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The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.In 1894, Arthur Machen's landmark novella The Great God Pan was published,...

In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. 'What a silly little girl,' the nurse had said. 'It's only the... stone.'Standing stones, stone circles, tumps, barrows and ancient clearings still remain...

The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling...

Darkness now was around me and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.The violent peals of a disconnected bell in the night; a trudging...

Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard...With a stiff measure of the supernatural, a dram of melodrama and a chaser of the cautionary kind,...

Suddenly he began hastening hither and thither about the room. He moved the furniture with fierce jerks, turning ever to see the effect upon the shadow on the wall. Not a line of its terrible outlines wavered.The disquieting tales of Mary E. Wilkins...

'These stories have all had their origins in dreams... Terrifying enough to the dreamer... I hope that some readers will experience an agreeable shudder or two in the reading of them.'A malignant entity answers the call of an ancient curse on the coast...

'The first thing my dazed eyes fell upon was the mirror of black glass... She held it so that I might gaze into its depths. And there, with a cry of amazement and fear, I saw the shadow of the Basilisk.'Through odysseys across dreamlike lands, Gothic...

A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself...

The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous setting of a terraced back garden... E F Benson's 'spook...

Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted to him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to twentieth-century...

'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...

Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees...

'The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.'The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed but the ghosts are still hungry...

There was a faint rustling sound, like some small silk thing blown in a gentle breeze. He sat up straight, stark and scared, and a small wooden voice spoke in the stillness. "Pa-pa," it said, with a break between the syllables.From living dolls to...

The stories in Streets of Blood all take place in the greater New York City area. Authors include Mercedes Lackey, Norma Collins, Laura Ann Gilman, Edward Bryant, Evelyn E. Smith, Esther F. Friesner, Chet Williamson, Lawrence Schimel, Alan Ryan, Chelsea...

Tales of suspense for the twilight hour...Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity -...

O Magazine's Top 20 Books to Read This Summer! "In this searing hallucinatory novel set partly in a lunarlike desert, Bell captures a mood of sexual menace, tracing the fates of a teenage girl and her birth mother as they home in on each other. Fleeing...

A song of mourning...and warning.From the depths of Briarsnare Marsh the Yunwi Tsunsdi-the Little People-sing their dirge when death approaches to claim a soul. Sometimes though even death can be fooled. The residents of Boone Creek are shocked by the...

One-Eyed Jack has returned...FBI crime analyst Kili Brennan has come to Boone Creek in the Appalachian foothills of Kentucky looking for her missing brother...looking for answers. Instead she finds a world of suspicion and superstition. Locals say her...

Winner of the 2023 FICCI India Book of the Year award - a powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer.Drawing on ancient tribal tales, Spirit Nights tells of a prophecy fulfilled when a number of villages are...

At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather's library. The...

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new horror novel focused on a father's journey to find his missing daughter.Henry's daughter was fourteen when she went missing and he's been burying pieces of her ever since. Each totem...

"[This] series of Christmas ghost stories, miniature books chosen and illustrated by the cartoonist Seth ... [offers] chills-and charm."-New York Times Book Review World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2023.Reverend...

A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Medal Winner "Original, hilarious, and completely inspirational." -Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The House Guest "Funny, poignant, spooky, and uniquely clever . . ." -J. T. Ellison, New York...

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authors.A middle-aged Black woman exacts revenge on the aggressively average men she...

"Take the box and get away from here as soon as you can. Don't let it out of your sight until it has been printed and the books distributed!"In May 1921, Miss Sophie Delorme beings a series of communications with a publishing house in search of a genuine...

Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs...Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the 'unholy trinity' of cult classics which gave birth to the film genre that would become known as folk horror...

Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last.Long before the latest vogue for auto fiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeThe perfect marriage of literary and speculative fiction for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro and NK Jemisin.When Freya Tanangco was ten, she dreamed of her mother's death right before it happened. That's when...

Thomas Kemp, the Libertine, turned cruelty, torture and humiliation into works of art.It was said that he had given his soul to something inhuman to be part of artistic immortality. It was said that his very ashes were used to make a set of charcoals...

In each of these stories, the reader is lured into a sinister shadow space, one both familiar and uncanny.Life is strange, beautiful, and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe's debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy...

Lucifer causes a curse that could change mankind's destiny.The prophet Jeremiah announces a curse which states the descendants of the Jewish King Jehoiachin will not become king of Judah and that Jehoiachin will be put in prison in Babylon. Lucifer tries...

Lucifer is preparing for his ultimate reign.And he has a plan literally out of this world for creating the perfect human who can influence and dominate the earth so he can come to power and rule all. Since the time of the Tower of Babel he has been...

"With her debut novel,Till We Become Monsters, Amanda Headlee raises the genre to a chilling new level. I recommend reading this one with all the lights on."-Phil Giunta, author ofLike Mother, Like DaughtersMonsters existand Korin Perrin knew this as...

Sandy Kurtz has problems. He's got a baby on the way, his wife doesn't love him, and he's struggling to find passion or purpose at his big-box retail job. And, once a month, he turns into a werewolf. In Darrin Doyle's deft hands, Sandy's story is a tall...

A collection of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror. Lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Paul Pope. Algernon Blackwood was one of the first true masters of...

Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma after a very suspicious "accident." Even if it means infiltrating the last place Seraphina knows Eff was alive: a once-abandoned amusement park now populated...

This almost silent comic tells the story of an amateur alchemist and getaway driver for a bank heist. When the holdup goes wrong he finds himself with a bag full of hot cash, orders a build-your-own homunculus kit, and goes on the run. Tessler's dense...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.The dead sleep peacefully-until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the count's dying wife begs to be buried near the...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.After attending a sance at an acquaintance's home, a man receives an unexpected job offer from another guest: resident doctor at the prison he directs. But when a prisoner begs...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When Lady Jane Lynke unexpectedly inherits Bells, a beautiful country estate, she declares she'll never leave the peaceful grounds and sets about making the house her home. But...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021.When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, her ladyship solemnly digs her fractured companion a grave. Luckily Mr Puckler, renowned doll doctor, thinks...

They say never go into the woods at night...School's out for summer and that means one thing to Parker, Chloe, and their four friends: a well-deserved camping trip in the Pine Barrens, a million-acre forest deep in the heart of New Jersey. But when old...

Ten years after the city of Los Angeles is nearly destroyed by a violent domestic terrorist attack, Esther Robertson struggles to reconcile her father's culpability as leader of the deadly Son of Abraham cult. She grants CBS's top reporter, Cooper...

Ten years after the city of Los Angeles is nearly destroyed by a violent domestic terrorist attack, Esther Robertson struggles to reconcile her father's culpability as leader of the deadly Son of Abraham cult. She grants CBS's top reporter, Cooper...

Cinematic Success: Kaufman's debut novel, The Lairdbalor, is being made into a feature film by award winning Australian director, Nick Verso, in association with Echo Lake Entertainment and Screen Australia.Cults and the Occult: Entertainment about dark...

When a mysterious head injury causes amnesia, Manson Digby finds himself plagued by violent thoughts and dark dreams-which cause him to wonder if he might be going crazy. Embarking upon a journey of self-discovery, Manson will need to figure out if he...