Classic horror & ghost stories

In this volume are collected H.P. Lovecraft's earliest stories that have their own unique qualities that sets them apart from the better known Cthulhu mythos. The strong influence of Edgar Allen Poe on these stories comes through to create a series of terrifying tales.

As the nights draw in and the old year slips away, the haunting season begins. Twigs scrape at windowpanes in the darkness, mysterious footprints are found in the snow, and all sorts of mysteries, monsters and nastiness are in the offing. Bringing together ten classic tales of mystery, murder and...

Despite being a household name during the latter half of the 19th century, few today are aware of the thrilling tales of Margaret Oliphant, and yet they are ripe for rediscovery. From suspenseful hauntings to strange tales of afterlife and the emotional echoes of ghosts beyond simple frights, Oli...

This collection of Vernon Lee's uniquely weird short stories and dark fantasies proves why she was once considered among the best of the genre, and why she deserves to return to those ranks today.

Froml the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, and such later weirdists as H.P. Lovecraft, came one of the most complex of villains: the mad scientist. 'Promethean Horrors' presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created,...

Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between rea...

Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories - and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul: A sister tells her little brother that 'Half the House Is Haunted' with a presence that only she can see, but is it her own mind that is haunted? In ...

Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1850s to the 1960s. The traditional trappings of the holiday are turned upside down as restless spirits disrupt the merry games of the living, Christmas trees teem ...

Once Lovecraft discovered the writings of Lord Dunsany, his writing began to change dramatically. This collection contains all his fiction set in the alternate dimension he called the dreamlands, written between 1918 and 1932, featuring such highlights as 'Polaris', 'The Quest of Iranon' and 'The...

'Tales for Twilight' offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it's because of the...