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10 best books like Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (Marvin Kaye): Gothic Tales, The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales, October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, The Dark Descent, The Haunted Looking Glass, The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Gothic Tales
AuthorElizabeth Gaskell
'Such whispered tales, such old temptations and hauntings, and devilish terrors'

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact;...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0451526759
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...
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween
AuthorRichard Chizmar
ISBN0451458958
Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:Dean Koontz * Peter Straub * Poppy Z. Brite * Rick Hautala * Steve Rasnic Tem * Elizabeth Engstrom * Thomas...
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN0684842572
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.

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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
ISBN0486207676
all hail Ambrose Bierce! an American original. aka "Bitter Bierce" - a soldier, government agent, journalist, short story writer, satirist, social critic. his life bookended by two wars: at age 19 in the American Civil War (most notably, fighting in the Battle of Shiloh) and at age 71 as a witness to...
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN0486229777
A woman of snow ... a midnight caller keeping his promise ... forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic ... enchanted houses ... these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether 13 stories, gathered from the entire...
The Dark Descent
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN0312862172
This highly acclaimed anthology traces the evolution of horror, from Nathaniel Hawthorn and Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King. Adopted by colleges across the country to be used in literature courses, The Dark Descent showcases some of the finest horror fiction ever written.

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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...
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
AuthorMichael Cox
ISBN0192840851
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this...
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...
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1406905747
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....
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
AuthorM.R. James
ISBN0143039393
The only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century...
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...
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