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 | Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
These 23 modern horror stories by American master include "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Damned Thing," and 21 more that will "attract and hold the attention of anyone interested in the horror genre." — SF Booklog.
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 | The Golem
by Gustav Meyrink
Most famous supernatural novel in modern European literature, set in Ghetto of Old Prague around 1890. A compelling story of mystical experiences, strange transformations, profound terror. 13 black-and-white illustrations.
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 | Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others
by Mike Ashley
Sixteen spine-tingling tales: "The Gray Champion" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe, plus fables by Henry James, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Parke Godwin, and others.
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 | The Great God Pan and The Hill of Dreams
by Arthur Machen
The Great God Pan scandalized Victorian London with its suggestive visions of sexuality and paganism, while The Hill of Dreams is a semi-autobiographical work about Machen's battles with his inner demons.
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 | The Haunted Hotel
by Wilkie Collins
Set amid the picturesque palaces and waterways of 19th-century Venice, this suspenseful novelette recounts an obsessed countess's attempts to thwart what she perceives as her fatal destiny.
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 | The Haunted Monastery and the Chinese Maze Murders
by Robert van Gulik
Two full novels by Orientalist and diplomat Robert Van Gulik recount the further fictional adventures of the renowned Judge Dee, a real-life magistrate and statesman of seventh-century T'ang China. 27 illustrations.
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 | Hide and Seek
by Wilkie Collins
In this gripping yarn by the great Victorian storyteller, a strange and wild woodsman investigates a gentle young woman's mysterious origins. "A very remarkable book." — Charles Dickens.
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 | The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson, Mike Ashley
A haunted house in the Irish countryside provides a portal to another world in this combination of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. "A classic of the first order." — H. P. Lovecraft.
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 | Kai Lung's Golden Hours
by Ernest Bramah
Like Scheherazade, Kai Lung relies upon his prowess as a storyteller to save his neck. These 12 traditional tales from a mandarin's court in ancient China abound in ageless wisdom.
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 | King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quatermain, She
by H. Rider Haggard
"She" is the great mythic creation of the 19th century, while "King Solomon’s Mines" and "Allan Quatermain" are surging tales of adventure, full of sensational fights, blood-curdling perils and extraordinary escapes.
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 | The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
by Robert W. Chambers, E. F. Bleiler
A milestone of American supernatural fiction from the author who has been hailed as the link between Poe and Stephen King. 12 gripping stories, with an introduction by E. F. Bleiler.
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 | Last Men in London
by Olaf Stapledon
In this companion to Last and First Men, a being from the remote future investigates 20th-century life by entering a subject's mind and observing his childhood, participation in World War I, and afterward.
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 | Last and First Men
by Olaf Stapledon
This masterpiece of science fiction is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years. A must-read for scholars of the genre, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations.
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 | The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G. K. Chesterton
These 8 tales by the creator of detective-priest Father Brown trace the activities of Horne Fisher, who investigates crime amid upper-crust society in pre–World War I Britain. "Dazzlingly executed and richly atmospheric." — The Armchair Detective.
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday
by G. K. Chesterton
Fast-paced novel about a club of anarchists in turn-of-the-century London and a poet/sleuth who infiltrates their ranks. Inventive and ingenious story becomes a vehicle for Chesterton's brilliant social, religious, and philosophical speculations.
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 | The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
When an aging heiress is found fatally poisoned, Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is brought in to unravel many mysteries in this classic tale of murder, jealousy, and greed.
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 | The Mystery of Cloomber
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mike Ashley
The master of detective fiction and creator of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries reveals his deep fascination with spiritualism and the paranormal in a gripping tale of vengeance, set on the remote Scottish coast.
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 | The Mystery of the Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux
How could a crime take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? Leroux's landmark tale of foul play and deception remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre.
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 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill
by G. K. Chesterton
A comical futurist fantasy, first published in 1904, about a tradition-loving suburban London community of the 1980's at war with its modernizing neighbors. 7 illustrations by W. Graham Robertson. New Introduction by Martin Gardner.
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