Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
What happens when writers vacation together... And challenge each other to write ghost stories? On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change history and create the gothic genre. The result is three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Lord Byron's A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the...
Author
Language
English
Description
George Scithers published AMRA, a leading sword and sorcery fanzine, beginning in 1959. The term "swords and sorcery" first appeared there, and AMRA became a leading proponent of the subgenre. Several of the articles originally published in AMRA were later re-printed as part of two volumes about Conan the Barbarian, which Scithers co-edited with L. Sprague de Camp. Contributors to the magazine included all the leading fantasists of the day: Poul Anderson,...
Author
Language
English
Description
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOTH
Twenty-five women and non-binary creators from the worlds of Horror Fiction and Illustration coalesce into an unholy union and drag the blackened heart of Classic Gothic Horror into modern daylight. In the process, they have sculpted an altogether sleeker, more feral beast.
In the hands of Mary Shelley, Daphne Du Maurier and Shirley Jackson, Gothic Horror explored the bleak shadows of our homes, the darkest corners...
Author
Language
English
Description
Would the contents of your bookshelf get you burned as a witch in the past? Throughout history, women accused of being witches and put to death by burning, stoning, hanging, or drowning were women who were smart, educated, healers, single, widowed, old, overly social, confident, too beautiful, too ugly, sexual, subversive, and deviant. Witches have been most often portrayed as evil, living solitary lives in the forest, eating children, and communing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Reader beware: to open this tome is to invite dread into your heart. Every page you turn will bring you closer to something wicked. And when, the dead begin to rise from the steaming pits of hell, only then, will you discover that it is already too late. Your life is forfeit.
Featuring an introduction by Leanna Renee Hieber, author of the Eterna Files and Strangely Beautiful saga, DeadSteam plays host to the scintillating writing of David Lee Summers...
Author
Language
English
Description
16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In 'Terminus' a young woman hides in an empty Brighton hotel; in 'Thicker Than Blood' a man sits in a hot tub stalking his newly-married love on social media; and in 'A bird half-eaten' an amateur boxer...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Tales of Nosferatu" contains a collection of bone-chilling short stories concerning vampires and vampirism that delineate the evolution of the vampire tale from "The Skeleton Count" By Elizabeth Grey to "Vampirella" By Ron Goulart. These blood-curdling stories will appeal to those with a love of the macabre, and they are not to be missed by those with an interest in vampire fiction and it's origins, influences, and evolution. Contents include:...
Author
Language
English
Description
Udolpho is a creative anthology devoted to all things gothic. This unique collection includes essays, short fiction, and poetry featuring an array of hallmarks of the genre. Also included is a brief outline of the elements of gothic literature and a listing of prominent gothic writers from across the last three centuries.
Contributors to Issue #1 are: Matthew D. Albertson, John Alex Barnes, Matthew Evans Chelf, Katy Cousino, Art X. Love, Cory...
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's chilling vampire stories, including: "The American's Tale", "The Captain of the Pole-star", "John Barrington Cowles", "The Ring of Thoth", "The Winning Shot", and "The Parasite". Blood-curdling stories of lust, loathing and decadence, they explore the darker side of the human psyche, both living and unliving. "Stories with Bite" is highly recommended for lovers of Gothic literature and is not to be missed by fans...
Author
Language
English
Description
Introduced by Sarah Perry, the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent. Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic. It draws us in with its air of mystery and repels us with its violence and darkness. But who were the first practitioners of the now-prevalent genre? This curated book collects the works of such masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti and Mary Shelley, who with flickering candles, mysterious castles and chilling ravens first frightened...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request