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Possibly the most widely known tale written by gothic horror writer H.P Lovecraft; the Call of Cthulhu is a short story published in 1928 about a young man who inherits a strange body of work from his deceased Uncle, who had been researching a dark and unknown cult, and mysterious happenings of...

A transitional tale, situated between Lovecrafts earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos, The Horror At Red Hook depicts the strange and forbidding account of an Irish Detective, detirmined to unearth the truth of the mysterious spiritualist; Robert Suydam of Red Hook, and his connection with...

This timeless classic of Jules Verne, depicts the tale of Axel Liedenbrock and his impatient and irascible uncle The Professor as they attempt a journey to the very centre of the Earth. After the Professor finds a coded message by the obscure Icelandic Savant Arne Saknussemm detailing how to...

Written by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Old Man in the Corner is a series of short detective stories centered in england. ""Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.""...

The erudite Dr Thorndyke returns in this next anthology of his many and varied cases by R. Austin Freeman. This collection includes the stories: The Blue Scarab: For what reason was a valueless blue-glass Scarab ornament stolen? Could it have any connection to a lost family legacy? The Case of...

Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the first of Poe's "ratiocination" tales: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", featuring the first of the...

Just who is the Secret Agent [Delta] of a certain embassy? Just who is Mr Verloc? The proprietor of a certain shop on Brett Street? The Vice-President of a certain revolutionary committee? Forced into a corner by his superiors, he acts in desperation and disaster awaits. A tale of anarchy and...

Alistair Maclean is a soldier in the employ of Lee's Regiment and an agent of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the height of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Amidst seeking support from the English Grandees for his masters cause, he finds himself embroiled in twisted web of deceit and betrayal that lies in...

On a whim one day, New York dilettante Philo Vance asked his friend, the District Attorney FX Markham to take him on his next big case. This transpires to be the cold blooded murder of one Alvin Benson at his home just after midnight. The police have a wealth of clues, and no end of suspects...

Written by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. In this book, we are told how Dr John Dolittle came to learn the language of animals, and...

The immortal tale of a puppet come to life, The Adventures of Pinnochio is said to be most translated italian book of all time, and possibly one of the best selling of all time. We follow the misadventures of a puppet come to life, Pinnochio, as his mischievous nature brings him to grief time...

At the Happy Go Lucky Inn, a married couple arrive on their way to New York... and there begins a tale of murder and deceit that spans sixteen long years. Across revolutions, across generations and across the seas, we follow the track of Edwin Urquhart, and his bride... Written by Anna K Green...

"They seek him here... they seek him there..." It is the bloody height of the French Revolution. Men, women and children are put to death under the blade of the remorseless Guillotine, all to feed a baying mobs lust for blood and murder. Their only hope of salvation comes from a band of 20 brave...

Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Whilst it is now widely considered to be one of the...

The sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel; The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a collection of short stories that all see Sir Percy Blakeney, AKA The Scarlet Pimpernel, thumb his nose at the bloodthirsty members of the Revolutionary Government of Paris, snatching innocent aristocrats from their...

John Carter is back! In this second book in Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom saga, John Carter returns to Mars after he was flung back to Earth at the end of the previous title. Ten long years have passed, and when he returns, John Carter finds himself once more flung into danger and high adventure!...

When Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught up in a whirlwind and carried far away to the land of Oz, the little girl has no idea of the strange adventure that awaits her! Lost in a strange land, she, and three strange friends she makes along the way, make their way to the Emerald City, home of the...

a collection of short stories by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Narrated by Michael...

A small collection of short ghost stories, penned by Charles Dickens, narrated here by Michael Ward. "The Haunted House" When the narrator witnesses a dreary house in rural England, he is soon told the place is deeply haunted. But is it really? "The Trial for Murder" Haunted by visions of a...

The timeless story of the beatific Dorian Gray, who never seems to age, and whose features never show the stains of life, no matter how debauched his existence becomes. What is is his secret? And what is the secret of a certain portrait that he keeps forever hidden, behind a curtain, in a locked...