This book is designed to haunt you to your very core. The short and terrifying stories in this book are all inspired by true events. Stalkers, ghosts, demons, aliens, and more all make their way into this collection of stories. The stories in this book are written in a way to fully immerse you in the suspense and terror. The Yellow Room and Other Terrifying Stories will leave a lasting and nightmarish presence on you for years to come.

Eight ingenious, gripping tales by the master of suspense and creator of the American Gothic horror story: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "William Wilson," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Gold-Bug," "The Purloined Letter, and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Classic, spine-tingling tales for ghost story enthusiasts.

Arthur Machen is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as "Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language." Machen was a great enthusiast for literature that expressed the "rapture, beauty, adoration, wonder, awe, mystery, sense of the unknown, desire for the unknown" that he summed up in the word ecstasy. The Novels THE HILL OF DREAMS THE TERROR THE SECRET GLORY EPILOGUE THE GREEN ROUND The Shorter Fiction THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY: OR THE HISTORY OF THE IX JOYOUS JOURNEYS. CARBONNEK INTRODUCTION EPISTLE DEDICATORY MASTER PERROT’S DISCOURSE OF ALE THE PORTREEVE’S GAUDY-DAY STRANGE STORY OF A RED JAR THE SPIGOT CLERK’S FIRST TALE HOW THE FOLK OF ABERGAVENNY WERE PESTERED BY AN ACCURSED KNIGHT THE LORD MALTWORM’S FIRST TALE HOW A MAN OF CAERLEON FOUND A GREAT TREASURE THE RUBRICAN’S FIRST TALE THE TANKARD MARSHALL’S FIRST TALE THE QUEST OF CONSTANCY BY THE WAY THE SPIGOT CLERK’S SECOND TALE. THE PORTREEVE’S SOLEMNITY THE TALE TOLD BY THE SEIGNEUR OF LA ROCHE NEMOURS THE JOURNEY HOMEWARD SIGNOR PIERO LATINI’S TALE THE LORD MALTWORM’S SECOND TALE THE RUBRICAN’S SECOND TALE EPILOGUE THE GREAT GOD PAN, AND THE INMOST LIGHT The Great God Pan The Inmost Light THE THREE IMPOSTORS: OR THE TRANSMUTATIONS THREE IMPOSTORS PROLOGUE. ADVENTURE OF THE GOLD TIBERIUS. THE ENCOUNTER OF THE PAVEMENT. NOVEL OF THE DARK VALLEY. ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING BROTHER. NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL. INCIDENT OF THE PRIVATE BAR. THE DECORATIVE IMAGINATION. NOVEL OF THE IRON MAID. THE RECLUSE OF BAYSWATER. NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER. STRANGE OCCURRENCE IN CLERKENWELL. HISTORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH SPECTACLES ADVENTURE OF THE DESERTED RESIDENCE. THE HOUSE OF SOULS Introduction A Fragment of Life The White People The Red Hand THE ANGELS OF MONS Introduction The Bowmen The Soldiers’ Rest The Monstrance The Dazzling Light The Bowmen And Other Noble Ghosts Postscript THE GREAT RETURN THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1923 The Priest and the Barber The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita A Wonderful Woman The Lost Club Nature, or, The Splendid Holiday Drake’s Drum THE SHINING PYRAMID, 1924 The Arrow-Head Character The Eyes on the Wall The Search for the Bowl The Secret of the Pyramid The Little People THE GLORIOUS MYSTERY The Rose Garden Psychology, or, Fragments of Paper The Holy Things A New Christmas Carol THE COSY ROOM AND OTHER STORIES The Cosy Room A Double Return Munitions of War The Gift of Tongues The Islington Mystery Awaking Opening the Door The Compliments of the Season THE CHILDREN OF THE POOL, AND OTHER STORIES Children of the Pool Out of the Earth Change The Exalted Omega The Tree of Life Out of the Picture The Bright Boy UNCOLLECTED TALES Candletime Cidermas The Town of Long Ago Over the Gate Of the Isle of Shadows, and of the Strange Customs of the Men That Dwell There A Further Account of The Academy of Lagado Tales from Barataria Sir John’s Chef Rus in Urbe By the Brook The Autophone The Marriage of Panurge The Brook Farm A Remarkable Coincidence An Underground Adventure The Young Man in the Blue Suit The War Song of the Welsh The Light That Can Never Be Put Out Jocelyn’s Escape The Story of Sergt Richard Haughton and What Happened To Him on the Somme The Calvary of Azay 7b Coney Court Ritual Johnny Double N The Happy Children The Dover Road The Poems ELEUSINIA THE ASSEMBLING. THE SEA-SHORE THE FAST THE PROCESSION THE DAY OF TORCHES IACCHUS THE INITIATION THE REMEMBRANCE OF THE BARD THE PRAISE OF MYFANWY The Non-Fiction THE MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT, 1725-1798 THE ANATOMY OF TOBACCO HIEROGLYPHICS DR STIGGINS: HIS VIEWS AND PRINCIPLES MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS THE SECRET OF THE SANGRAAL THE STROLLER WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN LONDON THE GLITTER OF THE BROOK LONDON THIRTY YEARS AGO THE JOY OF LONDON RE-DISCOVERY OF LONDON DR JOHNSON’S DISAPPEARING ACT TOM O’BEDLAM AND HIS SONG THE ONLY WAY THE GRAY’S INN COFFEE HOUSE A NOTE ON POETRY

