The Horror Beyond Life's Edge: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales : The Mark of the Beast, Shapes in the Fire, A Ghost, The Man-Wolf, The Phantom Coach, The Vampyre, Sweeney Todd, The Sleepy Hollow, The Premature Burial, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Ghost Pirates…

Are you ready to step over the edge? This grand horror collection contains the greatest supernatural mysteries, gothic novels, dark romances & macabre tales:

Bram Stoker:

Dracula

The Squaw…

John William Polidori:

The Vampyre

James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest:

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Washington Irving:

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Rip Van Winkle

Edgar Allan Poe:

The Cask of Amontillado

The Masque of the Red Death

The Premature Burial

Mary Shelley:

Frankenstein

The Mortal Immortal

The Evil Eye

Gaston Leroux:

The Phantom of the Opera

Marjorie Bowen:

Black Magic

Oscar Wilde:

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Henry James:

The Turn of the Screw

The Ghostly Rental…

H. P. Lovecraft:

The Dunwich Horror

The Shunned House…

Charles Dickens:

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Haunted House…

Wilkie Collins:

The Haunted Hotel

The Woman in White

Richard Marsh:

The Beetle

Arthur Conan Doyle:

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Silver Hatchet…

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:

Carmilla…

Arthur Machen:

The Great God Pan…

William Hope Hodgson:

The Ghost Pirates

The Night Land

E. F. Benson:

The Room in the Tower

The Terror by Night…

Nathaniel Hawthorne:

The Birth Mark

The House of the Seven Gables…

Thomas Hardy:

What the Shepherd Saw

The Grave by the Handpost

Jane Austen:

Northanger Abbey

Charlotte Brontë:

Jane Eyre

Emily Brontë:

Wuthering Heights

Guy de Maupassant:

The Horla

Horace Walpole:

The Castle of Otranto

William Thomas Beckford:

Vathek

Matthew Gregory Lewis:

The Monk

Ann Radcliffe:

The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Italian

Théophile Gautier:

Clarimonde

The Mummy's Foot

M. R. James:

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

A Thin Ghost and Others

Ambrose Bierce:

Can Such Things Be?

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

M. P. Shiel:

Shapes in the Fire

Rudyard Kipling:

My Own True Ghost Story

The City of Dreadful Night

The Mark of the Beast…

Stanley G. Weinbaum:

The Dark Other

Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian:

The Man-Wolf…

Amelia B. Edwards:

The Phantom Coach…

Pedro De Alarçon:

The Nail

Walter Hubbell:

The Great Amherst Mystery

Some Real American Ghosts

Some Chinese Ghosts…

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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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