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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781435124981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Features thirty timeless tales of terror by the best writers of horror fiction in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9781470157135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although ghost stories only formed a small part of F. Marion Crawford's prolific output, they are the stories for which he is now best known. These four classic horror stories represent Crawford at his ghostly best. This collection includes his most renowned story 'The Upper Berth', a chilling tale about a haunted stateroom on a trans-Atlantic passenger ship which was praised by M.R. James as one of the best supernatural stories ever written. Also included are 'Man Overboard', another first-rate nautical ghost story, and 'The Screaming Skull', about a skull which once bore witness to a horrible atrocity (the tale is based on an actual legend). 1. The Screaming Skull 2. The Upper Berth 3. By the Waters of Paradise 4. Man Overboard!
Author: F. Crawford
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Published: 2021-10-10
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Book Excerpt: woman. Luke remembered that, I'm sure. I don't want to know what he did when he thought of it; my taste never ran in the direction of horrors, and I don't fancy you care for them either, do you? No. If you did, you might supply what is wanting to the story. It must have been rather grim, eh? I wish I did not see the whole thing so distinctly, just as everything must have happened. He took it the night before she was buried, I'm sure, after the coffin had been shut, and when the servant girl was asleep. I would bet anything, that when he'd got it, he put something under the sheet in its place, to fill up and look like it. What do you suppose he put there, under the sheet? I don't wonder you take me up on what I'm saying! First I tell you that I don't want to know what happened, and that I hate to think about horrors, and then I describe the whole thing to you as if I had seen it. I'm quite sure that it was her work-bag that he put there. I remember the bag very well, for she always used it of an Read More
Author: Francis Marion Crawford
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bill Bowers
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003-09-01
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1599216949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Even now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, when science has largely replaced superstition as our way of viewing the world, who among us does not hesitate, however briefly, before entering a darkened room? Who does not feel an involuntary shiver at the sound of footfalls somewhere back there? Who does not wonder, even fleetingly, if the spirits of the dead might still wander the earth? Who does not feel a jolt of primal fear at things that go bump in the night? For all these reasons and more, stories of ghosts, unexplained happenings, and the supernatural remain among the most popular and enduring tales in all of world literature. Now The Lyons Press presents CLASSIC GHOST STORIES, a chilling collection of some of the very best tales of mystery and imagination ever penned, by some of the finest writers the world has ever produced. So curl up in a comfortable chair, turn on a few more lights to chase away the shadows, and prepare to be scared silly. These are delightfully creepy tales that have stood the test of time, from such stellar authors as: Ambrose Bierce Edgar Allan Poe Edith Wharton E.F. Benson Guy de Maupassant William Fryer Harvey Charles Dickens Amelia B. Edwards M.R. James Algernon Blackwood Rudyard Kipling Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mary E. Wilkins ...and many more
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-12-11
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781541050266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Screaming Skull
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-05-09
Total Pages: 944
ISBN-13: 0191640891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and cannot think!' H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of 'weird fiction'. Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation, quite unlike any other writer. This new selection brings together nine of his classic tales, focusing on the 'Cthulhu Mythos', a cycle of stories that develops the mythology of the Old Ones, the monstrous creatures who predate human life on earth. It includes the Introduction from Lovecraft's critical essay, 'Supernatural Horror in Literature', in which he gave his own important definition of 'weird fiction'. In a fascinating contextual introduction, Roger Luckhurst gives Lovecraft the attention he deserves as a writer who used pulp fiction to explore a remarkable philosophy that shockingly dethrones the mastery of man.
Author: Marion Crawford
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781544231846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald.
Author: John Kendrick Bangs
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Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The perfect book for dark, cold, and creepy Halloween nights ... Ten spine-chilling tales of terror, told by the masters ...Ten stories that will give you nightmares ... Ten stories that will make you sleep with the lights on ... "A Midnight Visitor" by John Kendrick Bangs, "From the Dead", by E. Nesbith, "The Case of Frank Hampden", by E. F. Benson, "The Screaming Skull" by F. Marion Crawford, "Each Man Kills" by Victoria Glad, "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling, "A Wicked Voice" by Vernon Lee, "The Haunted and the Haunters" by Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton), "The Ghost Club" by John Kendrick Bangs, and "The Mass for the Dead" by E. Nesbith.
