Horror imprint: 234 books

Ethel Lina White was a prolific author, and became one of the best-known crime writers in Britain and the US during the thirties and forties. Though best-remembered for her novels Some Must Watch and The Wheel Spins, her short fiction was also hugely popular, and 'Cheese' ranks amongst her best...

These early works by Edgar Allan Poe were originally published in the early 19th century. As a collection of short stories, these tales represent some of Poe's best works of mystery and murder, and include 'Thou art the Man', 'The Black Cat', 'The Gold-Bug', 'The Imp of the Perverse', 'The Murders...

Craig Rice was a popular mystery author of the mid-20th century, penning twenty novels and many short stories. She had a devoted readership, and in 1946 became the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine. 'Once Upon a Train' is one of her best-remembered stories. The Many crime...

Charles Dickens ranks amongst the greatest novelists of all time. This detective story was extracted from Chapter VIII of Bleak House, and is a literal rendering of Dickens' own visits to the the London slums. Many of the crime and detective stories of the Victorians, particularly those dating back...

William Le Queux was a hugely prolific writer, best-known for pioneering the genre of ‘invasion literature’. The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) – which depicts Britain being invaded by coalition forces led by France and Russia – was one of his two hugely successful novels, the other being...

Although he was primarily a screenwriter and actor, since his death, Roland Pertwee's written work has attracted increasing amounts of critical attention. 'The River God' is now regarded as one of the finest British fishing stories ever written. Many of the finest English sport stories, particularly...

Ernest Haycox was a prolific writer of Western fiction, and a best-selling author of the early 20th century. His 1937 story, 'Stage to Lordsburg', was adapted two years later by John Ford into the movie Stagecoach, which featured John Wayne in his breakout role. Many of the Western stories, particularly...

R. Austin Freeman was a popular mystery author of the early 20th century. Some credit him with having invented the 'inverted detective story' – a plot structure in which the commission of the crime is described at the beginning, and the story details the detective's attempt to solve the mystery....

M. R. James was born in Kent, England in 1862. James came to writing fiction relatively late, not publishing his first collection of short stories – Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904) – until the age of 42. Modern scholars now see James as having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century...

Many of the earliest occult stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The high seas are one of the most enduring literary settings, and many of the greatest works in the Western literary canon have taken place aboard ships and galleons. Collected here are the greatest marine tales of horror and terror, featuring tales by such classic writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle.

“The Burial of the Rats” is a 1914 short story by master story-teller Bram Stoker. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 – 1912) was an Irish author most famous for his 1897 Gothic novel “Dracula”, a seminal book that continues to influence the vampire genre in print and film to this day....

Jerry takes three scientists camping at Crater Lake, Oregon. Not his idea, but they pay, and he needs money for his son's twelfth birthday. Why would they pack a tranq rifle and all that expensive equipment? What could scientists hunt around Crater Lake? Bigfoot? "The Undomesticated...

Frank Bawer has it all, money, looks, success with women. But an ancient curse is about to strip away everything he holds dear one by one.