Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural

A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) is perhaps best known for his interest in topography, and for his stories set in Derbyshire`s Peak District. But he was also a master of mystery and horror, as this richly varied...

An Arsene Lupin Omnibus

Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the `Prince of Thieves`, one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond necklace from under the noses of the authorities. Young and handsome,...

Couching at the Door

Dorothy Kathleen Broster (1877-1950) is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, glimpsed in her early poems - `The Second of September 1792` is a fine example - and finding...

Dracula`s Guest & Other Stories

`On top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian...

Night Shivers

‘Moving, his candle was instantly extinguished, and in the very moment of being left in the darkness he saw, standing in the doorway, a woman, resembling her who had haunted his dream overnight. He rushed with...

Sherlock Holmes: The Game`s Afoot

Once more, the game`s afoot as Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street returns in twenty new adventures specially commissioned for Wordsworth`s Mystery & Supernatural series. The celebrated detective, along with his friend...

The Beetle

`I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle ` From out of the dark and mystic Egypt come The Beetle, a creature of...

The Complete Four Just Men

`We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfil our promise. You will die at Eight in the Evening - The Four Just Men` Criminals and malefactors beware! There is no escape from the sword of justice wielded by...

The Casebook of Sexton Blake

Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake! For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. Together with...

Voodoo Tales: The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead

`And behind him, like a misshapen black frog, bounded the Thing, its red tongue lolling out of its gash of a mouth, its diminutive blubbery lips drawn back in a murderous snarl`. Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into...