Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
10 best books like Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (M.R. James): The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, The Willows, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, The Three Impostors and Other Stories, Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, The White People and Other Weird Stories
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0451526759 |
The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant and influential works in American literature. Some of the celebrated tales contained in this unique volume include: the world's first two detective stories -- "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter"; and three stories...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1587156520 |
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows,...
| 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...
| 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...
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0143107380 |
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural
Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 1568821328 |
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...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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....
| 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...
This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable – and untameable – essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description...
