Classic Horror & Ghost Stories

In a world threatened by the imminent death of its sun, young Yama lives a relatively happy and peaceful life as the daughter of the chief of the v...

In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then eighteen years old, began to write the novel Frankenstein after she and her lover Percy Bys...

'These stories have all had their origins in dreams... Terrifying enough to the dreamer... I hope that some readers will experience an agreeable sh...

It is too often accepted that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries o...

At that moment, in a flash that came like a shifting of her eyes, the world she looked at suffered a change... It was the same world, flat field fo...

World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.After receiving word that his Uncle Henry has gone missing,...

Through the electric silence around the seance table, the rapping of an unknown hand spells out a horrible revelation. A posthumous journey through...

`the ideal reading...for the hours after midnight' Thus Henry James described the style of supernatural tale of which Sheridan Le Fanu was a maste...

`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simulta...

'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel...

Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture--the power o...

Winner of the LA Times/Ray Bradbury PrizeNineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits A...

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant WritingShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizePriyanka Champaneri’s transcend...

Elinor Mordaunt was the pen name of Evelyn May Clowes (1872-1942), a prolific and popular novelist and short story writer, working in Australia and...

Following the success of Handheld Press's 2019 best-selling anthology Womens Weird, British Weird is a new anthology of classic Weird short fiction...