The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten: Tales of the Supernatural, Strange, and Bizarre

Description

Welcome to THE WEISER BOOK OF FANTASTIC AND FORGOTTEN. In these pages you will find a host of weird, supernatural tales featuring ghosts, witches, vampires, ominous crossroads, houses with secrets, haunted paintings, occult detectives and things that go bump in the night. THE WEISER BOOK OF FANTASTIC AND FORGOTTEN features vintage stories by masters of occult fiction including Dion Fortune, Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft and R. W. Chambers. Edited and introduced by leading occult author and scholar, Judika Illes, this selection of timeless tales will thrill and chill you down to the bones The stories: * "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker * "A Water Witch" by H. D. Everett * "The Ash Tree" by M. R. James * "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde * "The Haunted Orchard" by Richard Le Gallienne * "The Yellow Sign" by Robert W. Chambers * "Dagon" by H.P. Lovecraft * "The Horror at Martin's Beach" by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene * "The Trial for Murder" by Charles Dickens * "The Twisting of the Rope" by W. B. Yeats * "The Inmost Light" by Arthur Machen * "Blood Lust" by Dion Fortune * "The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood

Judika Illes is a spell collector, fortuneteller, crisis counselor, and spirit worker who has magicked herself out of many an emergency situation. She is the author of Pure Magic: A Complete Guide to Spellcasting and The Element Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Referent Book for the Magical Arts. She lives in New Jersey and workshops across North America. Visit her on the web at www.judikailles.com.

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