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Scottish Ghost Stories by Rosemary Gray
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan have explored the country's unique folkloric heritage to spine-chilling effect. From Highlands to ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes: The Shadow of the Rat & The Tangled Skein by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Art & Music | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Two of Sherlock Holmes' most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures in one volume. In The Shadow of the Rat, a body is found floating in the river - a body that has been deliberately infected with the plague virus. Holmes and Watson find themselves seeking answers at The Bridge of Dreams, a club ...Show more
Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope's novel The Prisoner of Zenda. Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the s ...Show more
Simon Iff Stories and Other Works by Aleister Crowley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This volume brings together two series of short fiction by the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875–1947). It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley’s most memorable fictional creation, the mystic-magician-philosopher-psyc ...Show more
Strange Tales by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Some six or seven feet above the port bulwarks, framed in fog, and as utterly unsupported as the full moon, hung a Face. It was not human, and it certainly was not animal, for it did not belong to this earth as known to man' Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and ...Show more
Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls by James Malcolm Rymer
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. The String of Pearls - the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first publish ...Show more
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by EDGAR ALLEN POE
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste ...Show more
Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by GASKELL Elizabeth
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged'. Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but ...Show more
Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by ...Show more
The Beast with Five Fingers: Supernatural Stories by W. F. Harvey
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Category: Art & Music | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
' ...the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. 'We'll keep it there until it dies,' he said. 'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again.' The brilliant and scary 'The Beast with Five Fingers', is the first entry in ...Show more
The Beetle by Richard Marsh
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him... and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe... 'From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of horror, 'born of neither God nor man', which can change its form at will. ...Show more
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality. In their use of dreams, ancient anecdote, and ruined or dilapidated buildings ('Florence Fl ...Show more