Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics: Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein, ... Northanger Abbey, The Horla, The Willows…

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Contributor), Bram Stoker (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor)

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Content:
Mary Shelley:
Frankenstein
The Mortal Immortal…
John William Polidori:
The Vampyre
Bram Stoker:
Dracula
The Jewel of Seven Stars…
Gaston Leroux:
The Phantom of the Opera
Marjorie Bowen:
Black Magic
James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest:
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Washington Irving:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Charles Dickens:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Oscar Wilde:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Edgar Allan Poe:
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Black Cat…
Henry James:
The Turn of the Screw
The Ghostly Rental…
H. P. Lovecraft:
The Dunwich Horror
The Shunned House…
Algernon Blackwood:
The Willows
A Haunted Island
Ancient Sorceries…
Théophile Gautier:
Clarimonde
The Mummy's Foot
Richard Marsh:
The Beetle
Arthur Conan Doyle:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Silver Hatchet…
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:
Carmilla
Uncle Silas…
Ann Radcliffe:
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Italian
M. R. James:
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
A Thin Ghost and Others
Wilkie Collins:
The Haunted Hotel
The Devil's Spectacles
Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian:
The Man-Wolf
The Waters of Death…
Amelia B. Edwards:
Monsieur Maurice
The Phantom Coach…
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman:
The Wind in the Rose-bush
The Shadows on the Wall
Arthur Machen:
The Great God Pan
The Terror…
William Hope Hodgson:
The House on the Borderland
The Night Land
M. P. Shiel:
Shapes in the Fire
Ralph Adams Cram:
Black Spirits and White
Grant Allen:
The Reverend John Creedy
Wilhelm Hauff:
The Severed Hand
Adelbert von Chamisso:
Shadowless Man
Edward Bulwer-Lytton:
The Haunted and the Haunters…
Robert E. Howard:
Beyond the Black River
Devil in Iron
People of the Dark
David Lindsay:
The Haunted Woman
Marie Belloc Lowndes:
From Out the Vast Deep
Edward Bellamy:
Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

Genres: Horror

28152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 21, 2018

About the author

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.

The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.

The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.