Reprint of the first Tower Book Edition. The best stories from the four books by James. Includes "The Mezzotint" and "Cannon Alberie's Scrap Book" and other book stories. 319 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James is the title of M. R. James' omnibus collection of ghost stories, published in 1931, bringing together all but four of his ghost stories (which had yet to be published).Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was a medievalist scholar; Provost of King's College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a quiet, scholarly protagonist getting caught up in the activities of supernatural forces. The details of horror are almost never explicit, the stories relying on a gentle, bucolic background to emphasize the awfulness of the otherworldly intrusions.Contents of the original edition:"Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book""Lost Hearts""The Mezzotint""The Ash Tree""Number 13""Count Magnus""'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'""The Treasure of Abbot Thomas""A School Story""The Rose Garden""The Tractate Middoth""Casting the Runes""The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral""Martin's Close""Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance""The Residence at Whitminster""The Diary of Mr Poynter""An Episode of Cathedral History""The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance""Two Doctors""The Haunted Dolls' House""The Uncommon Prayer-Book""A Neighbour's Landmark""A View from a Hill""A Warning to the Curious""An Evening's Entertainment""Wailing Well""There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard""Rats""After Dark in the Playing Fields"

The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in. When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape.

Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds. Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters, and the mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends. Elves lurk at our borders and hunger for our flesh, while greedy princes care for nothing but their own ambitions and comfort. With a hellish journey before him, it's a good thing Brother Diaz has the devils on his side.

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.

THERE ARE FATES WORSE THAN DEATH. EVERY ONE OF THEM IS WAITING INSIDE.Prepare yourself for fifteen excursions into the absolute depths of lone survivor of a deep-earth expedition discovers Hell is a library of infinite shelves.A winter caretaker at an abandoned water park discovers a portal to a lightless ocean where continent-sized gods swim.An astronaut’s corpse, left floating in the void, reanimates and returns to the station...An office worker discovers a USB drive that converts pain into money.From the claustrophobic confines of a secret government bunker to the infinite, starry abyss found at the bottom of a water park pool, this collection is a showcase of unflinching, imaginative horror.Don’t expect to sleep. Don’t expect to escape. Don’t expect to survive.