The Spectre Bridegroom And Other Horrors

Originally published in 1976, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of five early ghost and horror stories: "The Spectre Bridegroom: A Terrific and Interesting Tale," by Alexa; "A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room," by Xavier de Maistre, translated by Edmund Goldsmid; "Midnight Horrors; or, The Bandit's Daughter: An Original Romance," anonymous; "The Spectre Mother; or, The Haunted Tower," anonymous; and "The Last of the Vampires: A Tale," by Smyth Upton. Two of the stories in the original anthology, "The Demon Hunter" and "The Pixy," have been dropped from this version.

Originally published in 1976, this anthology includes facsimile reprints of five early ghost and horror stories: "The Spectre Bridegroom: A Terrific and Interesting Tale," by Alexa; "A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room," by Xavier de Maistre, translated by Edmund Goldsmid; "Midnight Horrors; or, The Bandit's Daughter: An Original Romance," anonymous; "The Spectre Mother; or, The Haunted Tower," anonymous; and "The Last of the Vampires: A Tale," by Smyth Upton. Two of the stories in the original anthology, "The Demon Hunter" and "The Pixy," have been dropped from this version.

Varla Ventura, Coast to Coast favorite, Weird News blogger on Huffington Post, and author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces Weiser Books’ new Collection of forgotten occult classics. Paranormal Parlor is an eerie assemblage of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s sixth sense for tales of the weird and unusual. What could be sadder than unrequited love? The unrequited love of a ghost. William Hunt recalls a heartbreaking tale of love and death in this short ghost story from the early 20th century.

A bibliography of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, and publisher Robert Reginald, with an introduction by William F. Nolan and an Afterword by Jack Dann.

Includes plot summaries and detailed descriptions of 194 works of science fiction from the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books, here is the second Wildside Mystery Double: DEADLY THINGS: A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIOUS TALES, by Darrell Schweitzer. Darrell Schweitzer's first mystery collection explores the murderous impulse in a variety of historical settings. Three mysteries are set in ancient Rome, two featuring Pliny the Younger as investigator. Two are Shakespearean mysteries, in one of which King Henry V plays detective, with the other based on The Two Noble Kinsmen. Three Sherlock Holmes tales involve the apparent misapplication of the Great Detective's methods to the supernatural, a revelation of one of Watson's unwritten cases, and a multi-genre record-breaker, an alternate history, vampire cat detective story. THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS AND OTHER VERDICTS OF HISTORY, by Robert Reginald. Four scintillating tales of detection from ancient and medieval times. In "The Judgment of the Gods," a young Greek trader must solve the murder of Assyrian King Sennacherib. William of Occam, the medieval philosopher, is forced by Pope John XXII in "Occam's Razor" to solve the murders of French King Philip IV and Pope Clement V. Occam returns in "Occam's Treasure," this time unraveling the puzzle surrounding the killing of clergymen in Avigon. In "Occam's Measure," the great thinker must stop a vicious serial killer stalking the night-time streets of the papal city. Great mystery--and fantasy--reading!