<div>Classic horror from the prolific author of ghost stories and supernatural fiction, and thought by H. P. Lovecraft to be the best &ldquo;weird tale&rdquo; of all time. &ldquo;Algernon Blackwood&rsquo;s novella The Willows uses setting like a master. This story is considered by Lovecraft and others to be one of the greatest horror short stories of all time. . . . I can tell you it creeped me out more than I thought it would. It&rsquo;s a simple tale: two men traveling the Danube by boat end up stopping at an island of willows to pass the night, and they begin to realize that they have trespassed upon a land that does not welcome them, and isn&rsquo;t really a part of our own world. I went in knowing that it greatly influenced Lovecraft, and the parallels in ideas and style are readily apparent in the last half of the story. . . . A beautifully written, enjoyably creepy novella.&rdquo; &mdash;ChicagoNow &ldquo;Represents a high point in the development of the horror genre&mdash;in fact, horror master H. P. Lovecraft regarded it as the best supernatural tale ever written. More thought-provoking than gory or terrifying, The Willows is a must-read for fans of classic ghost stories.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR.org &ldquo;Mind-blowing eeriness . . . [a] slow-thickening, vibrating, vegetable atmosphere of dread.&rdquo; &mdash;Tor.com &ldquo;It&rsquo;s easy to see why this story was revered by Lovecraft and others. It is a textbook example of the classic weird tale, evocatively conjuring the mystery and otherworldly dread that are the hallmarks of such fiction. It moves a little slowly, but patient readers will be well-rewarded with a deeply unsettling slice of cosmic horror.&rdquo; &mdash;My Weird Life</div>

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<div>Classic ghost stories of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, and others.In 1920, acclaimed author and editor Dorothy Scarborough collected what she believed to be the finest ghost stories of her time. Her quintessential anthology Famous Modern Ghost Stories includes entries from such pioneering horror writers as Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, and Myla Jo Closser. As Scarborough says in her introduction to this volume: &ldquo;Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time.&rdquo; The deceased and their mysterious spirits prove to be a source of endless fascination in the stories collected here, including Leonid Andreyev&rsquo;s biblical speculation Lazarus; Fitz-James O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s gothic evocation of a New York City boarding house, What Was It?; Mary. E. Wilkins Freeman&rsquo;s haunting narrative of three sisters, The Shadows on the Wall; and others.</div>

Famous Modern Ghost Stories

<div>Classic stories of occult fiction by Dion Fortune, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, R. W. Chambers, and more. These are the authors and tales that inspired modern masters like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Nic Pizzolatto&mdash;edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar Judika Illes. These powerfully evocative stories&mdash;some of which have been forgotten over the years, like buried treasure&mdash;will thrill and chill readers to the bone. During the dark, eerie hours, when the wind is blowing and the ghosts are roaming outside, these tales can fill a night with pleasant terror&mdash;as well as encouraging our minds to venture beyond the mundane into the realm of the fantastic.</div>

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