Bram Stoker Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Primrose Path (1875)
  2. The Dualitists (1887)
  3. The Snake’s Pass (1890)
  4. The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
  5. The Watter’s Mou’ (1895)
  6. Dracula (1897)
  7. Miss Betty (1898)
  8. The Mystery Of The Sea (1902)
  9. The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903)
  10. The Man/The Gates of Life (1905)
  11. Lady Athlyne (1908)
  12. The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
  13. The Lair of the White Worm (1911)
  14. Powers of Darkness (With: ) (2017)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Crystal Cup (1872)
  2. The Chain Of Destiny (1875)
  3. The Castle of the King (1876)
  4. The Judge’s House (1891)
  5. Crooken Sands (1894)
  6. The Burial of the Rats (1896)
  7. Dogma Dracula: A Graphical Adaptation (With: ) (2014)
  8. A Dream of Red Hands (2018)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Under the Sunset (1881)
  2. Snowbound (1908)
  3. Dracula’s Guest (1914)
  4. The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion (1973)
  5. Shades of Dracula (1982)
  6. Midnight Tales (1992)
  7. Best Ghost and Horror Stories (1997)
  8. The Judge’s House and Other Weird Tales (2003)
  9. Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879)
  2. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
  3. Famous Impostors (1910)
  4. The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (2012)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The First Pan Book Of Horror Stories (1959)
  2. Human And Inhuman Stories (1963)
  3. Everyman’s Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965)
  4. The Midnight People (1968)
  5. The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
  6. 11 Great Horror Stories (1969)
  7. The Undead (1971)
  8. Summoned From The Tomb (1973)
  9. Clutch of Vampires (1974)
  10. Christopher Lee’s ‘X’ Certificate (1975)
  11. Vincent Price Presents the Price of Fear (1976)
  12. Classic tales of horror (1976)
  13. Christopher Lee’s New Chamber of Horrors (1976)
  14. The 12th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1979)
  15. The Giant Book Of Horror Stories (1981)
  16. The 16th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1983)
  17. Realms of Darkness (1985)
  18. Tales of the Dark (1987)
  19. The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
  20. Blood and Roses (1992)
  21. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…Nightmare (1993)
  22. Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1993)
  23. The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994)
  24. Great Irish Tales of Horror (1995)
  25. The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995)
  26. The Vampire Hunters’ Casebook (1996)
  27. Vampires, Wine & Roses (1997)
  28. Haunted Houses (1997)
  29. Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998)
  30. The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999)
  31. Into the Mummy’s Tomb (2001)
  32. Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favourite Scary Stories (2002)
  33. Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021)

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Bram Stoker Books Overview

The Snake’s Pass

Arthur Severn, a young Englishman on holiday in the west of Ireland, is forced by a storm to stop for the night in a mysterious village, where he hears the legend of ‘The Snake’s Pass.’ Long ago, it is said, St. Patrick battled the King of the Snakes, who hid his crown of gold and jewels in the hills near the village. But it is not only legend that haunts the town. The figure of the demonic money lender Black Murdock looms over the village, as he searches for the lost treasure while manipulating the townsfolk to his own evil ends. Even more threatening than Murdock is the shifting bog, personified as a baneful ‘carpet of death,’ which will swallow up anything and anyone in its path. Art and his friend Dick will brave the dangers of the bog to seek out the treasure, but the sinister machinations of Murdock will lead to a deadly conclusion! Featuring a slow accumulation of terror worthy of Le Fanu, The Snake’s Pass was Bram Stoker’s first novel. A clear precursor to Dracula, The Snake’s Pass was the only of Stoker’s novels set in his native Ireland. This edition follows the text of the first edition published at New York in 1890.

The Watter’s Mou’

Abraham Bram Stoker 1847 1912 was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. In his honour, the Horror Writers Association recognizes superior achievement in horror writing with the Bram Stoker Award. Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven when he made a complete and astounding recovery. After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete he was named University Athlete at Trinity College, Dublin 1864 70, from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on Sensationalism in Fiction and Society . He supplemented his income by writing a large number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Among his other famous books are: The Jewel of Seven Stars 1903 and The Lady of the Shroud 1909.

