List of Unrecorded Horror, Ghost Stories and Weird Tales: Novels & Novellas

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This is a sequel of sorts to kadath's massively helpful Unrecorded Horror, Ghost Stories and Weird Tales thread (viewtopic.php?f=1&t=58271) and includes all of the weird/horror fiction novels and novellas I've managed to track down not referenced in the previously mentioned thread.
For all the short story collections in the genre(s) I've been able to track down, I created this companion thread:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89989&p=1972290#p1972290

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
Queen of Sheba (1877) [41,746 word count]
It tells the tale of an intriguing encounter between a young woman and a mysterious man who claims to be a colonel. The story unfolds with a mix of humor, romance, and a touch of the unexpected, making it an engaging read
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5705

Grant Allen (1848-1899)
Kalee’s Shrine (1886) [47,816 word count]
This intriguing, but little-known ‘imperial Gothic’ novel begins in dramatic fashion when an anglo-Indian infant is made a votary of Kalee, vengeful goddess of the Thugs. Years later, the baby has grown into beautiful Olga Trevelyan. But it soon transpires that Kalee’s nefarious influence still lurks in Olga’s unconscious mind, waiting to be reawakened.
https://archive.org/details/cihm_05048

Jaws of Death (1889) [13,859 word count]
A sinister tale of kidnapping and torture in Chinatown
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnpjl4

Maude Annesley (1871-1930)
The Door of Darkness (1908) [86,266 word count]
A study of the occult...
https://archive.org/details/the-door-of-darkness

Shadow-Shapes (1911) [80,402 word count]
Cutherbert Brocklehurst has hypnotized his wife so she will die when he does...Hypnotism as supernatural force.
https://archive.org/details/shadowshapes00anne

Anonymous
Wanted–An Explanation (1881)
Female occult detective Lady Julia Spinner investigates a haunted house purported to drive wives to commit adultery.
Part 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA104#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 3: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 4: https://books.google.com/books?id=4ys-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q&f=false

F. Anstey (1856-1934)
A Fallen Idol (1886) [93,622 word count]
an oriental deity exerts a sinister influence on a young artist
https://archive.org/details/fallenidol00anst

Herbert Asbury (1889-1963)
The Devil of Pei-Ling (1927)
Editor John Pelan calls this novel of "demon-possessed idols, giant toads, and bloody ropes appearing from nowhere" a minor masterpiece.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89032202756

Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)
The White Morning (1917) [32,649 word count]
A fictional account of the revolution in Germany that ended World War One. In this tale the uprising is a cross-class conspiracy of women, huge in scale but tightly organised from the top: led by an aristocrat who has betrayed her caste under the influence of wealthy liberal women from the USA.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13496

Josephine Daskam Bacon (1876-1961)
Medusa's Head (1926) [24,065 word count]
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015023160701

Elisabeth Balch
Zorah: a Love-Tale of Modern Egypt (1886) [49,851 word count]
https://archive.org/details/zorah.-a-love-tale-of-modern-egypt

Andrew Balfour (1873-1931)
The Golden Kingdom (1903) [161,897 word count]
This is a 'lost race' adventure novel, in the tradition of Haggard, in which a golden city inhabited by a bronze-skinned race ruled by whites is discovered in the interior of Africa.
https://archive.org/details/goldenkingdombe00balfgoog

Jane Barlow (1857-1917)
A Strange Land (1908) (as Felix Ryark) [59,203 word count]
a Utopian lost world novel
https://archive.org/details/felix-ryark-1908-a-strange-land

Martin W. Barr (1860-1938)
The King of Thomond: A Story of Yesterday (1907) [48,864 word count]
A young woman is sent to be a governess of a house on Thomond Island where she is tasked with caring for wax dolls made in the likeness of the dead wife and daughter of a mad scientist.
https://archive.org/details/kingofthomondsto00barr

Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
The Glimpse (1909) [82,403 word count]
concerns Maurice Loring, a writer on music, who suffers a heart attack and appears to die. His soul leaves his body and experiences the wonders of the afterlife. Described as a 'unusual contribution to the literature of the cosmic'
https://archive.org/details/glimpseanadvent00benngoog

John Bennett (1865-1956)
Madame Margot: A Grotesque Legend of Old Charleston (1921) [14,786 word count]
A good but strange macabre work reminiscent of Poe and associated with the Charleston Renaissance.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69430

A.C. Benson (1862-1925)
The Uttermost Farthling (1927) [24,601 word count]
Three men race against the ghosts of two evil men to uncover hidden secrets. Are the secrets better revealed or destroyed?
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Basil_Netherby/zk0PAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcover

E. F. Benson (1867-1940)
The Luck of the Vails (1903) [107, 634 word count]
The plot revolves around a cursed golden goblet that has been in the possession of the Vail family for generations.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57690

The Image in the Sand (1905) [147,333 word count]
E.F. Benson dives into Ancient Egypt and occult mysticism.
https://archive.org/details/imageinsand00bensgoog

David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918) [33,407 word count]
A second novel, David Blaize and the Blue Door, set in David's early childhood, was published in 1918.[2] In contrast to the first book, it is a fantasy in the style of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, set in a dream landscape permeated with nonsense.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48505

Across the Stream (1919) [96,304 word count]
A supernatural romantic melodrama, very much in the same vein as The Image in the Sand (1905)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37917

Henri Béraud
Lazarus (1925)
Considered an influence on H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time"
https://archive.org/details/lazarus_20230318

Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951)
The Extra Day (1915) [91,688 word count]
Algernon Blackwood's tale is about three children growing up in the Old Mill House in the Victorian era. When their Uncle Felix comes to visit, his magical storytelling and patience with the children impacts their lives significantly.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5894

Julius LeVallon: An Episode (1916) [104,205 word count]
A chance meeting between John Mason and Julius Le Vallon sparks a long-forgotten memory of a former life. Le Vallon reminds Mason of the Temple Days - a time hundreds of thousands of years ago when the two of them and a girl conducted a forbidden experiment which went disastrously wrong. The experiment unleashed the elemental powers of Wind and Fire, which Le Vallon has tried ever since to channel back to their domain. These attempts have always failed because the girl was not present. Now, as the story reaches its elemental climax millennia later, the three spirits are united and Le Vallon must face the ultimate challenge.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50107

The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath (1916) [112,424 word count]
It is a story of a love triangle in ancient Egypt that had a tragic ending, resulting in two deaths. Now, it is England, and the protagonist is a young boy who dreams of a wave. He believes that one day that huge wave will crash down on his life destroying everything in its path. His entire life is driven by this dream, as he gets more information from it - the love triangle resurfaces, he is one of the players that has been reincarnated for a specific purpose. Will they play out their same roles, or achieve new ones?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33876

The Garden of Survival (1918) [24,682 word count]
...The story is comprised of a narrative written to the protagonist's twin brother looking back on his short marriage to an artistically-creative young woman who was his short-lived wife and can be seen as signifying both a mesmerizing beauty embodying true love as well as possibly a dark force of seduction. The narrative mainly documents the protagonist's spiritual development through the years following his short marriage and the effect her embodiment still has on him, either through memory or ghostly presence.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4046

The Promise of Air (1918) [65,883 word count]
A man marries a woman who carries something of the spirit of air within her, something wonderful and birdlike. Only she loses that wonder, becoming someone quite ordinary and frightened of anything which might be extraordinary.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35132

Robert Blatchford (1851-1953)
The Sorcery Shop (1907) [52,099 word count]
A wizard creates a socialist utopia in England
https://archive.org/details/sorceryshopimpo00blat/

Christopher Blayre (1861-1943)
The Princess Daphne (1885) [91,103 word count]
a novel of psychic vampirism
https://archive.org/details/princessdaphneno00chiciala

Horace Bleackley (1868-1931)
Anymoon (1919) [104,587 word count]
an anti-socialist Dystopia set in a Near Future Britain
https://archive.org/details/anymoon

Mabel Fuller Blodgett (1869-1959)
At the Queen's Mercy (1897) [48,637 word count]
A lost race tale in the style of H. Rider Haggard's She
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100484604

James Blyth (1864-1933)
The Weird Sisters (1918) [70,546 word count]
a novel of mystery and witchcraft
https://archive.org/details/the-weird-sisters

A Hazardous Wooing (1907) [60,241 word count]
involves smugglers with occult powers
https://archive.org/details/a-hazardous-wooing

Ichabod (1910)
the UK over the next half century faces off in a future war through the use of a Matter Transmitter and a machine which reads malign thoughts
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ichabod/dkoPAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Guy Boothby (1867-1905)
Pharos the Egyptian (1898) [98,945 word count]
A grand mummy novel that is reminiscent of the Universal Studios mummy movies from the 1930s and the Fu Manchu novels by Sax Rohmer, though it pre-dates them all.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33610

Clarence M. Boutelle
Beyond the End: The Story of a Ghost's Year (1892)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100594901

