'I am an old man. I live here in this ancient house, surrounded by huge, unkempt gardens.'An exil...

'Nothing lasts! The faun sleeps, Smiling, mute, remorseless.' - Ludmila Jevsejeva, Autuna Melodio...

'There hadn't been monks at the abbey since 1600. Not living ones, that is.'When the puckish sp...

'The insect-world is altogether a world of goblins and fairies.' - 'Sémi'As Lafcadio Hearn observ...

Mark Valentine's stories have been described by critic Rick Kleffel as 'consistently amazing and ...

'Tis these places are haunted,' he said, 'by the old Chieftains and Kings.' - 'Earth-Bound'Orig...

'It was the straying that found the path direct.' - Austin Osman SpareIn the final throes of th...

'Such things may have attached to them heaven knows what spooks and spirits.' - The IkonOn the ev...

Ghosts contains R.B. Russell's debut publications, Putting the Pieces in Place and Bloody Baudela...

Despite her wide contributions to genre literature, Irish author L. T. Meade is now remembered, i...

The bestselling Irish author B. M. Croker enjoyed a highly successful literary career from 1880 u...

Lucy M. Boston is best remembered today as the Carnegie Medal-winning author of a series of child...

Joel Lane's award-winning stories have been widely praised, notably by other masters of weird fic...

A mentally disturbed woman is entrapped by Beltane rituals in the Cumbrian fells; a widower mourn...

In the late-nineteenth century Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921) achieved great popularity and acclaim ...

Irish women have long produced literature of the gothic, uncanny, and supernatural. Bending to Ea...

Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many ot...

'Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?' - Shirley JacksonA woman returns h...

Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dr...

'I know there is a God-a dreadful God-and that retribution follows guilt.' - 'The Watcher'For the...

'Yet, bathed in gloom too long, we might Forget how we imagined light.' - The Twilight of EarthPu...

'Till human voices wake us, and we drown.' - T. S. EliotIn her first collection, award-winning au...

'The ancient Egyptians only buried people in their pyramids. We are living in ours.' - Thibaut de...

Each story in November Night Tales is a differently colored gem whose many facets reflect the liv...

'Death's but a Path that must be trod, If Man wou'd ever pass to God'- Thomas ParnellLongsword, E...

'An uncanny effect often arises when the boundary between fantasy and reality is blurred . . .' -...

'I found the white cities just as they were in my dreams.' - Joseph RothTransylvania: the count...

'Strange,' he said to himself. 'I had an idea that Pat's Tommy was dead.'First collected in 197...

'Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.' - William BlakeThe Lure of the Unknow...

'Old Hoggen had disappeared: and murder was naturally suspected.'At the time of his death in 1912...

'She did not want to be organised at all. She wanted to be solitary and free.'This is the story o...

'How long have things been coming apart in this way?' - The Lure of Silence'Generally speaking th...

'Far better to choose an absence than to have an absence forced upon you.'These stories by award-...

'I'm already dead, and I'm a dead man speaking, and that's why they can't hear.' - Joseph RothSun...

'Have I not always loved terrible things?' - 'The Seventh Wave'A student's research into an obscu...

'There are many ways to tell a story . . . It is a question of choosing the right one.'The storie...

'I was searching for The Dark Return of Time on the 'net. It's odd, but there isn't a copy for sa...

'It was only in my dearly loved evenings that I still felt at home.' - Joseph RothTwo of the stor...

'I cannot endure these frequent fits of terror much longer.'Written in Belfast and Bangor during ...

'The delight of hell is to do evil to man, and to hasten his eternal ruin.' - SwedenborgPublished...

'If there is anything about which the present generation is bewilderingly well-informed it is the...

'I am, and ever have been, a great reader . . . a library cormorant. I am deep in all out of the ...

'From the small bones of the middle ear can be fashioned a key.''For a while now,' Timothy J. Jar...

'She loved to dream, although she knew that the experiences conjured by her unconscious mind were...