The English penchant for a good ghost story is well known. “As soon as five or six native English speakers gather round the fireplace on Christmas Eve, they ...

Thirteen Gothic stories created by English and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries introduce the reader to a world where the ordinary and the sup...

This collection of Gothic stories includes the best examples of “ghost stories” by English and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, dedicated to ...

Ornithologist Porter decides to visit the island of Eiern, shrouded in dark legends. Locals believe that mermaids and newts emerge from the depths of the sea...

The Greater Inclination was the earliest collection of short fiction from Edith Wharton. It was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on the 25th of March,...

The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of a woman plagued by scandal whose presence threatens th...

Like most Wharton novels, The House of Mirth examines the conflict between rigid social expectation and personal desire. Lily Bart is adept at playing soc...

Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan Frome, a man wi...

On the pages of stories by Anglo-American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, the reader will meet well-known fairy-tale characters and ghosts living in ...

The anthology offered to the attention of readers includes stories and short stories by English and American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, dedicate...

Ethereal inhabitants of abandoned castles, vast estates, city mansions and even cozy apartments. They can live in your bookcase too. American authors write a...

From the 749 stories he read about ghosts and apparitions, the famous English writer Roald Dahl selected 14 of the most interesting. Now you hold them in you...