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Although well-known in her time as a writer of children's stories, Mary Louisa Molesworth (1839-1921) has since become highly regarded as an author of supernatural fiction. This volume contains all thirteen of Molesworth's uncanny tales, in which the cosy world of middle-class Victorian domesticity...

A classic collection of fifteen thrilling stories, set during the golden age of steam, nine of which feature Victor L Whitechurch's charming protagonist, Thorpe Hazell - vegetarian, detective and expert in all aspects of the railway. Long out of print and a collector's item amongst fans of classic crime, this collection is now available for Kindle users to rediscover.

Investigating the occult using deductive reasoning, esoteric knowledge and psychic ability, the Edwardian protagonists of these classic tales tackle haunted houses, diabolic possessions and more earthly deeds of greed, corruption and murder. In Harold Begbie's six tales of Andrew Latter (1904),...

When Anthony Cleverdon rescues Urith Malvine from a fire on Dartmoor, the tempestuous romance between the two young people reignites the ancient family feud between the Cleverdons and the Crymes  Written in the late-Victorian period and set shortly before the Glorious Revolution of the late...

Who is the spectral figure seen in the College garden at night? And what is the secret behind this manifestation? In the "antiquarian" tradition of M.R. James and A.C. Benson, A.P. Baker's novella tells of the tragic events behind the haunting of the Fellows' Garden at Christ's College Cambridge and is a forgotten classic of English supernatural fiction.

When the young baronet, Sir Matthew Jerningham of Brumblingham Hall dies suddenly, it is initially suspected that a tragic illness is to blame. But when suspicion falls the baronet's brother-in-law, Captain Propert Crosse, the Captain's sister turns to her lover Ralph Larkman to clear the Captain's...

Launcelot William Henry Trevor, seventh Earl Tresham, has made his fortune on the back of an incredible process for manufacturing rubies of a delicious pigeon-blood red. The formula is a closely guarded secret, passed down to each subsequent Earl on his twenty-first birthday. When the Earl...

The Cotswolds is a region steeped in history. In the three poems contained in this volume, the Victorian antiquary Richard Webster Huntley provides a picturesque glimpse into three episodes from the history of the region, relating to three of the area's manor houses. The title poem and "Squire...

When a young lawyer is called to the West Highlands of Scotland to prove his client's title to the estate of Ard na Righ, he becomes fascinated with the legend of 'Morag the Seal' - a beautiful water spirit who lures men to their deaths...  A supernatural romance in the tradition of Bram Stoker,...

A murderer detected from a fatal footrpint... a hanged man apparently returned from the dead to rob his persecutors... a woman found stabbed in a private box during a party at a theatre...  This vintage collection of stories was first published in 1891 and is sure to delight all fans of Victorian crime fiction!

"The Mystery of the Summer-House"! That is what the papers are calling it, and the village of Upper Scotney has never seen the like. Lady Carlton, the young wife of Sir Ralph Carlton, has been found murdered in the grounds of Scotney House. While Sir Ralph and the police investigate the crime, his...

Sabine Baring-Gould's vampire story is a lost classic of the genre. Whilst bellringing in Dartmoor's Brentor church on Christmas Eve, the heir of the Rosedhu family encounters an undead woman who has been condemned to eternal life without eternal youth. The other five stories are not supernatural,...

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was one of the Victorian age's most notable writers of supernatural fiction. An early pioneer of the 'antiquarian' ghost story, he also published tales of vampires and witches - often complementing the horror with wry humour. Containing more than thirty stories, this...

Best known as the mother of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Louisa Baldwin also wrote several volumes of fiction including, in 1895, this classic collection of spine chillers. Within its pages is a Victorian twilight world of curses and the second sight, of haunted houses and scary spectres - perfect reading for the small hours when the fire burns low...