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A mysterious metallic ticking wakes up a journalist in the middle of the night, a somnambulant woman is accused of being possessed, a tomb is desecrated and with it its contents cursed, a violinist falls madly in love with the shadow of a woman... Nocturno rediscovers the best supernatural narrative stories of the early 20th century, and brings to the bookstore writers who have made history of the genre, from Hugh E. Wright to F. Britten Austi...

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A stunning new collection of stories from submissions and classic tales in the collectable Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy series.With stories from modern writers, and the founding fathers of horror fiction weird or cosmic horror combines the dark brooding shadows of the night with the presence of elder gods at the edges of our world. Algernon Blackwood, MR James, Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell sit alongside new tales by new writers from open submiss...

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With tales featuring the most prominent psychic detectives such as William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki, the Ghost Finder and Algernon Blackwood's Dr. Silence, this new collection also includes rare and never-before-reprinted cases investigated by the likes of Flaxman Low, Cosmo Thor, Aylmer Vance and Mesmer Milann.

Science fiction meets crime in this new anthology exploring one of the genre's most popular themes: mystery and detection. Pitching detectives against time paradoxes, alien intruders, AI gone bad and psychic mutation are ten stories embodying the exciting range of the sub-genre, rarely given the recognition it deserves in the literary sphere.

Stories of Life in the Void.

Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction.

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An anthology of works from forgotten woman pioneers of the 'weird tale' in the early 20th century, including Frances Hodgson Burnett, Marie Corelli and Violet Quirk. Many stories have never been published before, and are drawn from the depths of the British Library vaults.

An anthology of the best stories, snippets and imaginative pieces by Vernon Lee, the pen name of Violet Paget. Edited with notes by Mike Ashley.

Mike Ashley selects stories from the golden age of science fiction which embrace the perceived character of individual planets of the Solar System, and the unique capacity of each to capture the science fiction writer or reader's imagination.

A Retrospective Collection of Classic Occult and Supernatural Detective Stories by Some of the Field's Greatest and Best-Known Weird Fiction Authors Since the gaslit nights at the end of the nineteenth century, the occult detective has been a beloved and recurring archetype. Mixing the best aspects of the detective tale and weird or supernatural fiction, and capitalizing in part on the massive popularity of Sherlock Holmes, these stories portr...

In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other worlds, corrupted lifeforms from our own planet and entities from unimaginable dimensions.

Classic examples of post-apocalyptic and apocalyptic fiction, with the doom-laden visions spanning from the 1890s to the 1960s, selecting rare and notable work from the British Library vaults.

Algernon Blackwood has been called "the central figure in the British supernatural literature of the twentieth century" by Michael Dirda in the New York Review of Books. S. T. Joshi referred to him as "a master of narrative pacing." He has been labeled "one of the most influential supernatural writers of his time" by Storm Constantine, author of The Wraeththu Chronicles. In his essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature, H. P. Lovecraft stated t...

Across classic science fiction shorts spanning from the nineteenth century to the sixties, the possible threats which tech advances and futuristic imaginings of something like the internet could bring are imagined in this selection of some of the genre's most prescient work.

Tales of the weird and eerie connected by the presence or setting of trains, above and below ground. Carriages prove to be less unoccupied than they had appeared, subway cars vanish, and a man's fears come to a head on a carnival ghost train. A haunting and perplexing collection.

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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 the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early 20th century. Waiting within are malevolent spirits eag...