A thriller about a council of anarchists named for the days of the week — andone of the strangest novels in English.Gabriel Syme, a poet recruited by Scotland Yard, infiltrates a secret council ofseven conspirators. One by one he discovers his fellow anarchists are not whatthey seem. What begins as a chase through Edwardian London bends, chapter bychapter, into something closer to nightmare, and then into something strangerstill.Chest...

The novel that invented the American detective story, unabridged.A woman walks into Sam Spade's San Francisco office with a story that is not quite true and asks him to follow a man. Within twenty-four hours his partner is dead, the police want a word, and a fat man on the Pacific coast is looking for a small black bird.Over four days Spade lies to almost everyone he meets, takes money from anyone who offers it, sleeps with the wrong woman, and arrives at a moral choice tha...

The novel that invented the modern chase thriller — one innocent man, two setsof pursuers, and four hundred miles of Scottish moor.Richard Hannay is bored with London when an American journalist turns up at hisflat claiming to know of a conspiracy to trigger a European war. Days later theAmerican is dead on Hannay's floor, the police believe Hannay killed him, andthe conspirators want him too.He runs north.What follows — through railw...

The cursed play that drives its readers mad — the 1895 collection that gave weird fiction Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, and the King himself.Four supernatural stories, linked by a book nobody in them has read past the first act. A man in an alternative 1920 New York believes he is heir to an American throne. A sculptor discovers a substance that turns living tissue to marble. A churchgoer is pursued by an organist with cold eyes. A painter buys a strange amulet by accident, and the wat...

In 1908 a former merchant seaman published a novel that would quietlyreshape horror fiction.Two anglers, fishing in the west of Ireland, discover the ruins of anisolated house and a tattered manuscript inside it. What they read is thejournal of a man who lived there alone with his sister and his dog — andwho found, behind the house, a vast pit from which things were climbing.What begins as Gothic country-house horror opens without warning int...