Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

10 best books like Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (Algernon Blackwood): In a Glass Darkly, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Ghost Stories, Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Unease, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, Strange Highways, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu

In a Glass Darkly

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0192839470

This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as...

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror

Author	H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN	0345329457

A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones...

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Author	Edith Wharton
ISBN	0684842572

These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other phenomena. Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.

The...

Ghost Stories

Author	Henry James
ISBN	1840224223

With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and...

Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce

Author	Ambrose Bierce
ISBN	0486207676

all hail Ambrose Bierce! an American original. aka "Bitter Bierce" - a soldier, government agent, journalist, short story writer, satirist, social critic. his life bookended by two wars: at age 19 in the American Civil War (most notably, fighting in the Battle of Shiloh) and at age 71 as a witness to...

Tales of Unease

Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN	1840224061

One of the impressive things about this book is that its worst stories, in spite of their trivial or absurd denouements, still offer a satisfying reading experience. Conan Doyle is a master of narrative prose and draws you into the world of his stories even when their essential conception may be...

Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

Author	Marvin Kaye
ISBN	0385185499

I savored these stories and poems, reading them over the course of several years, whenever it was late at night, and I was in the mood for some good horror.



The Professor's Teddy Bear, by Theodore Sturgeon, is possibly my favorite short story ever, and I have read it many times. The other...

Strange Highways

Author	Dean Koontz
ISBN	0446531383

A strong and solid, horror anthology!


The general rating is an average sum result of the individual ratings given to each novella and short story contained in the anthology.


All stories in this anthology are written by Dean Koontz.


STRANGE HIGHWAYS (novella)

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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Author	Phyllis Fraser
ISBN	0679601287

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in...

Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0486204154

Distinguished Edwardian ghost story author M. R. James referred to his Victorian predecessor Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) as "the Master" of the sub-genre, an assessment echoed by many fans since then. E. F. Bleiler, one of the few serious 20th-century literary scholars to specialize in (instead...

The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Author	E.F. Benson
ISBN	0786709804

United by a perfect chilling atmosphere and graceful literary style, these ghostly stories range from the horror of vampires, homicidal ghosts and monstrous spectral worms and slugs (appearing in the classic "Negotium Perambulans" and "And No Bird Sings") to the satire of humorous tales that poke...

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

Author	William Hope Hodgson
ISBN	1406905747

Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories....

The White People and Other Weird Stories

Author	Arthur Machen
ISBN	0143105590

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is...

The King in Yellow

Author

Robert W. Chambers

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5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations".

although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate...