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With an Introduction by M.J. Elliott. 'My eyes, perversely shaken
open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature
could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion...'
A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen
and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train carriage
with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method
of capital punishment... A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using
as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the
human soul... Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft's more
obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including
several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true
Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume.
Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott. That is not dead that can
eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago,
the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but
slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone
city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at
last. The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original
Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P.
Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along
with the classics 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Dunwich Horror' and
'At the Mountains of Madness'. Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul
Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond
the wildest imaginings of all, save H.P. Lovecraft.
A gorgeous book to dip into and savour the rich literary heritage
of Yorkshire, Britain's largest county. Yorkshire is renowned for
its landscapes: the magical wilderness of the moors and the dales,
its cities built on industry and mining, and its varied coastline.
All these places, as well as its people, have been portrayed and
dramatized in literature through the centuries; by poets from
Andrew Marvell to Simon Armitage, by novelists such as Dickens,
Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and of course the Brontes, all of
whom are represented here. Then there are novelists such as David
Storey and Barry Hines, who wrote about working-class lives in the
mining towns in the 1950s and 60s. And finally some favourite
characters to enjoy, such as James Herriot and the Yorkshire
Shepherdess. Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape is edited by David
Stuart Davies.
Selected and Introduced by M J Elliott. 'They were removing the
stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as
the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory
in single file; led by a stalking thing with a beautiful head made
of wax.' From the dark, mind-expanding imagination of H P
Lovecraft, Wordsworth presents a third volume of tales penned by
the greatest horror writer of the 20th Century. Here are some of
Lovecraft's weirdest flesh-creeping masterpieces, including
Pickman's Model, The Shunned House, his famous serial Herbert West
- Reanimator, and several classic tales from the Cthulhu Mythos, in
which mankind is subjected to the unimaginable terrors known only
to those who have read from the forbidden Necronomicon. Also
included in this compelling collection are the complete Randolph
Carter stories, chronicling his adventures in this world and the
realm of his dreams, where he faces perils beyond comprehension.
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The King in Yellow (Paperback)
Robert W Chambers; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread
it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all
times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of
horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W.
Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird
fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the
presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright,
madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of
futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious
poison. Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most
important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the
moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose
own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The
King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.
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The Phantom of the Opera (Paperback)
Gaston Leroux; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an
Introduction by David Stuart Davies. '... the shadow turned round;
and I saw a terrible death's-head, which darted a look at me from a
pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with
Satan...' Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the
great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured
creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this
opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for
music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him
because of his ghastly appearance. It is in the Opera House that he
encounters Christine Daae whom he trains in secret to become a
great singer. Erik's passionate obsession with a beautiful woman
beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale.
Gaston Leroux's novel is a marvellous blend of detective story,
romance and spine-tingling terror which has fascinated readers ever
since the work was first published.
With an introduction by David Stuart Davies. The father of science
fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and
eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling
and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a
volcano in Iceland on a journey which will lead them to the centre
of the earth. Along the way they encounter various hazards and
witness many incredible sights such as the underground forest,
illuminated by electricity, the Great Geyser, the battle between
prehistoric monsters, the strange whispering gallery, giant insects
and the vast subterranean sea with its ferocious whirlpool.
Although published in the nineteenth century, Journey to the Centre
of the Earth has lost none of its power and potency to excite and
engage the modern reader. The novel has been filmed many times, but
nothing can compare with the thrills and excitement generated by
the written narrative. It is supreme escapist entertainment for all
ages.
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of
the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from
English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The
Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories
established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of
eccentric sleuths. This complete collection contains all the
favourite Father Brown stories, showing a quiet wit and compassion
that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a
mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally
believable manner.
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Collected Ghost Stories (Paperback)
M. R James; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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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. James, 'Stories I Have
Tried To Write', which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them
are 'Casting the Runes', 'Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, My
Lad', 'The Tractate Middoth', 'The Ash Tree' and 'Canon Alberic's
Scrapbook'. 'There are some authors one wishes one had never read
in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For
me, M.R. James is one of these'. Ruth Rendell
With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. This
collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and
bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic
horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The
Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The
Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included.
These are the first modern detective stories and include 'The
Murders in the Rue Morgue', 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' and 'The
Purloined Letter'.
Voted the top crime novel of all time by the UK Crime Writers’
Association, The Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey’s last and
most successful book. Complete and unabridged. Part of the
Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,
pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book
lover. This edition is introduced by writer David Stuart Davies.
Inspector Alan Grant is laid up in hospital with a spinal injury
and he’s bored. Renowned for his ability to read a face, he
passes the time looking at old portraits and one which particularly
grabs his attention is of Richard III, the supposed arch villain
who killed his own nephews, ‘the princes in the tower’. But
Grant doesn’t accept the face in the portrait is the face of a
villain so he sets out to investigate what really happened. An
unusual premise for a crime novel perhaps, but nevertheless an
extremely clever and engrossing one, brilliantly plotted and
written with enormous charm and erudition.
Fully revised Second Edition. With a new Introduction and
Bibliography by Dick Collins. The exploits of Sweeney Todd, 'The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street', have been recounted many times in
plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely
were forgotten for many years. The String of Pearls - the original
tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror - was first
published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of
the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it
became an important source for Bram Stoker's Dracula, but it was
after over 150 years of obscurity that it appeared first in book
form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005. The one great
mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was - or was
it possibly the work of more than one man? In his new introduction
to this fully revised second edition, Dick Collins, by means of
detailed research of contemporary records, has established finally
the identity of the creator of this legendary figure. So here is
the original story of the terrifying owner of that famous London
barber-shop, and the secret recipe for Mrs Lovett's delicious
pies...
