The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1997-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312157012

This acclaimed series, winner of numerous World Fantasy Awards, continues its tradition of excellence with scores of short stories from such writers as Michael Bishop, Edward Bryant, Angela Carter, Terry Lamsley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A.R. Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen, and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions-all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1993
Genre: Fantasy fiction
ISBN: 9780312094218

Collection of fifty-two outstanding fantasy and horror stories, poems, and essays published in the English language in 1992, with summations of the year's writing in those genres, and a list of honorable mentions.

Irish Ghost Stories

Irish Ghost Stories
Author: David Stuart Davies
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509831452

Blend the wild and fevered Irish imagination with a wonderful facility for recounting a dark, compelling tale, add a dash of the supernatural, and you have a potent brew of spine-tingling tales. This anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from such masters as Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Rosa Mulholland. Within these pages you will find strange accounts of haunted houses, death warnings from beyond the grave, and revengeful spirits, all guaranteed to stir the imagination and chill the blood. The haunting tales featured in this beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Irish Ghost Stories have been selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Author: John Clute
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 1110
Release: 1999-03-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780312198695

Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.

Bogmail

Bogmail
Author: Patrick McGinley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786696606

A rediscovered classic of Irish literature, this darkly comic tale tells of murder and its consequences. Set in a remote village in the northwest of Ireland, Roarty, a publican and former priest, kills his lecherous bartender and buries him in a bog. When Roarty begins to receive blackmail letters, matters quickly spiral out of his control. Alive with the loquacious brio of his pub's eccentric regulars, and full of the bleak beauty of the Donegal landscape, Patrick McGinley's rural gothic novel is a modern masterpiece.

British Fantasy and Science-fiction Writers Before World War I

British Fantasy and Science-fiction Writers Before World War I
Author: Darren Harris-Fain
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction during a time when science, technology and industrialization made increasingly impressive inroads from the Enlightenment to World War I.A gradual emphasis on social improvement, including literature, involved efforts to increase literacy through expanding material to read. During this period, publication of newspapers, penny dreadfuls and dime novels lead to pulp magazines and other popular periodicals.

Cast a Cold Eye

Cast a Cold Eye
Author: Alan Ryan
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1943910413

Jack Quinlan, an American writer, travels to a small village in the remote western part of Ireland to research a book on the Irish Famine. The quiet, picturesque village seems just the place to spend a few months writing, but beneath its placid exterior lurk dark secrets. Why do the locals behave so strangely? What is Father Henning, the enigmatic parish priest, hiding? And what is the meaning of the strange ritual Jack observes in the cemetery? The search for answers will lead him to the terrifying discovery that the ghosts of the past linger on in the present, and they cry out for blood ... An atmospheric, haunting ghost story, Cast a Cold Eye (1984) is a slow burn horror novel that will keep readers in suspense until its chilling conclusion. ​

Great Irish Tales of Horror

Great Irish Tales of Horror
Author: Peter Haining
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1997
Genre: Death
ISBN: 9780760703793

A collection of scary Irish tales by various writers arranged in sections by story type.