Ghosts by Gaslight
10 best books like Ghosts by Gaslight (Jack Dann): Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991, The Oracle of Stamboul, Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, Poe's Children: The New Horror, The Dark: New Ghost Stories, Ghosts: Recent Hauntings, The Late Scholar, We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film, In the Valley of the Sun, A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
| Author | Ramsey Campbell |
| ISBN | 0765307677 |
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Three decades into his career, Campbell paused...
| Author | Michael David Lukas |
| ISBN | 0062012096 |
An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes the course of an empire's history Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea,...
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1534413472 |
The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.
Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially...
Poe's Children: The New Horror
| Author | Peter Straub |
| ISBN | 0385522835 |
From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.
Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0765304457 |
Though there are a few small duds, the majority of the stories here were genuinely creepy.
Jeffrey Ford's "The Trentino Kid" starts things off on a slightly creepy note. It's about a guy who has frittered his youth away in what he thought was an easier route. He's regretting the choices he's made...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607013541 |
The spirits of the dead have walked among our legends, myths, and stories since before recorded history. Ghostly visitations, hauntings, unquiet souls seeking the living, vengeful wraiths, the possibility of life beyond the grave that can somehow reach out and touch us…these are some of literature’s...
| Author | Jill Paton Walsh |
| ISBN | 1250032792 |
A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in an Oxford college in the 1950s.
Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college.When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a...
We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Film
| Author | Noah Isenberg |
| ISBN | 0393355667 |
Casablanca was first released in 1942, just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. Featuring a pitch-perfect screenplay, a classic soundtrack, and unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and a deep supporting...
For readers of Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and classic Anne Rice, a chilling tale of suspense and horror set deep in the Texas desert.
Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for...
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
| Author | Suzette Field |
| ISBN | 0062271830 |
Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.
People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where...
Isaiah Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the moneymaking scheme of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a bullet behind the ear. Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new...
