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10 best books like The Witch Of Prague & Other Stories (F. Marion Crawford): Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories, Mysteries of the Worm: Twenty Cthulhu Mythos Tales by Robert Bloch, Tales of Unease, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, The Nightwalker, The Three Impostors and Other Stories, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, The Face That Must Die, Strange Tales

Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN1853262188
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,...
Mysteries of the Worm: Twenty Cthulhu Mythos Tales by Robert Bloch
AuthorRobert Bloch
Robert Bloch has become one with his fictional counterpart Ludvig Prinn: future generations of readers will know him as an eldritch name hovering over a body of nightmare texts. To know them will be to know him. And thus we have decided to release a new and expanded third edition of Robert Bloch’s Mysteries...
Tales of Unease
AuthorArthur Conan Doyle
ISBN1840224061

One of the impressive things about this book is that its worst stories, in spite of their trivial or absurd denouements, still offer a satisfying reading experience. Conan Doyle is a master of narrative prose and draws you into the world of his stories even when their essential conception may be...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0881847216
Songs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters. Writing in the...
The Nightwalker
AuthorThomas Tessier
ISBN0451097203
”In the dream he had become something else, but he did not know what it was. Less than human, impossible to define. He could only be certain that he had changed, as if everything about him had undergone some unique metamorphosis. Yet he remained the same person beneath it all, with the same brain and emotional...
The Three Impostors and Other Stories
AuthorArthur Machen
ISBN1568821328
Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of Chaosium's Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling "The Three Impostors" in its complete...
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
AuthorE.F. Benson
ISBN0786709804
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...
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....
The Face That Must Die
AuthorRamsey Campbell
ISBN1933618027
Ramsey Campbell’s daring look into the mind of a psychotic killer was published in truncated form in 1979; an expanded edition was later published in 1982. The paranoid outlook of the book's main character, Horridge, is a grim commentary on a bleak Liverpool suburb and Thatcher-era England. Millipede...
Strange Tales
AuthorRudyard Kipling
ISBN1840225327
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...
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...
Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN0600038505
Tales include The Doll, Running Wolf, The Little Beggar, The Occupant of the Room, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, The Valley of the Beasts, The South Wind, The Man Who Was Milligan, The Trod, The Terror of the Twins, The Deferred Appointment, Accessory Before the Fact, The Glamour of the Snow, The House...
The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror
AuthorE. Nesbit
ISBN1840225319
The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create...
Uncanny Stories
AuthorMay Sinclair
ISBN1840224924
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...
The Bell in the Fog & Other Stories
AuthorGertrude Atherton
ISBN1840225408
Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of nineteen, took up writing against her husband's wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, The Dead and the Countess, Death and the Woman...
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
AuthorMarjorie Bowen
ISBN1840225378
Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality. In their use of dreams, ancient anecdote, and ruined or dilapidated buildings ('Florence...
Terror by Night: Classic Ghost & Horror Stories
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
ISBN1840225343
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...
Tales of Mystery & the Macabre
AuthorElizabeth Gaskell
ISBN1840220953
In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver within me, as though not knowing to which similitude of body it belonged... Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848)...
The Castle of Otranto, Vathek & Nightmare Abbey
AuthorDavid Stuart Davies
ISBN1840221844
The Gothic novel, featuring dark tales of tragedy, romance, revenge, torture and ancient villainies, tinged with horror and the supernatural, became the vogue in the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries. This unique collection presents the best and the most diverse of this fascinating...
Wagner the Werewolf
AuthorGeorge W.M. Reynolds
ISBN1840225300
Only one of the following 19 things does NOT happen in WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF - can you guess which one?
1. A Christian Italian in Turkey renounces his faith and becomes a Muslim to win the heart of a beautiful woman!
2. A werewolf battles a giant python!
3. Skeletons in a closet - LITERAL skeletons!
4....
House of Fear
AuthorJonathan Oliver
ISBN1907992073
The tread on the landing outside the door, when you know you are the only one in the house. The wind whistling through the eves, carrying the voices of the dead. The figure glimpsed briefly through the cracked window of a derelict house.

Editor Jonathan Oliver brings horror home with a collection...
Brood of the Witch-Queen
AuthorSax Rohmer
ISBN0809501392
... I chose to read this book on a whim as it was a free read from Kindle and I was trying to lessen my exorbitant book-purchase costs...

All I can say is that I was pleasantly surprised, albeit slightly weirded out by some of the creepy content of this book. I enjoyed it from start to finish, and especially...
Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction
AuthorMatthew M. Bartlett
ISBN1500346721
Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinister old men in topcoats gathered at corners and in playgrounds. A long-dead sorcerer returning to obscene life in the form of an old buck goat. Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk,...
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