British Library Tales of the Weird Series by Mike Ashley, Albert Richard Wetjen, Ward Muir, Frank H. Shaw, Herman Scheffauer, C.N. Barham, William Hope Hodgson, F. Britten Austin, James Francis Dwyer, John Gilbert, Izola L. Forrester, Rupert Chesterton, Elinor Mordaunt, Morgan Burke, Lady Eleanor Smith, E.F. Benson, Elizabeth Dearnley, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Machen, Violet Hunt, Sam Selvon, Claude McKay, Virginia Woolf, Rhoda Broughton, Lettice Galbraith, Marie Belloc Lowndes, John Miller, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Webb, Gertrude Atherton, M.R. James, Walter de la Mare, Algernon Blackwood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, María Pérez de San Román, Rafael Martín Coronel, Fitz-James O'Brien, Morley Roberts, Frank R. Stockton, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Cleveland Moffett, H.G. Wells, Catherine Wells, Madeline Yale Wynne, David H. Keller, Thomas Burke, Muriel Campbell Dyar, Lucy Lane Clifford, Lord Dunsany, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Daisy Butcher, Marie Corelli, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Alicia Ramsey, May Sinclair, Greye La Spina, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, G.G. Pendarves, Jesse Douglas Kerruish, Margaret St. Clair, Leonora Carrington, Eleanor Scott, Tanya Kirk, Charlotte Riddell, Louisa Baldwin, Hume Nisbet, H.P. Lovecraft, Jerome K. Jerome, L.P. Hartley, Elizabeth Bowen

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  • From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea (British Library Tales of the Weird #1)
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    From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea (British Library Tales of the Weird #1)

    Mike Ashley, Albert Richard Wetjen, Ward Muir, Frank H. Shaw, Herman Scheffauer, C.N. Barham, William Hope Hodgson, F. Britten Austin, James Francis Dwyer, John Gilbert, Izola L. Forrester, Rupert Chesterton, Elinor Mordaunt, Morgan Burke, Lady Eleanor Smith

    · 3 ratings · published 2018

    From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown... more

  • Haunted Houses: Two Novels (British Library Tales of the Weird #2)
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    Haunted Houses: Two Novels (British Library Tales of the Weird #2)

    Charlotte Riddell

    · 2 ratings · published 2018

    From the once-popular yet unfairly neglected Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell comes a pair of novels which cleverly upholster the familiar furniture of the haunted house story. In An Uninhabited House, the hauntings are seen through the perspective of the solicitors who hold the deed of the property... more

  • Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories (British Library Tales of the Weird #3)
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    Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories (British Library Tales of the Weird #3)

    Mike Ashley

    · 3 ratings · published 2018

    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... more

  • El rostro en el espejo y otros relatos góticos (British Library Tales of the Weird #7)
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    El rostro en el espejo y otros relatos góticos (British Library Tales of the Weird #7)

    Mary Elizabeth Braddon, María Pérez de San Román, Rafael Martín Coronel

    · 6 ratings · published 2014

    El volumen incluye los siguientes relatos:- El rostro en el espejo. - Ella. - La sombra en la esquina. - La buena lady Ducayne. - Su última aparición. - El visitante de Eveline.Mary Elizabeth Braddon nació en Londres en 1835. Creció en un hogar monoparental que la obligó a buscar empleo en cuanto obtuvo la mayoría de edad... more

  • Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy (British Library Tales of the Weird #9)
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    Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy (British Library Tales of the Weird #9)

    Mike Ashley, Fitz-James O'Brien, Morley Roberts, Frank R. Stockton, Arthur Machen, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Cleveland Moffett, H.G. Wells, Catherine Wells, Madeline Yale Wynne, David H. Keller, Thomas Burke, Muriel Campbell Dyar, Lucy Lane Clifford, Lord Dunsany, Mary Elizabeth Counselman

    · 2 ratings · published 2019

    Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where the weird prevails and accounts of unanswerable dilemma find their home. Gathered within these pages are twisted yarns, encounters with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to perplex and beguile.So join us as we journey across the threshold, deep into the Library’s vaults where nineteen deliciously dark and totally dumbfounding stories await... more

  • Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (British Library Tales of the Weird #10)
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    Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic (British Library Tales of the Weird #10)

    Daisy Butcher

    · 6 ratings · published 2019

    Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the "killer plant" trope in fiction, film, and video games... more

  • The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales (British Library Tales of the Weird #14)
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    The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales (British Library Tales of the Weird #14)

