This charmingly illustrated volume collects classic works of eerie and ghoulish poetry and prose from the 19th and early 20th centuries.All Hallows' Eve is the perfect gift for readers of all ages who revel in the spooky spirit of Halloween. These ghastly poems, sinister short stories, and curious black and white line illustrations throughout are sure to keep your bones chilled and your imagination ablaze.Included here are timeless works by Thomas ...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" were originally published in 1843 and "The Cask of Amontillado" in 1846. Even today, these stories have the ability to scare the unwary.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American writer in the Romantic style and is best known for his stories of mystery and the macabre.

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with the crude Gothic Art of the ecclesiastical buildings scattered along it, throwing into extraordinary discord all architectural attempts at newness there. To restore the grey carcases of a mediaevalism whos...

This look by a former patient gives an idealized view of the conditions at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's island, which was also home to a poor farm and a prison during the mid 19 century. Short, entertaining reading.

After an unnamed illness, the narrator sits in a coffee shop in London. Fascinated by the crowd outside the window, he considers how isolated people think they are, despite "the very denseness of the company around". He takes time to categorise the different types of people he sees. As evening falls, the narrator focuses on "a decrepit old man, some sixty-five or seventy years of age," whose face has a peculiar idiosyncrasy, and whose body "was short in stature, very thin, and apparently v...

A tenderhearted man with a life-long love of animals begins to neglect, and even misuse, the domestic pets his wife has collected for his pleasure. Eventually, even his favourite, a large and beautiful black cat named Pluto is not immune to his master’s maltreatment.A pioneer of the short story genre, Edgar Allan Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit...

A Cambridge student rents a long-vacant home in order to study without distractions. Preparing for exams has never been so dangerous: Each night, an enormous rat materializes in a chair by the fireplace.The Judge's HouseThe story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligant raven-haired woman. She recites 'The Conqueror Worm' before she dies and suggests that life is sustainable only through willpower.LigeiaSeslendirmeler https:...

Chris Mentillo presents a superb supernatural horror tale --taken from his short story collection, "Tales of Horror" series: An "unhappy heiress" tries to find eternal solitude by turning back towards her childhood to cure her present psychological anguish of getting older. Only she finds out later, she may have made a big mistake! If you love the supernatural, unidentified creepy creatures, and horror, then you don't want to miss out on this story.

The Judges House LigeiaA Cambridge student rents a long-vacant home in order to study without distractions. Preparing for exams has never been so dangerous: Each night, an enormous rat materializes in a chair by the fireplace.The Judge’s HouseThe story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligant raven-haired woman. She recites ’The Conqueror Worm’ before she dies and suggests that life is sustainable only through willpower.Ligei...

Behind the Veil is a captivating collection of 10 mystical and romantic short stories. If you are looking for something a little different to read, this just might be it.Ethel Rolt Wheeler was born Mary Ethel Wheeler, the daughter of the stone merchant, Joseph Wheeler and Amina Cooke Taylor both of Irish descent. She wrote using the pen name Rolt Wheeler, as did her brother, the author and occultist Francis Rolt Wheeler.

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"The Three Strangers" is a short story by Thomas Hardy from 1883. The story is a pastoral history[1] told by an omniscient narrator more than 50 years after the event. The sheep-stealer is a kind of folk hero who stole to survive and escaped by outsmarting his hangman. Casterbridge was the name for Dorchester in Thomas Hardy's Wessex.[2]