Arthur Machen’s landmark tale of pagan terror anchors this collection of ten unsettling works, blending occult horror, ancient survivals, and the uncanny beneath everyday life. Includes an introduction, author biography, and explanatory notes. Download Machen’s The Shining Pyramid free in PDF or EPUB format.

Two visionary novels—The House on the Borderland and The Night Land—join five tales of supernatural sea-horror and the scientific-metaphysical nightmare The Baumoff Explosive in this wide-ranging William Hope Hodgson collection. Includes an introduction, author biography, story headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download William Hope Hodgson’s The Derelict free in PDF or EPUB format.

Across eighteen classic cases, seven occult detectives—including Dr. Hesselius, John Silence, Flaxman Low, Aylmer Vance, and Thomas Carnacki—confront hauntings, curses, vampires, and other supernatural threats. Includes an introduction, biographies, and explanatory notes. Download Alice and Claude Askew’s Aylmer Vance and the Vampire free in PDF or EPUB format.

The complete Ghost Stories of an Antiquary joins ten additional M. R. James classics in this essential collection of haunted objects, cursed manuscripts, and scholarly terrors. Includes an introduction, author biography, story headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download James’ An Episode of Cathedral History free in PDF or EPUB format.

Eleven tales trace the literary werewolf from 19th century Gothic fiction and folk legend through the early Weird Tales pulps. White-wolf seductresses, inherited curses, doomed lovers, and beasts concealed in human form reveal the tradition’s remarkable range. Includes an introduction, author biographies, story headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Count Eric Stenbock’s The Other Side: A Breton Legend free in PDF or EPUB format.

Fifteen tales of cosmic terror, haunted houses, wilderness horror, and supernatural landscapes bring together Blackwood’s best-known works, including The Willows, The Wendigo, Ancient Sorceries, and The Damned. Includes an introduction, author biography, headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Algernon Blackwood’s Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House free in PDF or EPUB.

Trace the vampire’s evolution before Dracula in this collection, from Polidori’s The Vampyre and Gautier’s Clarimonde to Carmilla, Varney, and lesser-known tales. Includes an introduction, story headnotes, explanatory notes, and two new translations. Download F. Marion Crawford’s For the Blood Is the Life free in PDF or EPUB format.

Three foundational novels trace Gothic fiction from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and William Beckford’s Vathek to Charles Robert Maturin’s vast, infernal Melmoth the Wanderer. Haunted castles, forbidden knowledge, and supernatural populate these tales. Includes an introduction, author biographies, headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Melmoth the Wanderer, Chapter I free in PDF or EPUB format.

Three novels of occult invasion, psychic menace, and uncanny transformation bring together The Beetle, The Goddess: A Demon, and The Joss: A Reversion. Includes an introduction, author biography, and explanatory notes. Download Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon, Chapters I–II free in PDF or EPUB format.

Fifty-two tales of ghosts and hauntings, yōkai and monsters, otherworldly journeys, and mythic transformations reveal the extraordinary range of Japan’s supernatural tradition. Includes an introduction, author biographies, headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Lafcadio Hearn’s Rokuro-Kubi free in PDF or EPUB format.

Spanning Gothic, Victorian, and Edwardian ghost stories, these thirty tales range from haunted houses and vengeful revenants to spectral visitations and psychological terror. Includes an introduction, author biographies, story headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s The Shadows on the Wall free in PDF or EPUB format.

Three landmark novels trace Gothic fiction’s development from Clara Reeve’s medieval mystery The Old English Baron and Matthew Gregory Lewis’s scandalous masterpiece The Monk to Charles Brockden Brown’s American psychological nightmare Wieland. Each novel reveals the genre’s expanding range. Includes an introduction, author biographies, headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Wieland, Chapter VI free in PDF or EPUB format.

The complete King in Yellow—including its four Carcosa horror stories—joins eight tales of Adirondack occultism, Breton mysteries, ghostly omens, and coastal terror. Includes an introduction, author biography, headnotes, and explanatory notes. Download Robert W. Chambers’s The Harbor-Master free in PDF or EPUB format.