Best of
Gothic

1979

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories


Angela Carter - 1979
    K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.

The Moonspinners/Nine Coaches Waiting/The Ivy Tree/Madam, Will You Talk?


Mary Stewart - 1979
    

The Amulet


Michael McDowell - 1979
    After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpse-like husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. Jo blames the entire town for her son’s mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion. Sarah believes the amulet has something to do with the rising body count, but no one will believe her. As the inexplicable murders continue, Sarah and her friend Becca Blair have no choice but to track down the amulet themselves, before it’s too late.

The Walker in Shadows


Barbara Michaels - 1979
    Now new tenants are moving in: affable Josef Friedrichs and his lovely daughter, Kathy, who has stolen Mark's heart on first glance. But something is not right—something old and secret lurking in the shadows that fresh paint and new furnishings cannot mask or exorcise. There is evil alive in the heart of the house next door—and it means to feed on the fears of two families . . . and drag Kathy Friedrichs with it into peril.

Gad's Hall / The Haunting of Gad's Hall


Norah Lofts - 1979
    

Six Gothic Tales


Daphne du Maurier - 1979
    Whitney, and Tregaron's Daughter by Melanie Brent.

The Phantom Lover


Elizabeth Mansfield - 1979
    She was bound by the strict conventions of England's Regency to a man she could never love, then bound by the ties of passion to a man she could never marry! For at Thorndene, she discovered a new and startling love, a love that was as intense as it was doomed..."You must leave Thorndene!" said the ghost. Then he added, more gently, "I come to warn you, not to harm you. I may never touch you, any more than a shadow may..""What does that signify?" Nell asked. "Since you are dead, you can have no need or inclination to touch me anyway.""You can't know much about men-or ghosts-or how delightful you look in that nightdress, if you believe that," he said with disturbing sincerity.Nell blushed and pulled the bedclothes over her. For a long moment, neither of them spoke. Then, as suddenly as it had appeared, the ghostly figure was gone...

The Lady of the House of Love


Angela Carter - 1979
    He comes across a mansion inhabited by a vampiress who survives by enticing young men into her bedroom and feeding on them. She intends to feed on the young soldier but his purity and virginity have a curious effect on her.

Flowers in the Attic


V.C. Andrews - 1979
    Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror! It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father. So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic. Just for a little while. But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed.... 'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....'

Dark at Noon


Jill Tattersall - 1979
    But Someone else does not want her to remain alive. So they call her Rose and wair for the day she can unlock her memory--and the past she fears...

The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe - 1979
    With the publication of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841, Poe initiated a genre that has survived and prospered to this day. His creation, the detective Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin served as a model for many subsequent sleuths, and he introduced many of the staples of the detective story such as the locked room. Resurrected Press has brought together the three Dupin stories, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter," as well as two other stories, "The Gold-bug" and "Thou Art the Man," that also have a place in the form, so that the student of the genre may have them in one convenient, illustrated volume. This classic book was handcrafted by Resurrected Press. Resurrected Press is dedicated to bringing high quality classic books back to the readers who enjoy them. These are not scanned versions of the originals, but, rather, quality checked and edited books meant to be enjoyed! Please search Amazon for "Resurrected Press" to find both print and Kindle editions of all of our books!

Montana Gothic


Dirck Van Sickle - 1979
    Seven decades of passion and sin fester beneath the bleak Montana sky.In the spectral beauty of these pages you will meet: the Eastern-bred mortician who discovers love after death; the rancher's beautiful daughter who delivers death after love; the old cowboy whose survival skills turn against him; and the gunslinger, dressed in black, who tries to outdraw the modern age on the blacktop of present-day Montana."The grimmest of fairy tales"- William Hjortsberg

Ghosts and Grinning Shadows: Two Witch Stories


Helen Adam - 1979
    Choice calls these two long witch stories "a welcome and timely treat."

Lord of the Hollow Dark


Russell Kirk - 1979
    

Affinity


Katherine Hale - 1979
    The ancient oaks of Marwood dropped their dark leaves the day Allegra arrived...and the night spoke of sorrow as she lay beside her husband that first eve.Richard's cruel moods broke her heart and the fires of passion fled her eyes until she saw Edmund — the man few women denied, the man who had never known love.The two were brothers, and caught between the savage wickedness of one and the tender yearnings of the other, stood Allegra — a wisp of a woman's pain and beauty, searching for the dawn of her love.

Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard


Hugh LambGuy Newell Boothby - 1979
    Among the more celebrated contributors to this collection are Ambrose Bierce, Robert Barr, R. Murray Gilchrist, Mrs. H. H. Riddell, Richard Marsh, and Guy Boothby.CONTENTSThe Haunted Station / Hume Nesbit --The Hour and the Man / Robert Barr --Nut Bush Farm / Mrs. J. H. Riddell --The Man Who Coined His Blood in Gold / J. H. Pearce --The Shrine of Death / Lady Dilke --The Black Veil / Lady Dilke --The Ways of Ghosts / Ambrose Bierce --The Fever Queen / by K & H Prichard --The Permanent Stiletto / W. C. Morrow --The Houseboat / Richard Marsh --Dame Inowslad / R. Murray Gilchrist --The Mountain of Spirits / Anonymous --The Golden Bracelet / Anonymous --The Tyburn Ghost / The Countess of Munster --Remorseless Vengeance / Guy Boothby --The Green Bottle / Bernard Capes --An Eddy on the Floor / Bernard Capes.

Veil of Treachery


Dorothy Daniels - 1979
    Her promising career crumbled as scandal and danger threatened to overwhelm her. And as misfortune after misfortune overtook Meg, the mystery woman was always there, watching and waiting.Did the woman in black really exist or was Meg slowly going mad? Only handsome Dr. Peter Bray believed her story. In love with Meg and concerned for her safety, he insisted she leave New York City at once. But even in the quiet countryside, Meg couldn't escape the shadowy figure of terror that pursued her. And how could even Peter protect her from the voice whispering in her mind, luring her down the path to darkness?

A Man with a Maid and Other Entertainments


Anonymous - 1979
    Three famous novels in one volume: "A Man with a Maid, Fanny Hill's Daughter"and "Harem Nights".

The Dark Seas Of Maltern Manor


Kay Vernon - 1979
    

The Tower Room


Julia Trevelyan - 1979
    THORNCROFTGloomy, isolated, a mansion whose long history was checkered with legends of witchcraft and deviltry. It was here that wealthy Richard Prine brought his beautiful young bride Jane. And in a house peopled only by Richard’s aged relatives and ghostly memories of others long-dead, Jane soon found herself falling under Thorncroft’s destructive enchantment. Even Richard slowly appeared to change before her eyes at times seeming almost a total stranger.Cut off from the outside world and suddenly beset by a mysterious illness, Jane had nowhere to turn, nowhere but to the handsome local doctor, Charles Marcher . Yet even Charles could not fully understand the terror which possessed Jane, as an ancient spell of unimaginable evil sought to claim her very soul . . .