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Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories

10 best books like Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories (Ralph Adams Cram): The White Hands and Other Weird Tales, The Hill of Dreams, Nightmares of an Ether Drinker, Widdershins, The Wind in the Rosebush and Other Stories of the Supernatural, Rupetta, The Complete Wandering Ghosts, Cold to the Touch, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Man Who Could Work Miracles

The White Hands and Other Weird Tales
AuthorMark Samuels
ISBN1872621899
This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark...
The Hill of Dreams
AuthorArthur Machen
ISBN1587155303
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings...
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker
AuthorJean Lorrain
ISBN1872621651
Contents:
-Introduction by Brian Stableford
-Early Stories: The Egregore/ Funeral Oration/ The Locked Room/ Magic Lantern/ The Glass of Blood/ Beyond/ Glaucous Eyes

-Sensations: One of Them/An Undesirable Residence/ A Troubled Night/ A Posthumous Protest/ An Uncanny Crime/...
Widdershins
AuthorOliver Onions
ISBN1406836214
A collection of eight marvellous stories of the supernatural. The stories are: The Beckoning Fair One, Phantas, Rooum, Benlian, Io, The Accident, The Cigarette Case, & Hic Jacket.

Excerpt: ...off!" he ordered me. "I'll send for you again when I want you!" He thrust me out. "An asylum,...
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....
Rupetta
AuthorNike Sulway
ISBN1905784503
Rupetta is a sewn hardback of 352 pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.

Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rupetta’s consciousness...
The Complete Wandering Ghosts
AuthorF. Marion Crawford
ISBN1592240399
For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. Marion Crawford's supernatural pieces, including the rare story "The King's Messenger," as well as such classics as "The Upper Berth" (considered by many to be the finest ghost story ever written) and many more. Also features...
Cold to the Touch
AuthorSimon Strantzas
ISBN1937128385
Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands.
300 copies.
(Out of print).

Reality is a thin translucent membrane that separates this world from the one beyond,...
Sourdough and Other Stories
AuthorAngela Slatter
ISBN1905784252
Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales.

In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are...
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
AuthorH.G. Wells
"The subsequent meditations of Mr. Fotheringay were of a severe but confused description. So far, he could see it was a case of pure willing with him. The nature of his experiences so far disinclined him for any further experiments, at least until he had reconsidered them. But he lifted a sheet of paper,...
The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman: I
AuthorRobert Aickman
ISBN1872621473
Sewn hardback, printed and bound by Antony Rowe. Jacket by Steven Stapleton.
Co-produced with Durtro. 500 copies printed.
(Out of print).

Contents:
-a quote from Stenbock
-Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, by David Tibet
-An Essay by Robert Aickman
-Remembering...
The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories
AuthorMarcel Schwob
ISBN0856354031
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and...
The Haunted Woman
AuthorDavid Lindsay
ISBN0809532344
Victorian-era romance—stiff-mannerisms and lacquered morality and formalized discourse—curiously carried through to Home County life in post-Great War England; yet, this being a book by Lindsay, endowed with an intriguing blend of supernatural-cum-psychological excavation, spiritual...
A Thin Ghost and Others
AuthorM.R. James
ISBN1406526924

I first read this slim book of ghost tales ten years ago, and, as a great admirer of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, was initially disappointed in these five tales. I took them for weak imitations of James' earlier triumphs, their potential power dissipated by Dickensian humor, unwelcome digressions,...
The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
A mixed bag of short stories from Conan Doyle. I nearly gave up on this after the first two. The title piece is a very average ghost story. It’s not terrible but I found it devoid of any tension or excitement. The second story had a very dated racial theme. I’m not normally one to judge 19th century literature...
The Ghost Pirates
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1421925818
"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its...
People of the Dark (The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard #3)
AuthorRobert E. Howard
ISBN0809556804
The third collection of Robert E. Howard's fantasy work, from the legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales and its rival Strange Tales, features more classic fiction and poetry from Howard's prime writing years. Gathered here are stories with such enduring and popular characters as Solomon Kane, Turlogh...
Stage Whispers: The Collected Timmy Quinn Stories
AuthorKealan Patrick Burke
*Updated to include NEMESIS, the final, novel-length volume*

Available for the first time in one volume, the complete collection of stories featuring Timmy Quinn, whose terrifying journey began in the 2004 Bram Stoker Award-Winning story THE TURTLE BOY.

Over the course of thirty...
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