Horror category: 36739 books

Master of the Gothic and creator of the detective genre, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous writers in all of American literature. Here is a carefully selected collection of his finest works, including such classics as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell Tale Heart', 'The Cask of Amontillado' and many more.

An award finalist in the International Best Book Awards, Mailboxes - Mansions - Memphistopheles is the first short story collection by Andrew Barger, award winning author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life and The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology....

Two horror short stories by Jeff Barr, author of THE SKUNGE.THE CRECHE: Two hikers find more than they bargained for in the wilderness.LATE NIGHT DOUBLE FEATURE: When hell comes calling to small-town America, even death offers no escape.

‘The blood shone black as liquid night, as the River of the Underland. It tasted meat-thick, and salt, and sweet, familiar as wine or milk or oil. He gulped it down and down. And as he drank, every physical apparatus of his body shone within as if with cores of fire.’ Presenting twenty...

Ramsey Campbell is the world's most honored living horror writer, with more than twenty World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and other awards to his credit. Hailed as one of the most literate and literary writers of our time, in genre and out, Campbell has been acclaimed as a "master...

An empty stretch of highway. A freak electrical storm. A bus full of strangers. And a mysterious bus driver with a rather peculiar agenda. America the Horrific: An Anthology of Horror presents eleven tales of terror in the tradition of classic storytelling. When a freak storm strands a bus...

The Flying Dutchman – a ghostly ship crewed by ghouls and cursed to sail the seas forever – is one of the most interesting myths in Europe. Here, prefaced by a detailed introduction, are collected the finest tales of this famous legend. Featuring stories by William Hope Hodgson, Wardon Allan Curtis, Max Pemberton and many more.

The Devil has occupied a unique and unrivalled position in art, literature and the mind of humankind. One might argue that no other concept or entity has ever loomed so large in man's imagination and intellect. Satanism, in turn, has grown into a fascinating and alluring set of diverse beliefs and...

A collection of occult tales and mysterious goings-on, all set in England's most enigmatic and mystical county: Cornwall. Hotbed of occultism, Paganism and Witchcraft, Cornwall forms the backdrop for famous tales by authors such as Hugh Walpole and Dorothy Macardle.

A collection of some of the best speculative short stories of all time, based around the timeless theme of Otherness and the Unknown. Featuring stories by masters of the genre such as Edgar Allan Poe, M. P. Shiel, Kathleen Ludwick, Claude Farrere, Fred M. White, Fitz James O'Brien and Robert E. Howard.

Get caught up in the two most famous scary stories of all time depicted in LEGO bricks! Creep your way through the shadowy sets of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Bram Stoker’s Dracula in this amazing brick adaptation. With one thousand color photographs, these stories and their monsters come...

This vintage book contains Montague Rhodes James's chilling supernatural short story “An Episode of Cathedral History”. First published as part of “The collected ghost stories of M.R. James” (1931), it is a hair-raising ghost story highly recommended for all lovers of the genre. Montague Rhodes...

Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside - Christopher Fowler Christopher Fowler explains "'. . . Seaside' came about firstly because I was commissioned to write a story for the World Horror Convention souvenir book and, as the event was to take place in Brighton, it seemed logical to set a tale...

Alone for Christmas, Michela longs for the past, the future—anything but the present. The present holds pain, loneliness, longing, loathing. The present offers nothing but ghosts and nightmares about deeds that cannot be undone. To see her son again, Michela must face her ghosts on this Christmas...