The White People and Other Weird Stories
10 best books like The White People and Other Weird Stories (Arthur Machen): The Willows, Our Lady of Darkness, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Dark Gods, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, The Wendigo, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories, Dark Entries, The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories
| 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 | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0441644171 |
Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.
This encounter sends Westen on a quest through...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
T.E.D. Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most exciting novel in my field to come along since Straub's Ghost Story - established him in the top rank of horror writers. Now, with the four novellas gathered here, Klein proves himself to be a master of this...
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 0143107380 |
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural
Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...
| 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 | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1406905925 |
a rainy, windy, chilly night with nothing to do but gaze lovingly at my overly full bookcases. so why not reread one of my favorite classic horror novellas? this one is about, wait for it, The Wendigo and its prey du jour (du nuit?): some hunters and their guides. but is the story really about this so-called...
| 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 | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1905784325 |
Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth stamped in gilt and silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies.
(Out of print).
Contents:
"Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing...
Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction
In volume two of the only annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings currently available, Penguin Classics brings together tales from James's final two works, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. In these stories,...
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5 Stars for the wonderful opening story "The Repairer of Reputations".
although i wonder if 'wonderful' is the correct word. after all, this is a story that opens with a bizarre, sometimes dire alterna-history leading up to a 1920s America where on-lookers gather to contemplate...
