The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror
10 best books like The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror (William Meikle): Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories, Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, Cast A Cold Eye, Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery, Strange Tales, Mysteries of the Diogenes Club, Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France, Gathering the Bones
| Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| ISBN | 1853262188 |
Included in this volume of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's marvellous ghost stories are "Madam Crowl's Ghost"; "Squire Toby's Will"; "Dickon the Devil"; "The Child That Went with the Fairies"; "The White Cat of Drumgunniol"; "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street"; Ghost Stories of Chapelizod,...
| Author | Lynne Jamneck |
| ISBN | 1626411077 |
Featuring stories from Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Molly Tanzer, Lois H. Gresh, Nancy Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Bear, Gemma Files and many more fully color illustrated by Daniele Serra, Dreams from the Witch House highlights some of the very best women writers of weird fiction and Lovecraftian...
| Author | Alan Ryan |
| ISBN | 0812525434 |
This was one of the very best ghost story novels I've read in recent years. It's extremely quiet and understated, but the unsettling atmosphere slowly builds at an almost pitch-perfect pace. It concerns an American writer who decides to rent a house in a remote and insular coastal village in Ireland...
| Author | Alfred Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0394867629 |
"Good evening, and welcome to Alfred Hitchock's Ghostly Gallery..." So begins the introduction to this marvelous book for young readers presented by none other than the master of the macabre himself, Alfred Hitchcock. Following his invitation to "browse through my gallery", readers will find ghoulish...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 1840225327 |
Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, the Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings. This collection presents the...
| Author | Kim Newman |
| ISBN | 1932265309 |
3 1/2
This is a collection of 5 short stories/novellas - more stories about the elusive Diogenes Club. I'll list them in the order of preference, not appearance:
Kentish Glory: The Secrets of Drearclif Grange School - 4 stars
My favorite of the lot, perhaps because it's the...
| Author | Stephen Jones |
| ISBN | 1878252569 |
Weird new terrors spawn in H.P. Lovecraft's sea-shadowed town. Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' forms a major link in the author's renowned "Cthulhu Mythos", featuring a race of ichthyoid Deep Ones which over the years have inter-bred with humans in strange and terrifying...
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories
| Author | Peter Haining |
| ISBN | 1854875361 |
An outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.
Contents:
The third person...
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
| Author | Asti Hustvedt |
| ISBN | 1890951072 |
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siecle: crime, pollution, sexually...
| Author | Ramsey Campbell |
| ISBN | 0765301792 |
A Chilling new anthology of all-original tales of horror
Includes New Stories by:
Ray Bradbury
Graham Joyce
Peter Crowther
Kim Newman
Sara Douglass
Thomas Tessier
M. John Harrison
Gahan Wilson
The anthology market these days is awash with small,...
| Author | Glen Hirshberg |
| ISBN | 0786712554 |
In the title story of this unique collection a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. "Dancing Men" depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory, when a boy visits his deranged...
| Author | Chantal Noordeloos |
| ISBN | 1910283029 |
A beautiful house – with a dark and deadly secret.
When Freya inherits her mother's childhood home, she sees it as an opportunity. A chance for a new life with her best friends, as they convert the crumbling mansion into an exclusive hotel.
Instead, they'll be lucky to escape with...
THIS IS GOING TO HURT.
The eleven stories in Ugly Little Things explore the depths of human suffering and ugliness, charting a course to the dark, horrific heart of the human condition. The terrors of everyday existence are laid bare in this eerie collection of short fiction from the twisted...
| Author | Kealan Patrick Burke |
"We no longer need the sun to cast our shadows, for we have become them."
For over twenty years Tim Quinn has lived in the shadow of death. Now, the Curtain has come down and the dead no longer need him to facilitate their vengeance. As the air turns amber, the shadows deepen, and murderous revenants...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1597806315 |
“Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year series is one of the best investments you can make in short fiction. The current volume is no exception.” ?
Adventures Fantastic
For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening...
From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.
In the title story, on a murky evening in a club off St James,...
A ghost story
Something is Lurking Under the Lake…
Struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of his sister, Owen Saddler becomes obsessed with the lake that claimed her life. The remains of a forgotten town rest at the bottom of that dark body of water — along with a host of buried...
Stirrings in the Black House
Fear is a place. When struggling concert pianist Emil inherits a house from his late uncle, he thinks all of his problems are solved. Absconding to the mysterious Weatherby House in the suburbs of Portland where his famous uncle composed many classical masterpieces, Emil finds the place completely...
Showcasing the finest weird fiction from 2015, volume 3 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is our biggest and most ambitious volume to date.
Acclaimed editors Simon Strantzas and Michael Kelly bring their keen editorial sensibilities to the third volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. The best...
| Author | Ross E. Lockhart |
| ISBN | 1939905133 |
In his house at R’lyeh, Cthulhu waits dreaming…
What are the dreams that monsters dream? When will the stars grow right? Where are the sunken temples in which the dreamers dwell? How will it all change when they come home?
Within these pages lie the answers, and more, in all-new...
Marvelry's Curiosity Shop
Retired stage magician Dr. Marvelry prefers to stock his antique store with strange and occult items. He has always enjoyed meeting odd people and hearing their stories, the legends attached to mysterious objects. A phonograph that seemingly replays a tragedy. Fertility dolls that are more than...
The Haunting of Emily Stone
“The haunting of Emily Stone was a hoax. There was no ghost, it was just a money-grabbing old woman and an easily-manipulated little girl. End of story.”
Twenty-four years ago, Robert Slocombe thought he had proof that ghosts were real. British newspapers filled their pages with photos...
| Author | Richard Gavin |
| ISBN | 1614980268 |
“Richard Gavin's new collection has some of the finest weird fiction I have ever read, tales that are unique and effective. His sequel to H. P. Lovecraft's 'The Hound' is especially delicious. This is a wonderful book, highly recommended!” —W. H. Pugmire “Richard Gavin is one of the bright...
| Author | James D. Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1943910510 |
Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted.
Table of Contents
Foreword by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle
Aunty Green by John Blackburn
Miss...
