The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
10 best books like The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Edith Wharton): Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories, Gothic Tales, In a Glass Darkly, Ghost Stories, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, The House by the Churchyard
| 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,...
'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;...
| 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...
| 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...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0486229777 |
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 Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0142180033 |
A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction
Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early...
| Author | Marvin Kaye |
| ISBN | 0385185499 |
I savored these stories and poems, reading them over the course of several years, whenever it was late at night, and I was in the mood for some good horror.
The Professor's Teddy Bear, by Theodore Sturgeon, is possibly my favorite short story ever, and I have read it many times. The other...
| Author | E.F. Benson |
| ISBN | 0786709804 |
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...
| 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....
| Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| ISBN | 1840225742 |
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu is best known today as one of the Victorian period's leading exponents of supernatural fiction, and was described by M.R. James as standing 'absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories'. The House by the Churchyard is perhaps his best novel in this genre. Set in the...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 0143039393 |
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...
| Author | May Sinclair |
| ISBN | 1840224924 |
May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction, a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf. In her Uncanny Stories (1923), Sinclair combines the traditional ghost story with the discoveries of Freud and Einstein. The stories shock, enthral, delight and unsettle.
Two lovers...
| Author | Ambrose Bierce |
| ISBN | 1840225343 |
Nothing is so improbable as what is true' Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and the unfairness of life, which he channelled into his fiction. And in his death, or rather his...
