Books like Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Ghost stories and legends of old Japan retold in English, among them the blind biwa player made to recite for the dead of a vanished clan and the snow woman who spares a young woodcutter on one condition.
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Eight ghost stories by the Cambridge medievalist, in which scholars, collectors and clergymen poke into old manuscripts, mezzotints and whistles found in the sand, and wake things that should have stayed asleep.
Thin Places
Chronister's first collection of dark fables, in which women and girls find the borders between the ordinary world and the other one wearing thin.
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Eighteen stories by the father of the Japanese short story, among them a servant sheltering from the rain in a ruined city gate and conflicting testimony about a killing in a grove.
The October Country
Bradbury's darkest stories, from a man who becomes obsessed with the skeleton inside him to a family of night creatures gathering for a homecoming in an Illinois house.
Ghosts
Ghost stories Wharton gathered at the end of her life, in which old houses, servants' bells and letters from the dead unsettle wealthy, well-mannered people who would prefer not to believe.
The Phantom Carriage
On New Year's Eve the drunkard David Holm dies in a churchyard, and by legend the last to die before midnight must drive Death's cart for a year; first he must face the people he has wronged.
Cursed Bunny
Korean stories that mix folklore, body horror and capitalist dread: a cursed lamp shaped like a rabbit, a head that rises out of a toilet, a woman whose body turns strange, all told with a sly, deadpan cruelty.
The Haunting of Velkwood
Talitha Velkwood was one of three girls who got out when an anomaly swallowed her suburban street in the 1980s, leaving everyone else there as ghosts. Decades later a researcher persuades her to go back in.
The King in Yellow
Stories of artists, lovers and madmen in New York and Paris, the first of them linked by The King in Yellow, a play said to drive anyone who reads its second act insane.
Julia
After her daughter's death, Julia Lofting leaves her husband and buys a large empty house in Holland Park, where she keeps glimpsing a girl who looks like her daughter.
Get in Trouble
Nine stories in which ordinary people meet the uncanny, from a girl who keeps house for the uncanny summer people up the hill to a fading star of vampire movies filming a ghost-hunting show.
Bliss Montage
Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.