 | The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by William Hope Hodgson
Buy new: £2.33 / Used from: £0.01 The original Edwardian ghosthunter. These stories follow a standard pattern but can be breathtakingly original and utterly chilling.
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 | Terror by Night: Classic Ghost and Horror Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by Ambrose Bierce
Buy new: £2.47 / Used from: £0.51 American horror during the civil war. Sardonic, dark and astonishingly clever stuff.
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 | Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by Alice Askew
Buy new: £2.33 / Used from: £0.01 A proto-Sherlock Holmes ghost detective with a psycic Watson. Nice little short stories that don't outstay their welcome.
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 | Strange Tales (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy new: £2.67 / Used from: £0.01 From the dying days of the Raj to the trenches of France and country houses of England - one of Britain's master writers shows us how it's done.
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 | Dracula's Guest and Other Stories (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by Bram Stoker
Buy used from: £0.01 Big white worms, phantom rats and *that* vampire...
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 | Sweeney Todd or The String of Pearls (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by Anon
Buy new: £2.47 / Used from: £0.01 The Penny Dreadful that gave us our greatest ever fictional serial killer - still a daunting creation 150 years on.
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 | Wagner the Werewolf (Wordsworth Mystery & the Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by George W.M. Reynolds
Buy new: £2.84 / Used from: £0.01 The first ever English werewolf novel - rollicking stuff.
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 | In A Glass Darkly (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by Sheridan Le Fanu
Buy new: £2.33 / Used from: £0.01 Some wonderfully creepy little vignettes - and the vampire novella that directly inspired Dracula.
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 | Tales of Unease (Wordsworth Mystery & the Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £2.37 / Used from: £1.99 Perhaps not of as consistently high quality as the Kipling collection, but contains some gems all the same.
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 | The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Buy new: £2.84 / Used from: £0.05 The book that outsold Dracula. A chilling blend of Egyptian mysticism and full-blooded Victorian horror. Always well-written, often hilarious and fast-moving, it could have been written yesterday.
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 | The Witch of Prague (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by F Marion Crawford
Buy new: £2.69 / Used from: £0.01 Criminally neglected horror tales, ripe with chills.
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 | Ghost Stories of M R James (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) by M R James
Buy new: £2.77 / Used from: £0.15 The master of the short ghost story. Unparalelled.
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 | Phantom of the Opera (Wordsworth Mystery & Supernatural) (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) by Gaston Leroux
Buy new: £2.32 / Used from: £0.01 Surely needs no introduction.
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