Tales of Unease

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840224061
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
HORROR & GHOST STORIES. Selected and with an introduction by David Stuart Davies, this gripping set of tales by the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle is bound to thrill and unnerve you. In these twilight excursions, Doyle's vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by "The Ring of Thoth" to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in "The Captain of the Polestar", we encounter a monstrous creature in "The Terror of Blue John Cap" and the beings that live above our heads in "The Brazilian Cat" and "The Leather Funnel"; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in Lot 249. Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers.

The New Uncanny

Author: Sarah Eyre
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
This collection brings together 15 specially commissioned stories by internationally acclaimed writers and filmmakers, to explore and update Freud's classic theory of 'The Uncanny' - his piercing and all-encompassing dissection of what gives us the creeps.

The New Abject

Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1912697459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia Kristeva’s theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and Georges Bataille’s societal equivalent – with visceral stories of modern unease. As we become ever-more isolated by social media bubbles, or the demands for social distancing, our moral gag-reflex is increasingly sensitised, and our ability to tolerate difference, or ‘the other’, atrophies. Like all good horror writing, these stories remind us that exposure to what unsettles us, even in small doses, is always better than pretending it doesn’t exist. After all, we can never be wholly free of that which belongs to us.

Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

Author: Chris Priestley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599906988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This spine-tingling novel has more than enough fear factor for the most ardent fan of scary stories. Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house, but regular visits from his nephew, Edgar, give him the opportunity to recount some of the frightening stories he knows. As each tale unfolds, an eerie pattern emerges of young lives gone awry in the most terrifying of ways. Young Edgar begins to wonder just how Uncle Montague knows all these ghastly tales. This clever collection of stories-within-a-story is perfectly matched with darkly witty illustrations by David Roberts. Look for the other spine-tingling book in Chris Priestley's Tales of Terror series, Tales of Terror from the Black Ship!

The Shapeless Unease

Author: Samantha Harvey
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802148840
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
“Sleeplessness gets the Susan Sontag illness-as-metaphor treatment in this pensive, compact, lyrical inquiry into the author’s nighttime demons.” —Kirkus Reviews In 2016, Samantha Harvey began to lose sleep. She tried everything to appease her wakefulness: from medication to therapy, changes in her diet to changes in her living arrangements. Nothing seemed to help. The Shapeless Unease is Harvey’s darkly funny and deeply intelligent anatomy of her insomnia, an immersive interior monologue of a year without one of the most basic human needs. Original and profound, and narrated with a lucid breathlessness, this is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and the will to survive, from “this generation’s Virginia Woolf” (Telegraph). “Captures the essence of fractious emotions—anxiety, fear, grief, rage—in prose so elegant, so luminous, it practically shines from the page. Harvey is a hugely talented writer, and this is a book to relish.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times–bestselling author “Harvey writes with hypnotic power and poetic precision about—well, about everything: grief, pain, memory, family, the night sky, a lake at sunset, what it means to dream and what it means to suffer and survive . . . The big surprise is that this book about ‘shapeless unease’ is, in the end, a glittering, playful and, yes, joyful celebration of that glorious gift of glorious life.” —Daily Mail “What a spectacularly good book. It is so controlled and yet so wild . . . easily one of the truest and best books I’ve read about what it’s like to be alive now, in this country.” —Max Porter, award-winning author of Lanny

Dark and Deep

Author: David Heaton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520403953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
DARK AND DEEPFive short stories of psychological/supernatural suspense by David Heaton.Featuring:SOMETHING OTHER: A widowed father faces the horror of seeing his only son abducted by a strange entity.But when his son returns, the real terror only just begins. SKIN DEEP: The secrets of your soul are known only to you. Aren't they? That's what one man believes until a violent near-death experience transforms his vision in a unique way. Battling against a sceptical medical profession and his own inner turmoil, 'Skin Deep' charts one man's reactions, mentally and physically, to the events of one horrific, life-changing night.ECHOES: Doing the right thing is always the best policy. So when a man out walking one day witnesses a bizarre and inexplicable event he duly reports it to the correct authorities.But that sets in motion a chain of events that begin to make him doubt his own mind...EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN: A loner settles in a new area to escape the pressures of the big city. For a while he enjoys it, glad of the change that the move has brought about. Then one day an innocent shopping trip unexpectedly transforms his life forever.SANCTUARY: When two men go on a crime spree in the Scottish Highlands they run into far more than they had bargained for. ('Something Other' and 'Sanctuary' previously published as individual stories. 'Echoes', 'Skin Deep' and 'Everything Under The Sun' previously published in the anthology 'Trinity - Three Tales of Unease')

Tales of the Grotesque

Author: L. a. Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957296206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
GROTESQUE TALES... UNEASY TALES... "The emaciated sodden legs beat a ceaseless march on the unresisting veil, like those of a gallows victim marking time in air. The battered, half-eaten arms clawed blindly at nothing. The eyes were gone, and within their ragged-edged hollows was manifest the coiling purposeful movement of reptilian life." ('Animate in Death') Squadron Leader Leslie Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in 1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and supernatural genre between wars. "Lewis undoubtedly earns a high place among the best masters of supernatural and macabre literature that Britain has ever produced." (Richard Dalby) "A brilliant collection." (Mark Samuels) FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.

Dark Companions

Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1609286626
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
When Elaine was working late at the office, she thought she was all alone. But something sinister was in the elevator shaft--working its way to her floor. Miles, too, thought he was alone in his new house, the house of a murderer, but he, too, had an unwanted companion. And Knox will never forget what had been waiting for him in the dense fog.

Damnable Tales

Author: Richard Wells
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1800180616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror – a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973). But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches’ curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers...

An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street

Author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher: Modernista
ISBN: 9180944272
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
»An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street« is a short story by L. Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1853. JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU [1814-1873] was an Irish mystery and horror author. He had an enormous influence on the horror genre in the 19th and 20th century, especially through his championing of tone and effect rather than shock factor. Among his most noted work is the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla [1872] and mystery Uncle Silas [1864].