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Diary of a provincial lady E. M. Delafield · 1930 · ★ 3.9 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The goal of the provincial lady is to maintain 'niceness', whether it be in the home, relationships or personal behaviour. 'The Diary of a Provincial Lady' first published in the 1930s is a witty celebration of the suburban British housewife between the wars. Shares: Community pick

John Silence Algernon Blackwood · 1909 · ★ 4.2 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A physician who treats cases no ordinary doctor will touch - a humorist whom hashish has opened to a presence in his house, a French town whose people are not what they seem, a fire elemental in a country house. Silence was not the first psychic detective, but nobody has done the type better since. Shares: English Occult fiction, English Paranormal fiction, English Ghost stories, English Fantasy fiction

Tales of Uncanny and Supernatural Algernon Blackwood · 1949 · 426p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Where reality fades and the supernatural begins… Algernon Blackwood is celebrated as one of the greatest masters of supernatural fiction. His stories don't rely on shock or gore—instead, they awaken a creeping unease, a sense that the world around us hides forces beyond understanding. The Complete Supernatural Stories brings together his most haunting and unforgettable works in one volume.… Shares: English Occult fiction, English Paranormal fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal

John Silence Algernon Blackwood · 1908 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A collection of five weird tales: A Psychical Invasion (set in London), Ancient Sorceries (set in France), The Nemesis of Fire (a mummy in England), Secret Worship (devil worship in Southern Germany), The Camp of the Dog (lycanthropy in Sweden), Shares: English Occult fiction, English Paranormal fiction, English Ghost stories, Supernatural

A thin ghost and others Montague Rhodes James · 1919 This volume of M.R. James's classic ghostly fiction contains: "Preface," "The Residence at Whitminster," "The Diary of Mr. Poynter," "The Episode of Cathedral History, "The Story of a Disappearance and an appearance," and "Two Doctors."About this volume, the author wrote: "I have had my doubts about the wisdom of publishing a third set of tales; sequels are, not only proverbially but actually,… Shares: English Ghost stories, Horror

The Human Chord Algernon Blackwood · 1910 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging It was an innocent enough advertisement but curious. "WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale... ' Robert Spinrobin applied. Later, struggling to keep pace with his new employer as they strode across the steep valleys around Skale's isolated house, he was swept up… Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Horror

Told After Supper Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1891 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This is a ghost story book. Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories. Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about spectres. It is a genial, festive season, and we love to muse upon graves, and dead bodies, and murders, and blood. There is a good deal of similarity… Shares: English Ghost stories, Short Stories

Never Whistle at Night Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · 2023 · ★ 3.8 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and… Shares: Paranormal, Short Stories, Horror

The Last Book of Wonder Lord Dunsany · 1916 · 142p · ≈ 4h · Challenging NOTE: THIS COLLECTION HAS BEEN REVISED AND EXPANDED AS FOLLOWS: -- In March 2016, we added 2 more short story collections! -- In April 2016, we added 7 uncollected short stories! -- Includes an interactive table of contents. -- Includes an introduction to "Tales of War" by Dunsany scholar Darrell Schweitzer. This mammoth volume of Lord Dunsany's classic short fiction assembles no less than 10… Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Short Stories

The elixir of life (Auriol) William Harrison Ainsworth · 1844 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life is a novel by British historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. It was first published in 1844 in serial form, under the title Revelations of London. Auriol, written 1844, is slightly unusual in the Ainsworth repertoire as the action is entirely couched as a fantasy, so that the supernatural element (which occurs also, for instance, in his Guy Fawkes and his… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

With the immortals Francis Marion Crawford · 1888 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

The Forbidden Zone Whitley Strieber · 1993 · ★ 3.3 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The mound, a quiet town gathering spot ... until now. Now something undeniably evil is hiding beneath it. A powerful darkness, terror with unfathomable needs and desires, spreading its roots in secret, transforming all that the good townfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, their souls.Courageous physicist Brian Kelley and his beautiful, very pregnant wife, must confront the horror.… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror

Ghost Stories Joan Aiken · 1956 · ★ 3.0 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate An exciting collection of tales from the twilight world of haunted houses and hair-raising spectres is contained in this spine-chilling anthology. Includes: THE RIDDLE | Walter de la Mare THE MONKEY'S PAW | W. W. Jacobs A TOUGH TUSSLE | Ambrose Bierce THROUGH THE DOOR (from The Phantom Roundabout and Other Ghostly Stories) | Ruth Ainsworth A PAIR OF HANDS | Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch MAN-SIZE… Shares: English Ghost stories, Supernatural, Short Stories, Horror

Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton · 1910 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Tales of Men and Ghosts is a collection of ten Edith Wharton short stories: "The Bolted Door," "His Father's Son," "The Daunt Diana," "The Debt," "Full Circle," "The Legend," "The Eyes," "The Blond Beast," "Afterward," and "The Letters." Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal

The Book of Accidents Chuck Wendig · 2021 · ★ 3.7 · 540p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror

Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871 · ★ 3.9 · 70p · ≈ 2h · Challenging First published as a serial in The Dark Blue (1871–72), Carmilla is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein (Carmilla is an anagram of Mircalla). The character is a prototypical example of the lesbian vampire, expressing romantic desires toward the protagonist. The novella notably never acknowledges homosexuality… Shares: Ireland, English Fantasy fiction, Horror

Ancient Sorceries Algernon Blackwood · 1906 · ★ 3.7 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Challenging By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows,"… Shares: English Fantasy fiction, Short Stories, Horror

Ghost story Peter Straub · 1979 · ★ 3.9 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule. Shares: Paranormal, Horror

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