Dracula

This title contains in depth critical discussions of Bram Stoker’s novel. Since its publication in 1897 Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula‘ has never been out of print, and while many monsters have come before Dracula, and many since Stoker’s vampire has taken on an iconic status. On the surface, the novel is a classic tale of horror and suspense, a battle between good and evil, light and dark, the supernatural and the natural. However, a closer examination the novel opens up an intricate portrait of Victorian anxieties, leading contemporary scholars to often view the novel as the site of a battle between the old world and the new. Edited by literary scholar Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, Newark, this volume in the Critical Insights series considers the Gothic classic from a variety of critical viewpoints. As Lynch points out in his introduction, ‘Dracula‘ received scant critical attention prior to the 1960s and 1970s though much attention has been paid to the novel over the past few decades. Overview essays by Bridget M. Marshall and Camille Yvette Welsch examine the literary history of the vampire and the critical reception of Stoker’s most famous work respectively. Writers Matthew J. Bolton, Allan Johnson, and David Glover all consider Stoker’s novel in the context of the waning days of the Victorian era as the creep of modernity threatened the period’s established beliefs and values. Similarly Beth E. McDonald looks at the novel as its characters turn to sacred rituals as a way of avoiding change. Together, critic Carrol L. Fry and psychologist Carla Edwards examine the novel from a psychological perspective, exploring the connections the novel makes with some of our most deepest fears. Samuel Lyndon Gladden writes about the use of the word earnest in the novel as a link between Stoker and his one time friend Oscar Wilde. Critic Jimmie E. Cain, Jr., analyzes the novel from a political perspective in the wake of the Crimean War while distinguished feminist critic Nancy Armstrong offers a survey of feminist readings before turning her attention to the notions of Utopia and individual fulfillment. The volume concludes with a sweeping essay that combines Marxist, feminist, and post colonialist readings into a consideration on race, capitalism, and aesthetics. Each essay is 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of ‘Works Cited,’ along with endnotes.

The Mystery Of The Sea

CHAPTER I SECOND SIGHT I HAD just arrived at Cruden Bay on my annual visit, and after a late breakfast was sitting on the low wall which was a continuation of the escarpment of the bridge over the Water of Cruden. Opposite to me, across the road and standing under the only little clump of trees in the place was a tall, gaunt old woman, who kept looking at me intently. As I sat, a little group, consisting of a man and two women, went by. I found my eyes follow them, for it seemed to me after they had passed me that the two women walked together and the man alone in front carrying on his shoulder a little black box-a coffin. I shuddered as I thought, but a moment later I saw all three abreast just as they had been. The old woman was now looking at me with eyes that blazed. She came across the road and said to me without preface: ‘ What saw ye then, that yer e’en looked so awed ?’ I did not like to tell her so I did not answer. Her great eyes were fixed keenly upon me, seeming to loo

Table of Contents

I Second Sight 3; II Gormala 9; III An Ancient Rune 16; IV Lammas Floods 23; V The Mystery Of The Sea 32; VI The Ministers of the Doom 44; VII From Other Ages and the Ends of the Earth si; VIII A Run on the Beach 66; IX Confidences and Secret Writing 80; X A Clear Horizon 94; XI In the Twilight 104; XII The Cipher 113; XIII A Ride Through the Mountains 12a; XIV A Secret Shared 130; XV A Peculiar Dinner Party 138; XVI Revelations 145; XVII Sam Adams’s Task 152; XVIII Fireworks and Joan of Arc 159; XIX On Changing One’s Name 165; XX Comradeship 173; XXI The Old Far West and the New 180; XXII Crom Castle 187; XXIII Secret Service 195; XXIV A Subtle Plan 200; XXV Inductive Ratiocination 207; XXVI A Whole Wedding Day 215; ix; X; Contents; chapter; XXVII Entrance to the Cavern XXVIII Voices in the Dark XXIX The Monument X*X The Secret Passage X*XI Marjory’s Adventure X*XII The Lost Script ; X*XIII Don Bernardino ; X*XIV

