This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time....

From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H.P.Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century....

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,......

\"The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations o...

\'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay......

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....

This book is 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......

This is a book that may have changed history - and still thrills today. One of the first and still one of the finest spy stories ever written, Erskine Childers\' book introduced Edwardian readers to the idea of a \'secret service\'....

This book is introduced by Mark Valentine. Dr Nikola - Victorian master criminal. Elegant, ruthless, hypnotic: enter Dr Nikola and his black cat Apollyon. He was the world\'s first master villain, a Victorian forerunner of Dr Fu Manchu and the mad......

This title includes an Introduction by Hilary Long. Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of......

The hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. \'We\'ll keep it there until it dies\', he said. \'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again\'. The......

\'And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl\'. Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and......

\'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......

\'I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him...and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe...\' From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of horror,......

Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house on the French Riviera only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn’t know, and was certainly not aware of the terrible......