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The Gateway of the Monster.The Red Hand.The Ghost Hunter to Sherlock Holmes the supernatural was a closed book: but other great detectives have always been ready to do battle with the dark instead. This volume brings together sixteen chilling cases of these supernatural sleuths, pitting themselves against the peril of ultimate evil. Here are encounters from the casebooks of the Victorian haunted house investigators John Bell and Flaxman Low, from Carnacki, the Edwardian battler against the abyss, and from horror master Arthur Machen\'s Mr Dyson, a man-about-town and meddler in strange things. Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward\'s \'The Ghost Hunter\', Robert Barr\'s Eugene Valmont (who may have inspired Agatha Christie\'s Hercule Poirot) and Donald Campbell\'s young explorer Leslie Vane, the James Bond of the jazz age, who battles against occult enemies of the British Empire. And the collection is completed by some of the best tales from the pens of modern psychic sleuth authors.Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward\'s \'The Ghost Hunter\', Robert Barr\'s Eugene Valmont (who may have inspired Agatha Christie\'s Hercule Poirot) and Donald Campbell\'s young explorer Leslie Vane, the James Bond of the jazz age, who battles against occult enemies of the British Empire. And the collection is completed by some of the best tales from the pens of modern psychic sleuth authors. Más información

The wolf has always been a creature of legend and romance, while kings, sorcerers and outlaws have been proud to be called by the name of the wolf, it\'s no wonder, then, that tales of transformation between man and wolf are so powerful and persistent. This original collection offers some of the greatest, rarest and most unusual werewolf stories ever. From the forests of Transylvania to the ordered lawns of an English country estate, here are all the classic aspects of the tale. You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises - as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon.You will encounter shadows that lope under the moon, chilling howls, family curses, crimson feasts, the desperate chase and the deathly duel. But you will also find the werewolf in less expected guises - as an adversary for Sherlock Holmes, as a myth of the Wild West, and as a figure restored to its origins in folk and fairy tales. With an informative introduction by Mark Valentine that follows the traces of the werewolf in literature, and its links to Dracula, Jekyll Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, this superb collection will make you fear the full moon. Más información

Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of The Jungle Book, The Just So Stories and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story in which he was able to combine the strange and unnerving in order to draw the reader into the world of his own dark imaginings.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghost, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical local of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War; Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory.There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when they were first written.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.This collection presents the best of these strange tales in which ghost, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical local of India, to the leafy suburbs of England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War; Kipling provides us with a chilling array of experiences and images which will linger long in the memory.There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when they were first written.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.There is a timeless element to these tales which make them as relevant and as stimulating today as when they were first written.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés.Nota: el contenido de este libro se encuentra en inglés. Más información

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