E. Nesbit’s classic fantasy adventure story of a group of siblings who encounter a wish-granting fairy is****now available in an unabridged, paperback volume in Union Square and Co.’s Signature Editions series.While spending their summer holiday in the countryside, siblings Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother discover an ancient sand-fairy called a Psammead in a gravel pit. The children are delighted to learn that the Psammead will grant them one wi...

A quiet cottage. A dark warning. A superstition that becomes horrifyingly real. Man-Size in Marble is a chilling supernatural short story by Edith Nesbit, showcasing her talent for blending everyday realism with unsettling horror. The story follows a young couple who move into a rural cottage and are warned by locals about an old superstition connected to marble effigies in a nearby church. What begins as folklore and disbelief slowly turns into a disturbing chain of events that challenges...

A thrilling anthology that completes a remarkable collection of classic ghostly tales. Featuring stories of haunted houses, restless spirits, ancient curses, and unexplained phenomena, this volume showcases the enduring appeal of supernatural fiction and classic horror storytelling. Written by Various Authors, this collection is an essential addition to every horror and mystery library.

A quiet suburban house. A shocking discovery. A mystery that unfolds behind closed doors. The Mystery of the Semi-Detached is a compelling supernatural short story by Edith Nesbit, known for blending everyday settings with eerie and unsettling twists. The story begins in a seemingly ordinary home where a puzzling and disturbing event takes place, drawing the characters into a situation filled with secrecy, suspicion, and unexpected revelations. As the mystery unfolds, the boundaries betwee...

A portrait that should not exist. A love that defies time. A haunting that refuses to fade. The Ebony Frame is a haunting supernatural short story by Edith Nesbit, blending romance, mystery, and Gothic atmosphere. The story follows a man who becomes deeply connected to a mysterious portrait housed in an ebony frame. As he investigates its origin, he discovers a tragic love story tied to the painting—one that seems to cross the boundaries between life, death, and memory. With its emotional ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore them...

Shadows deepen, mysteries linger, and the unknown draws closer. In The Book of Shadows Vol. 3, a remarkable group of authors—including Mary Elizabeth Penn, Herbert Stephen, Vincent O'Sullivan, Edith Nesbit, Margaret Oliphant, M. R. James, Ellen Glasgow, William Fryer Harvey, Hugh Walpole, and E. F. Benson—come together to deliver another haunting volume of supernatural and mysterious tales. This collection invites readers deeper into a world where reality is uncertain and the unseen quietl...

The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by Edith Nesbit is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within general and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: He was waiting for her, he had been waiting an hour and a half in a dusty suburban lane, with a row of big elms on one...

Man-Size in Marble by Edith Nesbit is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Although every word of this story is as true as despair, I do not expect people to believe it. Nowadays a "rational explanation" is...

The Shadow by Edith Nesbit is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: This is not an artistically rounded off ghost story, and nothing is explained in it, and there seems to be no reason why any of it should h...

A haunting anthology of ghost stories from some of the greatest masters of supernatural fiction. Filled with eerie encounters, mysterious events, and chilling suspense, this collection explores humanity's fascination with the unknown. Each tale offers a unique journey into worlds where the supernatural may be lurking just beyond sight. Written by Various Authors, this anthology is perfect for fans of classic ghost stories.

THAT going to the seaside was the very beginning of everything—only it seemed as though it were going to be a beginning without an end, like the roads on the Sussex downs which look like roads and then look like paths, and then turn into sheep tracks, and then are just grass and furze bushes and tottergrass and harebells and rabbits and chalk. The children had been counting the days to The Day. Bernard indeed had made a calendar on a piece of cardboard that had once been the bottom of the ...