From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to modern paperbacks, lurid fiction has provided thrilling escapism for the masses. Cranking out formulaic stories of melodrama, crime and mild erotica--often by uncredited authors focused more on volume than quality--publishers realized high profits playing to low tastes. Estimates put pulp magazine circulation in the 1930s at 30 million monthly. This vast body of "disposable literature" has received little critical attention, in large part because much of it has been lost--the cheaply made books were either discarded after reading or soon disintegrated. Covering the history of pulp literature from 1850 through 1960, the author describes how sensational tales filled a public need and flowered during the evolving social conditions of the Industrial Revolution.

New Authors and collections. A deluxe edition of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires and a host of weird creatures. Tales of shadows and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories by some of the best writers of horror today. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: DJ Tyrer, Ed Grabianowski, Andrew J. Wilson, Elise Forier Edie, Frank Roger, Gwendolyn Kiste, David A. Elsensohn, Bill Kte'pi, Justin Coates, James Lecky, Eric Esser, John H. Dromey, Kristopher Triana, Michael Bondies, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Glen Damien Campbell, William R.D. Wood, Rebecca J. Allred, and Lucy Taylor. A dazzling collection of the most gripping tales of horror, vividly told.

The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

SIX SPOOKY SHORT STORIES: Ghost Brother… What happens after you die? Do you go to heaven or hell, or do you go to a special place fashioned for you based on the life you’d lived? Do ghosts exist? Two brothers and their tale follow; their journey through life and death. Running with the Train… Sarah has always been lonely; searching for a love she’s begun to believe will never come. True, eternal love. On an adventure of a lifetime to the Grand Canyon she rides the train from Williams to the Rim and sees these huge wolves running alongside in the evening twilight; scurrying unbelievably below on the Canyon’s ledges among the trees. Has her loneliness made her crazy? The Banshee and the Witch… What would you do to live forever, stay young forever? To find true love again? If you were a white witch with the powers to make it happen, and the secret of how to do it, would you? When the banshee comes calling one rainy dark night you’ll do what you must to get what you desire most. More time. Too Close to the Edge… Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going to see the Grand Canyon…even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there, couldn’t bear to get too close to the edge. She sees a young girl go over the rim and no one believes her. There was no child that had died–that day anyway. AND TWO BONUS SHORT STORIES: In This House...an eternal love ghost story Night Carnival...a vampire tale

Drawing on a 200-year-old tradition, this original collection features a deft combination of vintage vampire tales with more contemporary stories. Anthologist Mike Ashley introduces a dozen fantasies that weave together dark, psychological elements with well-recognized vampire themes. His notes trace the development of vampire fiction, illustrating the genre's life beyond the well-known conventions established by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Selections range from Lord Byron's contribution to the legendary storytelling session that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Nancy Holder's "Blood Gothic," a modern perspective on the corrupting influence of the romantic vampire image. Additional contributors include Alexandre Dumas, Karl von Wachsmann, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Julian Osgood Field, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dick Donovan, Brian Stableford, Sidney Bertram, and Ernst Raupach.

The fourth issue of H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror presents a stellar lineup of fiction and non-fiction. Includes a conversation with best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton, as well as fiction by such luminaries as Darrell Schweitzer ("Sometimes You Have to Shout About It"), Ken Rand ("Crickets, Everywhere"), Jay Lake ("Ever"), Erin Donahoe ("The Old Ones Reborn"), Yoiya Finley ("The Taxidermist's Collection"), Esther Friesner ("The Really Big Sleep"), Morgan Llywelyn ("The View from Here"), Leah Bobet ("Scars"), Nick Knight ("Thinking of You"), and Ron Goulart ("The Problem of the Missing Werewolf").

This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Supernatural Horror in Literature : H. P. Lovecraft's Best Classic Horror Thrillers The Shunned House At the Mountains of Madness : H. P. Lovecraft's Best Classic Horror Thrillers