Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. This edition includes all ten of his tales in this genre.

This edition presents all of James's published ghost stories, including the unforgettable 'Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and 'Casting the Runes', and an appendix of James's writings on the ghost story.

Richard Marsh's weird, compelling and highly original novel, which once outsold "Dracula", is both a horror masterpiece and a fin de siecle melodrama embracing the fears and concerns of late Victorian society.

In the cumulative shock of its revelations, the use of arcane knowledge, the mounting suspense and acceleration to a fearful climax, he out-does even that earlier achievement. This is, by any standards, a terrific story.

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work, from Gothic horror to the first modern detective stories.

Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings.This collection presents the ...

The Duke de Richleau and Rex van Ryn know instinctively that something bizarre has happened to Simon Aron.

This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley.

Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s, the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral.

Widowed at 30, Gertrude Atherton became hugely productive writer, including a fine selection of supernatural tales influenced by Ambrose Bierce and M.R. James.