John Bowles (1830-1900)
The Masked Prophet (1895) [35,621 word count]
Complex occult novel ... including an account of a spirit journey to a huge multi-planeted system far off in interstellar space.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435018469189

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
The White Phantom (1868) [157,142 word count]
Lady Blanche Vavasour resorts to murder when her former
art teacher and lover threatens to give her compromising letters to her fiance;.
After her marriage to the Duke of Arlington, Blanche attains the wealth she
desired, but is haunted by the avenging figure of the White Phantom - who knows
her murderous secret.
https://archive.org/details/whitephantomaro00bradgoog

The Conflict (1903) [147,741 word count]
The Conflict draws on the supernatural in its examination of skepticism and the conflict between science and religion.
https://archive.org/details/conflict00bradrich

W. Brodie-Innes (1848-1923)
Morag the Seal (1909) [91,928 word count]
The tale of a deadly woman who steals men's souls
https://archive.org/details/moragseal00inngoog

Old as the World (1909)
A rattling good novel, with hundreds of incidents on every page, a hero and heroine who seldom talk in anything meaner than capitals...Mr. Brodie-Innes belongs to what one may call the Exoteric Occult School of novelists
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433112045574

The Devil's Mistress (1910)
this is a fictionalised tale of the true account of the testimonials of Isobel Gowdie, a woman who claimed to be a witch obedient to Satan
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433112045582

For the Soul of a Witch (1910) [120,078 word count]
Set in the highlands of Scotland, a 16th century Knight embarks on a heroic quest for the Stone of the Wise. A tale of Romance, Witchcraft, and Exorcism
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010882560

Alice Brown (1856-1948)
The Wind Between the Worlds (1920) [78,755 word count]
The story of a mother who loses a son in the war and seeks to communicate with him in the afterlife.
https://archive.org/details/windbetweenworld00brow

Charles Brockden Brown
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (1799) [94,568 word count]
This classic of early American gothic literature is about a man suspected of committing murder while sleepwalking.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8223

John Buchan (1875-1940)
The Dancing Floor (1926) [89,717 word count]
Vernon Milbourne, orphaned since childhood and haunted by a recurring dream, is friends with the protective lawyer and MP, Sir Edward Leithen. An Aegean cruise takes them to the mysterious island of Plakos, where Vernon is fascinated by the island's myths. Local superstitions turn to menace as Vernon's encounter with a beautiful woman results in obsession and adventure.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000521990

Witchwood (1927) [114,358 word count]
Witch Wood is a story of seventeenth-century witchcraft in the Wood of Caledon in the Scottish Borders. The parish minister tries in vain to prevent devil worship and protect his protestant congregation.
https://archive.org/details/witchwood00buch

Robert Buchanan (1841-1901)
The Moment After: A Tale of the Unseen (1890) [26,251 word count]
...narrated by a prison doctor who comes across a manuscript claiming to describe the experiences of a condemned man after he was hanged.
https://archive.org/details/the-moment-after-a-tale-of-the-unseen

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
A Strange Story (1861) [182,222 word count]
This story is told from the perspective of Dr. Allan Fenwicke, a rational materialist if there ever was one. He publically debunks the spiritualist beliefs of his fellow physician Dr. Lloyd, and thereby hastens his colleague's demise. Soon after, the Mysterious enters Dr. Fenwicke's logical life in the form of the lovely and dreamy Lillian and the wickedly amoral Mr. Margrave.
Mr. Margrave may or may not be the evil Louis Grayle made young again with black magic. But our hero Dr. Fenwicke will brave all to rescue his Lillian
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7701

Zicci: A Tale (1876) [33,124 word count]
A precursor to Lytton's more well-known and celebrated Zanouni....The premise of a stranger of unknown background and with insights and powers unknown is the main crux.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7608

Arthur J. Burks (1898-1974)
The Great Amen (1938)
a story about a red-haired soldier who claimed to have come back from the dead
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002462381

Alice Campbell (1887-1955)
Juggernaut (1928) [108,985 word count]
Relentless, the Juggernaut moves from murder to murder--until he is discovered, behind the most innocent of masks... A story of medical science gone wrong.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27824

Terence and Patrick Casey
The Strange Story of William Hyde (1916) [78,183 word count]
Guarded from the world by fear, none had dared breach the Poonan’s stronghold, but wealth and power was all the encouragement one man needed to pursue the riches of Jallan Batoe and face the wrath of the Green, Green God!
https://archive.org/details/strangestoryofwi00case

Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933)
Some Ladies Make Haste (1908) [46,321 word count]
The protagonist, a student of mental suggestion, causes people to fall in love by posthypnotic suggestion
https://archive.org/details/cu31924021974765

Quick Action (1914) [59,224 word count]
novel of romance and buried treasure in Florida within an occult framework of predestination in which future events in the lives of her guests are shown in Countess Athalie's crystal ball
https://archive.org/details/quickaction00chamiala

Athalie (1915) [91,624 word count]
Further adventures within Countess Athalie's crystal ball!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27342

The Talkers (1923) [68,576 word count]
An occult fantasy, in which a medical examiner reanimates a murdered woman with two souls.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008917082

Karel Čapek (1890-1938)
The Absolute at Large (1922) [51,958 word count]
The story centers on the invention of a reactor that can annihilate matter to produce cheap and abundant energy. Unfortunately, it produces something else as a by-product, the absolute. The absolute is a spiritual essence that according to some religious philosophies permeates all matter. It is associated with human religious experience, as an unsuspecting humanity is to find out all too soon in the story. The widespread adoption of the reactors cause an enormous outpouring of pure absolute into the world. This leads to an outburst of religious and nationalist fervor, causing the greatest, most global war in history.
https://archive.org/details/absoluteatlarge0000unse

Krakatit (1925) [103,007 word count]
Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist Mr. Prokop, who was able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause. After an accident in the laboratory an exhausted Prokop tumbles into Prague when he meets Tomes, who takes him into his care.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015001801789

William Carleton
The Evil Eye; or The Black Spectre (1860)
The Evil Eye: Or The Black Specter is a novel written by William Carleton. The story revolves around the belief in the evil eye, a superstition prevalent in many cultures that someone can cause harm just by looking at another person. The protagonist, a young Irish girl named Ellen Connor, is believed to possess this power and is shunned by her community.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16004

Cheiro (1866-1936)
The Hand of Fate, or A Study of Destiny (1898) [23,330 word count]
A STUDY OF DESTINY is a tale of adventure and the supernatural set in Egypt and India in the late 19th century. It evokes the mystery and majesty of those ancient lands, and illustrates the tensions between those who rule and those who are ruled. Out of that tension a curse is born that haunts a man who must suffer for the sins of his parents.
https://archive.org/details/handoffateorstud00chei

Eleanor Carroll Chilton (1898-1949)
Shadows Waiting (1927) [84,642 word count]
It is primarily an intellectual novel, yet there is an exquisite and dream-like beauty about it that translates the theme to a plane where intelligence becomes more than acute analysis.
https://archive.org/details/shadows-waiting

J. Storer Clouston (1870-1944)
Two's Two (1916) [59,845 word count]
involves a man who takes a chemical potion which releases his alter-ego
https://archive.org/details/two-s-two

Mabel Collins (1851-1927)
Idyll of the White Lotus (1884) [35,378 word count]
This work contains a story which has been told in all ages and among every people. It is the tragedy of the soul...Idyll of the White Lotus is one of the best-known occult works of Mabel Collins.
https://archive.org/details/idyllofwhitelotu00coll

The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) [95,535 word count]
It is set an ambiguous time and place with a man who is instantly in love with this beautiful woman who it turns out is a magician. The story has them as reincarnated souls that are bound together throughout time. Fleta is attempting to join a mysterious order and fails. The plot of the book goes in many unexpected places but it is part fairy tale part occult.
https://archive.org/details/blossomandfruit00collgoog

Suggestion (1892) [51,520 word count]
A thrilling tale about murder via hypnosis!
https://archive.org/details/suggestion00coll

Morial the Mahatma (1892) [53,854 word count]
A complex and powerful study of black magic.
https://archive.org/details/morialmahatma00coll

Anne Crawford, the Baroness von Rabe (1846-1912)
A Shadow on a Wave (1891)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112069651633&seq=101

F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909)
Mr. Isaacs (1882) [82,042 word count]
Marion Crawford's first novel; a sketch of the (then) modern Anglo-Indian life, with a touch of Oriental mystery
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13340

With the Immortals (1888) [81,179 word count]
Spend an evening with immortal geniuses discussing the philosophies of life.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924021988039

Zoroaster (1891) [76,662 word count]
Zoroaster began as a good-hearted prince, but meets defamation at the hands of an evil queen. His meditations bring powers greater than mortal man.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16720

Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome (1902) [107,288 word count]
Cecilia and Lamberto sense that they have met before long ago. In their dreams they relive their past lives in ancient Rome which seeks to bring them together in the present.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31723

