Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House...

Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he create a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death,...

In this groundbreaking tale by H. G. Wells, a Victorian-era time traveller explores a distant and dystopian future populated by fragile Eloi and bestial Morlocks...

When a troubled schoolboy forges a cash coupon to pay off a debt, his deed starts off a chain reaction of tragedies that effects the lives of dozens, leading to thefts,...

First published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, two years after Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, this short parable tells the tale of Santa Claus...

This rip-roaring, 19th century adventure yarn by Anthony Hope tells us the adventure of Rudolph Rassendyll, who, thanks to his bearing an uncanny likeness to his distant relative...

The second in G K Chestertons Father Brown series, The Wisdom of Father Brown takes the famous detective cleric even further afield. To the hills of Sicily, the prisons of Chicago...

"By the table, in a wooden arm-chair, the master of the house was seated all in a heap, with his head sunk upon his left shoulder, and that ghastly, inscrutable smile upon his...

A volume of selected stories from Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Praised by Walter Scott and Lord Byron for its prose, this collection consists of...

This spine chilling tale by HP Lovecraft, depicts an unimaginable horror arising in the isolated village of Dunwich, which poses a threat to the whole world.Narrated by Michael...