The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
Seventy eight weird happenings are contained in this volume, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese co…more
Books
Spells Against the Evil Spirits of Babylonia (1903)
Babylonian and Assyrian incantations against various demons, ghouls, vampires, hobgoblins, ghosts, and evil spirits….more
The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (1825)
Guide to astrology and the occult by the mysterious “Raphael”….more
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1880)
Wirt Sikes, US consul to Cardiff from 1876 to 1883, describes the mythology and traditions of Wales, a land steeped in folklore….more
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Strange Stories
English translation of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nachtstücke published in 1816, a collection of supernatural horror short stories including his classic The Sandman….more
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
James Hogg’s masterpiece — part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought….more
Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster (1845)
19th-century reprint, with additional introduction by James Crossley, of Thomas Potts’ The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster, first publi…more
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
Deriving its title from the word for “ghost story” in Japanese this is a book by scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn in which are compiled an array of ghost stori…more
From India to the Planet Mars (1900)
A book detailing the seances of Hélène Smith including claimed contact with people living on Mars, involving the writing down of their language, as well as sketc…more
Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865)
A book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, ghosts everywhere and of any colour….more
Phenomena of Materialisation (1923)
English translation of Phenomena of Materialisation, a book by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing which focuses on a series of séan…more
Jap Herron: A Novel written from the Ouija Board (1917)
Jap Herron, the novel written, supposedly, by a deceased Mark Twain from beyond the grave, dictated via the medium of a Ouija board….more