Theron Clark Crawford (1849-1924)
A Man and his Soul (1894) [67,513 word count]
The protagonist finds himself semi-occultly able to glimpse the future of America, a quasi-Utopia dominated by advances in technology.
https://archive.org/details/manhissouloccult00craw

S. R. Crockett (1859-1914)
The Black Douglas (1899)
Scotland in 1439. William, Earl of Douglas, most commanding figure in all Scotland is lured to Edinburgh Castle by a witch of France with whom he has fallen in love. The earl and his younger brother are beheaded by the scheming Scots ruler, and their sister and the Lady Maud Lindesay are carried off, captives, to France. James Douglas, with a party of loyal retainers, ventures to France to secure their freedom. To gain the castle of the necromancer Gilles de Sille, they are forced to battle a band of werewolves.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17733

T. J. Horsley Curties (1780-1856)
Ancient records, or, The Abbey of Saint Oswythe (1801) [248,862 word count]
Classic of gothic horror involving the spectre of a nun haunting unconsecrated ground.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100219501

J. Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889)
Bewitched (1928)
In the story, a young married woman falls in love with a priest and commits suicide when the infatuation comes to nothing. Her widowed husband, who had been ruined by the French Revolution, then sets out to kill the priest out of jealousy... it inaugurates the Normandy cycle with a flourish, and, with its parallel themes of passionate and satanic possession, provides a further commentary on its author's evolving attitude to his continuing preoccupations.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b317653

H. B. Drake
The Shadowy Thing (1925) [101,753 word count]
A weird supernatural thriller in which a character possesses the power of mind-transference, praised by Lovecraft in "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and believed to be influential on his stories "The Thing on the Doorstep" and "The Shadow Out of Time".
https://archive.org/details/shadowything0000hbdr

Cursed be the Treasure (1926)
The discovery of an ancient manuscript leads the search for buried treasure which holds a horrible curse.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063914314

Laura M. Dake
In the Crucible (1901) [51,813 word count]
https://www.google.com/books/edition/In_the_Crucible/GZgPAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

Charles Romyn Dake (1849-1899)
A Strange Discovery (1899) [64,041 word count]
Acting as a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, it follows the deathbed confession of a man who claimed to be a member of Pym's crew on his Antarctic expedition. He recounts the adventures that he and Pym encountered after piercing the mysterious white mist in that infamous account at the end of Poe's previous novel.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8665

Clemence Dane (1888-1965)
Legend (1918) [50,887 word count]
a novel where the recently departed Madala Grey would exert her influence on her friends through the medium of the ever thickening fog enveloping the house they are all gathered in, before finally appearing in person, though she died that very morning
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63775

Gratiana Darrell
The Haunted Looking Glass (1897) [17,000 word count]
a well-told ghost story
https://archive.org/details/the-haunted-looking-glass.-a-tale.-full

William Stearns Davis (1877-1930)
The Saint of The Dragon's Dale; a Fantastic Tale (1903) [23,112 word count]
https://archive.org/details/saintofdragonsda00davi_0

C. A. Dawson-Scott (1865-1934)
The Haunting (1922)
A book of paranormal suspense set in Cornwall, England.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t3222t04j

Warrington Dawson (1878-1962)
The True Dimension (1916) [64,086 word count]
occult novel of Parallel Worlds and the Fourth Dimension
https://archive.org/details/cu31924022351492

The Guardian Demons (1927)
Occult thriller of demonic assault and possession; an unusual modern variant on the Orpheus myth, as husband loses psychic wife to malevolent spirits, studies Black Magic to recover her soul. A spiritualist medium acts as his Charon in this quest, with fatal results.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858006938793

Thomas de Quincey
Klosterheim; or the Masque (1832)[65,803 word count]
when a mysterious, disguised figure known only as The Masque appears on the scene, apparently murdering and kidnapping Klosterheim's residents with impunity, terror runs rampant. Who can he be, and who is his next victim? The evil prince is determined to find out, and he devises an elaborate trap in the form of a masked ball, but little does he realize that The Masque is always one step ahead of him, plotting a deadly and inscrutable vengeance!
https://archive.org/details/klosterheimorma00mackgoog

H. de Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951)
Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story (1897) [26,165 word count]
The tone is notably eerie for much of the time. The supernatural element involves a long-standing curse and two of the characters having flashbacks of themselves as different people living about 200 years earlier.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55708

The City in the Sea (1925) [75,444 word count]
a Lost World novel about an ancient Greek city surviving Under the Sea
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102895654

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
A System of Magick; or a History of the Black Art (1840) [136,716 word count]
https://archive.org/details/systemofmagic00defo

Katharine Fay Dewey
Star People (1910) [54,183 word count]
Here, four girls illuminate the Star People’s adventures in a series of intricately woven tales of friendship, coming-of-age, and found family in the ever-shifting landscape of the celestial sphere.
https://archive.org/details/starpeople00dewe

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1905) with Wilkie Collins [40,000 word count]
Boasting two ghost stories from undisputed masters of the genre, it also uniquely demonstrates their glee in caricaturing themselves and one another
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/888

Francis W. Doughty (1850-1917)
Mirrikh; or, A Woman from Mars (1892) [104,527 word count]
eaves a fantastic story about the possibilities of trans-dimensional travel! The second part of this book will be of great interest to those traveling the spiritual path
https://archive.org/details/mirrikhorwomanfr00doug

Norman Douglas (1868-1952)
They Went (1920) [63770 word count]
In They Went, published in 1921 and set in a mythic city in Brittany during the late Roman era, Douglas presents an allegory of goodness pitted against beauty.
https://archive.org/details/theywent01douggoog

Edmund Downey (1856-1937)
A House of Tears (1888)
a fantasy featuring a half-man half-snake
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100262469

Brayhard: The Strange Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions (1890) [69,227 word count]
https://archive.org/details/brayhardstrangea00down

The Ugly Man (1896)
The Ugly Man concerns the disappearance of a great emerald. Detective mystery and horror elements are combined with humorous presentation
access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000004507E

London's Peril (1900) [18,768 word count]
set in the Near Future, warning against a Channel Tunnel being built by the French for an invasion plan
https://archive.org/details/londonsperil00downuoft

M. H. Dziewicki
Entombed in the Flesh (1897)
At the edges of the universe, an encounter between Lucifer and Phantasto results in a challenge to Phantasto to become embodied in a person living in the city of London, and thus experience human existence.
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003E6CA

Erckmann-Chatrian
The Forest House (1871) [42,286 word count]
But when the young girl falls into a coma, the old man tells the tale of the curse that has haunted his family since the days when a robber baron spread terror throughout the land, helped by the old man’s ancestor, the wild huntsman
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwjurd

Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1927) [110,652 word count]
The story follows the journey of a young man named Anselmus, who becomes entangled in a world of magic and sorcery after falling in love with a woman named Veronika. Anselmus is taken under the wing of a powerful sorcerer named Archivarius Lindhorst, who teaches him the secrets of alchemy and the occult. However, Anselmus soon discovers that Lindhorst has ulterior motives and is not the benevolent mentor he appears to be.
https://archive.org/details/sorcerersapprent0000hann

David Dold
In the Words of Silence (1920)
https://archive.org/details/AllStoryWeeklyV106N0319200131/page/n41/mode/2up

Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1853-1923)
Behind a Mask (1898)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9389309

White Webs (1912)
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/12186461

Dryasdust (1838-1914)
The Wizard's Mantle (1902)
A romantic fantasy of 17th Spain involving a hero with a cloak of invisibility
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/9351562

George Allan England (1877-1936)
Darkness and Dawn (1914) [187,863 word count]
The novels follow the adventures of Bernice and Allan as they awaken after a 1000-year sleep to find New York in ruins. They must struggle to find food and water and protect themselves from savages as they search for any remnants of humanity.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7463

Cursed (1919) [93,121 word count]
A former bloodthirsty sea captain attempts to discover a means of removing a curse that has been placed upon him.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48068

Paul Ernst (1899-1985)
Mask of Death (1936) [10,622 word count]
A weird and uncanny tale about a strange criminal who called himself Doctor Satan, and the terrible doom with which he struck down his enemies
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32905

Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904)
Solarion (1889) [34,799 word count]
A scientist looking to find a connection between electricity and its possible effect on the mind uses technological advancements to enhance the intelligence of a dog without understanding the consequences of doing so.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lippincott_s_Monthly_Magazine/LbYRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA297&printsec=frontcover

The Ghost of Guy Thyrle (1895)
The story of an unfortunate chemist who discovered a way to project his spirit out of his body and come back again
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010002713343

Wilbur Fawley (1872-1942)
Shuddering Castle (1934) [93,413 word count]
Science fiction horror novel of radio communication with Mars and a frightening but plausible visitor from the Jungles of Mars to the world, whose presence in the old spooky castle of an eccentric millionaire-scientist on Long Island causes great fear to its inmates when night falls
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71806

Claude Farrère (1876-1957)
The House of the Secret (1923) [52,094 word count]
A novel of psychic vampirism
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65709

