More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

10 best books like More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (M.R. James): In a Glass Darkly, The King of Elfland's Daughter, The Willows, The Great God Pan, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Ghost Stories, Can Such Things Be?, Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, The White People and Other Weird Stories

In a Glass Darkly

Author	J. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN	0192839470

This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as...

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Author

Lord Dunsany

In fantasy, I've seen magic used in many ways: as plot device, curio, religious allegory, and the personification of morals, but rarely do I find a book where magic is truly magical. Too often, it's a convenience, a cliche, but for Dunsany, magic is pervasive, mysterious, unknowable, and lovely. He...

The Willows

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,...

The Great God Pan

Author	Arthur Machen
ISBN	1871592119

The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as...

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

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...

Ghost Stories

Author	Henry James
ISBN	1840224223

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...

Can Such Things Be?

Author	Ambrose Bierce
ISBN	1587158612

Ambrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car; he was a renter who never owned his own home. He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light: and in the end he rode, with all of his possessions, on a rented horse into the Mexican desert to join Pancho Villa -- never to return.

Can Such Things...

Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New

Author	Marvin Kaye
ISBN	0385185065

Marvin Kaye
Saralee Kaye

Introduction (Ghosts) • Marvin Kaye
A Prologue of Last Words • Marvin Kaye
Minuke • (1949) • Nigel Kneale
The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Legal Rites • (1950) • Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Smee...

Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

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....

The White People and Other Weird 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...

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

Author	Algernon Blackwood
ISBN	1426480741

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

The Upper Berth

Author	F. Marion Crawford
ISBN	1419186426

Every now and again, the smell sea water permeates the air, as if the cabin had been flooded and never properly repaired. The porthole opens repeatedly in the night with no conceivable reason. And the last few passengers who have slept in the upper berth have run through the ship like men possessed to throw...