Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - The Second of Septem...
Это новая версия страницы книги. Часть функций ещё в работе — мы добавляем их постепенно.
К старой версии страницыПохожие книги
Правда о том, что случилось с мистером Вальдемаром
Эдгар Аллан По
Вильям Вильсон, сумасброд и раб дурных привычек, на протяжении своей жизни постоянно сталкивается со своим полным тёзкой, который еще и родился в один день с ним, но являе...
Most connoisseurs of modern horror fiction rate Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) as the finest horror writer of all time. Blackwood was unsurpassed in originality, atmospher...
Stevenson’s famous exploration of humanity’s basest capacity for evil
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a m...
The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him! In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, w...
Here are two favorite stories by "the father of American literature" exactly as Washington Irving wrote them, newly reset in easy-to-read type, with six handsome new illus...
In 1888 Henry James wrote "There was the customary novel by Mr. Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight".
Madam Crowl...
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also ...
A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.
The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a r...
Лучшие мистические детективы! От этих историй замирает сердце и мороз идет по коже!
«Убийства на улице Морг» В запертой комнате произошло ужасное убийство. Только Огюст...
Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at...
John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old women who claim to have second sight, they f...
Главный герой терпит кораблекрушение и попадает на другое, очень странное судно. Его экипаж состоит из стариков, они не видят постороннего и говорят на странном языке...
It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.
Travelling aboard a whaling...
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed th...
Семеро друзей веселились, безумствовали и пили вино, рядом лежал восьмой. Он не пил и не веселился, его — одного из многих, одного из многих их друзей — забрала чума.
А п...
M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic cl...
I arrived in Dublin on the evening of the fifth of August, and drove to the residence of my uncle, the Cardinal Archbishop. He is like most of my family, deficient in feel...
Metzengerstein was the first story by American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. Metzengerstein follows many conventions of Gothic fiction and, to some, exaggerates those c...
The Temptation of Harringay, written by renowned English author H. G. Wells, is a work that centers around the titular character and his moral quandary. The protagonist fa...