William M. Ferrar (1823-1906)
Artabanzanus; the Demon of the Great Lake (1896) [104,660 word count]
As the subtitle suggests, this is an allegory, but the motif is of a lost race nature; i.e., a vast populous land under the ground that in some respects parallels various surface nations but differs in some technological and psychic sciences. The adventures taking place are fantastic in the extreme and view it as legitimate lost race despite its mild religious bent and dream-rationale
https://archive.org/details/Artabanzanus

Boyd Fisher
Immortal Andrew (1917) [56,953 word count]
Andrew Keppel is poised for success, about to be married to the lovely Eleanor Peabody and offered a cushy General Manager position over his soon-to-be-father-in-law's factories. All that changes after a burglar breaks in and steals his fiance's wedding gift and then Andrew is hit by a mail truck. When he awakens, he rushes home to find that his family is weeping over his corpse and he now inhabits the body of the burglar. And that's just the beginning!
Part 1: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-06_61_1/page/74/mode/1up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-07_61_2/page/351/mode/1up
Part 3: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-08_61_3/page/548/mode/2up
Part 4: https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1917-09_61_4/page/748/mode/2up


Mary A. Fisher
Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (1916)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100486937

Keith Fleming
"Can Such Things Be?" or, The Weird of the Beresfords: A Study in Occult Will-Power (1889) [51,070 word count]
Sensational weird thriller of murder, mayhem and madness embellished with numerous supernatural elements, including a family curse, ghostly visitations, a spectral violin with music, etc. Horror piled upon horror, as was the convention of the time, but entertaining as an example of the 'raw head and bloody bones' side of Victorian weird fiction, lurid and unsophisticated
https://archive.org/details/can-such-things-be-or-the-weird-of-the-b-1

Esther Forbes (1891-1967)
A Mirror for Witches (1928)
Doll Bilby is a young girl, denounced by a relative as being a witch, and then caught up in the hysteria of the Salem witch trials.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015003675520

Ronald Fraser (1888-1974)
Flower Phantoms (1926) [32,248 word count]
"The erotic awakening of a young woman . . . Judy, a student at Kew Gardens . . . is engaged to a personable young man who does not have the ability to arouse her, though she likes him, and she is disturbed by the utilitarian, materialistic life-philosophy of her businessman brother. She becomes more and more sensitive to the hidden life of the plants at Kew, and comes to see them as personalities, with the giant orchid in the role of passionate lover. . . . Told with delicate imagery and fine perceptions, a minor rococoism of art deco literature." - E.F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b242899

Landscape with Figures (1926) [65,832 word count]
Oriental fantasy based around the “experiences that have come in contemplating the landscape, flowers and figures in Chinese pictures and on their porcelain.”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3834498

Neal Fyne
The Land of the Living Dead (1897) [75,698 word count]
Castaways on uncharted island fall under seemingly supernatural power of life and death held by the Mighty Justin, Lord of the Land of the Living Dead.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086824877

Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Spirite: A Fantasy (1877) [45,452 word count]
The grand unconsummated love affair between a young man and a ghost, this is the haunting tale of Spirite - a girl who is hopelessly devoted to the protagonist, but dedicates herself to a nunnery in despair, and dies before he even notices her presence.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044014173728

Bertram Gayton (1893-1969)
The Gland Stealers (1922) [81,487 word count]
Gran'pa is ninety-five, possessed of £100,000, a fertile imagination, and a good physique. He sees in the papers accounts of the theory of rejuvenation by means of gland-grafting.
Nothing will satisfy him but that the experiment should be made upon himself. He acquires a gorilla, a hefty murderous brute, and the operation is performed with success. That is only the beginning.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48975

Wirt Gerrare (1862-1935)
Rufin's Legacy (1892)
features a Russian female spy who uses her astral body nefariously
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000004A11E

J. U. Giesy and Junius B. Smith
These two novels feature thrilling cases of Giesy's and Smith's famous occult detective Semi-Dual!
Black & White (1920)
Part 1: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750756&view=1up&seq=11
Part 2: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750806&view=1up&seq=32
Part 3: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750855&view=1up&seq=56
Part 4: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750905&view=1up&seq=78

Wolf of Erlik (1921)
Part 1: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071750715&view=1up&seq=5
Part 2: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071744866&view=1up&seq=30
Part 3: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071744916&view=1up&seq=76
Part 4: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435071744965&view=1up&seq=109

Inez Haynes Gillmore (1873-1970)
Angel Island (1914) [60,111 word count]
Five men are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by beautiful winged women
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4637

Out of the Air (1921) [52,574 word count]
David Lindsey, a young aviator, recently returned from France [fighting in the Great War, WW I], retires to an old house in New England to do some writing, and discovers gradually that the place is haunted. He soon finds out that his mysterious visitors are trying to give him a message which he cannot understand but which he soon realizes is becoming a matter of life and death.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38060

William Godwin
St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799) [195,062 word count]
St. Leon "is a genuine supernatural fiction: the cold-hearted Reginald St Leon meets a wandering Jewish alchemist who gives him the Philosophers' Stone, by virtue of which he can make gold, and the Elixir of Life, by virtue of which he gains Immortality"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53707

Nancy McKay Gordon
Her Bungalow: An Atlantean Memory (1898) [38,433 word count]
An occult novel in which two souls sent out of Heaven are reunited by faith in Atlantis.
https://archive.org/details/herbungalowatlan00gord

James Grant (1822-1887)
The Dead Tryst (1874) [48,888 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68789

A Haunted Life (1880) [50,793 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68790

William Child Green
The Abbot of Montserrat; or, The Pool of Blood (1826) [74,220 word count]
Green's abbot is Father Obando, a creature of one virtue and a thousand crimes who seeks religious power and sexual pleasure. He signs the contact of blood offered to him by the demon, Zatanai, then embarks upon a campaign of atrocities. He becomes the abbot of Montserrat by murdering the previous abbot and converting this holy fortress into a vast torture chamber.
Vol. 1: https://books.google.com/books?id=uQfp5tPZ4vEC
Vol. 2: https://books.google.com/books?id=N8RO4yIW0egC

N. Ter Gregor
The Star of the Sea (1897)
the protagonists of the tale, beginning in Persia in the sixth century BCE, finally achieve romantic union after travels Underground, Under the Sea, to the Moon, and into the deep past and to Victorian England via magical Time Travel.
https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003EB08

Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953)
The Sorcerer's Stone (1914) [50,226 word count]
The stone is said to have magical properties and Marjorie becomes obsessed with unlocking its secrets.As she delves deeper into the history of the stone, Marjorie discovers a world of magic and sorcery beyond her wildest dreams.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72378

Charles F. Grindrod
The Shadow of the Raggedstone (1909) [169,979 word count]
Long regional novel of dark deeds and the supernatural set in the Malvern Hills region during the twelfth century.
https://archive.org/details/the-shadow-of-the-raggedstone

Carl Grosse
Horrid Mysteries (1796) [186,255 word count]
One of the notorious "horrid" gothics that was spoken of in Austen's Northanger Abbey...The hero of the tale, the Marquis of Grosse, finds himself embroiled in a secret revolutionary society which advocates murder and mayhem in pursuit of an early form of communism. He creates a rival society to combat them and finds himself hopelessly trapped between the two antagonistic forces. The book has been both praised and lambasted for its lurid portrayal of sex, violence and barbarism.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001782287

Paul Gwynn (1868-1942)
Nightshade (1910)
A tale of a blind musician whose love for a beautiful woman leads him to run afoul of a mad doctor who promises to restore his sight through strange means.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nightshade/t7lDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

John M. Hanifin
The Blind Men and the Devil (1891) [as Phineas] [47,984 word count]
describes the experiences of a married couple who, mistaken for dead, are dumped into a river and discover an Underground world inhabited by a blind race
https://archive.org/details/the-blind-men-and-the-devil

John William Harding
A Conjuror of Phantoms (1898) [28,936 word count]
A short novel written in a lively style set in downtown New York, its hero an independent young man of such refined aesthetic sensibilities that he can "conjure phantoms." The story involves jewels, pawn brokers, rare books, crimes, a magic herb, and an eccentric and possibly immortal man.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100589087

Olive Harper (1842-1915)
The Sociable Ghost (1903) [54,091 word count]
Being the Adventures of a Reporter Who Was Invited by the Sociable Ghost to a Grand Banquet, Ball, and Convention Under the Ground of Old Trinity Churchyard, a True Tale of the Things He Saw and Did Not See While He Was Not There
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433043009319

Franz Hartmann (1832-1912)
An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians (1887) [41,010 word count]
Hartmann writes poetically about the beauty of the Alps and skillfully weaves the actual beliefs and practices of the ancient Rosicrucians into a tale that includes magic and an alchemical laboratory, mind-reading dwarfs, and unexpected revelations.
https://archive.org/details/withadeptsanadv00hartgoog

