Fantasy And Horror Classics

Scottish author James Hogg was one of the most popular authors of his day, and has recently undergone on a widespread critical revival. 'The Brownie of the Black Haggs' is one of his best-remembered...

The Call of Cthulhu is H. P. Lovecraft's most well-known and celebrated work of supernatural horror fiction. The short story is a fantastic fusion of science fiction and thrilling tension. Francis...

Originally published in two parts in "The Court and Society Review" (March, 1887), "The Canterville Ghost" is a comical short story written by Oscar Wilde. His first published story, it revolves...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of detective Sherlock Holmes, is the father of crime fiction. However, he was also an accomplished teller of tales featuring the weird, the supernatural, and the...

When Charles Dexter Ward escapes from a mental asylum Wards' family doctor, Marinus Bicknell Willett, endeavours to unearth the reason for the madness and physiological changes that afflicted his...

An aged poet becomes separated by a long distance from his beloved and dying wife. They were two people from different lives and backgrounds, yet he worked hard to make a name for himself. After many...

Bram Stoker is best known for his 1897 publication, Dracula. This work - an epistolary novel weaving hypnotism, magic, the supernatural, and other elements of Gothic fiction - went on to sell over...

"The Challenge from Beyond" is a five-part story written as a collaboration between various authors, including: A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. The story revolves around a man...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a key American novelist and short story writer of the Romantic period. 'The Christmas Banquet', originally published in 1844, is a classic example of Hawthorne's preoccupation...

H. G. Wells is regarded as one of the greatest science-fiction writers of all time. First published in 1888, 'The Chronic Argonauts' features the first properly developed 'time machine' in all of...

Tales of Magic, Murder and Macabre upon the Streets of England's capital, with stories by such authors as Aleister Crowley, M. R. James, Charles Dickens and E. F. Benson.Author: VariousPublisher:...

A collection of 18 short stories from on of the finest writers of ghost and horror stories. Including the stories 'Schalken the Painter', 'The Spectre Lovers' and 'Madam Crowl's Ghost'.Author: Joseph...

In an attempt to uncover the mysteries of a seemingly cursed area called the "blasted heath" by the locals, an unnamed narrator sets about questioning the townsfolk as to the location's history. When...

This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1818. Born in K?nigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged...

Lafcadio Hearn's "non-fiction" article was originally published by Harper's Magazine in 1889. Detailing skulduggery and supernatural phenomenon on the island of Mozambique, 'The Country of the...

Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in...

A collection of short stories of horror, black magic and hunting from the searing desert to the darkest jungle. With stories by H. P. Lovecraft, Rider Haggard and Edward Bulwer LyttonAuthor:...

The Day Boy and Night Girl - also referred to as The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris - first appeared in Harper's Young People as a series between December of 1879 and January of 1880. Regarded as...

This vintage book contains Francis Marion Crawford's 1911 horror novel, "The Dead Smile". With a ghastly banshee, a cadaver that's wont stay put, and an infectious and sinister smile, this eerie...

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1879. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and...

Alonzo Typer lived an exotic life as researcher of the occult, his studies taking him to many interesting places around the world including India, Nepal, Tibet, Indochina and Easter Island. His final...

Wilkie Collins was an extremely popular author of the Victorian era. Aside from his thirty novels, Collins penned a great amount of short stories across a number of genres. First published in 1856,...

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) - until the...

This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1818. Born in K?nigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged...

"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" is a 1926 novella written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft and published posthumously. The story revolves around the intrepid dreamer Randolph Carter who embarks...

When student of folklore and mathematics Walter Gilman moves into an attic flat in an infamous and purportedly cursed house, he begins experiencing strange dreams that include inexplicable colours...

Deformed albino Lavinia Whateley lives with her grotesque son and father in the remote village of Dunwich, Massachusetts. Growing from a child to a man in just ten years, her son Wilbur is feared by...

Edogawa Rampo is the pen name of Japanese author Hirai Taro. Influenced in his early career by Western mystery writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he is one of Japan's most...

John Carroll Daly was a popular pulp author of the early 20th century. His 'Knights of the Open Palm', published in 1923 in Black Mask magazine, is seen as founding the genre of hard-boiled detective...

This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in the 19th century. Born in K?nigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially...