The Islington Mystery

The Islington Mystery

Author: Arthur Machen

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2018-11-22

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 1528785274

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“The Islington Mystery” is a classic horror mystery story by one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction, Arthur Machan. Arthur Machen (1863 – 1947) was a Welsh author and renowned mystic during the 1890s and early 20th century who garnered literary acclaim for his contributions to the supernatural, horror, and fantasy fiction genres. His seminal novella “The Great God Pan” (1890) has become a classic of horror fiction, with Stephen King describing it as one of the best horror stories ever written in the English language. Other notable fans of his gruesome tales include William Butler Yeats and Arthur Conan Doyle; and his work has been compared to that of Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Oscar Wilde. This chilling tale of inexplicable circumstances in London's borough of Islington is highly recommended for fans of the macabre and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage supernatural fiction. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.


100 Creepy Little Creatures

100 Creepy Little Creatures

Author: Robert E. Weinberg

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9781566199193

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Very few things are more frightening than unearthly creatures conceived by the masterminds of supernatural fiction. This collection of the macabre renders a large scope of such creatures, from the mythical beast in F. Murray Gilchrist's "The Basilisk," to the horrifying Shape in the Japanese legend Lafacadio Hearn translates as "jikininki," as well as the preternatural horse in Edgar Allan Poe's "Metzengerstein," and the ominous entries in E.F. Benson's "Caterpillars." This volume will take you from the invisible visitors in Hugh B. Cave's "Take Me, for Instance," to a child 's imagination taking on a life of it's own in Robert Weinberg's "Night Shapes."


Best New Horror

Best New Horror

Author: Joe Hill

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-02-03

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 0061843229

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From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts. Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .


Stonewords

Stonewords

Author: Pam Conrad

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780140363784

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Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.


The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories

The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories

Author: Dennis Pepper

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780192781789

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Tells stories about all kinds of ghosts, including children, snooker-players, ventriloquist's dummies, and warriors.


Mad Monkton

Mad Monkton

Author: Collins W.

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 5521076077

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William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. He is is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie. However, Alfred suddenly departs for Italy, seeking the corpse of his disreputable uncle, who is believed to have been killed in a duel.


Medieval Ghost Stories

Medieval Ghost Stories

Author: Andrew Joynes

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1843832690

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"Medieval Ghost Stories" is a collection of ghostly occurrences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make hair stand on end; unfailingly, these stories give a fascinating and moving glimpse into the medieval mind. Look only at the accounts of Richard Rowntree's stillborn child, glimpsed by his father tangled in swaddling clothes on the road to Santiago, or the sly habits of water sprites resting as goblets and golden rings on the surface of the river, just out of reach...


Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Author: M. R. James

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12-03

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1537822357

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Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Canon Alberic's Scrapbook," more. Renowned for their wit, erudition and suspense, these stories are each masterfully constructed and represent a high achievement in the ghost genre.