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The Casefiles of Mr. J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
‘How on earth did you piece together all this?’ he asked in wonder. Mr Reeder shook his head sadly.‘I have that perversion,’ he said. ‘It is a terrible misfortune. I see evil in everything. I have the mind of a criminal.’Let us introduce you to the enigmatic J. G. Reeder, a timid, gentle middle-aged man ...Show more
The Castle of Otranto /nightmare Abbey/Vathek by Horace Walpole
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the vogue in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries. This unique collection presents the best and the most diverse of this fascinating genre. In ...Show more
The Complete Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
'We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfil our promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening - The Four Just Men' Criminals and malefactors beware! There is no escape from the sword of justice wielded by The Four Just Men. Here are the complete adventures of Edgar Wallace's daring and ingeni ...Show more
The Crimson Blind and Other Stories by H. D. Everett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special thrills without piling on the agony. 'I always know', says one of her characters, 'how ...Show more
The Drug and Other Stories by Aleister Crowley
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947). Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922, and his short stories are long overdue for discovery. Of the forty-nine stories in the ...Show more
The Eyes of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Max Carrados is one of the most unusual detectives in all fiction. He is blind - and yet he has developed his other faculties to such an amazing degree that they more than compensate for his lack of sight.'Lose one sense and the others, touch, taste, smell, hearing improve...with a little dedicated trai ...Show more
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Elizabeth Wharton; Edith Wharton
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser.
Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. W ...Show more
The Haunter of the Ring: And Other Tales by Robert E. Howard
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
From the unsurpassed imagination of the creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, here are twenty-one tales of suspense, high adventure and Lovecraftian horror. Foul sacrifices are made to a reptilian God in Hungary, a werewolf prowls the corridors of a castle in strife-torn Africa, criminal masterminds on b ...Show more
The House by the Churchyard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period's leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M.R. James as standing 'absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories'. The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ...turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' Ann Radcliffe, author of The Romance of the Forest and ...Show more
The King in Yellow by R.W. CHAMBERS
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural Ser. | Reading Level: very good
I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world ...Show more
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
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Category: Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, th ...Show more