The Talking Image of Urur (1890) [91,017 word count]
Set in the Utopian City of Kakodumbala in Africa, from which perspective a Satire of Earthly Religions is mounted... The story represents the adventures of a 'theosophical Don Quixote' who seeks for wisdom everywhere except in the right place"
https://archive.org/details/the-talking-image-of-urur_202303

Among the Gnomes: An Occult Tale of Adventure in Untersberg (1895) [38,175 word count]
A team of modern scientists explore the Untersberg in order to disprove the existence of gnomes and Hartmann's protagonist, separated from the main party, runs smack into them. He teaches them logic, rationality and scientific method, resulting in their loss of natural innocence, war with the fairy realm, and the destruction of their kingdom.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73860

Julian Hawthorne (1836-1934)
A Goth from Boston (1919) [29,477 word count]
While on an errand to gently turn down a proposal from Cabot Selwyn, a Professor of Biology, Martha Klemm meets a most intriguing and alluring beauty--working in the service of the good doctor as mother maid! Fate and the forces of nature conspire to throw the trio together time and again: can the Doctor escape his ivory tower understanding of biology and embrace the human?
Part 1: https://archive.org/details/AllStoryV105N0119191220/page/n9/mode/2up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/asw-1919-12-27/page/185/mode/2up

Fires Rekindled (1919) [23,377 word count]
Against the backdrop of the Great War, an American visitor in London doing research on his ancestor is struck by a peculiar deja vu--much stronger than the mere sense he has been to the house where he is staying, he finds he knows of details that he could not possibly, even had he once visited in his youth. The strange sense sends him on a quest for knowledge to uncover a past-life love and solve a century-old possible murder!
https://archive.org/details/asw_1919_06_21/page/n69/mode/2up

D. F. Haynes
The Romance of the Castle (1841) [84,231 word count]
"This night an awful messenger sent from that dread tribunal from whose power there is no appeal, by signs terrific foretold my fate approached—foretold my final moment. “Catherine, behold!” was all that issued from the specter’s lips, but in its hand it held a scroll which fixed my irrevocable doom, in letters which fascinated while they appalled my sight."
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwkd8x

Ernest G. Henham (1870-1948)
Bonanza: A Story of the Outside (1901) [72,855 word count]
a tale of the Arctic Gold Rush in which prospectors stumble across a valley protected by a magnetic Force Field
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112046434384

Krum: A Study of Consciousness (1904)
a reincarnation fantasy
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/aeu.ark:/13960/t3cz4s96n

The Feast of Bacchus (1907) [85,552 word count]
In the remote hamlet of Thorlund stands the manor house known as the Strath, an eerie place that exercises a mysterious hold over anyone who enters it. The site of tragedy in 1742 when its owner, Sir John Hooper, turned highwayman and met his death on the gallows, the Strath has remained vacant for over a century, a pair of hideous masks its only occupants.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100324507

Furze the Cruel (1907) [143,993 word count]
Furze the Cruel is the first of Trevena's trilogy of novels focusing on life in Dartmoor, a land peopled by strange and often grotesque characters and haunted by pixies and witchcraft.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34543

William Henry Herbert
The Haunted Homestead (1840)
Part 1: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMgkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA185#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 2: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMgkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false
Part 3: http://books.google.com/books?id=uMgkAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA265#v=onepage&q&f=false

Paul Heyse (1830-1914)
At the Ghost Hour: The Fair Abigail (1894) [10,000 word count]
A man encounters the woman he once loved and is fascinated by her, eventually discovering that she holds a dark secret.
https://archive.org/details/fairabigail

At the Ghost Hour: Mid-Day Magic (1894)
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001197334

At the Ghost Hour: The House of the Unbelieving Thomas (1894) [13,035 word count]
The tale gives us a good picture of the two ghosts which seem to have all the foibles of regular people. They haunt a home, but the occupants are not really bothered by them.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33878

Robert Hichens (1864-1950)
Both his supernatural novels – Flames: A London Phantasy (1897) and The Dweller on the Threshold (1911) – depict the malign consequences of intensifying male relationships through spiritual means, the latter tale very vividly depicting the horrors of psychic exposure.
Flames (1897) [171,452 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14253

Dweller on the Threshold (1911) [52,288 word count]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14176

E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Devil's Elixir (1829) [129,380 word count]
In the novel The Devil's Elixir, Hoffmann recounts the creepy exploits of a monk who is driven to the brink of madness by a mysterious substance--and a mysterious, possibly demonic figure who bears a striking resemblance to the monk himself.
Vol. 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36494
Vol. 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37005

William Holt-White
The Man Who Dreamed Right (1910) [65,979 word count]
Science fantasy novel about Mymms, a humble British clerk who, while dreaming, can foresee the future. Ultimately, on the eve of a world war over who will possess him, he dreams something so horrible he cannot speak about it
https://archive.org/details/the-man-who-dreamed-right

Wilfred Keppel Honnywill (1879-1909)
Master Sinner: A Romance (1901) [25,274 word count]
Sensational novel of after-death experiences; skeptical philosopher receives letter from Hell, as promised by dead aesthete
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.202502

Sydney Horler (1888-1954)
The Curse of Doone (1928)
Returning to London from a job in Venice, secret service member Ian Heath rescues a woman from being kidnapped while at the theatre. He learns she is an orphan who has come back to England to stay with her uncle, an inventor who lives in an old country house on the edge of Dartmoor. The house is reportedly haunted by the "vampire of Doone Hall".
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/x5x6Bi1_228C?hl=en&gl=us&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHg7qFoPSCAxX0lmoFHfr-B4AQre8FegQICxAH

Maude Lesseuer Howard
Miriam and the Mystic Brotherhood (1912) [125,968 word count]
The book follows the story of Myriam, a young woman who discovers she has a special gift of clairvoyance. She is taken under the wing of a mystical brotherhood, where she learns to hone her skills and use them for the greater good.As Myriam delves deeper into the world of the mystics, she uncovers a plot by a powerful and evil group who seek to use their own abilities for selfish gain.
https://archive.org/details/myriamandmystic00howagoog

Robert E. Howard (1906-1936)
Skull-Face (1929) [33,140 word count]
Mystery, terror, blood n guts, romance, treachery, death, fear, survival -- an awesomely delightful smorgasbord of mucking fisticuffs and mighty fun! Thick and dangerous plots filled with murky motivations and blood-thrilling battles of wit and brawn! Massive fists of powerful writing pummel the readers' senses into an euphoric overload until everything hums with the passion of a master storyteller.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71268

Black Canaan (1936) [13,023 word count]
A tale of the Southern swamps, and voodoo
brought from blackest Africa—a spine-freezing,
blood-chilling story of a beautiful
quadroon girl who wielded bitter magic.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71168

Emeric Hulme-Beaman (1864-1937)
Ozmar the Mystic (1896)
Occult mystery novel featuring Oriental adept who possesses, and uses, supernatural powers
https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000423EA

Fergus Hume (1859-1932)
The Gentleman Who Vanished (1890) [30,622 word count]
A dark and eerie murder mystery with themes of theosophy at play.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55417

A Creature of the Night (1891) [48,696 word count]
a young Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard. Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of the Borgias. How can such a crime take place undetected in the prosaic nineteenth century? And is the woman a vampire? a ghoul? or an altogether more earthly villain...?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55457

The Nameless City (1893) [56,176 word count]
A lost race story involving a nameless city in Majorca, serving as the capital of the Gypsy race.
https://archive.org/details/namelesscityromm00grai

Isabella Ingalese (1855-1934)
Mata the Magician (1901) [63,294 word count]
A rare occult novel set in the 1830s in New York state featuring psychic phenomena and reincarnation
https://archive.org/details/mata-the-magician

Linked Lives (1903) [60,113 word count]
Occult fantasy on the theme of reincarnation.
https://archive.org/details/linked-lives

Margaret Irwin (1889-1967)
Still She Wished For Company (1924) [73,943 word count]
The story moves between the 1920s and the 1770s, following two heroines...The two heroines can see one another from time to time, momentarily, through some rent in the fabric of time, but never manage to meet and interact. Their lives converge as Juliana's world is turned upside down; her father dies and her notoriously wicked and mysterious brother, Lucian Clare, returns to take his position as head of the family.Lucian recognizes a supernatural power in Juliana, and uses this to reach out to Jan through the ages.
https://books.google.de/books?id=qbRPvif8AncC

G. P. R. James
The Commissioner; or, De Lunatico Inquirendo (1843) [520 pages]
Satirical science fiction - a Lunarian is sent to Earth.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4rj4mq32

The Castle of Ehrenstein; Its Lords, Spiritual and Temporal; Its Inhabitants, Earthly and Unearthly (1847) [156,165 word count]
"... his masterpiece of terror ... a superb portrayal of a ghost-riddled castle"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50325

