This unique collection contains classic stories and extracts by established masters of horror such as Bram Stoker, M R James and Sheridan Le Fanu. So prepare to be thrilled, and chilled, as their bloodthirsty imaginations take you on a journey of unimaginable terror.
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others
This collection of over forty of Anderson's most popular stories includes "The Ugly Duckling", "The Red Shoes", and "The Little Match Girl."
he Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is il…
Published posthumously, Northanger Abbey is , in fast, Jane Austen's first novel. The shortest of her works, it is also the wittiest -- a light-hearted satire of Gothic novels, which were wuire rage at the time. There is the seventeen-years-old Catherine Morland, who loves such books and readily believes such mysterious and dark events to be afoot in her own world. There is John Thrope -- vain …
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a Christmas Classic written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffman on which the famouse ballet The Nutcracker is based. In the story young Marie Stahlbaum's favourite Christmas toy, the Nutcracjer, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. The story begins on Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum h…