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Tales where magic and nature meet by one of the greatest Weird Fiction writers of the Twentieth Century.

1974 (reprint of the 1967 publication)
Their problems were solved: the poor they no longer had with them; the sick; the lame; the halt and the blind were historic memories; the ancient causes of war no longer obtained; they had more freedom than Man had ever enjoyed. All of them should have been happy.
The time is three centuries past tomorrow. The place is Earth, an Earth just beyond the horizon when science and technology have solved all problems - exxcept the 'why' of life...........

Black Colossus, copyright 1933 in the United States and Great Britain by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, June 1933
Shadows in the Moonlight, copyright 1934 in the United States and Great Britain by Popular Fiction Publishing Company for Weird Tales, April 1934.
Beautifully illustrated throughout by Ned Dameron

An account of Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. An outré classic of the macabre by William Hope Hodgson.Facsimile book.

Early Science Fiction set 200,000,000 years in the future when Earth's continents and nature are no longer as we know them and humans are ruled by Gods and Goddesses, overseen by the all-powerful Ptath.

Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. First British edition, first reprint (1926) First edition "A" to the otherwise blank first leaf. "First Published March 1926" stated on the copyright page.

Volume three-of four-of the ghostliest of Henry James' fictionHenry James was a notable American author who lived and worked in England for forty years of his life-becoming a nationalised British subject shortly before his death. He is especially remembered for his portrayal of Americans abroad and for the creativity and freedom he displayed within his diverse literary perspectives. His novels remain highly regarded and continually read. Among them are Washington Square, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors and others. In any list of James' notable achievements one title frequently appears first-just as in every list of the most highly regarded supernatural fiction a James work is also certain to appear. That story is, of course, the novella, 'The Turn of the Screw'-a tale of creeping supernatural threat, terror, polluted innocence and inevitable tragedy. It is a deserved classic of supernatural fiction and true to the nature of such things subordinates James's other work in the genre almost to obscurity.… Read More

An outstanding Four Volume collection of the unearthly from the pen of a masterHenry James was a notable American author who lived and worked in England for forty years of his life-becoming a nationalised British subject shortly before his death. He is especially remembered for his portrayal of Americans abroad and for the creativity and freedom he displayed within his diverse literary perspectives. His novels remain highly regarded and continually read. Among them are Washington Square, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors and others. In any list of James' notable achievements one title frequently appears first-just as in every list of the most highly regarded supernatural fiction a James work is also certain to appear. That story is, of course, the novella, 'The Turn of the Screw'-a tale of creeping supernatural threat, terror, polluted innocence and inevitable tragedy. It is a deserved classic of supernatural fiction and true to the nature of such things subordinates James's other work in the genre… Read More

Classic Sci Fi, beautifully presented - would make an ideal gift. For those who know anything of the most outstanding British authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the name of Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) needs little introduction, for he wrote on many subjects. He is principally remembered as one of the 'Fathers of Science Fiction' and this six volume Leonaur collection focuses upon his writing in that genre—from the strange to the fantastical and scientifically prophetic—with which he will forever be associated. These wonderful and dramatic stories have been gathered together in these attractive, good value volumes in chronological order of original publication.In 'The Time Machine' (1895) an inventor-traveller visits several future destinations including a future populated by the gentle Eloi and brutish Morlocks. 'The Wonderful Visit' (1895) features an angel with dazzling plumage who visits Victorian England. In 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' (1896) a shipwrecked man finds… Read More

After a terrifying nightmare in outer space, Walter Franklin needed to discover a reason for living.
He found it in the ocean depths when strangers defied death to give him life.
Freedom to roam above and below the great waters should have been enough for any man - but Franklin was haunted by the memory of an echo.......an echo that could solve the oldest mystery of the sea........

The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact

Occult mystery from a master writer.

First cheap edition, published in 1933. Early classic Science Fiction

First reprint of first UK edition (1921) Fantasy novel set in historical France. Original green cloth boards with black design and lettering. Deckle edged.

When intrepid explorer, Joe Bodenland, escapes the twenty-first century and passes through a timeslip, he finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. But even more fantastically, he comes face to face with a real Frankenstein - a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction merge wondrously.

Classic Weird Fiction, with undertones of reincarnation. First US 1918 Edition, Second printing. Green cover. First US 1918 Edition, Second printing. Green cover. Original green cloth boards with black text to front and spine and edge design to front.

The novel is presented as the transcribed testimony of Jessop, who we ultimately discover is the only survivor of the final voyage of the Mortzestus, having been rescued from drowning by the crew of the passing Sangier.
"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power." — H.P. Lovecraft

A haunting tale of a young woman's search for her identity, combing a mystery with the deeper story of a young woman's haunting.

Classic ghost stories from the post-war years.

Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write 'Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the 'Age of Reason'.This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story. Work by writers such as Poe, Dickens, Hawthorne, Gaskell and M. R. James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America. Some of these stories, like the haunting 'The Lame Priest' are 'lost masterpieces' and several have never been anthologised before. Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling – tales of madness and violence, of shape-shifters and spectres, that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind – insanity, sexuality, death and the… Read More