A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of waterways and death.
Brings together two series of short fiction by Aleister Crowley. It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley's most memorable fiction creation, Simon Iff, together with the legendary Golden Twigs - inspired by Frazer's The Golden Bough.
E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection.
Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by the spirits of the dead. With deceptive simplicity and chilling realism, Whitehead's Voodoo Tales are amongst the most frightening ever written.
This volume brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley. 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 fifty-two stories in the present volume, only thirty were published in his lifetime
A triumphant love story that follows the life of one woman from the chaos of Nigeria's 1968 civil war through forbidden first love, loss, marriage and motherhood.
A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome's After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season.
The way we interact with technology in an increasingly 'intelligent' environment is changing. Behind many of these changes will be artificial life and how exactly this will impact on our world is still an open question. This anthology brings together scientists and authors to imagine what life will look like in the year 2070.
Fresh from the field of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey is dispatched on a mission of the secrecy. Leaving behind his fiancee, Lady Henrietta Lindsey, he must journey to India, an exotic land that will test his mettle to the very limit.
Prepare to be chilled, electrified and entertained - a gem of a novel from 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent).
Hawkwood's in America for this gripping, action-packed follow up to the bestselling Ratcatcher - for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Igulden and Patrick O'Brian