Widdershins

Author	Mervyn Peake
ISBN	0879514256

What an odd fantasy! No swords, no sorcery, no elves, no thieves, no imaginary beasts, no multiple planes of existence . . . nothing but a cavernous castle peopled by eccentrics with Dickensian names (Sepulchrave, Prunesquallor, Swelter, Flay) whose lives are determined by centuries--perhaps...

Author	Arthur Machen
ISBN	1871592119

The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as...

Author	M.R. James
ISBN	1406526924

I first read this slim book of ghost tales ten years ago, and, as a great admirer of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, was initially disappointed in these five tales. I took them for weak imitations of James' earlier triumphs, their potential power dissipated by Dickensian humor, unwelcome digressions,...

Author	Virginia Tufte
ISBN	0961392185

In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style,Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature...

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

Written in October of 1924, "The Shunned House" is not only Lovecraft's best early novella but also one of the two watershed works which mark his transition to the themes and style of his mature period. As such, it is not only a pleasure to read but also an important work for anyone who is interested...