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library Literary Society is a non profit educational organization. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. It is in such a wise that memory plays its pranks for good or ill; for pleasure or pain; for weal or woe. It is thus that life is bittersweet, and that which has been done becomes eternal. Again, the light skiff, ceasing to shoot through the lazy water as when the oars flashed and dripped, glided out of the fierce July sunlight into the cool shade of the great drooping willow branches I standing up in the swaying boat, she sitting still and with deft fingers guarding herself from stray twigs or the freedom of the resilience of moving boughs. Again, the water looked golden brown under the canopy of translucent green; and the grassy bank was of emerald hue. Again, we sat in the cool shade, with the myriad noises of nature both without and within our bower merging into that drowsy hum in whose sufficing environment the great world with its disturbing trouble, and its more disturbing joys, can be effectually forgotten. Again, in that blissful solitude the young girl lost the convention of her prim, narrow upbringing, and told me in a natural, dreamy way of the loneliness of her new life. With an undertone of sadness she made m e feel how in that spacious home each one of the household was isolated by the personal magnificence of her father and herself; that there confidence had no altar, and sympathy no shrine; and that there even her father’s face was as distant as the old country life seemed now. Once more, the wisdom of my manhood and the experience of my years laid themselves at the girl’s feet. It was seemingly their own doing; for the individ

The Man/The Gates of Life

‘I would rather be an angel than God!’ The voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed what they said; it was the sentiment, not the sound, which roused their attention. The girl put her finger to her lips to impress silence, and the man nodded; they sat as still as mice whilst the two children went on talking. The scene would have gladdened a painter’s heart. An old churchyard. The church low and square towered, with long mullioned windows, the yellow grey stone roughened by age and tender hued with lichens. Round it clustered many tombstones tilted in all directions. Behind the church a line of gnarled and twisted yews. The churchyard was full of fine trees. On one side a magnificent cedar; on the other a great copper beech. Here and there among the tombs and headstones many beautiful blossoming trees rose from the long green grass. The laburnum glowed in the June afternoon sunlight; the lilac, the hawthorn and the clustering meadowsweet which fringed the edge of the lazy stream mingled their heavy sweetness in sleepy fragrance. The yellow grey crumbling walls were green in places with wrinkled harts tongues, and were topped with sweet williams and spreading house leek and stone crop and wild flowers whose delicious sweetness made for the drowsy repose of perfect summer. But amid all that mass of glowing colour the two young figures seated on the grey old tomb stood out conspicuously. The man was in conventional hunting dress: red coat, white stock, black hat, white breeches, and top boots. The girl was one of the richest, most glowing, and yet withal daintiest figures the eye of man could linger on. She was in riding habit of hunting scarlet cloth; her black hat was tipped forward by piled up mas*ses red golden hair. Round her neck was a white lawn scarf in the fashion of a man’s hunting stock, close fitting, and sinking into a gold buttoned waistcoat of snowy twill. As she sat with the long skirt across her left arm her tiny black top boots appeared underneath. Her gauntleted gloves were of white buckskin; her riding whip was plaited of white leather, topped with ivory and banded with gold. Even in her fourteenth year Miss Stephen Norman gave promise of striking beauty; beauty of a rarely composite character. In her the various elements of her race seemed to have cropped out. The firm set jaw, with chin broader and more square than is usual in a woman, and the wide fine forehead and aquiline nose marked the high descent from Saxon through Norman. The glorious mass of red hair, of the true flame colour, showed the blood of another ancient ancestor of Northern race, and suited well with the voluptuous curves of the full, crimson lips. The purple black eyes, the raven eyebrows and eyelashes, and the fine curve of the nostrils spoke of the Eastern blood of the far back wife of the Crusader. Already she was tall for her age, with something of that lankiness which marks the early development of a really fine figure. Long legged, long necked, as straight as a lance, with head poised on the proud neck like a lily on its stem.