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Paperback)
Edith Wharton; Selected by David Stuart Davies; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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Selected & Introduced by David Stuart Davies. Traumatised by
ghost stories in her youth, Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith
Wharton (1862 -1937) channelled her fear and obsession into
creating a series of spine-tingling tales filled with spirits
beyond the grave and other supernatural phenomena. While claiming
not to believe in ghosts, paradoxically she did confess that she
was frightened of them. Wharton imbues this potent irrational and
imaginative fear into her ghostly fiction to great effect. In this
unique collection of finely wrought tales Wharton demonstrates her
mastery of the ghost story genre. Amongst the many supernatural
treats within these pages you will encounter a married farmer
bewitched by a dead girl; a ghostly bell which saves a woman's
reputation; the weird spectral eyes which terrorise the midnight
hours of an elderly aesthete; the haunted man who receives letters
from his dead wife; and the frightening power of a doppelganger
which foreshadows a terrible tragedy. Compelling, rich and strange,
the ghost stories of Edith Wharton, like vintage wine, have matured
and grown more potent with the passing years.
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 stories are classics
while others are lesser-known gems unearthed from this vintage era
of tales of the supernatural. There are stories from distant lands
- 'Fisher's Ghost' by John Lang is set in Australia and 'A Ghostly
Manifestation' by 'A Clergyman' is set in Calcutta. In this
selection, Sir Walter Scott (a Victorian in spirit if not in fact),
keeps company with Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu and other
illustrious masters of the genre.
'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and
the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But
the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could
reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless.
Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage
outside.' E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all
his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales
are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and
variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more
adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction.
Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful
spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and
slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic
collection that cannot fail to charm and chill.
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In A Glass Darkly (Paperback)
Sheridan Le Fanu; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le
Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of
mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of
the modern ghost story. In a Glass Darkly (1872), one of his most
celebrated volumes, purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius, a
pioneer psychologist. These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's
most accomplished work, which rises above the staid conventions of
the age. Although drawing on Gothic conventions - the book features
both ghosts and vampires - Le Fanu redefined the parameters of
supernatural fiction. He had little interest in the crude depiction
of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a
pleasurable frisson of fear. Le Fanu concern rather lay in the
examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche
of his protagonist, in this he paved the way for the work of Henry
James and M. R. James. This volume is an indispensable cornerstone
of modern horror and remains one of the finest collections of
unsettling fiction in the language.
Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with a wonderful
facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the
supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales.
This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish
writers includes contributions from such masters as Sheridan Le
Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland.
Within these pages you will find strange accounts of haunted
houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful
spirits, all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the
blood. The haunting tales featured in this beautiful Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of Irish Ghost Stories have been
selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal
to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
This revised and expanded second edition brings together the
uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious
philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories
in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his
lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first
time. Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction
from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart,
witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in
places in which he had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris,
Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the
First World War. The title story The Drug stands as one of the
first accounts - if not the first - of a psychedelic experience.
His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that
anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult
fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler's Erewhon. Frank Harris
considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale
ever written. This second edition adds several additional stories,
including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum,
featuring the author's previously unpublished annotations.
Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.
With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies.
Translation by Louis Mercier. Professor Aronnax, his faithful
servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an
extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and
terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a
giant submarine, commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom
they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great
adventure classics by Jules Verne, the 'Father of Science Fiction',
but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to
the South Pole.
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'Doctor Watson, Mr
Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of
crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in
Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science
detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful
chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes
myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn
which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the
burning plains of Utah. The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes
novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges.
The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for
treachery, deceit and murder. With these two classic novels, A
Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you have the brilliant
foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely
comes any finer.
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Three Men in a Boat (Hardcover)
Jerome K Jerome; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Illustrated by A. Frederics
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Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most
entertaining comic novels. Part of the Macmillan Collector's
Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics
with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books
make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition
features illustrations by A. Frederics and an afterword by David
Stuart Davies. Join our young heroes J., George and Harris (not
forgetting Montmorency, the mischievous, irascible fox terrier) as
they take a boating holiday along the Thames. Their aim is to
escape the weary workaday world and improve their health, but they
are ill prepared for the various escapades, difficulties and
vicissitudes that they encounter along the watery way. The
adventures of these incompetent innocents abroad are magnified to
epic proportions by the storyteller, J. His narration gives the
book not only a wonderful endearing freshness but also a series of
hilarious moments of timeless comedy.
One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for
children, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame remains a
timeless tale of camaraderie, loyalty and bravery more than a
hundred years after its first publication. Mole and Rat have a
pleasant life by the river, where they talk, boat and wile away the
days. The wise and private Mr Badger lives sedately in the Wild
Woods, content in his solitude. Then there's Mr Toad - wealthy,
impulsive and utterly obsessed with motor cars, he's always getting
into scrapes and can't survive without the help of his friends.
With sixteen gorgeous colour illustrations by the celebrated Arthur
Rackham, and an afterword by author David Stuart Davies.
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
Arthur Conan Doyle; Selected by David Stuart Davies; Edited by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies. The Best of
Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales
from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the
arch sleuth. Basing his selection around the author's own twelve
personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight
sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's 'Baker Street Dozen', creating a
unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most
famous detective. Within these pages the reader will encounter the
greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling
mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London
swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be
found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch
companion, Doctor John H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this
invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab and rattle off
along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers and intrigues.
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of
ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Part
of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,
clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon
markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for
any book lover. Locked-room mysteries reached their height of
popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection,
edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together
stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie
Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton. In each story
the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a
challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is
revealed?
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