    E.F. Benson

    · 1 ratings · published 2020

    The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous setting of a terraced back garden . . . E F Benson’s "spook stories" pushed the boundaries of the ghost story tradition by exploring new, previously "out of bounds" settings—such as public transport and even hauntings by daylight—to frighten his readers from the 1890s to the 1930s... more

  • A Phantom Lover: And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee (British Library Tales of the Weird #15)
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    A Phantom Lover: And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee (British Library Tales of the Weird #15)

    Vernon Lee

    · 2 ratings · published 2020

    During her lifetime, Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee, was referred to as "the greatest of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction," and yet today she remains on the periphery of the genre. This collection of her uniquely weird short stories and dark fantasies proves why she was once considered among the best of the genre, and why she deserves to return to those ranks today... more

  • Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (British Library Tales of the Weird #16)
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    Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City (British Library Tales of the Weird #16)

    Elizabeth Dearnley, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Machen, Violet Hunt, Sam Selvon, Claude McKay, Virginia Woolf, Rhoda Broughton, Lettice Galbraith, Marie Belloc Lowndes

    · 3 ratings · published 2020

    ‘Outside, where the air was foggy, the square was noiseless, save for an occasional hoot of a motor passing into the streets. By degrees I found the light growing rather dim, as if the fog had penetrated into the room…’As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A séance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent’s Canal... more

  • Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (British Library Tales of the Weird #17)
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    Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain (British Library Tales of the Weird #17)

    John Miller, Marjorie Bowen, Arthur Machen, Mary Webb, Edith Nesbit, Gertrude Atherton, M.R. James, Walter de la Mare, Algernon Blackwood, E.F. Benson

    · 6 ratings · published 2020

    Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic, and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can’t see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach into underworlds of earth, myth, and magic. Forests are full of ghosts... more

  • Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird #18)
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    Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird #18)

    Mike Ashley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Marie Corelli, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alicia Ramsey, May Sinclair, Marjorie Bowen, Greye La Spina, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, G.G. Pendarves, Lady Eleanor Smith, Jesse Douglas Kerruish, Margaret St. Clair, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Leonora Carrington

    · 4 ratings · published 2020

    It is too often accepted that during the 19th and early 20th centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries of the weird tale, with women writers following in their wake—but this is far from the truth. This new anthology follows the instrumental contributions made by women writers to the weird tale, and revives the lost authors of the early pulp magazines along with the often overlooked work of more familiar authors... more

  • Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (British Library Tales of the Weird #19)
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    Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (British Library Tales of the Weird #19)

    Tanya Kirk, Charlotte Riddell, Louisa Baldwin, Hume Nisbet, H.P. Lovecraft, Jerome K. Jerome, L.P. Hartley, Marjorie Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen, Algernon Blackwood

    · 6 ratings · published 2020

    The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are still hungry. Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on joining or ruining the most wonderful time of the year... more

  • Randalls Round (British Library Tales of the Weird #26)
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    Randalls Round (British Library Tales of the Weird #26)

    Eleanor Scott

    · 3 ratings · published 1929

    BORN OF NIGHTMARES...Presented within are nine examples of the finest horror and supernatural literature ever written. Inspired by a series of dreams and nightmares, Helen Leys, writing under the pseudonym Eleanor Scott, crafted these stories of suspense and terror, atmosphere and dread, in 1929 - and never again wrote in this genre; Randalls Round has not been available in the UK since that year... more

  • The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection (British Library Tales of the Weird #29)
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    The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection (British Library Tales of the Weird #29)

    Mike Ashley

    · 1 ratings · published 2022

    Occult or psychic detective tales have been chilling readers for almost as long as there have been ghost stories. This beguiling subgenre follows specialists in occult lore – often with years of arcane training – investigating strange supernatural occurrences and pitting their wits against the bizarre and inexplicable.With tales featuring the most prominent psychic detectives such as William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki, the Ghost Finder and Algernon Blackwood’s Dr... more

  • The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media (British Library Tales of the Weird #30)
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    The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media (British Library Tales of the Weird #30)

    Aaron Worth

    · 2 ratings · published 2022

    A mysterious radio signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. Photography and X-ray evidence suggests there may be some truth to a sculptor’s claim that he has created a god. A spectral projection sows terror amid the flickering light of the cinema... more

  • The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (British Library Tales of the Weird #32)
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    The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan (British Library Tales of the Weird #32)

    Michael Wheatley, Arthur Machen, Dorothy Quick

    · 1 ratings · published 2022

    Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbridled vivacity and pagan ecstasy, but also associated the god and folk hero with a sense of danger and even horror.The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her... more

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