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10 best books like Don't Open This Book (Marvin Kaye): The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, Shamans Through Time, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, Legends of Charlemagne, Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy), The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense, Small Avalanches and Other Stories

The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsing
AuthorAllen C. Kupfer
ISBN0765310112
Professor Abraham Van Helsing was the fictional creation of Bram Stoker for his dark work of fantasy Dracula--or was he?

Fragments of a recently discovered journal suggest otherwise.

For the first time, in his own words, the legendary vampire hunter tells his own story
- his...
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorMartin H. Greenberg
ISBN0881844357
The game is afoot! This satisfying collection of original stories by sixteen top mystery writers is a tribute to the creator of Sherlock Holmes. These new adventures are the only ones to be specially authorised by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, celebrating the centennial of Holmes' first appearance in print.

Greeted...
Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology
AuthorLouisa May Alcott
ISBN0385487223
1) The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome
2) The Rival Prima Donnas
3) The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love
4) The Lady and the Woman
5) Love and Self-Love
6) Hope's Debut
7) Thrice Tempted
8) Perilous Play
9) M.L.
10) A Night
11) The Blue and the Gray, A Hospital Sketch

Selections...
Shamans Through Time
AuthorJeremy Narby
ISBN1585423629
A survey of five centuries of writings on the world's great shamans-the tricksters, sorcerers, conjurers, and healers who have fascinated observers for centuries.

This collection of essays traces Western civilization's struggle to interpret and understand the ancient knowledge of...
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America
AuthorDavid Willis McCullough
ISBN0394540654
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection
AuthorClifton Fadiman
ISBN0395368057
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
Legends of Charlemagne
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0028614771
Here are the world s most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today s readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch s has been heralded for more than a century, it has never...
Faeries (Magical Worlds of Fantasy)
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0451450612
Features:

ANDRE NORTON LORD DUNSANY POUL ANDERSON JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON THOMAS BURNETT SWANN JAMES HOGG LAFCADIO HEARN RICHARD McKENNA MARY E. WILKINS PHILIP K. DICK HENRY SLESAR HERMINIE TEMPLETON H. C. BAILEY JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK JOHN BUCHAN ROBERT F. YOUNG ISAAC...
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense
AuthorAlfred Hitchcock
ISBN0883656442
These 63 spine-tingling stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine, and in the words of the master himself, they'll "make your blood run cold." Hitchcock coolly serves up cool cops, clever gangsters, bodies stuffed in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder,...
Small Avalanches and Other Stories
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0060012196
When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger...
The Breaking Point: Stories
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN0316253596
"The appeal of romance and the clash of highly-charged emotions." --New York Herald-Tribune

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Her...
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN1933648783
From ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling.
Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered...
The Big Bow Mystery
AuthorIsrael Zangwill
ISBN0976654636
Regarded as the first full-length locked room mystery, the novel focuses on a murder that has occurred inside a locked room, with no clear indication as to the weapon used, the perpetrator of the horrendous crime, or a possible escape route. Needless to say, The Big Bow Mystery has all the elements...
I Shudder at Your Touch
AuthorMichele Slung
ISBN0451451600
There is no sexual act that is not dangerous...

And every caress, no matter how innocent, has the power to open our lives to the dark mysteries of desire, the places where outrageous fantasies and fears are held in check.

Held in check, that is, until it occurs to such supremely talented...
Sherlock in Love
AuthorSena Jeter Naslund
ISBN0688178448
How did Sherlock Homes come into possession of a true Stardivarius?  Who was the one true love of the great detective's life?  And what shattering disappointment left the detective with feelings of overwhelming melancholy?  As Holme's great friend, Dr. Watson, sets out to answer these questions...
The Promise of a Lie
AuthorHoward Roughan
ISBN0446615358
Nothing can prepare Dr. David Remler for the shocking phone call he receives from a patient named Samantha Kent. Stunned and anxious to help, he rushes out into the Manhattan night to keep a bloody act of violence from spinning further out of control.

He knows he is too involved, that hes crossed...
Horrors! 365 Scary Stories
AuthorStefan R. Dziemianowicz
ISBN0760701415
The horror short-short isn't easy to master, but more than 100 of the genre's critically acclaimed authors & hottest up-&-comers have taken a stab at it in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, an anthology that contains a short tale for every day of the year. Steve Rasnic Tem, Wm F. Nolan, Tom Piccirilli,...
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, and The Chimaera. In 1838, Hawthorne suggested to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that they collaborate...
Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0586039643
Explore the most eerie lands in adult fantasy - The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith

The Contents:

ZOTHIQUE
The Empire of the Necromancers
The Isle of the Torturers
Necromancy in Naat
Xeethra

AVEROIGNE
The Holiness of Azedarac
The Beast of Averoigne

OTHERS
The...
Murder in Grub Street
AuthorBruce Alexander
ISBN0425155501
The crime appeared as easily solved as it was wicked. A Grub Street printer, his family, and two apprentices brutally murdered in their sleep. A locked building. And at the scene, a raving mad poet brandishing a bloody axe. Surely the culprit had been found, and justice would be swift and severe.

...
Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorLucas K. Law
ISBN1988140048
ALL EMOTIONS ARE UNIVERSAL.

WE LIVE, WE DREAM, WE STRIVE, WE DIE . . .

Follow twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors on their journeys through Asia and beyond. Stories that explore magic and science. Stories about love, revenge, and choices. Stories that challenge ideas...
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