Lady Athlyne

Joy Ogilvie, the beautiful young daughter of a Kentucky colonel, plays a joke with her friends, pretending to be ‘Lady Athlyne‘, after hearing a story about the dashing Irish nobleman Lord Athlyne. Little does she know that half a world away, the real Lord Athlyne is a prisoner of war in a South African camp, where word reaches him that a woman in America is impersonating his wife. Upon his release, he decides to investigate the situation and travels to New York, where a near fatal accident introduces him to Joy and her father. Athlyne and Joy fall instantly in love but a series of misadventures and dangerous obstacles threatens to prevent their marriage. And when Colonel Ogilvie learns of their affair and challenges Athlyne to a duel to the death, their love just may end in tragedy! One of the most remarkable treatments of the theme of mutual and passionate love in English literature, Lady Athlyne reveals Stoker to be a versatile and multi dimensional author. Poorly received upon its initial release in 1908, it has remained out of print and unobtainable for a century. This Valancourt Books edition follows the text of the exceedingly rare 1908 New York edition held by the Library of Congress. About the Author Bram Stoker 1847 1812 is best known for his horror novels Dracula 1897, Lady of the Shroud 1909, and Lair of the White Worm 1911, although he also wrote a number of romantic adventure novels, including The Snake’s Pass 1890, The Mystery of the Sea 1902, and Lady Athlyne 1908.

The Lady of the Shroud

Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker 1847 1912 was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. In his honour, the Horror Writers Association recognizes ‘superior achievement’ in horror writing with the Bram Stoker Award. Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven when he made a complete and astounding recovery. After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete he was named University Athlete at Trinity College, Dublin 1864 70, from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on ‘Sensationalism in Fiction and Society’. He supplemented his income by writing a large number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Among his other famous books are: The Jewel of Seven Stars 1903 and The Lady of the Shroud 1909.

The Lair of the White Worm

Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker 1847 1912 was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. In his honour, the Horror Writers Association recognizes ‘superior achievement’ in horror writing with the Bram Stoker Award. Stoker was an invalid until he started school at the age of seven when he made a complete and astounding recovery. After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete he was named University Athlete at Trinity College, Dublin 1864 70, from which he graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on ‘Sensationalism in Fiction and Society’. He supplemented his income by writing a large number of novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Among his other famous books are: The Jewel of Seven Stars 1903 and The Lady of the Shroud 1909.

The Judge’s House

Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and send them from Jersey to Juneau. Each classic or original short story is printed on one sheet of paper and folded like a map. This makes it simple to read while commuting, convenient to carry when not, and easy to give or send to a friend. A paper envelope is provided for mailing or gift giving, and both are packaged in a clear plastic envelope for display. The cost is not much more than a greeting card.

Under the Sunset

Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and color, give a promise of the glory and beauty that encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams. This Country is the Land Under the Sunset. This is the story of that Country, and what happened when evil came to abide there. It is a story all of us must hear. Jacketless library hardcover.

Dracula’s Guest

Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories’ is a collection of short stories that includes ‘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,’ and ‘Crooken Hands.’ Among the most captivating of these tales is ‘Dracula’s Guest,’ which is widely believed to be the first chapter of Stoker’s original ‘Dracula’ manuscript. A young Englishman is restlessly wandering about Munich before traveling to Transylvania. When he foolishly leaves his hotel and explores a dense forest, he finds a graveyard with an evil ghost, endures a snowstorm, and has a surprising encounter with a wolf. This volume also includes the novella ‘The Lair of the White Worm,’ a horror story which revolves around Adam Salton, a native Australian invited to England by his only surviving relative, Richard Salton. All seems well until he meets the neighbors and discovers a cruel mesmerist, an enormous kite, a violent woman with unknown designs, and a colossal white worm seeking victims near its pit. Fans of ‘Dracula’ will delight in this fine collection of horror stories by the same author.

