Occult Supernatural Tales

The old man had treasures to sell and a secret to keep. Ten people buy treasures from the flea market with one common thread. The vendor is a mysterious old man selling off his collection of old stuff. One by one, the buyers discover that their treasure is really a horror in disguise. One scary story after another reveals the old man’s secret. It is a tale of terror that shortens their years so h

Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more. These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure—will thrill and chill readers to the bone. During the dark, eerie hours, when the wind is blowing and the ghosts are roaming outside, these tales can fill a night with pleasant terror—as well as encouraging our minds to venture beyond the mundane into the realm of the fantastic.

Discussions on the treatment of witches, ghosts, werewolves, and vampires in literature accompany nineteen representative short stories.

Embark on a journey through the mystical and dreamlike realms with "Nightmare Tales" by H. P. Blavatsky. This collection of fantasy fiction explores the themes of dreams, the supernatural, and the unknown. Blavatsky's imaginative storytelling and richly crafted narratives make this a captivating read for fantasy enthusiasts and those intrigued by the mysteries of the mind.

The Wonder Club is a small clique of brotherhood which assembles some of the most eminent men who meet in a rather esteemed pub known as the "Headless Lady." The chief delight of this club was to tell or to listen to stories which were all more or less of the marvelous class, and which each took it by turn to relate to the rest. These are their stories: Volume I: The Phantom Flea—The Lawyer's Story The Spirit Lovers—The Doctor's Story Containing Mr. Parnassus's Poem, The Glacier King The Mermaid Palace; or, Captain Toughyarn's Dream The Headless Lady—The Artist's First Story The Demon Guide; or, the Gnome of the Mountain—The Geologist's Story The Pigmy Queen; A Fairy Tale—The Landlord's Daughter's Story The Haunted Stage Box—The Tragedian's Story The Spirit Leg—The Analytical Chemist's Story An Interlude Lost in the Catacombs—The Antiquary's Story Volume II: Buried Alive—The Landlord's Story Der Scharfrichter—The Artist's Second Story The Three Pauls—The Artist's Third Story The Waxen Image—The Hostess's Story In which occurs Mr. Parnassus' Ballad—The Chieftain's Destiny A Tale of the French Revolution—The Barber's Story Volume III: The Gipsy Queen—Mr. Blackdeed's New Play

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.

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

This meticulously edited collection includes horror classics, weird and supernatural stories as well as science-fiction tales from one of the masters of the genre. Novels: The Boats of the Glen Carrig The House on the Borderland The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Short Stories: Carnacki, the Ghost Finder The Gateway of the Monster The House Among the Laurels The Whistling Room The Horse of the Invisible The Searcher of the End House The Thing Invisible The Haunted Jarvee Sargasso Sea Stories From the Tideless Sea Part One From the Tideless Sea Part Two The Mystery of the Derelict The Thing in the Weeds The Finding of the Graiken Men of the Deep Waters On the Bridge The Sea Horses The Derilict My House Shall Be Called the House of Prayer The Captain of the Onion Boat The Voice in the Night Through the Vortex of a Cyclone The Shamraken Homeward-Bounder Captain Gault, Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain The Case of the Curio Dealer The Red Herring The Drum of Saccharine Other Stories Jack Grey, Second Mate Demons of the Sea Out of the Storm A Tropical Horror The Stone Ship The Real Thing Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani (The Baumoff Explosive) Poetry: The Voice of the Ocean Grey Seas are Dreaming of My Death Shoon of the Dead Madre Mia