Supernatural Tales

Author : S. T. Joshi,Guillermo del Toro
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101662755

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American Supernatural Tales by S. T. Joshi,Guillermo del Toro Pdf

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and—of course—Stephen King. This volumes also includes "The Yellow Sign," the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hit TV series True Detective. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories. Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro’s favorites, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ray Russell’s short story “Sardonicus,” considered by Stephen King to be “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,” to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Supernatural Tales by Vernon Lee Pdf

Author : G.W. Mullins
Publisher : Light Of The Moon Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Supernatural Tales Of The Native American Indians by G.W. Mullins Pdf

Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological system that has rivaled that of the Greeks. Since the beginning of time every civilization has presented its own collection of strange tales and folklore. The Native American Indians are no different. Many of their stories included giants, hideous creatures, ghosts, beings from the spirit world, witches and many others. These creatures have haunted various corners of North America for thousands of years. The stories have been handed down from generation to generation. Some stories are amusing, while others are meant to be a terrifying lesson in life and contain eerie details and gruesome facts that will make your skin crawl. The stories collected in this book represent some of the best to be found. Many are about ghosts and their interaction with the living, some evil in nature while others appear quite normal. They teach a lesson that the dead don't automatically become ghosts. Many of the stories give a brief hint to an afterlife. While some ghosts go about their everyday lives in spirit form, and others attempt to come back from the other side. Some come back for revenge on the living.

Author : Herbert Alvin Wise,Phyllis Fraser,Phyllis Cerf Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : LCCN:44004879

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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Herbert Alvin Wise,Phyllis Fraser,Phyllis Cerf Wagner Pdf

Stories of terror and the supernatural.

Author : A. C. Doyle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486143200

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The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle by A. C. Doyle Pdf

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Sherlock Holmes When Holmes wearied of mundane Victorian reality, he reached for the cocaine; his creator Doyle reached beyond reality, to the occult mystery world as real to him as a hansom cab—so real that it became part of his fiction. It is no surprise that in the year "A Study in Scarlet" appeared (1887), this versatile writer was reading seriously in spiritualism, attending séances, and had already written some of the thrilling tales in this book. The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle gathers together for the first time in an American edition the fifteen finest short stories in this genre by the master storyteller. Relative to his vast literary output, Doyle wrote comparatively few stories dealing specifically with spiritualism, Egyptian magic, psychometry, and other occult domains he knew so thoroughly — and these scattered stories, skeptically dismissed or simply buried beneath the mass of his detective, historical, sports, medical, and other pieces, have yet to receive their due as superior or typical examples of his narrative power. The polymath Doyle has recourse to many twilit borderline realms of the beyond in these stories which appeared in various periodicals from 1880 to 1921. "The Bully of Brocas Court" gives a new slant to the Victorian ghost story in one of Doyle's favorite settings, the world of boxing. "The Captain of the Polestar" recalls the weird northern backdrop of the author's whaling adventures; "The Brown Hand" deals in body-soul bondage with a touch of the East. Two hackle-raising histories, "Lot No. 249" and "The Ring of Thoth," depend on the riddle of Egyptian mummy lore; "The Leather Funnel" and "The Silver Hatchet" involve psychometry, a material object's retention of an aura or memory of its past, which a sensitive being can "replay" through dreams. And then there is "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement," Doyle's speculative solution to the Marie Celeste conundrum, which was vehemently denounced when published (anonymously) because it seemed so true and so terrible. Doyle readers, students of the occult, and anyone who loves an imaginative tale will wish to experience, through these obscure, rarely reprinted stories, what was personally so close to their author.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486203072

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Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Wilkie Collins Pdf

Twelve supernatural tales are accompanied by a discussion of Collins' life and literary achievements

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015015373320

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The Supernatural Tales of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy Pdf

Strong stories of mystery and suspense.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fantasy fiction, English
ISBN : 0517162016

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The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Author : Marjorie Bowen
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026897378

