San Antonio College Library

"These five novels present the entire panoply of Victorian thrills and chills at their best: pale ghosts wandering through the ancient chambers of a deserted mansion; the impingement of the restless, unquiet evil on the present; the Devil and bizarre witchcraft, strange magical dooms; love from the past and the no-boundary condition of death; hidden powers, occult knowledge, mental structures and weird magic not recorded elsewhere"--Back cover.

"Twelve ghost stories"--Jacket.

An anthology of ghost stories by Fifteen masters of the macabre features ghoulish horror tales by Ramsey Campbell, Sharyn McCrumb, Joyce Carol Oates, Gahan Wilson, Kathe Koja, Lucius Shepard, and other notable authors.

Presents a collection of ghost stories, including "The Hanging Judge," "The Seraph and the Zambesi," and "The Portobello Road."

"Ancestral Shadows collects nineteen of Russell Kirk's best ghostly tales from periodicals and anthologies published throughout his life. In the tradition of Defoe, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Coleridge, Poe, and other master writers, these frightful stories conjure the creaks and shadows of the very places where they came to life: haunted St. Andrews, the Isle of Eigg, Kellie Castle, Balcarres House, Durie House ("which has the most persistent of all country-house...

13 stories from the foremost British supernaturalist of the twentieth century.

Stories based on traditional Japanese folklore.