In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for...

'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver...

This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The...

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The...

Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the...

'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the...

Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott.
`They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then,...

Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the...

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre,...