Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics' is an unparalleled anthology that casts a wide net across the shadowy waters of supernatural literature, pulling from the depths a staggering array of narratives that have shaped the horror and gothic genres. This collection boasts an eclectic mix of styles and forms, ranging from Victorian ghost stories to eerie folk tales and psychological thrillers, encapsulating the development of horror literature from its inception to its maturity. The anthology is meticulously curated to highlight the evolution of the genre, featuring seminal works that have haunted readers' imaginations for centuries, alongside lesser-known gems that deserve the spotlight. The contributing authors are a veritable who's who of classic literary giants, each bringing their unique voice and cultural backdrop to the overarching theme of the supernatural and macabre. From the grim moors of England to the haunted castles of Eastern Europe, the works included in this collection reflect diverse historical and cultural perspectives that enrich the genre. Notably, the collection includes pioneers who have influenced myriad literary movements, from Romanticism to Realism and beyond, offering readers a comprehensive view of the psychological and societal underpinnings of fear and the supernatural. 'Readers, venture if you dare into the pages of 'Warlock's Play', where each story serves not only as a chilling encounter but also as a profound exploration of the human psyche's complexities. This anthology is an essential compendium for scholars and enthusiasts alike, offering a unique lens through which to explore perennial themes of fear, superstition, and the unknown. Through its formidable breadth and depth, the collection encourages a dialogue between epochs, authors, and disciplines, making it an invaluable addition to any literary collection.
Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics : Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein…
Authors:
- Mary Shelley
- Bram Stoker
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Henry James
- Algernon Blackwood
- H. P. Lovecraft
- M. R. James
- Wilkie Collins
- E. F. Benson
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ambrose Bierce
- Arthur Machen
- William Hope Hodgson
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Grant Allen
- Théophile Gautier
- Richard Marsh
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Thomas Hardy
- Charles Dickens
- Rudyard Kipling
- Guy de Maupassant
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Mark Twain
- Daniel Defoe
- Jerome K. Jerome
- Fitz-James O'Brien
- Catherine Crowe
- Émile Erckmann
- Alexandre Chatrian
- Pedro De Alarçon
- Walter Hubbell
- Amelia B. Edwards
- Washington Irving
- John Meade Falkner
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Louisa M. Alcott
- Edith Nesbit
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Francis Marion Crawford
- John Kendrick Bangs
- Gertrude Atherton
- J. K. Huysmans
- John Buchan
- Sabine Baring-Gould
- Cleveland Moffett
- Louis Tracy
- Nikolai Gogol
- James Malcolm Rymer
- Thomas Peckett Prest
- Frederick Marryat
- Oscar Wilde
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- H. G. Wells
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- W. W. Jacobs
- H. H. Munro (Saki)
- Wilhelm Hauff
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Robert W. Chambers
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Thomas De Quincey
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Robert E. Howard
- David Lindsay
- Marie Belloc Lowndes
- Edward Bellamy
- Jack London
- Pliny the Younger
- Helena Blavatsky
- Fergus Hume
- Florence Marryat
- Villiers l'Isle de Adam
- William Archer
- William F. Harvey
- Katherine Rickford
- Ralph Adams Cram
- Leopold Kompert
- Brander Matthews
- Vincent O'Sullivan
- Ellis Parker Butler
- A. T. Quiller-Couch
- Fiona Macleod
- Lafcadio Hearn
- William T. Stead
- Gambier Bolton
- Andrew Jackson Davis
- Nizida
- Walter F. Prince
- Chester Bailey Fernando
- Leonard Kip
- Frank R. Stockton
- Bithia Mary Croker
- Catherine L. Pirkis
- Leonid Andreyev
- Anatole France
- Olivia Howard Dunbar
- Richard Le Gallienne
- Sax Rohmer
- Horace Walpole
- William Thomas Beckford
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Ann Radcliffe
- Jane Austen
- John William Polidori
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë
- Marjorie Bowen
- George W. M. Reynolds
- M. P. Shiel
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- S. Mukerji
Format:
Duration:
- 16237 pages
Language:
English
Frankenstein (1818 & 1831 edition)
Mary Shelley
audiobookbook
Mathilda : Roman
Mary Shelley
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Transformation and other stories (Legend Classics)
Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein : New Edition of Mary Shelley's Science Fiction Masterpiece
Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
audiobookbook
Mary Shelley´s FRANKENSTEIN : oder: Der moderne Prometheus
Mary Shelley
audiobook
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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The Greatest Writers of All Time: Series 2 : Homer, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Jack London, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle
Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Homer, Thomas Hardy, Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence
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The Giants of Literature: Series 2 : Complete Novels by George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence,
Homer, Henry James, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Louisa May Alcott, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
audiobookbook
Frankenstein : The Timeless Classic That Redefined Horror and Science Fiction
Mary Shelley, Bluefire Books
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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was born to well-known parents: author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin. When Mary was sixteen, she met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a devotee of her father’s teachings. In 1816, the two of them travelled to Geneva to stay with Lord Byron. One evening, while they shared ghost stories, Lord Byron proposed that they each write a ghost story of their own. Frankenstein was Mary’s contribution. Other works of hers include Mathilda, The Last Man, and The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.
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Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland. Stoker was a sickly child who was frequently bedridden; his mother entertained him by telling frightening stories and fables during his bouts of illness. Stoker studied math at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1867. He worked as a civil servant, freelance journalist, drama critic, editor and, most notably, as manager of the Lyceum Theatre. Although best known for Dracula, Stoker wrote eighteen other books, including Under the Sunset, The Snake’s Pass, The Jewel of Seven Stars, The Lady of the Shroud, and The Lair of the White Worm. He died in 1912 at the age of sixty-four.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American writer, highly regarded as one of the key proponents of literary realism, as well as for his contributions to literary criticism. His writing centres on the clash and overlap between Europe and America, and is regarded as his most notable work.
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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
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Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) began his literary career writing articles and short stories for Dickens' periodicals. He published a biography of his father and a number of plays, but his reputation rests on his novels. Collins is well known for his mystery, suspense, and crime writings. He is best known for his novels in the emerging genres of Sensation and Detective fiction.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in poverty. This experience influenced ‘Oliver Twist’, the second of his fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in 1870, he was buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey as an indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this day.
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Rudyard Kipling
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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Daniel Defoe
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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer, essayist and humorist. His most famous work is the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a realistic account of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
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H. G. Wells
English author H. G. Wells is best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics, and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. He was born on September 21, 1866, and died on August 13, 1946.
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) was an American writer of novels and short stories in the genres of weird fiction, horror, science-fiction, fantasy, and romantic fiction. He is best known for The King in Yellow, a short story collection published in 1895.
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Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion—which observe and critique the British gentry of the late eighteenth century. Her mastery of wit, irony, and social commentary made her a beloved and acclaimed author in her lifetime, a distinction she still enjoys today around the world.
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Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sister authors. Her novels are considered masterpieces of English literature – the most famous of which is Jane Eyre.
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Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. The novel’s violence and passion shocked the Victorian public and led to the belief that it was written by a man. Although Emily died young (at the age of 30), her sole complete work is now considered a masterpiece of English literature.
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