This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious...

Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen...

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...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded...

'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...

'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty....

'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.
With its strange,...

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888,...

Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and...

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...

Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the...

'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes... turned piteously on himself, as if...

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

'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and...

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...

Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
'...the shadow turned...

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

Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and "The Woman in White" is his first excursion into the genre.
When the hero, Walter...