| Description |
vii, 614 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mike Ashley -- Green tea / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- The shining pyramid / Arthur Machen -- The haunted child / Arabella Kenealy -- The mystery of the Felwun Tunnel / L.T. Meade & Robert Eustace -- The story of Yand Manor House / E. & H. Heron -- The tapping on the Wainscot / Allan Upward -- Samaris / Robert W. Chambers -- The whistling room / William Hope Hodgson -- The woman with the crooked nose / Victor Rosseau -- The sorcerer of Arjuzanx / Max Rittenberg -- The ivory statue / Sax Rohmer -- The stranger / Claude & Alice Askew -- The swaying vision / Jessie Douglas Kerruish -- The sanatorium / F. Tennyson Jesse -- The villa on the borderive road / Rose Champion de crespigny -- The room of fear / Ella Scrymsour -- The seven fires / Philippa Forest -- The subletting of the mansion / Dion Fortune -- The jest of Warburg Tantavul / Seabury Quinn -- The soldier / A. M. Burrage -- The horror of the height / Sydney Horler -- The mystery of iniguity / L. Adams Beck -- The thought-monster / Amelia Reynolds Long -- The shut room / Henry S. Whitehead -- Dr. Muncing, Exorcist / Gordon MacCreagh -- The case of the Haunted Cathedral / Margery Lawrence -- The shonokins / Manly Wade Wellman -- The dead of winter apparition / Joseph Payne Brennan --t he garden of Paris / Eric Williams -- St. Michael & all angels / Mark Valentine -- Jeremiah / Jessica Amanda Salmonson. |
| Summary |
Featuring contributions by some of the greatest and best-known weird-fiction authors, an all-new collection of 31 all-time classic occult detective stories traces the genres growth from its 19th-century origins to the late 20th century. |
| Subject |
Ghost stories.
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| Genre |
Short stories.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Paranormal fiction.
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| Added Author |
Ashley, Michael, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781945863523 (hardback) |
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1945863528 (hardback) |
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9781945863547 (paperback) |
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1945863544 (paperback) |
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