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10 best books like Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural (Algernon Blackwood): The White Hands and Other Weird Tales, The Unsettled Dust, The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions, The Witch Of Prague & Other Stories, Selected Stories, Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies, Personal Demons

The White Hands and Other Weird Tales
AuthorMark Samuels
ISBN1872621899
This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark...
The Unsettled Dust
AuthorRobert Aickman
ISBN0571244262
Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged but all have the same thing in common - they are all brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly...
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...
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....
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
AuthorM.R. James
ISBN0192837737
A selection of 21 stories, which also includes three stories that are not in the Collected Edition.

Canon Alberic's scrap-book --
The mezzotint --
Number 13 --
Count Magnus --
Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad --
The treasure of Abbot Thomas --
A School story...
The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions
AuthorOliver Onions
ISBN1840226404
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their...
The Witch Of Prague & Other Stories
AuthorF. Marion Crawford
ISBN1840220902
As I fell the thing sprang across me and seemed to throw itself upon the captain. When I last saw him on his feet his face was white and his lips set. It seemed to me that he struck a violent blow at the dead being, and then he, too, fell forward upon his face, with an inarticulate cry of horror'. This unique collection...
Selected Stories
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN1597801801
Fritz Leiber's work bridges the gap between the pulp era of H. P. Lovecraft and the paperback era of P. K. Dick, and arguably is as influential as both these authors. From a historical context, Leiber, in fact, knew both of the authors, and his work can be seen as a bridge connecting the many different flavors...
Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies
AuthorMarvin Kaye
Since its first issue in March 1923, Weird Tales - "The Unique Magazine" - has provided countless readers with the most innovative and offbeat fantasy, suspense and horror stories. Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century - including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert...
Personal Demons
AuthorTom Brown
ISBN1936393573
Trapped on an island off the coast of Maine, the people of Hopeless find life a little darker and more dangerous with every day that passes. The number of orphans rises continually, but who can say what happens to their parents? Plenty of the bodies are never found. This is not the stuff of happy, careless...
The Maze of the Enchanter
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN1597800317
This series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive...
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now
AuthorPeter Straub
ISBN1598530488
Like its companion volume, this Library of America hardcover contains 750 pages of classic tales of horror, hauntings, terrifying obsessions, and unearthly presences. The lineup of American Gothic masters includes Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Jack Finney, Shirley Jackson, Paul Bowles,...
Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear
AuthorPeter Haining
ISBN0760703795
From legends retold around the peat fire to modern stories of psychological terror, the Irish have always had a fascination with fear. Drawn from 200 years of short story writing, this book includes 24 powerful Irish tales with more than enough material to set pulses racing: satanic figures, ghosts,...
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
ISBN0140437568
Questing after Pancho Villa’s revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil’s Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction. This new collection gathers some of Bierce’s finest stories, including the celebrated Civil...
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