«World's Greatest Horror Stories», by Chase Cooper, W. F. Harvey, E. F. Benson, Eleanor Scott, Harriet Prescott Spofford, M. R. James. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: World's Greatest Horror Stories, Narrated by Chase Cooper ; August Heat, by W. F. Harvey ; Berenice, Edgar Allan Poe ; Casting the Runes, M. R James ; Caterpillars, by E. F. Benson.

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

Nine stories of women in trouble that no one else can see: an heiress left alone after her mother's death, a wife who prays her husband back from the dead and must live with what returns. Violet Hunt grew up in a Pre-Raphaelite household with Ruskin as a visitor, ran a literary salon, and wrote her ghosts as social observation rather than sensation. Fifty-one plates range from Goya's bullfights to Sickert's grey Dieppe skies, matching the unease that gathers in Hunt's comfortable rooms.

In "The Celebrity at Home," the narrative likely revolves around the life of a prominent or famous individual who finds themselves in the intimate setting of home. The novel may delve into the public persona versus the private self, exploring the challenges and pressures faced by celebrities in maintaining their public image while navigating personal relationships and struggles.Hunt's writing style is known for its keen observation of human behavior and social dynamics. Her novels often fe...

Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women.Although she remained un...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but, for the overwhelming majority, your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did. Those that did take part in social activism were tolerated only so far as the issue was necessary for all of society and th...

Science fiction is in many ways positive, uplifting and a vision of where we are headed. But in this volume our classic authors including Lovecraft, Wells, Hawthorne and others reveal its darker cousin; Horror. Now these malevolent terrors have made up their minds that blending themselves with Science Fiction might make their impact even more awful and frightening for us to bear.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

The Cat by Violet Hunt is a novel that combines elements of psychological drama and social commentary. The story revolves around the life of a woman named Sally, who becomes increasingly fascinated with and ultimately obsessed by a cat that she encounters in her London home.The novel explores Sally's complex emotions and psychological state as her obsession with the cat begins to dominate her life. The cat, with its enigmatic and aloof demeanor, becomes a symbol of Sally's own inner turmoi...

In The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities, Violet Hunt explores the complexities of human relationships and the often subtle incompatibilities that arise between individuals. The novel is a study of character interactions, focusing on the ways in which personal differences and social expectations can lead to conflict and misunderstanding.The story is set against the backdrop of early 20th-century society, providing a lens into the social norms and personal dilemmas of the time. H...

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestio