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10 best books like Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu (J. Sheridan Le Fanu): The Wine-Dark Sea, Ghost Stories, Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Tales of Unease, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors and Other Stories, A Rendezvous in Averoigne

The Wine-Dark Sea
AuthorRobert Aickman
ISBN0749301724
From Publishers Weekly
Since his death several years ago, British writer Aickman's reputation has continued to grow among connoisseurs of the horror story. Unlike much of the current form, full of blood, monsters and melodrama, Aickman's stories achieve a quieter, more subtle and, in several...
Ghost Stories
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1840224223
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
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
ISBN0486207676
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...
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN0486229777
A woman of snow ... a midnight caller keeping his promise ... forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic ... enchanted houses ... these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether 13 stories, gathered from the entire...
Tales of Unease
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN1840224061

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
AuthorMarvin Kaye
ISBN0385185499
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...
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
AuthorMichael Cox
ISBN0192840851
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this...
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0440506603
Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator",...
The Three Impostors and Other Stories
AuthorArthur Machen
ISBN1568821328
Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of Chaosium's Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling "The Three Impostors" in its complete...
A Rendezvous in Averoigne
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0870541560
In 1927, H.P. Lovecraft wrote about Clark Ashton Smith: "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Mr. Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer dead or living. Who else has seen such gorgeous, luxuriant, and feverishly distorted visions of infinite spheres and multiple dimensions...
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
AuthorPhyllis Fraser
ISBN0679601287
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...
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
AuthorE.F. Benson
ISBN0786709804
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...
The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
AuthorMary E. Wilkins Freeman
ISBN1592244564
Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential....
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
AuthorM.R. James
ISBN0143039393
The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century...
The Witch Of Prague & Other Stories
AuthorF. Marion Crawford
ISBN1840220902
As I fell the thing sprang across me and seemed to throw itself upon the captain. When I last saw him on his feet his face was white and his lips set. It seemed to me that he struck a violent blow at the dead being, and then he, too, fell forward upon his face, with an inarticulate cry of horror'. This unique collection...
Great Ghost Stories
AuthorJohn Grafton
ISBN0486272702
Aficionados of supernatural fiction will take perverse pleasure in the hair-raising horrors recounted in these outstanding examples of the genre. Featuring a gallery of ghostly characters, forbidding landscapes, gloomy country manors, and occult occurrences, this spine-tingling collection...
The Yellow Sign & Other Stories
AuthorRobert W. Chambers
ISBN1568821263
This massive collection brings together the entire body of Robert W. Chambers' weird fiction works including material unprinted since the 1890's. Chambers is a landmark author in the field of horror literature because of his King in Yellow collection. That book represents but a small portion of his...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Nineteenth Annual Collection
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0312356145
For nearly two decades, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction...
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