Edgar Jepson (1863-1938)
The Garden at No. 19 (1910) [63,453 word count]
Considered mandatory reading by Aleister Crowley for its stunning portrayal of modern paganism, The Garden at #19 is a masterpiece of terror and wonder worthy of comparison to the best of Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen.
https://archive.org/details/the-garden-at-19

The Horned Shepherd (1927) [24,290 word count]
Wander the magical world of the Valley of Fine Fleeces with a fascinating cast of characters. Meet Big Anna, keeper of both the pagan flame and Cross; a Princess aflame for a strange lover; an Egyptian Priest, steward of mysteries; Friar Paul, lean and sinister; and Saccabe the Black Goat, Father of Many Flocks. Above all you will encounter the mysterious Shepherd of supernatural radiance, among whose curls nestle two small soft horns. Events converge in the forest on Midsummer Eve at full moon as celebrants arrive with meat, bread and wine for the Feast. The Wise Ones recognize the Horned Shepherd as an ancient fertility god who should be sacrificed to enrich the land.
https://archive.org/details/the-horned-shepherd

George Lindsay Johnson (1853-1943)
The Weird Adventures of Professor Delapine of the Sorbonne (1916) [117,014 word count]
"Through a series of seances the professor changes his views toward spiritualism. The main story line ends with two marriages ... and includes a coup at the tables in Monte Carlo."
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56713

Mary Johnston
The Witch (1914) [106,659 word count]
A bold tale of witchcraft and deceit
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53109

Sweet Rocket (1920) [43,302 word count]
Sweet Rocket is an old Southern plantation where a few congenial spirits have gathered together and where the conversation gravitates naturally toward the finer things in life...A metaphysical maze
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56101

The Exile (1927) [64,577 word count]
in the indefinite Near Future, a great but unidentified country falls prey to a dictatorship; resisters, including the protagonist, are exiled to Eldorado Island, which he remembers, mysteriously, from three centuries previous.
https://archive.org/details/the-exile

Maurus Jókai (1825-1904)
Told by the Death's Head (1902) [89,411 word count]
It has humour, darkness, witches, Satan, thieves, love, 21 crimes in all. Very enjoyable, and excellent translation. Let the ruling begin!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34770
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Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943)
A Dead Man's Diary, written after His Decease (1890) [32,081 word count]
Recounts a dead man's journey through Hell
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72971

The Red Peril (1908) [57,160 word count]
envisages a plot to bomb “giddy, fashionable Brighton”,
masterminded by a quartet of “Nihilist, Anarchist” terrorists, made up of the Polish Vinski, the
Germans Heinzt and Schwynter, and an American Jew named Boker
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068971496

Jessie Douglas Kerruish (1884-1949)
The Undying Monster (1922) [75,300 word count]
With a vengeful werewolf and a dark family secret this is an early horror original crawling with supernatural suspense.
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/kerruish/monster/monster.html

Rufus King (1893-1966)
The Fatal Kiss Mystery (1928)
Ramier Bellamy kisses Drusilla Duveen good-by and prepares to make himself invisible. but something goes wrong with his experiment--and when the machine he invented starts to hum, it is Drusilla, not he, who vanishes!
That's just the first in a series of mysterious events that will keep you guessing--and wondering.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435010085041

Russell Kirk (1918-1994)
Old House of Fear (1961)
Russell Kirk's 1961 Gothic novel "Old House of Fear" delivers mystery, murder, mayhem, and a maiden in distress on a remote and haunted island in the Hebrides Islands of northern Scotland, along with some subtle satire on the politics of the era.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b102382

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940)
The General's Ring (1928)
A classic ghost story by Selma Lagerlöf. The notorious general Bengt Löwensköld is on his deathbed and his last wish is to be buried with a ring. After his death, the tomb is opened and the ring is stolen. Every person who comes into contact with the ring is visited by the dead general who soon terrorizes the entire village. The stolen ring lures everyone who comes into contact with it straight into depravity and now it's time to return the ring to the general before it's too late...
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015055072295

J. Sheridan Le Fanu
All in the Dark (1862) [98,061 word count]
...and it enables Le Fanu to express his opinions on a credulous bourgeoisie ‘addicted to the supernatural’ (Le Fanu 37). In addition, the text also, rather more slyly, interrogates its author’s own work and the genre which it defines. All in the Dark is a Northanger Abbey for the Victorian gothic, but it is a parody that did not, apparently, suit the times, when ghost stories were voraciously consumed, and hauntings were reported in the press like any other news story. On closer reading, however, All in the Dark is at once both a gothic comedy and a serious cultural critique.
https://archive.org/details/allindark00lefauoft

Guy Deverell (1865) [130,773 word count]
It's got everything a fan of old English Gothic mystery could want: very believable characters, set in an huge old English manor house in the countryside, so called hauntings, missing notes, cigars, sherry, brandy, and the list goes on.
Vol. 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41228
Vol. 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41229

The Tenants of Mallory (1867) [162,495 word count]
This story opens in the little Welsh town of Cardyllian. The hero is Cleve Verney, who falls in love with Margaret Fanshawe, the daughter of Sir Booth Fanshawe, who, in ignorance of his landlord’s identity, is hiding from his creditors at Malory, part of the estate of Lord Verney,—Arthur’s uncle,—who has brought Sir Booth to ruin. The two families hate each other. Arthur Verney marries Margaret Fanshawe secretly in France, to which country Sir Booth has departed. His uncle Lord Verney wishes him to marry a lady of rank; and he, being ambitious and knowing that his prospects will be at an end if his marriage is known, procrastinates. A son is born to him, but this only adds to his embarrassment. He hears that Lord Verney himself has decided to marry the lady intended for him; and he contemplates bigamy, in order to forestall his uncle. Death and madness ensue.
Vol. 1: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35467
Vol. 2: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35468
Vol. 3: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35469

A Lost Name (1868)
...When finally Sir Roke is found cruelly murdered in his chamber, an old family prophesy seems to fulfil itself, namely that the curse on the Shadwell family, which was brought about by a jealous wife’s suicide, is going to take its effect.
Vol. 1: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Lost_Name/SdsBAAAAQAAJ
Vol. 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_lost_name/YNQBAAAAQAAJ
Vol. 3: https://archive.org/details/alostname00fanugoog

Checkmate (1870) [152,584 word count]
a mystery story which centres on a strange and mysterious man with a disfigurement and a 'dark' past which he reveals to no-one.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38460

The Rose and the Key (1871)
A beautiful young heroine - A cruel and unfeeling mother - A one-eyed spy - A mesmerist - A lunatic asylum. These are the perfect components for a Victorian sensation novel, and in The Rose and the Key, J. Sheridan Le Fanu weaves them into a thrilling Gothic mystery.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp52849

Gaston Leroux (1868-1927)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1909) [112,150 word count]
Stangerson and her sweetheart Robert Darzac have just married and taken up residence in the Square Tower of the Fort of Hercules when Larsan strikes again. The attack leaves Stangerson frightened and confused, not only because she thought her nemesis dead, but also because she cannot figure out how he entered and escaped her room without notice. Only one man is capable of matching wits with Larsan, but when Rouletabille arrives in the South of France to investigate, he finds himself drawn deeper into his own past and his memories of a mysterious woman in black.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044021633326

The Bride of the Sun (1915) [63,966 word count]
Iconic pulp fiction involving a virgin maiden being sacrificed to ancient Incan gods!
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwki4g

Maurice Level (1875-1926)
The Grip of Fear (1911) [55,289 word count]
The story unfolds in the French countryside, where a series of gruesome murders have taken place, leaving the local community in a state of fear and panic.
https://archive.org/details/gripfear00levegoog

Those Who Return (1923) [47,956 word count]
Disturbing slice of madness, cruelty, perhaps murder.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Those_who_Return/2hiJOkg3vXIC

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
The Childermass (1928)
The novel follows the adventures of two Englishmen, Sattersthwaite and Pullman, presumably killed in the Great War, as they posthumously navigate a bizarre purgatorial afterlife while awaiting admission to something called The Magnetic City.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005169233

George Lippard
The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845) [273,044 word count]
A searing novel of violence and debauchery in Philadelphia, it was considered the first US bestseller for its lurid and surreal themes.
https://archive.org/details/quakercity00lipparch

H. S. Lockhart-Ross (1856-1935)
Hamtura: A Tale of Unknown Land (1892)
set in a Lost World Archipelago in the South Pacific, where two lost races are at war with each other.
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000033BF4

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937)
Medusa's Coil (with Zealia B. Bishop) [16,153 word count]
An unnamed narrator gets lost somewhere in Missouri and finds shelter in a decrepit house. The man who lives there is very old and he tells the narrator the story of his family's doom. It's cosmic horror combined with a tragic family story.
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/70899

Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947)
From Out The Vasty Deep (1920) [70,818 word count]
Set during Christmas, this is a book for Christmas. It has everything that we love about the season: Mystery, Murder, Haunted Houses, Ghosts, Sins Past and Present, Flickering Candles, Staircases.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11581

