Classic Horror & Ghost Stories

Holy Ghosts presents a chilling narrative with the line, "I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard." In these words, an unsettling atmosphere unfolds, inviting readers to explore the eerie tales contained within. A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of...

Timothy followed, in his dream, and saw the ungainly, yet agile creature clamber in through the cat-flap... He could hear the flip-flop as it went up the stairs, and he woke himself, screaming, in a tangle of sheet and blanket. On Sunday night the dream was even worse. Through eighteen dark tales bubbling with the ghostly and the occult, Mike...

Dracula and Other Horror Classics collects the most memorable tales of horror by Bram Stoker. In addition to Dracula—the landmark vampire novel that set the pattern for virtually all vampire fiction written after its publication in 1897—this omnibus collects the novels The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Lair of the White Worm. It also includes a dozen of Stoker's...

The doll wasn't lying on the floor of the cage, but was standing against the padlocked door. And as the curtains parted it turned its face sharply towards me... As mannequins, automata, effigies and dummies, dolls have haunted our imagination since ancient times, invoked throughout the years in literature and film as quintessential symbols of the uncanny. In this collection...

Crawling Horror 'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him.' A brush with a killer hornet upends a reverend's life. A moth wreaks a strange vengeance on...

This cornucopia of thrills and chills features 25 of the finest English-language tales of the uncanny and macabre. In addition to works by such stellar authors as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Henry S. Whitehead, the book features three complete short novels: A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee, Serapion...

Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new collection of Edith Wharton's greatest and most chilling tales showcases one of the most talented ghost story practitioners of all time at her very best. This new edition features a new introductory essay discussing Wharton's indelible influence on the ghost story genre, as well as rarely anthologised tales from the...

Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humour, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly Black From Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers the most...

A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains, along with a bizarre bone sphere covered in arcane symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, who discover a common thread that ties together the murders—and the persons responsible. Bizarre geometries—based on ancient schematics—point...

'Come to-night', I heard the old man say, 'come to me to-night into the Wood of the Dead'. Join Weird Walk for a new journey into the ghostly and bizarre, striking out from the shelter of the inn for the places where the path begins to fade, from the sublime wilderness of mountains, coasts, and ravines to forbidden, ancient tracts...

This supplement for Dracula's America: Shadows of the West contains a host of new rules and material and offers something for every player. - Two New Factions: The Forsaken, ragged survivors of the 7th Cavalry tormented by a bestial curse, and the Shadow Dragon Tong, crimelords with an agenda as mysterious as the powers wielded by their enforcers. - The...

From the fungus-webbed House of Usher to the maddening, fungus-like wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic tale of madness, and Ray Bradbury's account of insidious mushroom dispersal via the US postal system, weird fiction has harboured a thriving culture of fungal horrors throughout the past two centuries. With stories of mycological possession alongside dark, pulpy science fiction, monstrous fruiting bodies...

A genre-bending look into the tropes of Gothic literature. In print for the first time since 1796, The Foresters by Elizabeth Gunning offers an entertaining romp through the many tropes of Gothic literature. She employs these devices to create a compelling story combining the wildest elements of fiction with her own personal history and experiences within eighteenth-century society, producing both...

"Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!" The Vampire Lestat introduces us to Lestat, a vampire who is anything but the conventional undead. Lestat is truly alive, vivid, ecstatic, and stagestruck. In his extravagant tale, he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory;...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft had a short life, and he died of cancer in 1936 at the age of 46. But in that relatively short time, he had a significant, varied, and outstanding output. Although he was not a well-known writer during the time he lived, he has since been hailed as one of the great supernatural fiction writers. Despite being...

A feast for the senses: an illustrated cookbook inspired by classic and contemporary Gothic texts. This literary-inspired cookbook is composed of thirteen divinely delicious chapters, each focusing on a different story and discussing its edible motifs before bringing them to life and to your table with approachable, easy-to-follow recipes and hand-drawn illustrations. Inspired by Alessandra Pino's academic studies into how...

Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed. - Elizabeth Bowen Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Reverend Seddon is on his annual seaside holiday with Father Bott; but to his disgruntlement, his host is busy writing a funeral sermon after a local disaster. Pendizack Manor Hotel—a coastal boarding house perched in a sleepy cove—has just been buried in...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe collects Poe's...

Turn down Slade Alley—narrow, dank, and easy to miss, even when you're looking for it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch, it swings open. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the...

The reputation of early-twentieth century British writer Algernon Blackwood currently resides with his two novellas, The Willows (1907) and The Wendigo (1910), and with good reason. They are perfectly crafted horror tales that convey feelings of mystical otherness; they hint at the possibility that there are forces which lie beyond the confines of our everyday understanding of the world and...

Beyond Time explores the fascinating concept of time travel, a staple of science fiction that presents both intriguing possibilities and complex challenges, including paradoxes. This collection features stories spanning from the 1880s to the 1960s, transporting us to the remote future and back to the distant past. We find ourselves trapped in eternal loops, encounter visitors and objects from the...

Spirits Abroad is the expanded debut collection of a very popular, award-winning author, Zen Cho, featuring nine new stories. Zen Cho, who grew up in Malaysia and currently resides in England, is well-loved across a broad spectrum of genres. Her unique perspective is further enriched by her travels to the US. The collection is a part of the #ownvoices and...

These stories and poems come from the mind of one of the earliest masters of macabre literature. From the mysterious to the macabre, the works of Edgar Allan Poe have the power to evoke readers’ deepest emotions. Poe’s stories and poems explore the darker side of life and still offer lessons and insight into human behaviour today. This handsome Word...

‘Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief’ SARAH WATERS ‘Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening’ GUARDIAN ‘Atmospheric, sexy, creepy…totally addictive’ KATE DAVIES, author of In At The Deep End ‘A gloriously over-the-top queer romp’ I PAPER ‘It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog...

Rediscover a dread of Dracula in this handsome new Vintage Classics edition. Within the pages of this book can be found one of the most terrifying creatures in all of literature. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH O'CONNOR Rediscover a dread of Dracula in this beautifully designed new Vintage Classics edition. This classic of horror writing is composed of diary entries,...

Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic, and the weird. They are places where strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach into underworlds of earth, myth, and magic. Forests are full of ghosts. In this new collection, immerse...

In this volume, Johnny Mains dives into the archives to unearth a hoard of twenty-one enthralling tales imbued with elements of Celtic folklore, ranging from the 1820s to the 1980s and including three weird lost gems translated from Gaelic. Together, they conjure uncanny visions of eternal forces, beings, and traditions, resonating with the beguiling essence of this unique branch of...

'A fever dream of a novel. Fuelled by sapphic femgore, it's sick and sultry, and a deeply beguiling masterclass in the perverse; I couldn't put it down!' - Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb 'Devilishly addictive and delightfully gory from an exciting new voice in literary horror. Northanger Abbey meets Saltburn' - Christine Anne Foley, author of Bodies Scullery drudge...

'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' - KAREN JOY FOWLER '[A] reminder about what it means to be alive . . . with razor-sharp prose and diction so precise' - MORGAN TALTY 'Read it and be changed' - B. PLADEK Something terrible has happened. In a mysterious apartment filled with ghosts, our unnamed narrator attempts to explain this to her child -...