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  • Laurus Nobilis

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Vernon Lee ...
    Vernon Lee turns a chance sighting—a bay laurel on a Roman tram—into a meditation on why beauty matters at all. From that emblem, she moves outward to art, poetry, landscape, and memory, arguing that beauty is not mere ornament but a living force that can steady the spirit, enlarge sympathy, and give ordinary life moral and emotional meaning. She explores the laurel's presence in Renaissance ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Hauntings

    Fantastic Stories (with a new introduction, a glossary and explanatory notes)

    by Vernon Lee ...
    This edition includes an introduction exploring Vernon Lee’s life, work, and distinctive approach to supernatural fiction, as well as a glossary explaining historical, artistic, literary, and cultural references.Step into a Victorian world where beauty, art, and memory become deadly obsessions.First published in 1890, Vernon Lee’s Hauntings is a landmark collection of psychological ghost stories ... Read more

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  • Vampire Tales: The Big Collection (80+ stories in one volume: The Viy, The Fate of Madame Cabanel, The Parasite, Good Lady Ducayne, Count Magnus, For the Blood Is the Life, Dracula’s Guest, The Broken Fang, Blood Lust, Four Wooden Stakes...)

    by Leonid Andreyev, Nikolai Gogol, M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Walter De La Mare, F. Marion Crawford, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, D. H. Lawrence, H. P. Lovecraft, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Clark Ashton Smith, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Victor Roman, Pu Songling, Johann Ludwig Tieck, John William Polidori, Alexei Tolstoy, Sabine Baring-Gould, William Gilbert, Jan Neruda, A. B. Mitford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Phil Robinson, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Julian Hawthorne, Mary Cholmondeley, Anne Crawford, Marsh Richard, Eric Stenbock, Mary E. Braddon, Fred M. White, H. B. Marriott-Watson, Hume Nisbet, F. G. Loring, Augustus Hare, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Frank Norris, Louise J. Strong, Luigi Capuana, Théophile Gaultier, E. G. Swain, Claude Askew, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Horacio Quiroga, Ulric Daubeny, Uel Key, Dion Fortune, Everil Worrell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hesketh V. Pritchard, Cynthia Asquith ...
    The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the ... Read more

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  • Vernon Lee - A Short Story Collection

    by Vernon Lee ...
    Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget on 4th October 1856 in Boulogne, France to intellectual expatriate British parents.In common with several other very talented literary women of the day she felt it necessary to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order for her writing to be taken seriously. Indeed she seems to have adopted that persona across her whole lifestyle becoming personally known and ... Read more

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  • The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

    by Cynthia Asquith, Leonid Andreyev, E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Marjorie Bowen, John Buchan, A. M. Burrage, Willa Cather, Robert W. Chambers, Myla Jo Closser, Wilkie Collins, Richard Connell, Aleister Crowley, F. Marion Crawford, Rebecca Harding Davis, Walter De La Mare, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Dunsany, Amelia B. Edwards, Anatole France, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nikolai Gogol, W. F. Harvey, L. P. Hartley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lafcadio Hearn, O. Henry, Robert Hichens, William Hope Hodgson, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Robert E. Howard, Violet Hunt, Washington Irving, W. W. Jacobs, Henry James, M. R. James, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Guy de Maupassant, John Metcalfe, Edith Nesbit, Margaret Oliphant, Oliver Onions, Vincent O’Sullivan, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, Walter Scott, M. P. Shiel, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, H. Russell Wakefield, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Edward Lucas White ...
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Door and Other Strange Stories

    by Vernon Lee ...
    It seemed to Decimus Little that there could be no doubt left. His only wonder was whether anyone else had been near making that discovery. As he sat in a deep window of the big drawing-room, the light of the candles falling yellow upon the shining white arms and shoulders, the shining white expanses of shirt-front, the lustrous silks and lustrous black cloth within doors; the great wave of moor ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)

    by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Franz Kafka, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Walter De La Mare, Vernon Lee, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, F. Marion Crawford, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Onions, Clark Ashton Smith, John Metcalfe, Leonid Andreyev, Robert E. Howard ...
    Series Book 1 - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 7 (30 short stories)

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, Edith Nesbit, W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Guy Preston, Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Wilkie Collins, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Noyes, Alexander Woollcott, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Connell, Vernon Lee, Samuel Blas, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, George G. Toudouze, H. C. McNeile, L. P. Hartley, Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant, John Buchan, Lord Dunsany, Saki ...
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This seventh volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

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  • Hortus Vitae

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Vernon Lee ...
    Hortus Vitae is a graceful, meditative collection of essays in which Vernon Lee treats life itself as a garden to be cultivated with care, taste, and moral attention. Opening with a deeply personal tribute to her friend Gabrielle Delzant, the book's emotional center lies in its belief that joy can be learned, gratitude can be practiced, and ordinary moments can be made luminous through tenderness ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Hauntings Fantastic Stories

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Vernon Lee ...
    Vernon Lee's ghostly art of suggestion begins with a bold claim: the most powerful supernatural tales are not the ones that prove spirits exist, but the ones that leave us suspended between memory, atmosphere, and imagination. That theory shapes the haunting diary of Spiridion Trepka, who arrives in Italy expecting to find the living past and instead discovers a country where bureaucracy and ... Read more

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  • Stories from the Shadows - The English

    by H G Wells, Vernon Lee, Thomas Hardy ...
    An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestio ... Read more

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  • 3 Stories About - Having Visions That Lead to Madness

    by Vernon Lee, Anatole France, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...
    There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these mo ... Read more

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