Shades of Dracula

‘Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!’ He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. With these words we are introduced to one of the most famous figures in literature, Count Dracula, as he greets the unsuspecting Jonathan Harker at the door to his eerie, mist shrouded castle in Transylvania in one of the most enduring classics in the horror genre, Dracula, by Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker 1847 1912. What I have done here is assemble a group of his stories which all relate in some way or another to that great novel: some pre dating it and revealing how his love of the weird was leading him inexorably towards its creation, and the rest subsequent works which show how its influence was never far from his mind when he took up his pen again.

Midnight Tales

Opening this collection, now in a new paperback edition, is a terrifying encounter with a werewolf, a scene from an early draft of Dracula. Here, too, is The Squaw,” Bram Stoker’s most blood curdling story, set in a medieval torture chamber. The theatrical world features in ”Death in the Wings,” a tale of brutal revenge. Also included is the dramatic finale from the 1903 novel The Jewel of the Seven Seas, with its raising of a mummy from the dead, which so shocked Edwardian readers that it was later expurgated. These twelve stories all display the fascination with the strange and the gruesome that made Bram Stoker 1847 1912 a master of the macabre. ”Dracula author goes with the proven in this collection of horror stories.” Library Journal.

Best Ghost and Horror Stories

Superb selection of 14 spine tingling stories by author of Dracula. ‘The Squaw,’ ‘The Burial of the Rats,’ ‘The Crystal Cup,’ ‘The Chain of Destiny,’ ‘The Castle of the King,’ ‘The Dualitists’ probably Stoker’s most horrifying story, ‘A Dream of Red Hands’ and 7 more. Called by Stephen King ‘absolutely champion short stories.’ Introduction by Richard Dalby.

The Judge’s House and Other Weird Tales

This volume includes Stoker’s immortal classic, ‘The Judge’s House,’ and nine other rarely seen tales from the master of the macabre, including ‘Bridal of Dead,’ ‘The Crystal Cup,’ ‘The Dualitists,’ ‘The Fate of Fenella,’ ‘The Specter of Doom,’ ‘The Seer,’ ‘The Man from Shorrox’,’ ‘The Red Stockade,’ ‘Death in the Wings,’ ‘In the Valley of the Shadow,’ ‘The Secret of the Growing Gold,’ and ‘The Chain of Destiny.’…
Malcolm Malcolmson paid his three months’ rent, got a receipt, and the name of an old woman who would probably undertake to ‘do’ for him, and came away with the keys in his pocket. He then went to the landlady of the inn, who was a cheerful and most kindly person, and asked her advice as to such stores and provisions as he would be likely to require. She threw up her hands in amazement when he told her where he was going to settle himself. R ‘Not in the Judge’s House!’ she said, and grew pale as she spoke. He explained the locality of the house, saying that he did not know its name. When he had finished she answered: ‘Aye, sure enough sure enough the very place! It is the Judge’s House sure enough.’ He asked her to tell him about the place, why so called, and what there was against it…
. He didn’t believe her, of course. Who wuld take such nonsense seriously? But soon enough, too soon, he wished he had.

Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Famous Impostors

He’s best remembered as the legendary manager of London’s Lyceum Theatre and author of the incalculably influential 1897 novel Dracula, but Bram Stoker was a prolific writer of numerous other works, including books of nonfiction. This curious 1910 work, one of his last, is an amusing survey of the charlatans, rogues, and other practitioners of make believe who bedevil and delight us. With a cheerfully withering eye for their cons, Stoker introduces us to many famous fakers including: royal pretenders such as Perkin Warbeck, who claimed King Henry VII’s throne magicians Paracelsus, Cagliostro, etc. witches and clairvoyants women masquerading as men hoaxers and others. Irish author ABRAHAM STOKER 1847 1912 worked for more than a quarter of a century as manager of the West End’s Lyceum Theatre, which drew him into London’s literary and artists circles; he was a friend of such luminaries as writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Stoker is also the author of The Lair of the White Worm 1911, among other books.

