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The Jewel of Seven Stars
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker explores horror tales, archaeologists — fiction, mummies — fiction.
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole explores horror tales, inheritance and succession — fiction, gothic fiction.
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett explores women singers — fiction, ghost stories.
Uncle Silas
The young heiress Maud Ruthyn enters the household of her mysterious uncle after her father’s death. Isolation and uncertainty gradually turn her new surroundings into a place of danger.
'Farewell, Nikola'
Richard Hatteras meets the mysterious Dr Nikola again in Venice. Their encounters lead into hidden rooms, old obsessions and the secrets of a decaying palace.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M. R. James’s antiquaries and travellers encounter disturbing traces of the past in manuscripts, churches and unfamiliar rooms. Small discoveries gradually release forces their finders do not understand.
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
Kipling’s stories move through haunted encounters, obsessive memories and unusual experiences in British India. The title story follows a man pursued by a rickshaw that no one else can see.
Three Ghost Stories
Three supernatural stories by Charles Dickens bring unsettling encounters into ordinary lives. The collection includes The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder and The Signal-Man.
The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce presents a short collection of macabre stories narrated with elaborate calm. Domestic violence, improbable explanations and the speakers’ accounts of their own conduct become the material of his dark comedy.
The Mystery of Choice
Robert W. Chambers brings together stories in which woodland settings, personal encounters and apparently quiet communities conceal unusual events. The collection moves between the natural world, romantic attachment and experiences that trouble the people involved.
The House of Souls
Arthur Machen brings together stories involving unusual discoveries, concealed histories and encounters that disturb the people who experience them. The collection includes longer narratives whose events unfold between ordinary surroundings and a hidden world.
Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
Richard F. Burton retells a sequence of Indian tales linked by a king’s encounter with a vampire. Each story presents a problem of conduct or judgment, while the framing narrative follows the repeated journeys of its two central figures.
Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre
A visit to an isolated household draws a young man into a relationship increasingly shaped by fear and control. Hugh Walpole follows the people within the house through secrecy, attachment and a growing sense of danger.
The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain
A visitor investigates a London house whose recent occupants have fled from unexplained disturbances. Edward Bulwer-Lytton follows a night within the building and the inquiry into the history connected with it.
The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations
Several encounters in London become parts of a connected sequence of extraordinary narratives. Arthur Machen follows the people telling and hearing these stories as the roles of their three central figures gradually emerge.