a midnight caller keeping his promise ... forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic ... enchanted houses ... these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether 13 stories, gathered from the entire corpus of Blackwood's work, are included; stories of such sheer power and imagination that it is easy to see why he has been considered the foremost British supernaturalist of the twentieth century.Blackwood's ability to create an atmosphere of unrelieved horror and sustain it to the end of the story is almost unsurpassed. “The Willows” — which has been called by H.P. Lovecraft the finest supernatural story — is a typical example of Blackwood's art: slowly and surely Blackwood draws the reader into a world of shadows, nuances and unearthly terror.Blackwood was also a master at evoking feelings of mysticism and cosmic experience; dealing with such ideas as interpenetrating levels of existence and pantheistic elemental powers, he expanded the content of supernatural literature enormously. But even the more traditional elements of horror stories such as ghosts and haunted houses are handled with such energy and feeling that they rise far above their predecessors.Drawing on serious Oriental thought, modern psychology and philosophy, Algernon Blackwood introduced a sophistication to the horror story that — with a few exceptions — it was devoid of before. The results are stories that are not only guaranteed to chill, but stories that have something to say to the intelligent reader.Contents:- The Willows (1907)- Secret Worship (1908)- Ancient Sorceries (1908)- The Glamour of the Snow (1911)- The Wendigo (1910)- The Other Wing (1915)- The Transfer (1911)- Ancient Lights (1914)- The Listener (1907)- The Empty House (1906)- Accessory before the Fact (1914)- Keeping His Promise (1906)- Max Hensig (1945)

    Fully illustrated with great photographs.

    Everyone's used to it. But now women are lying in alleys, gutters, and parking lots-their bodies drained of blood! Is it possible? A vampire stalking the Las Vegas streets?"Fantastically marvelous...executed with equally marvelous realism."-Richard Matheson, author of The Incredible Shrinking Man

    Twenty-eight stories and two poems, selected from hundreds of stories and dozens of magazines - the cream of almost half a century of fantasy writing. 3000 copies printed

    

    Maybe once it was painted, but now it has a gray cadaver-like complexion, and its siding is sagged and splintered as if the Devil had been poking at it with his pitchfork. Its windows are streaked and stained, and trying to see through them from the outside is like trying to look a skull in the eye.If this doesn’t get you to believe in the supernatural, read the rest of this short story and you WILL believe; just like I did! WARNING: Don’t read this if you have a weak heart or are subject to night terrors or nightmares! Bill Stokes richly tells the tale of the haunted house in vivid and almost poetic words; as the reader you cannot help but be sucked in. Read if you dare!!!

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    Examines the history and legends of the "undead" creatures who have reportedly roamed the earth since ancient times, sucking the blood of the living.

    This is a large format coloring book depicting colorable illustrations of famous monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Creature From The Black Lagoon) along with a description

    New Stories of Horror and the Haunting Dark:A Family WelcomeA Penny for a PoundCome to Me My FlowerCrowning GloryDon't Go Up Them StairsNo One Lived TherePussy Cat - Pussy CatThe Death of MeThe DeviletThe GatecrasherThe Head of the FirmThe HouseThe PlaymateThe Treasure HuntTomorrow is Judgement DayWhy Don't You Wash? Said the Girl with £100,000 and no Relatives

    

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    All his books deal with the strange, supernatural, terror, macabre, other-worldly. He is at his best in his shorter tales & this selection of them was compiled by the author himself at his best. Stories include: The Man who the Trees LovedThe Sea FitThe Glamour of the SnowThe TrystTransitionThe Occupant of the RoomThe Wings of HorusBy WaterMalahide and FordenAlexander AlexanderThe Man who was MilliganThe Little BeggarThe Pikestaffe CaseAccessory before the FactThe Deferred AppointmentAncient LightsYou May Telephone from HereThe Goblin's CollectionRunning WolfThe Valley of the BeastsThe DecoyConfessionA Descent into Egypt