This issue is another Halloween special, with enough extra-spooky stories to provide seasonal thrills. We are sure you will enjoy it.Here’s the complete lineup—Cover Art: Ron MillerNOVELSFaulkner’s Folly, by Carolyn Wells [Alan Ford #2]The perfect murder, an impossible crime…and everyone’s a suspect!Mr. Justice Maxell, by Edgar WallaceCan a man o...

An omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order.Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ‘ the typical old maid of fiction’, Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature – and used it to devasting effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard has been heard to say: ‘She’s just the finest d...

A selection of mysteries, some light-hearted, some romantic, some very deadly…Twelve tantalizing cases… the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale; a newlywed’s fear of her ex-fiance; a strange encounter on a train; a domestic murder investigation; a wild man’s sudden personality change; a retired inspector’s hunt for a murderess; a young woman’s impersonation of a duchess; a necklace hidden in a basket of cherries; a mystery writer’s arrest for murder; an astonishing marriage pr...

Gathering all nine unabridged novels—from The Voyage Out and Night and Day to Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, The Years, and Between the Acts—this volume traces Virginia Woolf's radical reimagining of fiction. Across these works, plot yields increasingly to consciousness, memory, rhythm, and perception. Woolf's prose moves from Edwardian social realism toward high modernist experiment, situating private feeling within the fractured historical pressures of...

Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations.The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer t...

From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—an amateur detective examines the mysterious reappearance of a woman who vanished 100 years ago.One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared from the wealthy Vauregard household, along with the second volume in a set of the collected works of Byron. Improbably enough, both guest and book seem to have reappeared, with neither having aged a day. The elderly Mr. Vauregard is inclined to believe the young w...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. This mammoth collection of her work assembles 28 novels and short stories, including many of her most famous works. Contained here are:THE VOYAGE OUTNIGHT AND DAYJACOB'S ROOMORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHYA HAUNTED HOUSEA SOCIETYBLUE & GREENMONDAY OR TUESDAYAN UNWRITTEN NOVELTHE STRING QUARTETKEW GARDENSTHE ...

"Why is this decent country and my family’s home asked to tolerate the presence of an obscene infection like this man?"Lady Lanivet is worried. Why has her brother Sir James, Squire of the West Country coastal town of Bosenna, invited the objectionable Albert Tenterton to his shooting party? Tenterton is well-known in City circles as a swindler and thief - and Sir James himself has recently been a victim of one of his schemes. Keen to ferret out the mystery of the man's relationshi...

This is a book in two parts. The first, "The Enigma of Innocent Smith", concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, this man (who is tentatively identified by lodger Arthur Inglewood as an ex-schoolmate named Innocent Smith) is accompanied by a great wind, and he breathes new life into the household with his games and antics. During his first day in residence the eccentric Smith creates the High Court of Beacon; arranges to elop...

All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Vol 1 won the International Fantasy Award in 1951 His fantastic ability to mix satire with though provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories entitled, Fancies and Goodnights. He pulls the reader into a world of fantasy, make believe, and even 'Hell'. As the stories unfold, the surreal and bizarre become almost possi...

Curious events almost seem to cry out for the Saint's intervention, and in these stories he is faced with enough peculiar crimes to keep him well occupied. The various adventures he gets himself into lead him to kiss a policewoman, buy a racehorse, invest in bootlegging, dabble in antiques, rent a flat, recover a treaty, get arrested, demonstrate an invention - and always come out on top.

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories (56 total) by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 - April 1927.[Title of collection]The first British edition and the first American edition of the collection were both published in June 1927. However, they had slightly different titles. The title of the British collection was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (hyphenated "Case-...