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  • The Complete Father Brown Stories

    by G.K. Chesterton, Keith Carabine ...
    Series series Wordsworth Classics
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths.This complete collection contains all the favourite Father ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tales of Unease

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    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 ... Read more

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  • The King in Yellow

    by Robert W. Chambers, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Four Heavens

    A New History of the Ancient Maya

    by David Stuart ...
    Series series Unearthing the Past
    **“An extraordinary recovery of a lost world.”—Peter Brown, author of The World of Late AntiquityFrom the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilization across three millennia**The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendor of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Collected Ghost Stories

    by M.R. James, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror.As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R. James, ‘Stories I Have Tried To Write’, which accompanies these thirty tales. Among them are ... Read more

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  • The Dead of Night: The Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions

    by Oliver Onions, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.Oliver Onions is unique in the realms of ghost story writers in that his tales are so far ranging in their background and substance that they are not easily categorised. His stories are powerfully charged explorations of psychical violence, their effects heightened by detailed character studies graced with a powerful poetic elegance. In simple terms ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of the Yellow Room

    by Gaston Leroux, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    Introduced by Mark Valentine.The greatest French detective in his most fiendish case. Even if Hercule Poirot had been born a Frenchman, not a Belgian, he would have to take second place in detection to Joseph Rouletabille, the brilliant young sleuth created by Gaston Leroux.Here, in his first and most baffling case, the eighteen year old reporter astounds readers with his audacity and ingenuity. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gothic Short Stories

    by David Blair, David Blair, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’.This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of ... Read more

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  • Terror by Night: Classic Ghost & Horror Stories

    by Ambrose Bierce, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    'Nothing is so improbable as what is true'Of all the writers of ghost and horror stories, Ambrose Bierce is perhaps the most colourful. He was a dark, cynical and pessimistic soul who had a grim vision of fate and the unfairness of life, which he channelled into his fiction. And in his death, or rather his disappearance, he created a mystery as strange and unresolved as any that he penned himself. ... Read more

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  • Voodoo Tales: The Ghost Stories of Henry S Whitehead

    by Henry S. Whitehead, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    ‘And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its redtongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lipsdrawn back in a murderous snarl…’Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world ofvoodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of theliving are racked by the spirits of the dead. In this collection of rareand out of ... Read more

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  • Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories

    by David Stuart Davies, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' and James Malcolm Rymer's 'Varney, the Vampyre', a tale which held readers in thrall when ... Read more

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  • Further Exploits of Sherlock Holmes

    by David Stuart Davies, Matthew Booth ...
    This exciting anthology brings together the work of two much admired Sherlock Holmes writers. In these stories Holmes and Watson are engaged in daring exploits applying their razor-sharp intelligence in new cases. This e-book presents ten separate Sherlock Holmes stories: By David Stuart Davies The Reichenbach Secret The Adventure of the Brewer's Son The Secret of the Dead Murder at Tragere House ... Read more

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