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A Phantom Lover - And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee by Mike Ashley (Editor); Vernon Lee
$24.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
"...Lee is as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent, which is saying a great deal." -- Henry James During her lifetime, Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee, was referred to as :the greatest of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction," and yet today she remains on the periphery of the ge ...Show more
CORNISH HORRORS: Tales from Lands End by Joan Passey
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the Cornish woods, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime. Offering a bounty of lost or for ...Show more
Chill Tidings by Library British
$24.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door.Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly i ...Show more
Crawling Horror by D. Butcher
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
'What a terrible calamity, what a stupefying circumstance, if mosquitoes were the size of camels, and a herd of wild slugs the size of elephants invaded our gardens and had to be shot with rifles...' A blue scarab which makes the sound of a terrifying death-tick. A moth with the markings of a dead man' ...Show more
Dangerous Dimensions New Pub Date Jan 2021 by H. Bartholomew
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
Unlike the Gothic, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted, and the ghostly, early weird fiction tends to probe, instead, the very boundaries of reality, exploring the laws and limits of time, space, and matter. This new collection assembles a range of tales from the late 19th and early 20th cent ...Show more
From Depths Other Strange Tales Sea by ASHLEY
$25.00 NZD
Category: Sci Fi & Fantasy | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown. In this anthology we see a thrilling spread of narratives: sailors are pitched against a nightmare from the depth, invisible to the na ...Show more
Glimpses of the Unknown by ASHLEY
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Crime | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A figure emerges from a painting to pursue a bitter vengeance; the last transmission of a dying man haunts the airwaves, seeking to reveal his murderer; a treasure hunt disturbs an ancient presence in the silence of a lost tomb. From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating th ...Show more
Haunted Houses Two Novels by SMITH
$25.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
From the once-popular yet unfairly neglected Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell comes a pair of novels which cleverly upholster the familiar furniture of the haunted house story. In An Uninhabited House, the hauntings are seen through the perspective of the solicitors who hold the deed of the property. ...Show more
Heavy Weather by K. Manwaring
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to 20th century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters, hea ...Show more
I Am Stone by D. Pieterson
$22.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
Through vampiric trysts, heady visions of ghostly processions, and metaphorical tales of murdering one's own psyche, the portrait of a truly unique writer of the strange tale emerges. R. Murray Gilchrist was lauded for his imagination and florid, illustrative style during the fin-de-siecle period, and ...Show more
Into the Darkening Fog - Eerie Tales of the London Weird by Elizabeth Dearnley (Editor)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Ghosts & Horror | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. A jilted lover returns as a demon to fulfill his revenge in Kensington, and a seance becomes a life and death struggle off Regents Canal. In the borough of Lambeth, stay clear of the Old Hous ...Show more