Idle Days on the Yann
By: Lord Dunsany
3.82
Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition
So I came down through the wood on the bank of Yann and found, as had been prophesied, the ship Bir…
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1. The Minister's Black Veil
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.73
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old pe… read more
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"The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial-stone is mossgrown, and good Mr. Hooper’s face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the black…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
"Mr. Hooper spent a long life, irreproachable in outward act, yet shrouded in dismal suspicions; kind and loving, though unloved, and dimly feared; a man apart from men, shunned in their health and jo…"-Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister's Black Veil
2. The Were-Wolf
By: Clemence Housman
3.68
Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition
Originally written in 1896. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital for… read more
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"The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes..."-Clemence Housman, The Were-Wolf
"So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night."-Clemence Housman, The Were-Wolf
"Like lightning she snatched her axe, and struck him on the neck - deep - once - twice - his life-blood gushed out, staining her feet. The stars touched midnight."-Clemence Housman, The Were-Wolf
"His own true hidden reality that he had desired to know grew palpable, recognizable. It seemed to him just this: a great, glad, abounding hope that he had saved his brother; too expansive to be conta…"-Clemence Housman, The Were-Wolf
3. Lost Hearts
By: M.R. James , Danko Krilić
3.60
Format: 332 pages, ebook
The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much … read more
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- classics
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4. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
5. The Black Stone
By: Robert E. Howard
4.17
Format: None pages,
A marvelous rendition of the short story the Black Stone by Conan author Robert E. Howard. You can … read more
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7. The Nose
By: Nikolai Gogol , Ronald Wilks
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me s… read more
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8. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (The Spy, Detective and Mystery Series)
By: Ambrose Bierce
4.08
Format: 31 pages,
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10. At the Mountains of Madness
By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more
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11. Ligeia
By: Edgar Allan Poe
3.51
Format: 235 pages,
Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. read more
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12. The Shadow Out of Time
By: H.P. Lovecraft , S.T. Joshi , David E. Schultz
3.95
Format: 620 pages, Paperback
"The Shadow out of Time" is H. P. Lovecraft's last major story, written in a four-month period from… read more
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13. La prisión de la libertad
By: Michael Ende , Genoveva Dieterich
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
La Fantasia interminable Es corto el pasillo del imponente palazzo romano pero jamas alcanzaremos s… read more
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14. The King in Yellow
By: Robert W. Chambers
3.55
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
One of the leading examples of Victorian-gothic horror, The King in Yellow is a collection of ten i… read more
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"Selby never knew why, but he suddenly began to buy flowers."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"Strange in the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But Stranger still is Lost Carcosa."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth..."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
"No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire."-Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow
15. El espejo en el espejo
By: Michael Ende , None , None
4.43
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
El espejo en el espejoes un libro de Michael Ende que recoge diversos cuentos escritos por el autor… read more
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16. The Rats in the Walls
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it wa… read more
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17. The Lorax
By: Dr. Seuss
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not." Lo… read more
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18. The Call of Cthulhu
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harro… read more
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19. The Monkey's Paw
By: W.W. Jacobs
3.84
Format: 32 pages, Library Binding
When the White family comes into the possession of a monkey’s paw that magically grant wishes, they… read more
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"But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly."-W.W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw
20. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was the master of American weird fiction. First published in … read more
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21. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
By: Erckmann-Chatrian
3.66
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
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22. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.89
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more
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- fantasy
- short stories
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)
23. The Story of a Panic
By: E.M. Forster
3.59
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
The Story of a Panic is a novella written by E.M. Forster. The book tells the story of a group of B… read more
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"All the poetry is going from Nature,' he cried. 'her lakes and marshes are drained, her seas banked up, her forests cut down. Everywhere we see the vulgarity of desolation spreading."-E.M. Forster, The Story of a Panic
24. Idle Days on the Yann
By: Lord Dunsany
3.82
Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition
So I came down through the wood on the bank of Yann and found, as had been prophesied, the ship Bir… read more
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25. The Dead Valley
By: Ralph Adams Cram
3.71
Format: 6 pages, None
"In The Dead Valley the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably pot… read more
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26. The Bad Lands
By: John Metcalfe
3.00
Format: None pages, None
John Metcalfe was a master of the strange tale; unjustly neglected nowadays. His tales rank alongsi… read more
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27. Seaton's Aunt
By: Walter de la Mare
3.49
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
A schoolboy is reluctantly drawn into the unhappy world of Arthur Seaton - a bullied outsider with … read more
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"And it always seems to me,' he went on ruminatingly, 'that, after all, we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go."-Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
28. The Tale Of Satampra Zeiros
By: Clark Ashton Smith
3.77
Format: None pages, None
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"I, Satampra Zeiros of Uzuldaroum, shall write with my left hand, since I have no longer any other, the tale of everything that befell Tirouv Ompallios and myself in the shrine of the god Tsathoggua, …"-Clark Ashton Smith, The Tale Of Satampra Zeiros
29. The House of Sounds
By: M.P. Shiel
3.15
Format: None pages, None
Shiel was a West-Indian author domiciled in Britain. He was an early writer of science fiction nove… read more
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"To be in love with pain-to pine after aching-is not that a wicked madness?"-M.P. Shiel, The House of Sounds
30. Skule Skerry
By: John Buchan
3.71
Format: 24 pages, CD-ROM
Like much of Buchan's writing, the story is characterised by a detailed and tender depiction of the… read more
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