Classic Ghost Stories

Tales from the classic era of ghost stories, one of the most popular and enduring fiction categories.

A selection of mysterious and intriguing tales from the shadows, featuring M.R. James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton and Algernon Blackwood, with F. Marion Crawford’s The Doll’s Ghost and Guy de Maupassant’s The Apparition.

FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Lisa Tuttle is an award-winning American-born writer living in Scotland who has been writing (and reading) ghost stories for more than fifty years. Three of her short story collections, including the latest, Riding the Nightmare, are in print. Her first novel, Windhaven, was written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin. Her most recent novel, The Curious Affair of the Missing Mummies, is the third in a series of supernaturally tinged mysteries set in 1890s London.