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The Phantom Coach: Collected Ghost Stories

1 review
Amelia B. Edwards, Paul Lowe

Ash Tree Pr, 1999

A superb anthology of Victorian-era ghost stories.
Amelia Edwards' The Phantom Coach (1-899562-82-6) is edited by Richard Dalby and gathers her best Victorian-era ghost stories under one cover. This satisfying collection proves the ghost story can have many themes and settings and still prove refreshingly different from tale to tale. This is the first to gather all her supernatural works under one cover.

In The Dark
Edith Nesbit, E. Nesbit

Ash Tree Pr, 2000

Edith Nesbit is today best known for her works for children: her 1906 novel THE RAILWAY CHILDREN is a classic of the genre. Yet Nesbit had a much darker side, which revealed itself in her tales of terror and the supernatural. Most of these tales were written before the author established herself as a writer of children's stories, and were soon overshadowed, to be nearly forgotten - with one or two exceptions - for almost one hundred years. ...

Figures in Rain: Weird and Ghostly Tales

1 review
Chet Williamson

Ash Tree Pr, 2002

A long overdue collection
Consider the genre of horror fiction and the names of certain authors will invariably pop in your mind. In many cases, they are writers who can creatively, repeatedly and quite often messily kill off the characters who appear in their books; readers of contemporary horror are not frightened so much as repulsed by scenes of violent, often supernatural death and gore. Author Chet Williamson ...

Bending the Willow

5 reviews
David Stuart Davies

Ash Tree Pr, 1996

Brett Actually IS Sherlock Holmes!
The author captures Brett as few Sherlockians (people who study the Holmes stories) knew him. His brilliant early performances contrast his later portrayals as his manic depression (and the mis-prescribed medications destroys his body) takes over his mind. The book covers every aspect of Brett as Sherlock Holmes but does not delve into his earlier life or roles. A MUST HAVE for all ...

Divinations of the Deep

2 reviews
Matt Cardin

Ash Tree Pr, 2002

An original voice
Having read many of Matt Cardin's essays on the stories of Thomas Ligotti, I was not quite sure what to expect when I purchased this book. Despite the sometimes condescending comparisons made between LIgotti's work and Cardin's, I would say that Cardin is more in the vein of William Peter Blatty or Georg Heym than Ligotti himself. Cardin clearly has more than a working knowledge of theology and ...

The Lady Wore Black and Other Weird Cat Tales

1 review
Hugh B. Cave

Ash Tree Pr, 2000

A horror and fantasy master
Hugh Cave has been writing since 1929--and at the age of 91 he is still active, one of the lasat of the popular writers who cut his literary teeth on the pulps. This volume contains some of his early stories, as well as some of his most recent--showing that he is still at the top of the field.

No. 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnackithe Untold Stories

1 review
A. F. Kidd, Rick Kennett

Ash Tree Pr, 2002

if you like carnaki
you'll love this collection. The authors take the references to cases mentioned in hodgeson's original carnaki stories and give them shape. I especially liked THE KEEPER OF THE MINTER LIGHT which had overtones of my favorite hodgeson book THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND. If you don't know who carnaki is he's an occult detective circa 1890-1910 and I recommend you read the original stories by william ...

Where Human Pathways End
Shamus Frazer

Ash Tree Pr, 2001

When four of Shamus Frazer's supernatural tales appeared in two anthologies in 1965, editor Charles Birkin hailed him as a 'welcome newcomer'. Yet this 'newcomer' had, in the mid-1930s, been acclaimed as a master of satirical irony, and a natural successor to Evelyn Waugh. In the intervening thirty years, Frazer had been a teacher in England, a Marine serving in Europe during the Second World War, and a lecturer in Singapore, where he wrote ...

The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales
Arthur Quiller-Couch, Paul Lowe

Ash Tree Pr, 2000

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - who published much of his fiction under the pseudonym 'Q' - was born in Cornwall in 1863, and the county, its history, and its people were to have a marked influence on his life and writing. After moving to London to pursue a writing career, the author returned to his native county in 1892, and maintained a permanent residence there until his death in 1944. He established a reputation as a literary critic and ...

Off the Sand Road: Ghost Stories

1 review
Russell Kirk

Ash Tree Pr, 2002

Otherworldly morality plays
Never mind the pretensions of the baby boomers and party-hardying Gen-Alphabeters who assume the conservative label today (why hello, P.J. O'Rourke! Hello, Ted Nugent!). Never mind the impotent "compassionate conservatism" of the frat boy in the White House Russell Kirk, who abandoned this earthly plane in 1994, was truly the last REAL conservative - the kind that sought refuge in prescription; ...

Summoning Knells and Other Inventions

1 review
A. F. Kidd

Ash Tree Pr, 2000

"What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!"
Chico Kidd (a.k.a A.F. Kidd) is an avid campanologist and many of the forty-seven stories in this collection involve ghostly encounters in or near Old English bell towers. If you've read Dorothy Sayers's classic mystery, "The Nine Tailors" and thought you'd like to learn more about bell-ringing, "Summoning Knells" will cater to your whim in a satisfyingly supernatural manner. Kidd's ghosts are ...

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