Occult & Supernatural

Rookwood

by Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 – Open BookShelf (October 15, 2018)

Rookwood / William Harrison Ainsworth; with illustrations by George Cruikshank

The Canterville Ghost

by Oscar Wilde – Open BookShelf (September 29, 2018)

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and LordCanterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grandold house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy...

The Damned

by Algernon Blackwood – Open BookShelf (September 29, 2018)

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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

by Montague Rhodes James – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is the title of M. R. James' first collection of ghost stories, published in 1904 (some had previously appeared in magazines). Some later editions under this title contain both...

The Evil Guest

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Excerpt:

About sixty years ago, and somewhat more than twenty miles from the ancient town of Chester, in a southward direction, there stood a large, and, even then, an old-fashioned mansion-house. It lay in the...

Carnacki, The Ghost Finder

by William Hope Hodgson – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the electric...

A Haunted House

by Virginia Woolf – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that...

Man-Size in Marble

by Edith Nesbit – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

When a young pair of newlyweds settle down into a small cottage in a quiet village, they look forward to a pleasant, pastoral life of domestic bliss The husband, a practical man, dismisses the superstitious...

The Mystery of the Semi-Detached

by Edith Nesbit – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Excerpt:

The policeman passed him with but a surly response to his "Good night." The bicyclists went by him like grey ghosts with fog-horns; and it was nearly ten o'clock, and she had not come.

He shrugged his...

The Monk

by Matthew Lewis – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

The Monk is remembered for being one of the more lurid and "transgressive" of Gothic novels. It is also the first book to feature a priest as the villain.

The story concerns Ambrosio - a pious, well-respected...

The House of the Vampire

by George Sylvester Viereck – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

The first known gay vampire novel and one of the first psychic vampire stories.

The Ebony Frame

by Edith Nesbit – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Excerpt:

"To be rich is a luxurious sensation—the more so when you have plumbed the depths of hard-up-ness as a Fleet Street hack, a picker-up of unconsidered pars, a reporter, an unappreciated journalist—all...

A Stable for Nightmares

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

An anthology containing:

Dickon the Devil

A Debt of Honor

Devereux’s Dream

Catherine’s Quest

Haunted

Pichon and Sons, of the Croix Rousse

The Phantom Fourth

The Spirit’s Whisper

Dr. Feversham’s Story

The Secret...

The House by the Church-Yard

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Open BookShelf (March 25, 2018)

Set in the village of Chapelizod, near Dublin, in the 1760s the story opens with the accidental disinterment of an old skull in the churchyard, and an eerie late-night funeral. This discovery relates to murders,...