The Mammoth Book of Vampires

Award winning horror editor Stephen Jones presents thirty six modern masters of the macabre among them Harlan Ellison, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Paul McAuley, Peter Tremayne, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Ramsey Campbell in this collection of the very best in vampire fiction which blends sheer horror with dark humor, deadly tenderness with tingling terror. For the classic vampire, as this volume amply shows, the Blood is the Life. So you’ll discover throughout these always scary and diversely crafted pages, from Hugh B. Cave’s pulp thriller ‘Stragella’ through to Harold Waldrop’s bizarre mix of vampire and Na*zis in ‘Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen’ and Christopher Fowler’s ‘The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Primetime TV Special.’ In between lie artful chillers by the likes of Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, R. Chetwynd Hayes, Robert Bloch and John Burke, along with new and original stories by Niel Gaiman with ‘Cards from a Vampire Tarot,’ and Kim Newman with ‘Andy Warhol’s Dracula: anno Dracula 1978 79.’ You can sink your teeth, too, in F. Paul Wilson’s fast paced thriller ‘Midnight Mass,’ Manly Wade Wellman’s ‘Chastel,’ offering bloody intrigue and adventure with Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant; and Les Daniel’s ‘Yellow Fog,’ which features his enigmatic vampire hero Don Sebastian de Villanueva.

Blood and Roses

The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism both embodied and atmospheric appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror. Includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Le Comte de Lautramont, Count Stenbock, J K Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Thophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Bronte, J.M. Ryder.

Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown

The editor of Devils and Demons compiles more than fifty terrifying tales, many never before anthologized, by such masters as Willa Cather, Gaston Leroux, Bram Stoker, and Joyce Carol Oates. Science Fiction & Doubleday Bk Clubs.

The Vampire Hunters’ Casebook

Outstanding collection of vampire lore by such dark luminaries as Stoker, LeFanu, Kenealy, Claude Askew, Uel Key, Seabury Quinn of Weird Tales Magazine, Sidney Horley, Manley Wellman, Jeff Rice, Robert ‘Psycho’ Bloch, Anne Rice, David Schow, and Peter Tremayne.

Vampire and Werewolf Stories

CAUTION: Not to be read before bedtime! This nightmarish collection of between 15 and 20 short stories and extracts preys upon the theme of vampires and werewolves. The invigorating mix of classic and contemporary writing from some of the finest authors in the field provides an ideal introduction for children who are beginning to read classic fiction and gothic horror. The brave reader will be amply rewarded with classic tales of blood craving vampires and modern stories of wicked werewolves, interspersed with shocking but true tales to chill the bones and rattle the nerves.

The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction

This unique anthology illustrates the full range of Irish fiction from Gulliver’s Travels to young contemporary writers like Roddy Doyle and Emma Donoghue. Including self contained sections from novels as well as short stories, all the most important writers are represented, from Swift and Sterne through Joyce, Beckett and Wilde to modern masters like Banville and William Trevor. Colm Toibin’s long introduction describes the contexts and particular strengths of Irish fiction.

Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favourite Scary Stories

Dim the lights. Lock the doors. Pull down the shades and BEWARE! It’s time to read R.L. Stine’s favorite scary stories, plus two new tales of his own!

R.L. Stine has gathered a selection of all things scary. Short stories, tales old and new, comics, and poems. It’s a spine tingling collection of work by dozens of writers and artists who are famous for hair raising fun.

Discover a ghastly secret in a retelling of the classic story ‘The Judge’s House,’ by Bram Stoker. Peek into a Christmas stocking that holds a shocking surprise in a Vault of Horror comic, ‘A Sock for Christmas.’ Meet an ice cream man who will chill your blood in ‘Mister Ice Cold’ by Gahan Wilson.

But first, visit an evil carnival in ‘The Black Ferris,’ by Ray Bradbury. R.L. Stine says that this story changed his life! Find out why in his introduction. Be sure to read all the introductions because R.L. reveals why he picked these stories for you, why he finds them the creepiest…
the funniest…
the scariest!

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