterpiece of early English fiction that helped define the modern novel.First published in 1723, Penelope Aubin's The Life of Charlotta Du Pont offers readers a captivating glimpse into the literary revolution that transformed English storytelling forever. This gripping tale follows the interconnected lives of Monsieur du Pont, a French Protestant merchant in Bristol, and the mysterious Dorinda, whose tragic backstory reveals the precarious position of women...

Meet Semi-Dual, the Occult Detector. The investigator who walks into a room full of questions nobody else can answer, sizes up the impossible, and gets to work. What you have not seen is one who casts a horoscope before dusting for fingerprints - and turns out to be right every single time.The Stars Do Not Lie introduces Semi-Dual, the occult detective pulp fiction left behind and modern readers are finally ready for. He does not fit neatly into any category, which is exactly what ...

Crack open the true legends of the Golden Age of Piracy with this vibrant new edition of A General History of the Pyrates, the book that launched Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, and their infamous brethren into global consciousness. Dive into this epic history with digitally restored engravings, an expanded sea-term glossary, and the untamed language of the eighteenth century, then set sail on a journey across the oceans with the world's most notorious outlaws.This pri...

A beautifully edited new collection that celebrates the original ghost hunter, Thomas Carnacki. This edition includes all nine original Carnacki: The Ghost Finder stories, plus five additional terrifyingly strange tales by master of horror William Hope Hodgson.

When the Hammond family curse strikes again, Scotland Yard sends Detective Inspector John Sterling to investigate what he assumes is a killer with theatrical flair. What he finds requires Luna Bartendale, an expert consultant on all things supernatural, and the prototype for later characters like Agent Scully and Clarice Starling.Jessie Douglas Kerruish's 1922 novel introduced one of supernatural fiction's first genuinely professional female investigators. Together with Sterling, s...

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier worl...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete novels of James...

The Weird Fiction Megapack collects both modern and classic stories from the classic pulp magazine, Weird Tales, with selections ranging throughout the 20th Century, but focusing mainly on the classic era of the 1930s. Included are works by many famous authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, E. Hoffmann Price, Tennessee Williams, and many more -- with an emphasis on great but less-well-known stories that readers may not have encountered be...

Just as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis's timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. In these fantasy stories for adults, we encounter, once again, magical creatures, a world of wonders, epic battles, and revelations of transcendent truths.That Hideous Strength is the third novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy. Set on Earth, it tells of a terrifying conspiracy against...

Repackaged to feature Tolkien’s own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, ‘On Fairy-stories’ and the story that exemplifies this, ‘Leaf by Niggle’, together with the poem ‘Mythopoeia’ and the verse drama, ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’, which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature ...

A lavishly illustrated collector's edition containing all the supernatural tales ever written by M.R. James, the undisputed father of the modern ghost story.'James is clearly the best that's ever been' MARK GATISSM.R. James is one of the finest authors of supernatural fiction in the English language and revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. Many of his stories were originally written as Christmas entertainments and were r...