What Timmy Did (1921) [88,604 word count]
Years ago, Godfrey Radmore made a dramatic exit to Australia, and cut himself off from all his friends. Now Godfrey is returning to England as that thing wonderful to most people -- a millionaire.
Is it likely, the wise old doctor asks himself upon hearing the news, that a man of such changed circumstances would ever give a thought to his boyish love affair with Betty Tosswill -- however violent, piteous and painful as the affair was? Surely not . . . but has Betty forgotten?
He will learn soon enough -- for George will be staying at the house of Betty's sister Janet . . . where old doubts and grievances seem to live on despite all the years gone by
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17381

Alexander Lowson
John Guidfollow; or, the Murder of the Earl of Strathmore. A mystical, historical romance of Forfarshire (1890)
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000004A8C2

G. H. Lusty
Into The Unseen (1913)
There are adventures with tigers and fakirs, visions, trances, signs and wonders, and a love interest rendered fascinating by the mystical framework in which it is introduced.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100614431

Arthur Machen (1863-1947)
The Coming of the Terror (1917) [17,813 word count]
t's an amazing eco-horror story, where nature revolts against mankind...A condensed, re-edit of the previously released novella The Terror.
https://archive.org/details/centurymagazine94newyrich/page/n825/mode/2up

The Secret Glory (1922) [64,343 word count]
A sensitive young man is sustained through his barbaric schooling by thoughts and memories of the Holy Grail kept secret in his Welsh homeland. He embarks on a journey to find the Holy Grail and to become a Celtic mystic like his forefathers
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35637

Lucas Malet a.k.a. Mary Harrison (1852-1931)
The Gateless Barrier (1900) [63,555 word count]
The writer Laurence Rivers inherits a family mansion from his ominous cousin Montagu. He discovers a locked “yellow drawing-room”, left intact with its early-nineteenth-century feminine trifles (embroidery, letters, music). The room is haunted by a lovely ghost, Agnes, and Laurence is the reborn version of her original lover.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34619

The Tall Villa (1919) [51,755 word count]
The Copleys have had financial misfortune and are forced to leave London and settle at The Tall Villa. Frances Copley is soon abandoned by her husband as he heads off to achieve financial success in South America. While alone in the Tall Villa, she begins to feel a supernatural presence and wills it into being.
https://archive.org/details/tallvilla00harrgoog

R. M. Manley
The Queen of Ecuador (1894)
a red-headed Englishman discovers an Inca-based civilization in the Vale of Paucartambo, and weds a princess; back in the normal world, his daughter is threatened by a Mad Scientist doctor, but escapes.
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000004058A

Virgil Markham (1899-1973)
Death in the Dusk (1928) [124,351 word count]
This epic mystery story has a grim, fairytale-like flavor and its plot involves such phantasmagorical elements as an imperishable arm, a bone floating in mid-air, an enchanted duel between mediaeval sorcerers, a bleeding portrait and a cat that is impervious to gunfire.
https://archive.org/details/deathindusk00mark

H. B. Marriott Watson (1863-1921)
Marahuna: A Romance (1888)
The eponymous female, a member of an unknown Antarctic society living beyond a region of fire, perhaps the Earth's interior, is taken to England by the narrator. "... the last survivor of a separate Creation; she is supernaturally attractive but has no moral sensibility, and cannot adapt to the world of men.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Marahuna/4-xEAQAAMAAJ

Henry Crocker Marriott Watson (1839-1901)
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire or the Witch's Cavern (1890) [82,197 word count]
A man is brought back in time by a witch to warn of the eventual fall of the British Empire.
https://archive.org/details/TheDeclineAndFallOfTheBritishEmpire

Frederick Marryat
The Phantom Ship (1839) [136,733 word count]
A sharply written tale of adventure on the seas, the story of The Phantom Ship will grip the reader from the outset, drawing one into the vibrant world of Captain Marryat's imagination. It is the story of one Phillip Vanderdecken and his quest to release his father from an eternity spent commanding the Flying Dutchman.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21573

Florence Marryat (1833-1899)
The Strange Transfiguration of Hannah Stubbs (1896) [80,419 word count]
In this novel, the spirit of woman murdered by her jealous husband inhabits the body of his second wife and wreaks her revenge.
https://archive.org/details/strangetransfig01marrgoog

The Dead Man's Message [47,871 word count]
Professor Aldwyn wakes from a nap to discover that he is actually dead. During life he was a rational man of science, but he has now entered the spirit world and is forced to account for his actions on earth.
https://archive.org/details/deadmansmessageo00marr

Richard Marsh (1857-1915)
The Mahatma's Pupil (1893) [36,863 word count]
Genteel John Redford is accosted by a seedy fellow who begs for the price of a meal. His name is Mr. Pye and he claims he's a magician. How can this sleazy down-and-out, who talks like a stable hand, possibly be a weaver of spells?
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Mahatma_s_Pupil/VzgPAAAAQAAJ

The Chase of the Ruby (1900) [39,568 word count]
While in Africa, attempting to make his fortune so that he may marry his heiress fiancee, Guy Holland has a mysterious vision concerning his uncle and a ruby. He returns to England to learn that his wealthy uncle has died with only two heirs, Guy and his cousin Horace Burton. The will states that if, within the next four days, Guy can recover the ruby ring which his uncle had given to the actress/adventuress Gay Bewicke, he will inherit the entire fortune. If he does not recover the ring, the entire fortune will go to Burton.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40349

A Second Coming (1900) [56,143 word count]
In A Second Coming, Marsh imagines what would happen if the long-awaited second coming of Christ took place in present-day London. How would he be received in a modern, industrialized world that had begun to question the relevance of his teachings and had tacitly given up hope of his return?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38156

The Magnetic Girl (1903) [60,899 word count]
The Magnetic Girl is Marsh's quirky take on the story of Cinderella. Tomboyish and somewhat plain Miss Norah has always lived in the shadow of her lovelier sisters and is constantly talked-down to by them and their mother. One day she makes a wish that they experience the vulgarities and vagaries of her woeful life. Naturally her wish comes true.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64957

A Duel (1904) [86,475 word count]
They say that all is fair in love and war, and in this thriller from renowned British author Richard Marsh, what begins as a story of romance soon turns into something that more closely resembles an armed battle. Will the newlyweds overcome the evil in their midst and live happily ever after?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38054

The Death Whistle (1905) [510 pages]
It's both a fairy-tale love story and a crime novel. There is a ghost, but he's there for flavor more than anything.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_death_whistle/szMPAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

Sidney John Marshall (1866-1942)
The King of Kor: Or, She's Promise Kept (1903)
A continuation of H. Rider Haggard's lost race adventure She.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_King_of_Kor_Or_She_s_Promise_Kept/jwJFAQAAMAAJ

Helen Mathers (1850-1920)
Wrostella's Weird (1892) [28,078 word count]
https://archive.org/details/wrostellasweird00mathgoog

The Juggler of the Soul (1896) [42,611 word count]
A rare work of sci-fi interest, with themes involving Hypnosis, experiments in Medicine, and reanimation of the dead
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501866

The Sin of Hagar (1896)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Sin_of_Hagar/-SJAAAAAYAAJ

Charles Robert Maturin
The Albigenses (1824)
This is a magnificent blend of Gothic fantasy: battles, jousts, sieges, damsels in distress, wise hermits, evil witches, corrupt ecclesiastics - even werewolves...with plenty of comedy to leaven the horror, and some bromance to leaven the courtly love of knights for maidens.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007431982

John J. Meyer (1873-1948)
The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (1921)
A comedic take on dystopian future war involving astral projection, firing countries off into space, a sinister hidden mountain base and all other manner of weirdness.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Deer_smellers_of_Haunted_Mountain/F-0dAAAAMAAJ

Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926)
Possessed (1920) [60,010 word count]
Possessed is an occultish tale in which a heroic nurse in World War One who has a lover, and the Invention of a deadly strain of plague, are seen as conjoinedly malign
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22152

Bertram Mitford (1855-1914)
Sign of the Spider (1897) [88,740 word count]
...Left with seemingly no choice but to put a gun to his head, Stanninghame sets out with a slave trader, Hazon, into the country of the mysterious tribe of the Ba-gcatya, the People of the Spider. Stanninghame is a hardened adventurer, undaunted by danger or death. But even he is unprepared for the horror he encounters when he is marked out as a sacrifice to the monstrous spider-god of the Ba-gcatya!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27476

The Weird of Deadly Hollow (1899) [41,770 word count]
Years ago, it is said, "Moordenaar's Hoek" (Afrikaans for "Deadly" or "Murderer's Hollow") witnessed a horrible tragedy. Gert Van Niekerk, a Boer farmer, murdered his brother in cold blood during a terrible storm. Hanged for his crime, Van Niekerk's ghost haunts the land in the form of a spectral leopard that can appear and disappear at will. And, according to local legend, a "blood curse" haunts the Hollow, where, on dark and stormy nights, the horrible murder is re-enacted.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112052937965

