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CORNISH HORRORS: Tales from Lands End by Joan Passey
$27.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the Cornish woods, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime. Offering a bounty of lost or for ...Show more
Crawling Horror by D. Butcher
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
'What a terrible calamity, what a stupefying circumstance, if mosquitoes were the size of camels, and a herd of wild slugs the size of elephants invaded our gardens and had to be shot with rifles...' A blue scarab which makes the sound of a terrifying death-tick. A moth with the markings of a dead man' ...Show more
From Depths Other Strange Tales Sea by ASHLEY
$28.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown. In this anthology we see a thrilling spread of narratives: sailors are pitched against a nightmare from the depth, invisible to the na ...Show more
Heavy Weather by K. Manwaring
$26.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to 20th century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters, hea ...Show more
Holy Ghosts - Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny by Fiona Snailham
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A couple witnesses a ghostly procession from centuries past; a tourist confesses her sins to a priest long since dead; cursed statues torment a sinning Archdeacon. Churches, monasteries and convents have long been associated with sanctuary: sacred spaces should offer protection from evil in all its f ...Show more
Mortal Echoes - Encounters End by BUZWELL
$27.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A strange figure foretells tragedy on the railway tracks. A plague threatens to encroach upon an isolated castle. The daughter of an eccentric scientist falls victim to a poisonous curse. The stories in this anthology depict the haunting moment when characters come face-to-face with their own mortality. ...Show more
Queens of the Abyss - Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird by Mike Ashley (Editor)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
It is too often accepted that during the 19th and early 20th centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries of the weird tale, with women writers following in their wake--but this is far from the truth. This new anthology follows the instrumental contributions made by women wr ...Show more
Randalls Round by E. Scott; Aaron Worth (Editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A thrilling collection of strange stories by Eleanor Scott, ranging from depictions of ritualistic folk horror to tales of ancient forces versus humanity. An author who, despite being hugely influential to the Folk Horror and Weird genres, remains relatively unknown with few collections of her work publ ...Show more
Roarings from Further Out - Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood; Xavier Aldana Reyes (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
From one of the greatest and most prolific authors of 20th century weird fiction come four of the very best strange stories ever told. In "The Willows," two men become stranded on an island in the Danube delta, only to find that they might be in the domain of some greater power from beyond the limits of ...Show more
The Face in the Glass - The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Mary Elizabeth-Braddon
$25.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; and a haunted mirror that foretells of approaching death for those who gaze into its depths. Thes ...Show more
The Flaw in the Crystal - And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair by May Sinclair; Mike Ashley (Editor)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
At that moment, in a flash that came like a shifting of her eyes, the world she looked at suffered a change... It was the same world, flat field for flat field and hill for hill; but radiant, vibrant, and, as it were, infinitely transparent.Tales of eternal damnation, love, sexuality, death and supernat ...Show more
The Horned God - Weird Tales of the Great God Pan by Michael Wheatley
$29.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Tales of the Weird Ser.
Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbridled vivacity and pagan ecstasy, but also associated the god and folk hero with a sense of danger and even horror. The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very ...Show more