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A strange woman becomes a guest of the house of Laura and her father by devious means. Disappearances, nocturnal wanderings, sickness, and death ensue, and no one knows what is behind it all.

This is a cult classic in the gothic horror and suspense genre! Our hero Richard is a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls in love with a mysterious and endangered Countess, whom he glimpsed behind her black veil. To be close to her, he checks into a room in the Dragon Volant (the Flying Dragon), a haunted hotel that has seen many mysterious disappearances.

Eerie old houses, wretched smiles, mausoleums, and banshees. Stories from masters of the horror genre, M.R. James, F. Marion Craword, Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs, Amelia Edwards, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and H.P. Loveraft, stories to make your body tingle and your mind play tricks.

Traumatised by dreams and visions about the unassuming chest under the window in her bedroom, Catherine Lestrange demands it be opened; but what is found inside has the power to change her future as well as her reveal her past. 'Catherine’s Quest' is taken from the second volume of the Victorian Anthologies Horror series, featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known.

As they ride along in their carriage, beyond them on the road they see a man hailing them to stop. It is a tall man in a cape and wide brimmed hat, and he tells Heir Gerard Dahl that he has been waiting for him to return from Rotterdam. Dahl is the uncle and guardian of Rose Falderkaust, and the caped man tells him that he will visit him tonight at seven o’clock at his studio on an urgent matter.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Carmilla is Le Fanu's famous classic vampire story which has been filmed numerous times, including Vampyre (1932), Blood and Roses (1960), Crypt of Horror (1964), The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Carmilla (1999).

A selection of ghost stories which make your blood run cold.

A gripping collection of classic stories in which the central figures are highly dangerous female characters - ranging from the creepy and unsettling to the utterly terrifying.

Richard is a young Englishman overseas in Napoleonic-era France. He falls in love with a mysterious and endangered Countess, whom he glimpsed behind her black veil. To be close to her, he checks into a room in the Dragon Volant (the Flying Dragon), a sinister hotel that has seen many mysterious disappearances... This book is considered a cult classic in the gothic horror and suspense genre!

"Green Tea" tells the haunting story of a man plagued by a demonic monkey. The unnamed narrator, a trained surgeon who can’t practice because of the loss of two of his fingers, is organising the papers of his deceased mentor, the famous German physician Dr. Martin Hesselius. In doing so, he stumbles upon a strange case, dating back sixty-four years. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer, known for his ghost and paranormal stories. He studied law at Trinity College in Dublin.

At night, to stimulate synapses, one can use various means, with coffee leading the way. However, Reverend Jennings favored green tea. You will learn about the effects of its overuse and the fate of the clergyman in this horror short story...

Stories from the masters of the fantasy genre, George MacDonald, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, and Thomas Hood. Tales of fairies, ghosts, and hauntings. These stories have never lost their magic.

Vor dem Schloss eines pensionierten Generals verunglückt eine Kutsche. Wirklich nur ein Unfall ...? Die mysteriöse Insassin ist gezwungen, ihre junge Tochter in der Obhut der Schlossbewohner zurückzulassen.Die ätherisch schöne Carmilla übt auf alle, aber besonders auf Laura, die gleichaltrige Tochter des Generals eine starke Faszination aus. Ein undefinierbarer Zauber umgibt das Mädchen. Noch ahnt niemand, dass Carmilla ein dunkles Geheimnis hütet.

I racconti qui presentati, "Tè verde", "Il giudice Harbottle" e "Carmilla", appartengono alla raccolta "In a Glass Darkly". Composti in momenti differenti e pubblicati su varie riviste e poi riuniti nel 1872, i singoli racconti, benché diversissime siano le storie ivi riportate, possono essere considerati parti di un'unica narrazione, fatta di oscure risonanze e di sinistri riflessi. Elemento esterno unificante è la figura-cornice del Dottor Hesselius, medico, psicologo, mistico e metafisico tedesco, primo "detective dell'occulto" della letteratura europea.

Twenty classic tales featuring doctors, patients, feverish imaginations, sick minds and unwell bodies, including 'Under the Knife' by H. G. Wells, 'Room Number Ten' by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, 'Story of the Vanishing Patient' by Elia J. Peattie, 'The District Doctor' by Ivan Turgenev, 'Dead of Night' by W. F. Harvey, 'Cool Air' by H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Operation' by Violet Hunt, 'The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number' by Gertrude Atherton and more.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. 'Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand' is a strange story about a haunted house in Ireland. The only part of the sinister apparition which is visible is a white hand which becomes increasingly threatening as the tale goes on.

L'anziano pittore olandese Gerard Douw era il tutore della nipote Rose Veldrkaust che amava l'apprendista Godfrey Schalken all'insaputa dello zio. Un giorno si presentà alla bottega di Douw il misterioso Mynheer Valderhausen, un attempato gentiluomo che disse di aver incontrato Rose in una chiesa di Rotterdam e chiese la sua mano offrendo un'ingente somma in lingotti d'oro. Nonostante le proprie perplessità e l'istintiva avversione che provava per lo strano pretendente dai modi imperiosi e dall'aspetto orribile, Douw finì per acconsetire alle nozze.

Este volume da coleção Clássicos do Medo reúne cinco obras-primas dos contos de terror e mistério da literatura de língua inglesa.

'Wicked Captain Walshawe' is a disquieting ghost story. Captain Walshawe, a dissolute rake, marries a wealthy heiress as a means to pay off his gambling debts. The marriage is an unhappy one on account if his dreadful behaviour. When his wife dies, her old Irish servant casts a curse on Walshawe...which years later leads to a bizarre and totally inexplicable scene after the captain's own death.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the 19th century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. "Green Tea" is an iconic gothic horror story which tells the story of a tea-drinking clergyman, haunted by a terrifying black monkey, which follows him wherever he goes, urging him to dreadful deeds and blighting his life in every way.