Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts

Jan 27, 2010

The Terror by Arthur Machen

During the First World War in Britain a series of unexplained deaths and murders occur with no sign of who or what is responsible.

-- "The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal..."

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com and in PDF E-book format from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920414-34-4, 978-1-920414-35-1.

Jun 23, 2009

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland is a classic novel that facilitated the bridging of the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. The classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed this work by Hodgson as amongst his greatest influences.

In 1877, two gentlemen head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned the house. The diary’s torn pages hinted at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility.

You can view more about this title at the CruGuru website. It is available in paperback from Lulu.com. ISBN: 978-1-920265-77-9