Meet Dr. John Silence, a physician of extraordinary gifts who treats ailments no ordinary doctor can cure. Independently wealthy and rigorously trained in "psychical medicine," Silence investigates haunted houses, elemental forces, shapeshifting cults, and intrusions from beyond our reality.In this landmark 1908 collection by Algernon Blackwood, the pioneering occult detective applies both scientific rigor and psychic sensitivity to six supernatural cases. From a comedy writer torm...

Rediscover a forgotten masterpiece of early English fiction that helped define the modern novel.First published in 1723, Penelope Aubin's The Life of Charlotta Du Pont offers readers a captivating glimpse into the literary revolution that transformed English storytelling forever. This gripping tale follows the interconnected lives of Monsieur du Pont, a French Protestant merchant in Bristol, and the mysterious Dorinda, whose tragic backstory reveals the precarious position of women...

Crack open the true legends of the Golden Age of Piracy with this vibrant new edition of A General History of the Pyrates, the book that launched Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, and their infamous brethren into global consciousness. Dive into this epic history with digitally restored engravings, an expanded sea-term glossary, and the untamed language of the eighteenth century, then set sail on a journey across the oceans with the world's most notorious outlaws.This pri...

Meet Semi-Dual, the Occult Detector. The investigator who walks into a room full of questions nobody else can answer, sizes up the impossible, and gets to work. What you have not seen is one who casts a horoscope before dusting for fingerprints - and turns out to be right every single time.The Stars Do Not Lie introduces Semi-Dual, the occult detective pulp fiction left behind and modern readers are finally ready for. He does not fit neatly into any category, which is exactly what ...

A beautifully edited new collection that celebrates the original ghost hunter, Thomas Carnacki. This edition includes all nine original Carnacki: The Ghost Finder stories, plus five additional terrifyingly strange tales by master of horror William Hope Hodgson.

When the Hammond family curse strikes again, Scotland Yard sends Detective Inspector John Sterling to investigate what he assumes is a killer with theatrical flair. What he finds requires Luna Bartendale, an expert consultant on all things supernatural, and the prototype for later characters like Agent Scully and Clarice Starling.Jessie Douglas Kerruish's 1922 novel introduced one of supernatural fiction's first genuinely professional female investigators. Together with Sterling, s...

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier worl...

Welcome the fourth volume in our Macabre MEGAPACK® series. This collection of 3 poems and 20 stories was selected by one of Wildside’s editors, Shawn Garrett. They were published over a period of almost 150 years, in books and leading magazines, and they range from through time and space. One thing they all have in common is their chilling ability to bring a shudder to readers!Included:DARK VISION, by Frank Belknap LongTHE FLYING DUTCHMAN, by Auguste JalTHE WH...

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 box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an immensely popular Victorian novelist, whose bestselling novels earned him a considerable fortune. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bulwer-Lytton’s life and works* Concise introductions ...

The Timeless Novel About a Bus Ride from Hell to HeavenIn The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is a starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis’s revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locke...

This file includes Roderick Ransom, Peregrine Picke, Ferdinand Count Father, Sir Lancelot Greaves, Travels through France and Italy, and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. "According to Wikipedia: "Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 - 17 September 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1753)." Smollett was one of David Copperfield's (Charles Dickens') favorite autho...