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E. LLOYD, 12, SALISBURY-SQUARE, FLEET-STREET.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood is a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story variously attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. It first appeared in 1845–1847 as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets of the kind then known as "penny dreadfuls". The story was published in book form in 1847. It is of epic length: the original edition ran to 876 double-columned pages and 232 chapters. Altogether it totals nearly 667,000...
Author
Publisher
Love Romances Publishing Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It is the little death," they whispered. "When that
yellow mist starts creeping, you'll wish you were
dead, sir." Gavin Murdock, hardened manhunter, coldly
eyed the evil miasma rising through the mystery
spaceship and braced himself for unguessable horror....
- from Introduction
Author
Publisher
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Soldier, explorer, and adventurer, British author CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890) is perhaps best remembered for his notoriously unexpurgated translations of The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, which scandalized-and titillated-Victorian readers. Lesser known, however, is his intriguing collection of classic Hindu tales of adventure, magic, and romance, first published in 1870.
Enlivened by Burton's own imagination-he was the first...
Author
Publisher
STONE AND KIMBALL
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphere, and throughout it all, a profound appreciation for the haunting beauty of Europe through the eyes of an American architect.
(Good Reads).
Author
Publisher
Heath, Cranton, Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Elliott O'Donnell (1872-1965) was an English author known primarily for his books about ghosts. He claimed to have seen a ghost, described as an elemental figure covered with spots, when he was five years old. He also claimed to have been strangled by a mysterious phantom in Dublin (however, no permanent effect would seem to have been suffered).
His first book, written in his spare time, was a psychic thriller titled For Satan's Sake (1904).
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This new critical edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was developed by leading scholars for aspiring scientists, engineers, and medical professionals. This unique framing will make this a core text in promoting and enhancing interdisciplinary dialogue on the nature, roles, and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society. To be published in time for the 2018 bicentennial of its original publication, this edition will be produced in...
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser was "...an unacknowledged mistress of psychological horror, haunting atmosphere, and adroit social criticism. Her deeply introspective stories of sentient scarecrows, shapeshifters, and specters also revealed the daily terror and abuse that women suffered in the early 20th century. Neglected since their 1918 publication, these twelve supernatural stories are deeply unsettling, lyrical, and uncanny…". [Goodreads]
Author
Publisher
Hookham and Carpenter
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, "A Sicilian Romance" was published anonymously in 1790.The plot revolves around the turbulent history of the fallen aristocrats of the house of Mazzini who lived in a castle on the northern shore of Sicily. The tale is told by a tourist who becomes intrigued by stories he hears from a monk he runs into while exploring the ruins of the old castle.The story itself is set in the late 1500s with the main characters being...
Author
Publisher
Harcout, Brace and Howe
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This does not attempt to be an inclusive anthology. The ghostly poetry of the late war alone would have made a book as large as this; and an inclusive scheme would have ended as a six-volume Encyclopedia of Ghostly Verse. I hope that this may be called for some day. The present book has been held to the conventional limits of the type of small anthology which may be read without weariness (I hope) by the exclusion not only of many long and dreary...
Author
Publisher
Chapman & Hall
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge...
12) A Fool There Was
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Porter Emerson Browne was an American playwright (June 22, 1879 – September 20, 1934), born Beverly, Massachusetts. He was the author of numerous plays, including A Fool There Was (1909), which was adapted for film twice, in 1915 and 1922; The Spendthrift (1910); Chains (1912); and The Bad Man (1920).- Wikipedia
Author
Publisher
P. F. Collier and Son
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder mystery based on the details of a real crime. It first appeared in Snowden's Ladies' Companion in three installments, November and December 1842 and February 1843. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
CONTENTS
EDGAR ALLAN POE
DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE
THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS...
15) The Five Jars
Author
Publisher
Longmans, Green & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Looking for a spooky tale to read in front of the fireplace on Halloween or around the campfire on your next outdoor adventure? The Five Jars from M.R. James, master of the Victorian ghost story, is a frightening but family-friendly yarn that will tantalize young and old alike.
Author
Publisher
Longmans, Green, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Best known for his "rainbow" series of fairy tale books, pioneering anthropologist and folklorist Andrew Lang was the first to compile a serious, critical survey of ghost stories. With Dreams and Ghosts, he collected scores of well-attested tales from civilizations around the world about spirit visitations. This pageant of supernatural guests includes the naked ghost, the wraith of the czarina, the dancing devil, the ghost that bit, the thumbless...
Author
Publisher
Chapman & Hall
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge...
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser was "...an unacknowledged mistress of psychological horror, haunting atmosphere, and adroit social criticism. Her deeply introspective stories of sentient scarecrows, shapeshifters, and specters also revealed the daily terror and abuse that women suffered in the early 20th century. Neglected since their 1918 publication, these twelve supernatural stories are deeply unsettling, lyrical, and uncanny…". [Goodreads]
Author
Publisher
Harcout, Brace and Howe
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This does not attempt to be an inclusive anthology. The ghostly poetry of the late war alone would have made a book as large as this; and an inclusive scheme would have ended as a six-volume Encyclopedia of Ghostly Verse. I hope that this may be called for some day. The present book has been held to the conventional limits of the type of small anthology which may be read without weariness (I hope) by the exclusion not only of many long and dreary...
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