Barry Pain: 39 books

Quand on a dix-sept ans, une famille insupportable et un employeur trop empressé, que faire sinon une fugue pour conquérir sa liberté? Mais Celia va trouver sur sa route un étrange fantôme, plein de douceur et de compassion, qui va littéralement changer sa vie. Salué de son...

The first bicycle was invented at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1890s that the craze really took off. This brought with it the fears, scaremongering, worries and uncertainties that inevitably accompany any new fashion. Women (often unchaperoned and oddly dressed)...

A third selection of vintage Victorian and Edwardian ghost and horror stories by masters of the genre. Set during the Christmas period, these are perfect festive reading for long winter nights...

"Suppose," I said to one of the junior clerks at our office the other day, "you were asked to describe yourself in a few words, could you do it?" His answer that he could describe me in two was no answer at all. Also the two words were not a description, and were so offensive...

A distraught woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband on a voyage to England... or is she? A billiard-room echoes to the sounds of a spectral game... A haunted tower reveals its terrifying secret on Christmas Eve... A family dog appears to foretell a terrible danger......

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal...

Suppose, I said to one of the junior clerks at our office the other day, you were asked to describe yourself in a few words, could you do it?

“You have done something which is against Nature… And Nature punishes.” In An Exchange of Souls (1911), a novel which greatly influenced Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", Doctor Myas is obsessed with proving his theory that the soul and the body are separate entities. When Myas is found...

A story of the inhabitants of a fictional tropical island tells of their life, loves, and intrigues.

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