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“john keur cross”

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  • The Other Passenger

    by John Keir Cross ...
    As a scriptwriter for the BBC, John Keir Cross (1914-1967) adapted classic horror tales by masters like M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and Ambrose Bierce into chilling radio programs. And with the eighteen stories in his collection The Other Passenger (1944), Keir Cross demonstrates that he deserves a place alongside those authors as a writer of highly original and effective macabre tales.With a wide ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Music When Soft Voices Die (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    by John Keir Cross ...
    Music When Soft Voices Die is a signature work of post-war Gothic horror, originally published in Cross' landmark collection, The Other Passenger (1944).The story is a masterclass in building psychological dread, often characterised by a quiet, mounting tension that leaves the reader questioning the line between sanity and the spectral. Cross trades graphic gore for a sophisticated atmosphere of ... Read more

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  • Wanting

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    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan’s Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. Now in paperback, it links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic exploration, and one of the most infamous episodes in human history: the colonization of Tasmania.In 1841, Sir John Franklin and ... Read more

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  • Horror Stories

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Arthur Conan Doyle's Horror Stories is a collection of two tales. The Horror of the Heights is a tale of the early days of air travel: a bold and brave pilot discovers alien creatures threatening man in the recesses of space. The Terror of Blue John Gap concerns a pre-historic beast dwelling in the caves of John Gap and threatening the local village. ... Read more

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  • The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten

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    Edited by Judika Illes, Bram Stoker, H.D. Everett, M. R. James, Oscar Wilde, Richard Le Gallienne, Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft, Sonia H. Greene, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Dion Fortune, Algernon Blackwood, Marie Corelli, Lord Dunsany, Edgar Allan Poe, Hanns Heinz Ewers, W. W. Jacobs ...
    Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more.These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto—edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories—some of which have been ... Read more

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  • Dark Entries

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    by Robert Aickman ...
    For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen**Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.Dark Entries** was first published in 1964 ... Read more

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  • The Birds

    by Frank Baker ...
    Thousands, even millions, of birds are descending on London - gathering, sitting, watching. At first their arrival is met with curiosity and amusement, as people debate where the birds have come from and what they're doing here. But soon the feathered invaders start to show their sinister side, attacking, maiming, and even killing in incidents of tremendous brutality and violence. Are they an ... Read more

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  • How Fear Departed the Long Gallery

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by E. F. Benson ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.)Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register displayAttractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placementSimilar series of Xmas Ghost Stories by Galley Beggar Press have sold 30,000+ in UKCanadian "trial run" of books showed approx. 1,000 ... Read more

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  • The Body Snatcher

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    An uncanny thriller from the acclaimed author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMedical school students Fettes and Macfarlane are charged with the unenviable task of receiving and paying for the institution's research cadavers. When Fettes recognizes the dead body of a woman he saw alive and well just the day before, he suspects murder. Macfarlane, however, insists that the authorities ... Read more

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  • Banshees, and Other Death Warnings

    by John D. Seymour ...
    The wail heard before a passing, the phantom coach, the knock at the darkened window: here an Irish clergyman-scholar gathers the omens that old families dreaded as heralds of loss.The Reverend St John D. Seymour, co-author of True Irish Ghost Stories (1914), turns here to the death omen: the banshee whose cry attends certain ancient Irish families, and her lesser-known companions among the ... Read more

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  • Haunted Houses in or Near Dublin

    by St John D. Seymour ...
    Drawn from first-hand testimony, newspaper reports, and parish memory, these are the documented hauntings that shadow the Irish capital and its surrounding country, gathered by a scrupulous clergyman-scholar.Collected by the Reverend St John D. Seymour, whose True Irish Ghost Stories (1914) remains a cornerstone of the Irish supernatural record, this volume assembles the accounts tied to Dublin ... Read more

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