Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

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1.Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F.Benson
2.The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories, Wilkie Collins
3.The Drug & Other Stories, Aliester Crowley
4.Collected Ghost Stories, M.R.James
5.The Horror in the Museum, H.P.Lowecraft
6.Sweeney Todd - The String of Pearls, James Malcolm Rymer

1.Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F.Benson
`Look at that moth,` he said, `and even while you look it has gone like a ghost, even as like a ghost it appeared. Light made it visible. And there are other sorts of light, interior psychical light which similarly makes visible the beings which people the darkness of our blindness.`
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

‘His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside.’

E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill.

Stories include:

The Room in the Tower
The Dust-Cloud
Gavon’s Eve
The Confession of Charles Linkworth
At Abdul Ali’s Grave
The Shootings Of Achnaleish
How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
Caterpillars
The Cat
The Bus-Conductor
The Man Who Went Too Far
Between the Lights
Outside the Door
The Terror by Night
The Other Bed
The Thing in the Hall
The House with the Brick-Kiln
‘And the Dead Spake – ’
The Outcast
The Horror-Horn
Machaon
Negotium Perambulans
At the Farmhouse
Inscrutable Decrees
The Gardener
Mr Tilly’s Séance
Mrs Amworth
In The Tube
Roderick’s Story
Reconciliation
The Face
Spinach
Bagnell Terrace
A Tale of an Empty House
Naboth’s Vineyard
Expiation
Home, Sweet Home
‘And No Bird Sings’
The Corner House
Corstophine
The Temple
The Step
The Bed by the Window
James Lamp
The Dance
The Hanging of Alfred Wadham
Pirates
The Wishing-Well
The Bath-Chair
Monkeys
Christopher Comes Back
The Sanctuary
Thursday Evenings
The Psychical Mallards

2.The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories, Wilkie Collins
Edited and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

‘Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror?’

This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo coverted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly secret. The supernatural horror, relentless pace, tight narrative, and a doomed countess characterise and distinguish this powerful tale.

The other stories present equally disturbing scenarios, which include ghosts, corpses that move, family curses and perhaps the most unusual of all, the Devil’s spectacles, which bring a clarity of vision that can lead to madness.

Other Stories include:

The Dream Woman
Mrs Zant and the Ghost
A Terribly Strange Bed
Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman
The Dead Hand
Blow Up with the Brig!
Nine o’Clock
The Devil’s Spectacles

3.The Drug & Other Stories, Aliester Crowley
This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). Of the fifty-four stories in the present volume, only thirty-five were published in his lifetime. Most of the rest appear in this collection for the first time.

Crowley was a successful critic, editor and author of fiction from 1908 to 1922. Like their author, his stories are fun, smart, witty, thought-provoking and sometimes unsettling. They are set in places in which he had lived, and knew well: Belle Epoque Paris, Edwardian London, pre-revolutionary Russia and America during the First World War.

The title story The Drug stands as one of the first accounts — if not the first — of a psychedelic experience. His Black and Silver is a knowing early noir discovery that anticipates an entire genre. Atlantis is a masterpiece of occult fantasy that can stand with Samuel Butler’s Erewhon. Frank Harris considered The Testament of Magdalen Blair the most terrifying tale ever written. This second edition adds several additional stories, including the Qabalistic allegory Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, featuring the author’s previously unpublished annotations.
Extensive editorial end-notes give full details about the stories.

4.Collected Ghost Stories, M.R.James
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.

M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. The stories are classics of their genre. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’. They are all designed to instil that satisfying sense of unease in the heart of the reader.

‘There are some authors one wishes one had never read in order to have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these’. – Ruth Rendell

Stories include: Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook; Lost Hearts; The Mezzotint; The Ash Tree; Number 13; Count Magnus; ‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’; The Treasure of Abbot Thomas; A School Story; The Rose Garden; The Tractate Middoth; Casting the Runes; The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral; Martin’s Close; Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance; The Residence at Whitminster; The Diary of Mr Poynter; An Episode of Cathedral History; The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance; Two Doctors; The Haunted Dolls’ House; The Uncommon Prayer-Book; A Neighbour’s Landmark; A View from a Hill; A Warning to the Curious; An Evening’s Entertainment; There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard; Rats; After Dark in the Playing Fields; Wailing Well; Stories I Have Tried to Write.

5.The Horror in the Museum, H.P.Lowecraft
With an Introduction by M.J. Elliott.

‘My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion…’

A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane… A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment… A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul… Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft’s more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos, No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume.

Includes:

The Green Meadow
Poetry and the Gods
The Crawling Chaos
The Horror at Martin’s Beach
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
Two Black Bottles
The Thing in the Moonlight
The Last Test
The Curse of Yig
The Electric Executioner
The Mound
Medusa’s Coil
The Trap
The Man of Stone
The Horror in the Museum
Winged Death
Out of the Aeons
The Horror in the Burying-Ground
Till A’ the Seas
The Disinterment
The Diary of Alonzo Typer
Within the Walls of Eryx
The Night Ocean

6.Sweeney Todd - The String of Pearls, James Malcolm Rymer
Fully revised Second Edition. With a new Introduction and Bibliography by Dick Collins.

The exploits of Sweeney Todd, ‘The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’, have been recounted many times in plays, films and musicals, but the origins of the character largely were forgotten for many years. The String of Pearls – the original tale of Sweeney Todd, a classic of British horror – was first published as a weekly serial in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, the King of the Penny Dreadfuls. One of the earliest detective stories, it became an important source for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but it was after over 150 years of obscurity that it appeared first in book form in the Wordsworth edition published in 2005.

The one great mystery that has surrounded the book is who the author was – or was it possibly the work of more than one man? In his new introduction to this fully revised second edition, Dick Collins, by means of detailed research of contemporary records, has established finally the identity of the creator of this legendary figure.

So here is the original story of the terrifying owner of that famous London barber-shop, and the secret recipe for Mrs Lovett’s delicious pies…