Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book
By: M.R. James
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spi…
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1. The Old Nurse's Story
By: Elizabeth Gaskell
3.64
Format: 53 pages, Paperback
Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upo… read more
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"You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I dare say you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from."-Elizabeth Gaskell, The Old Nurse's Story
2. El horror de Dunwich
By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito
3.81
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more
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3. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
4. The Tree
By: H.P. Lovecraft
2.99
Format: 77 pages, ebook
Kalos and Musides are two Greek sculptors who are asked to sculpt statues for a competition. But wh… read more
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5. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
By: Arthur Machen
3.69
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more
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"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)
6. The Signalman
By: Charles Dickens , Scott Cohn
3.66
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Presents the tale of a young man who, after listening to an eccentric railroad signalman's predicti… read more
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"Hallow! Below there!"-Charles Dickens, The Signalman
7. The Thing on the Doorstep
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.84
Format: 208 pages,
"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos … read more
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8. The Body Snatcher
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more
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9. 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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10. The Trial For Murder
By: Charles Dickens
3.80
Format: 242 pages,
The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' g… read more
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11. The Vampyre; A Tale
By: John William Polidori
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more
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12. The Shunned House
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.98
Format: 480 pages,
H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in th… read more
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13. Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book
By: M.R. James
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
M. R. James is the master of the English ghost story, whose tales are inhabited not by ethereal spi… read more
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14. The Terror of Blue John Gap
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Thad Rhodes
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable non-Sherlock Holmes stories. This work provides illu… read more
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15. The Outsider
By: H.P. Lovecraft
4.10
Format: 290 pages,
"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more
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16. The Damned Thing
By: Ambrose Bierce , None
3.87
Format: 144 pages, kindle
This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable - and untameable - ess… read more
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17. My Sweet Audrina (Audrina, #1)
By: V.C. Andrews
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating … read more
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18. The Willows
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more
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19. 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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20. The Wendigo
By: Algernon Blackwood
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Algernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-know… read more
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22. Dracula's Guest
By: Bram Stoker
4.36
Format: 39 pages,
A passage from the manuscript of Dracula. read more
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23. The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
By: H.P. Lovecraft , August Derleth
3.95
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR When you open this book you wil… read more
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"Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told o…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
"And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order…"-H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3
24. The Judge's House
By: Bram Stoker
3.00
Format: None pages,
A scholar takes up residence in the former home of a judge with a very evil reputation. He finds th… read more
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25. The Whisperer in Darkness
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Ar… read more
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26. 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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27. 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
28. Was It an Illusion? A Parson's Story
By: Amelia B. Edwards
3.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
What had become of him? And what lad was that going up the path by which I had just come-that tall … read more
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29. The Moonlit Road
By: Ambrose Bierce
3.48
Format: None pages, None
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30. The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
By: Saki
3.51
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
(Saki, one of the most wickedly amusing writers of his day, was born Hector Hugh Munro in Burma, th… read more
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31. The Man Who Found Out
By: Algernon Blackwood
3.52
Format: None pages, None
Mark Ebor, as Dr. Laidlaw knew him in his laboratory, was one man; but Mark Ebor, as he sometimes s… read more
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