Studies of Death
By: Count Stenbock
3.92
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
First printing of this edition, a reprint of the very rare 1894 first edition issued by David Nutt.…
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1. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
2. A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
By: Anaïs Nin
3.71
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could … read more
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"Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection."-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
"Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors"-Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
3. England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
By: David Keenan
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' … read more
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4. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more
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"I cannot not grieve."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Learning comes through pain."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
5. Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future
By: Brian W. Aldiss , Dougal Dixon , Philip Hood
3.63
Format: None pages, Hardcover
What is our future? Will the human race exist in a 1,000 years time? In 10,000 years? In a 100,000 … read more
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7. The Room in the Tower
By: E.F. Benson
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
E.F. Benson (1867-1940) fue, junto con M.R. James, uno de los maestros victorianos de la <>, un ter… read more
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8. I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
By: Harlan Ellison
5.00
Format: 398 pages, ebook
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi short story by Harlan Ellison. It… read more
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9. Tales of Mystery and Horror
By: Maurice Level , None , Alys Eyre Macklin
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
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10. The Zone of Interest
By: Martin Amis
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more
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11. 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
12. The Torrents of Spring
By: Ernest Hemingway
3.11
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of lite… read more
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13. The Ghostly Rental
By: Henry James
3.71
Format: 435 pages, ebook
Employing the subtle methods of presenting mysterious ghost stories in the backdrop of psychologica… read more
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14. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
15. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
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"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
16. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
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17. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
18. 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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"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)
19. The Thing in the Woods
By: Harper Williams
3.20
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In a 1924 letter, Lovecraft recounts a book-buying spree from which his buddy Frank Belknap Long br… read more
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20. Forgotten World
By: Edmond Hamilton
3.95
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The big workshop behind the house had its doors open, and Carlin was surprised to see that the cave… read more
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21. Studies of Death
By: Count Stenbock
3.92
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
First printing of this edition, a reprint of the very rare 1894 first edition issued by David Nutt.… read more
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