The Shining Pyramid
9 best books like The Shining Pyramid (Arthur Machen): Who Goes There?, A Study in Emerald, The Willows, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, Vathek, The Following Story, More Tales of Pirx the Pilot, Een duister voorgevoel - Reizen naar Jheronimus Bosch, Seaton's Aunt
| Author | John W. Campbell Jr. |
| ISBN | 0982332203 |
"Who Goes There?" The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal...
Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award-winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman.
A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting...
| 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,...
| 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...
| Author | William Beckford |
| ISBN | 0192836560 |
An odd book, and not a completely successful one. I cannot deny it a wealth of ironic observation and an elegant style, but I believe the author indulges his hobbies and obsessions--his Orientalism, his ephebophilia, his loathing of his mother and other termagants--to an extent that distorts...
Anybody reading these words probably knows the Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom is one of the finest literary writers living in the world today. In the spirit of freshness, I would like to make several observations about this very short novel and the author in light of what nineteenth...
| Author | Stanisław Lem |
| ISBN | 0156621436 |
I like "Pirx the Pilot". First off, he's a spaceman working the dangerous but necessary profession of space transport. His universe isn't like the clean, Art Deco-inspired spaceships of the traditional Star Trek franchise. It could be right around the corner in a gas station bay, a machine shop, or...
Een duister voorgevoel - Reizen naar Jheronimus Bosch
In dit rijk geïllustreerde essay beschrijft Cees Nooteboom zijn reizen naar zeven schilderijen van Jheronimus Bosch in Lissabon, Madrid, Gent, Rotterdam en Den Bosch. Zag hij als twintiger een andere Jheronimus Bosch dan nu als tachtiger? Wat heeft een schrijver uit de twintigste eeuw gemeen met...
| Author | Walter de la Mare |
| ISBN | 1419146432 |
Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and The Listeners. He was descended from a family of French Huguenots, and was educated at St Paul's School. His first book, Songs of Childhood, was published under the name...
