The Old "Gothic Hounds"...ongoing
Algernon Blackwood
14 March 1869 - 10 December 1951
Bio from the “Literary Gothic” Page
British author, adventurer, newspaper reporter, factory owner, "psychical researcher" — Blackwood's career and interests were varied, although he is best known now as one of the foremost authors of ghost stories in the early C20, perhaps one of the best ever. His own interest in and understanding of "spiritualism" as well as of human psychology is responsible for the impressive power and effectiveness of his ghostly tales.
"The Empty House and other Ghost Stories"
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14471
I read him decades ago and still do, especially the here mentioned Short Story - Collection.
Here you’ll find more Stories by Blackwood:
http://algernonblackwood.org/
Here the WELCOME-Text of this Page:
Blackwood Stories is your source of printer-friendly publications of Algernon Blackwood's immortal writings, novels, and stories. All stories are from the public domain and are formatted for any desktop printer. Stories are downloadable in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format and sized to a letter sheet. We realize that this is anachronistic in the age of e-books and e-readers, but a few of us still enjoy reading with paper in hand. And it's not fun reading a supernatural story on a computer! So enjoy these extraordinary tales!
MARJORIE BOWEN - Mistress of the Macabre
Marjorie Bowen...what can I say? In my opinion she was one of greatest
female writers who ever spun a yarn. She could write, she could (and still can)
glue ONE down to her/his divan. The times of coaches has passed but she'll live on.
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"She was frequently told she should never have been born. She was often informed that
she was too tall, too plain, & too gawky, & should expect to live out her life as an old maid."
Read the rest of the wonderful Essay
"Rose Petals, Drops of Blood:
The Life of Marjorie Bowen, Mistress of the Macabre" by Jessica Amana Salmonson
here: http://www.violetbooks.com/bowen.html
Food for the eReader or our tired eyes:
Collected Twilight Stories
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900561.txt
One of her best Books was an attempt to write the truth about
Richard III:
"Dickon (Richard III)"
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900531.txt
Alexander Huth - Greetings from Zoe
Alexander Huth (1838-1914)
This time your old Fairy Aunt has a special treat for all you
Gothic Hounds out there. Stop rummaging through flea-market stalls,
here's Alexander Huth's "Zoe's Revenge". Plain mad and a great read,
it tells the story of a murdered girl, whose skeleton finds use in a manekin
of a Doll-Maker. Re-animated, she's up to no good...
Excerpt:
"Peace, wife; it is only a doll," I ventured to assert. ' "Don't tell me!" cried Martha, boiling with fury.
"I don't mean to have dolls of that kind while I am mistress in the house!"
'Well, doctor, as I said, I was carrying the figure, the creature, the evil spirit, or
whatever you like to call it, into the next room, and endeavoured when there to place it on a
sofa; but it was only with the greatest difficulty that I could extricate myself from its
clutches; it would seize me again and again, holding me faster every time, until my wife,
wondering at my long absence, burst into the room, and insisted in putting an end to what
she called scandalous indecency."
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http://manybooks.net/titles/huthaoth...s_revenge.html
Oh,...before I forget: Check out his "Tales of the Wonder Club",
Spray a few cans of artificial snow around your chair,
light an open fire in the wastebasket and have fun with his
strange little tales.
Edmund Gill Swain (1861 – 29 January 1938) ...
...was an English cleric and author. As a chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, he was a colleague and contemporary of the scholar and author M. R. James, and a regular member of the select group to whom James delivered his famous annual Christmas Eve reading of a ghost story composed specially for the occasion. Swain collaborated with James on topical skits for amateur performance in Cambridge, but he is best known for the collection of ghost stories he published in 1912, entitled The Stoneground Ghost.
The Stoneground Ghost Tales (W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, Cambridge, 1912) is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country. The protagonist, the Rector of Stoneground, the Reverend Roland Batchel, is a kindly, humane bachelor and amateur antiquarian, not unlike Swain himself. The stories' style emulates that of James, although they have been described as lacking "the unsettling, anarchic malevolence" of James' own supernatural stories, and the book itself was dedicated to James. Some of the stories have made regular appearances in anthologies since their first publication, but the whole collection was republished in 1989 as Bone to His Bone: The Stoneground Ghost Tales of E.G.Swain by Equation, with an additional six stories about Stoneground and Mr. Batchel by the author David G. Rowlands, and again in 1996 by Ash-Tree Press.
...and here it is:
http://www.munseys.com/diskfour/stonedex.htm
Source of Bio and Review: WIKIPEDIA
Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA (21 December 1835 – 7 November 1924)
This delightful collection of classic ghost stories was the only foray into the world of supernatural fiction made by the renowned British architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson. Jackson was born in 1835 and rose to become one of the most distinguished architects of his generation. He spent much of his career working within the academic environment of Oxford, England and his work on many college projects is enduring and highly regarded. The internationally famous 'Bridge of Sighs' over New College Lane is notable among them. Perhaps it was his long association with the world of academia that fostered a love of the 'Jamesian' style of the ghostly tale. In any event his own literary efforts-executed late in life at the age of 80- fall satisfyingly within that tradition. This concise book is now very rare and among collectors of supernatural fiction is a highly desirable find on the antiquarian book market.
Source: Amazon
Here you go…swollowed best half past midnight by candle-light and a sweet old port:
http://www.munseys.com/diskthree/sixghdex.htm
Maurice Level (August 29, 1875 - April 15, 1926)…
…was a French writer of fiction and drama who specialized in short stories of the macabre which were regularly printed in the columns of Paris newspapers and sometimes staged by le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, the repertory company in the Pigalle district devoted to melodramatic productions .Many of Level's stories were translated into English in the magazine Weird Tales. As editor John Robert Colombo noted in Stories of Fear and Fascination (2007), Battered Silicon Dispatch Box French critics see Level as the heir of the Symbolist writer Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; British critics, as the successor of Edgar Allan Poe; American critics, as the contemporary of H. P. Lovecraft. Of this fiction, Lovecraft himself observed in Supernatural Horror in Literature (1945), "This type, however, is less a part of the weird tradition than a class peculiar to itself--the so-called conte cruel, in which the wrenching of the emotions is accomplished through dramatic tantalizations, frustrations, and gruesome physical horrors." Critic Philippe Gontier wrote, "We can only admire, now almost one hundred years later, the great artistry with which Maurice Level fabricated his plots, with what care he fashioned all the details of their unfolding and how with a master's hand he managed the building of suspense."
Source: Wikipedia
One of his Best:
THOSE WHO RETURN
http://http://www.amalgamatedspooks.com/return.htm
Ralph Adams Cram,(1863 – 1942)
...was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic style.Cram also wrote fiction. A number of his stories, notably "The Dead Valley", were published in a collection entitled Black Spirits and White (Stone & Kimball, 1895). The collection has been called "one of the undeniable classics of weird fiction". H. P. Lovecraft wrote, "In 'The Dead Valley' the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description."
Source: Wikipedia
Here's the above mentioned Collection. A recommendation from Yours truly...
Black Spirits and White
http://www.munseys.com/diskseven/blaswdex.htm
