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A Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
He was very fat indeed, yet he walked with the light dainty step of a woman. His cheeks were as chubby as a baby's, his skin ivory tinted, his black hair close-cropped, his amber eyes slanting.' A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks...Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable ...Show more
A Night on the Moor and Other Tales of Dread by R. Murray Gilchrist
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Robert Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) is perhaps best known for his interest in topography, and for his stories set in Derbyshire's Peak District. But he was also a master of mystery and horror, as this richly varied collection shows. If you are looking for a conventional horror story, in which the supern ...Show more
All Saints' Eve by A. B. Edwards
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Over half a century before the rise of the great 'Queens of Crime', Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, Amelia B. Edwards was an expert practitioner of crime fiction and murder mysteries, of which the best dozen are included in this volume. These gripping tales range from ingenious 'whodunnits' - 'Al ...Show more
An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the 'Prince of Thieves', one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome, laughing his way through difficulties and danger, Lupin is also the master of disguise and ...Show more
Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories by Rex Collings
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Category: Crime, Mystery & Thriller | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.Some of these sto ...Show more
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
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Category: Paranormal | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R ...Show more
Couching at the Door by D. K. Broster
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Category: Paranormal | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - 'The Second of September 1792' is a fine example - and finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had become a highly successful novelist ...Show more
Crime Scenes by David Stuart Davies
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Crime Scenes is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the hi ...Show more
Dracula and Dracula's Guest by BRAM STOKER
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Category: Crime, Mystery & Thriller | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of th ...Show more
Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James
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Category: Paranormal | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker ...Show more
Gothic Short Stories by David Blair
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Category: Paranormal | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ...Show more
Haunted Hotel and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins
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Category: Paranormal | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
Edited and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?’ This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a cleve ...Show more