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Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

10 best books like Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (M.R. James): Ghost Stories, The Haunted Looking Glass, Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories, The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions, Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural

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...
The Haunted Looking Glass
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0940322684
The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied...
Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories
AuthorRalph Adams Cram
ISBN1872621880
Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands.

300 copies.
(Out of print).

With an Introduction to Black Spirits & White by Stefan Dziemianowicz, and an Introduction...
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...
Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN0486204154
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
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...
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN0553212427
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.

Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
AuthorMichael Cox
ISBN0192804472
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general...
The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
AuthorOliver Onions
ISBN1840226404
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their...
Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN0600038505
Tales include The Doll, Running Wolf, The Little Beggar, The Occupant of the Room, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, The Valley of the Beasts, The South Wind, The Man Who Was Milligan, The Trod, The Terror of the Twins, The Deferred Appointment, Accessory Before the Fact, The Glamour of the Snow, The House...
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
AuthorChris Baldick
ISBN0192862197
The Gothic tale has been with us for over two hundred years, but this collection is the first to illustrate the continuing strength of this special fictional tradition from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Gothic fiction is generally identified with Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto...
Black Seas of Infinity: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0739420097
This is one of ye finest collections of Lovecraft's writing that I have enjoy'd. The excellent Contents includes some of Lovecraft's finest stories and others deem'd "lesser" works--and it amazes me how satisfying many of those lesser tales are. "Pickman's Model" is judged by many as weak because...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1557423954
The Glen Carrig, a sailing ship hits an unseen, large, sharp rock just under the surface of this uncharted ocean in 1757, the survivors of the disastrous sinking float for five days, their precious food supply diminishing, (and hope fades) in two lifeboats, on the sixth a tremendous storm strikes the...
Gothic
AuthorFred Botting
ISBN0415092191
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide:
* Explains the transformations of the genre through history
* Outlines all...
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