Gaslit Horror

Gaslit Horror

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-14

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0486138852

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Prepare yourself for a spine-tingling journey into the heart of darkness. In this bone-chilling collection, you'll encounter thirteen long-lost tales of terror by famed authors. Whether the setting is an English village, the Brazilian countryside, or the Barbados coast, the madness lurking beneath the beauty of each location will haunt your imagination long after the last page is turned. In Dick Donovan's "The Mystic Spell," a young man finds the love of his life in Rio, but the deadly curse of an old crone could destroy their dreams if they marry. "The Black Reaper" by Bernard Capes, takes place in 1665 during The Great Plague, a time of wild fear and confusion. When the residents of an English village come face-to-face with the deadly scythe of the Black Reaper, only one daring act of courage can save their lives. In "A Tropical Horror" by William Hope Hodgson, the crew of a ship undergoes a series of attacks by a giant, eel-like sea monster. Will the young apprentice who relates this story survive? Filled with a mix of the macabre, the mysterious, the supernatural, and the sinister, this anthology is Victorian suspense at its finest.


Gaslit Nightmares

Gaslit Nightmares

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0486147800

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Sixteen long-neglected classics by renowned writers include "The Drunkard's Path," "An Unexpected Journey," "The Haunted Mill," "The Page-Boy's Ghost," "In the Court of the Dragon," and 11 others.


Gaslit Nightmares

Gaslit Nightmares

Author: Hugh Lamb

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1991-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780708848760

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A collection of 23 Edwardian and Victorian ghost and horror stories, by authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Jerome K.Jerome, Robert W.Chambers and Sabine Baring-Gould.


Great Scenes from Horror Stories

Great Scenes from Horror Stories

Author: John Green

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-09-19

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0486488403

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Filled with thrills and chills, this coloring book features bloodcurdling scenes from more than two dozen well-known tales of horror. Includes memorable scenes from Frankenstein, The Raven, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and more.


The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20

Author: Stephen Jones

Publisher: Robinson

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 821

ISBN-13: 1849012512

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The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by contemporary masters of the macabre, including the likes of Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Brian Keene, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Massie, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, and Gene Wolfe. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror also includes a comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; an impressively researched necrology; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and aspiring writer alike. It is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.


Obelists Fly High

Obelists Fly High

Author: C. Daly King

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2015-03-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0486250369

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In a mystery that ranks with the best of Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie, shots are fired at a policeman aboard an aircraft on which a murder has already occurred. Will the officer survive, and will anyone emerge from the now-plummeting plane? With its intricate plot and "locked room" scenario, this masterpiece of detective fiction was hailed by The New York Times as "a very thrilling story."


Murder by Matchlight

Murder by Matchlight

Author: E.C.R. Lorac

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0486255778

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On a damp evening in wartime London, a body falls from a bridge in Regent's Park — setting the stage for this atmospheric mystery's formidable investigator and a colorful cast of suspects.


Vampires: Classic Tales

Vampires: Classic Tales

Author: Mike Ashley

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0486321037

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Drawing on a 200-year-old tradition, this original collection features a deft combination of vintage vampire tales with more contemporary stories. Anthologist Mike Ashley introduces a dozen fantasies that weave together dark, psychological elements with well-recognized vampire themes. His notes trace the development of vampire fiction, illustrating the genre's life beyond the well-known conventions established by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Selections range from Lord Byron's contribution to the legendary storytelling session that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Nancy Holder's "Blood Gothic," a modern perspective on the corrupting influence of the romantic vampire image. Additional contributors include Alexandre Dumas, Karl von Wachsmann, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Julian Osgood Field, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dick Donovan, Brian Stableford, Sidney Bertram, and Ernst Raupach.


The Mysterious Mickey Finn

The Mysterious Mickey Finn

Author: Elliot Paul

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2015-01-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0486802965

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"It has the delicious irresponsibility of a Wodehouse plot. . . . It's one of the funniest books we've read in a long time. It contains a great deal of shrewd satire."—The New York Times Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and urbane mystery. Homer Evans, an intrepid American detective, turns his keen intellect and remarkable intuition toward solving the puzzle of the financier's disappearance. Assisted by his sharpshooting girlfriend, a cowgirl from the American West, Evans plunges into a maelstrom of kidnapping, art forgery, tax evasion, murder, and a plot to restore the French monarchy. Set against the backdrop of bohemian Montparnasse, the story hurtles along at a breathless pace and in a tone of relentless good cheer, despite the rising body count. The first installment in a popular series that parodies the famous Philo Vance stories of S. S. Van Dine, this novel offers sophisticated humor amid a madcap romp as well as a challenging mystery. "A rollicking, madcap comic mystery that will have you alternately laughing out loud and reading in silent amazement as the plot becomes more and more complex and the actions more extreme and unpredictable. It is impossible to predict what will happen next. A delicious treat for mystery lovers." — The Mutt Cafe


The Night Land

The Night Land

Author: William Hope Hodgson

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2015-06-29

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0486806324

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"The Night Land is a tale of the remote future ― billions of years after the death of the sun. It is one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written . . . there is a sense of cosmic alienage, breathless mystery, and terrified expectancy unrivalled in the whole range of literature . . . this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in a stupendously vast metal pyramid and besieged by monstrous, hybrid, and altogether unknown forces of darkness, is something that no reader can forget." ― H. P. Lovecraft. The tale of a heroic search for life beyond the darkness, this groundbreaking 1912 story was the first work of modern fantasy to feature a dying Earth. The inspiration for countless science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels, the book's legions of fans included Clark Ashton Smith, who remarked that "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land."