Classic horror & ghost stories

A masquerade ball cut short by a mysterious plague; a desperate flight from a headless horseman; a black bobcat howling in the night: these tales are some of the most strange and unsettling in all of American literature, filled with unforgettable imagery and simmering with tension.

Lauded as one of our greatest storytellers, and inspiring generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Tolkien to Stephen King, Algernon Blackwood left a legacy as one of Britain's greatest conjurors of weird and supernatural stories. Blackwood's inimitable style puts readers right in the middle...

An anthology of short stories in tribute to the master of pulp era crime writing, Cornell Woolrich. He is a hugely influential figure for crime writers, and is also remembered through the 50+ films made from his novels and stories, including Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rear Window'.

From the shorelines, hills and crags of ancient lands, tales of twisted creatures, sins against nature and pagan revenant have been passed down from generation to generation. In the 19th and 20th centuries, folklore from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany and the Isle of Man inspired a ...

H.P. Lovecraft is a major writer of horror stories, in the genre of 'weird fiction'. This book brings together his core 'classic' fictions with a full contextual introduction, offering a balanced assessment of an influential cult author whose tales of metaphysical horror create a profound sense o...

M.R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This is the only one-volume edition to include all James's published stories, an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story, and a critical introduction ...

The perfect read for Hallowe'en, this volume of Jackson's finest stories reveals the queen of American gothic at her unsettling, mesmerising bestThere's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife ...

Celia Fremlin's classic Gothic story collection is a masterpiece of psychological horror, mining the darkest elements of marriage, childhood, and ageing; probing paranoia, grief and toxic relationships; inviting the ghosts of the past into our present; and exploring the nightmarish secret impulse...

In the backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the 'Old Ones', that forces the people of the town to hole up by night, fear...

Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson. There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy Tube platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what coul...