Victorian Supernatural

Whatever you do, don't go on to the beaches at dusk, or the Sand-Walker will come to your window at night. Such is the sinister warning given to the new lodger at the Beach Farm, a lonely house on the North Sea coast of England. But who, or what, is the Sand-Walker?

A young man’s inheritance includes more than a house when an ebony-framed painting of a beautiful woman starts to exert a strange hold over its new owner. Could this lead to his tragic demise?

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was one of the major figures of 19th-century supernaturalism. He helped move supernaturalist fiction away from the gothic's emphasis on external sources of terror and toward a focus on the effects of terror, thus helping to create the psychological basis for supernaturalist and horror literature that continues today. "The Familiar" is one of his most terrifying tales.

The Poet, The Guardian, and The Ghost In The Poet, The Guardian, and The Ghost, journey to Richmond, Virginia, in 1849, where Edgar Allan Poe stands at the brink of triumph and collapse. At the height of his poetic powers, Poe is haunted by lost love and a looming future. Under Richmond's moonlit cemetery, reality blurs with the supernatural, and Poe’s fate becomes intertwined with beings who refuse to let him succumb to despair. A peculiar leprechaun stands vigil over Poe, an exiled creature driven by curiosity. Neither entirely benevolent nor wholly sinister, he is bound to Poe, ...

From the Author of The Afterlife Series Claude Deering is a unique man with a unique occupation. He lives a peaceful existence; drinking coffee, contemplating life and taking photographs of deceased people for a living. The year is 1877 and living in the woods on the outskirts of Bracken Knell, the post mortem photographer's life is about to take a dramatic turn. A boy is killed in the streets, a woman dies in his arms and skeletons are discovered on his property. A specter then begins to appear in his pictures and he is compelled to involve himself in the mystery of it all, being drawn in ...

Jesperson and Lane have just solved their first major case when a man bangs violently on their door - and almost immediately drops dead. The police rule death by natural causes, but the detectives are determined to find out what really happened... Mr Manning was screaming about witches before his death. The case takes them to Mr Manning's Norfolk home, a land of mysterious Shrieking Pits and ancient knowledge. Mr Manning was himself a member of the enigmatic School of Ancient British Wisdom, and not the first to suffer a similar fate.

Sherlock Holmes has taken on unusual and dangerous cases. Cases that involve shapeshifters, vampires and werewolves… Dark, power-hungry wizards…. But this time, it is different. It is personal. When he returns home, he finds a mystery growing around his own friends. One by one they are mysteriously vanishing. Taken by an invisible force, which can strike unexpectedly, his loved ones are vanishing without a trace. Can Holmes save the ones he loves this time? Or is Christmas going to be desolate and empty for him? Buy now.