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GOTHIC HORRORS - Bowen's Greatest Occult & Supernatural Tales by Marjorie Bowen Pdf

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novel: Black Magic Short Stories: The Housekeeper Scoured Silk The Extraordinary Adventure of Mr. John Proudie The Burning of the Vanities The Extraordinary Adventure of Grace Endicott A Poor Spanish Lodging Twilight Giuditta's Wedding Night Petronilla of the Laurel Trees The Fair Hair of Ambrosine The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes Brent's Folly

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664557827

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DRACULA'S HALLOWEEN – The Best Horrors & Supernatural Tales of Bram Stoker by Bram Stoker Pdf

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: "Dracula" is the tale of Count Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. "The Jewel of Seven Stars" tells the tale of Malcolm Ross, a young barrister, pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. "The Man" (The Gates of Life)" is a gothic tale of Stephen, young girl raised as tomboy, and her childhood friend Harold. As many of their close ones die in tragic accidents, through the deaths, Stephen and Harold grow closer. "The Lady of the Shroud" – Rupert Saint Leger inherits his uncle's estate on condition that he lives for a year in his uncle's castle in the Land of the Blue Mountains. One wet night, he is visited in the castle by a pale woman wearing a wet shroud, seeking warmth. He falls in love with her, despite thinking she is a vampire, and he visits the local church where he finds her in a glass-topped stone coffin in the crypt. "The Lair of the White Worm (The Garden of Evil)" – Adam Salton from Australia is contacted by his great-uncle Richard from England in order to establish a relationship. Adam travels to England and quickly finds himself at the centre of mysterious and inexplicable occurrences. "Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Stories" is a collection of nine macabre and gothic tales in which paintings come to life, rats run amok and many other twisted things occur: Dracula's Guest The Judge's House The Squaw The Secret of the Growing Gold A Gipsy Prophecy The Coming of Abel Behenna The Burial of the Rats A Dream of Red Hands Crooken Sands

Author : Mary Danby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : UOM:39015073820824

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65 Great Tales of the Supernatural by Mary Danby Pdf

Author : Robin Brockman
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788880619

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Classic Ghost Stories by Robin Brockman Pdf

There's nothing like a good ghost story to give you a frisson of fear on a dark winter's night. Gathered in this haunting collection are twenty-seven of the very best of their genre by British and American masters. As well as contributions from established names, you will also find forgotten gems by unjustly neglected writers who deserve an opportunity to find a new readership. Among these is The Spectre of Tappington, taken from The Ingoldsby Legends which appeared in serial form in the 1830s and were immensely popular with Victorian readers. Their author, Thomas Ingoldsby, was in fact an English clergyman, Richard Barham, who, unlike most of the writers in this compilation, put pen to paper out of pure enjoyment rather than necessity. The name Edith Nesbit is better known to modern readers than Thomas Ingoldsby, although probably not in the context of adult fiction. Famous as a writer of children's fiction (most notably The Railway Children), she also had a talent for ghost stories, as you will discover when you come to Man-Size in Marble. So settle back and enjoy myriad journeys through the highways and byways of one of literature's most rewarding genres. Included here are: The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman by Wilkie Collins The Captain of the Pole-star by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy The Hollow of the Three Hills by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Furnished Room by O. Henry The Haunted Mill by Jerome K. Jerome A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson The Devil's Wage by W. M. Thackeray The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

Author : Patricia McKissack
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780679818632

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The Dark-Thirty by Patricia McKissack Pdf

With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original, spine-tingling tales inspired by African American history and the mystery of that eerie half hour before nightfall—the dark-thirty.

Author : Henry Mazzeo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034995220

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Hauntings by Henry Mazzeo Pdf

Seventeen short stories of ghosts and demons.

Author : Terri Hardin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1566196434

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Supernatural Tales from Around the World by Terri Hardin Pdf

When night falls, the creatures of darkness spread malignant wings over the imagination. This book brings together the most thrilling tales of demons and sorcery.