Thomas Emmet Moore
The Haunted King (1910)
The novel begins with the death of King Robert III and the ascension of his son James to the throne. However, James is haunted by the ghost of his father, who appears to him in his dreams and warns him of impending danger. James is unable to shake off the ghostly presence and becomes increasingly paranoid, fearing for his own safety and that of his kingdom.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn5ns4

Enoch Anson More (1854-1932)
Out of the Past (1895) [58,824 word count]
...concerning a mummified woman from Ancient India revived by a 19th century American, and involves mysticism, possessions and adventure in good measure.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Out_of_the_Past/svdEAQAAMAAJ

Rosa Mulholland a.k.a. Lady Gilbert (1841-1921)
The Late Miss Hollingford (1868) [34,002 word count]
A Dickensian (in fact, Dickens was a fan) tale of melodramatic high drama and woe.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18991

Hume Nisbet (1849-1923)
Ashes: A Tale of Two Spheres (1890) [120,614 word count]
From the Preface: This is a mythological legend of ancient times, when gods and goddesses, with good and bad genii, prowled over the face of the earth and dictated the destinies of mankind- a fairy story, as it were, written for the benefit of grown children, and costumed up to date, so as not to offend the modern proprieties
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112052950273

The Great Secret: A Tale of Tomorrow (1895) [81,140 word count]
Begins as a novel of adventure with a conflict between anarchists set on destruction and the passengers and crew of a ship. The anarchists kill all the others and most of the anarchists come to a bad end. Three of the dead pass through the River Styx to a spirit world of almost static perfection where all the perfected spirits of the past together with a few immortals live in their own civilizations, which have been stripped of their imperfections.
https://archive.org/details/24180113.2318.emory.edu

Elliott O'Donnell (1872-1965)
The Unknown Depths (1905)
"An interesting occult novel of Egypt"
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uga1.32108011173427

Fred A. Ober (1849-1913)
John North in Mexico: A Tale of the Silver City (1892) [92,852 word count]
a lost race adventure
https://archive.org/details/johnnorthinmexic00oberiala

Samuel W. Odell (1864-1948)
The Princess Athura: A Romance of Iran (1913) [92,466 word count]
a historical fantasy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68174

Mrs. Oliphant (1828-1897)
A Beleaguered City (1879) [47,038 word count]
In the ancient fortress town of Semur in Burgundy, strange unnerving events are taking place, and an invisible multitude has gathered outside the gates: the spirits of the dead are returning to Semur. Eventually these spirits take over the city, and push the town's populace outside the gates.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11521

The Lady's Walk (1897) [32,098 word count]
Mr Temple, the narrator of this story, meets the Campbell family while travelling in Switzerland. He admires 28-year-old Charlotte ("Chatty"), who is a mother-sister figure to the rest; and he is pleased to be invited to their West Highlands estate, Ellermore, for the shooting. As his love for Chatty grows, he becomes aware how unlikely it is that she would ever marry and leave her family.
While on this visit he learns about the family ghost - an ancient relation who comes at sunset each evening to walk in the old beech walk known as the Lady's Walk, and whose footsteps can be heard going up and down the avenue. After he is approached twice by a mysterious veiled lady with a warning that Chatty's brother Colin is in great trouble, he and Chatty and her father rush to London - but will they be in time?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61954

Oliver Onions (1873-1961)
The Tower of Oblivion (1921) [142,646 word count]
The protagonist of The Tower of Oblivion (1921), having reached a certain point in middle age, is or believes himself to be living backward and growing younger.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34703

Harriet E. Orcutt
Empire of the Invisibles (1899) [28,333 word count]
"The Empire of the Invisibles" is a land peopled by the ghosts of those who have committed suicide.
Many of the ghosts have killed themselves because of poverty, unable to raise the means to support themselves. What happens to those who die by other means, the ghosts do not know. As ghosts, they are no longer subject to the physical needs of food and sleep. What sort of society will develop in this land of ghosts, non-material but still present in the world? Each individual responds according to his personality, inclinations and interests. Harriet Orcutt explores the possibilities of Utopia in an ethereal community, no longer subject to day-to-day physical needs.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/orcutt/invisibles/invisibles.html

Oudeis
Hell (1897)
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003E508

Condé B. Pallen
Ghost House (1928)
Science fantasy detective story in which a protagonist devises a means to extract and reproduce visually the impressions received by the walls of a house of a murder committed many years earlier.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ghost_House/00IPAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=ghost%20house%20Cond%C3%A9%20B.%20Pallen

Margaret B. Peeke (1838-1908)
Born of Flame (1892) [87,993 word count]
A Weird and fantastic story taken from the manuscript of a woman who died in an insane asylum. Relates her travels in India,Tibet and elsewhere. A Mass of Strange Ideas - Occult Powers - Origins of the World and the Races of man. This is a MUST for any student of the Occult.
https://books.google.com/books?id=QfNLAQAAMAAJ

Mary L. Pendered (1858-1940)
The Secret of the Dragon (1911) [99,104 word count]
A romance of alchemy and other occult sciences
https://archive.org/details/the-secret-of-the-dragon

F. E. Penny (1847-1939)
The Malabar Magician (1912) [90,462 word count]
Episodic novel set in imperial India, mostly criminal investigations of inspector Hillary, aided by the Kurumba, a fakir with genuine supernatural powers. Magical feats include clairvoyance and induced hallucinations, conjuring bats out of thin air, and giving a miscreant the soul of a monkey. In one episode a suspected were-leopard is exposed as cunning murderer.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Malabar_Magician/P5AOAAAAIAAJ

Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960)
The Grey Room (1921) [66,946 word count]
Whoever sleeps in the grey room will be dead by daybreak!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1577

A Voice from the Dark (1925) [78,057 word count]
A retired detective, John Ringrose, is inspired to solve one last mystery pro bono while staying at a hotel where a young boy died under suspicious circumstances. In the middle of the night, he hears the voice of the dead boy crying out from an empty room.
https://archive.org/details/voicefromdark0000eden

The Monster (1925)
A mystery involving dual personalities and child murder with supernatural elements.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435003741055

Frank Powell (1845-1906)
The Wolf-Men: A Tale of Amazing Adventure in the Under-World (1906) [83,420 word count]
Imaginative lost race adventure novel about the discovery of an underground world replete with monsters from earth's prehistory, others, such as giant spiders, and a race of vicious subhuman creatures, the wolf-men.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67866

Mrs. Campbell Praed (1851-1935)
The Brother of the Shadow (1916) [32,651 word count]
Praed followed Affinities with a more deeply occult novel, in which she included many aspects of occult experience, such as mesmerism, astral body projections, and twin soul theories.
https://archive.org/details/the-brother-of-the-shadow

The Soul of Countess Adrian (1891) [64,670 word count]
A weird novel of supernatural possession in which the soul of the dead Countess Agnes Adrian, a femme fatale who has studied occultism in the East, displaces the soul of a young American actress; a kind of vampirism.
https://archive.org/details/soulofcountessad00prae

Ambrose Pratt (1874-1944)
The Living Mummy (1910) [70,663 word count]
unique mummy book where the mummy becomes discovered by archaeologists working in Egypt. He is obedient to an evil mastermind who can become invisible and strangles his victims (for the high priest Phahmes).
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58944

J. V. Prichard
An Unlaid Ghost: A Study in Metempsychosis (1888) [41,810 word count]
A novel of the supernatural and reincarnation
https://books.google.com/books?id=YwVFAQAAMAAJ

J.B. Priestley (1894-1984)
Benighted (1927) [65,895 word count]
a classic 'old dark house' novel of psychological terror
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/vJpAAAAAIAAJ

William C. Proby
The Spirit of the Castle (1801) [61,912 word count]
Classic of gothic literature featuring a haunted portrait and other spirits that walk the night
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id%3Dnyp.33433074955240

Roderic Quinn (1867-1949)
Mostyn Stayne (1897) [33,335 word count]
Here, we are given the story of Mostyn Stayne, notorious smuggler, privateer and pirate and of the many bloody deeds he had done, and all the strange, inexplicable events that befell him
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mostyn_Stayne/Ek5at6K9-t4C

Arthur Ransome (1884-1967)
The Elixir of Life (1915) [84,635 word count]
a Gothic tale set in 1716 England whose protagonist is a reclusive and feared philosopher (like Victor Frankenstein, a student of Paracelsus and Cornelius Agrippa) who 200 years previously acquired the titular elixir of Immortality from his late mentor.”
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100008752

Earl H. Reed (1863-1931)
The Ghost in the Tower (1921) [13,693 word count]
The ghost in question is the shade of the Hungarian Emric Szapolyai, a general of King Mathias Corvinus. Dying in 1489, the ghost travelled to the Mediterranean, falling in with Christian and Turkish Pirates, then to the new world where he sailed with Morgan and Blackbeard
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58226

Paul Regard a.k.a. Perley Poore Sheehan (1875-1943)
The Haunted Legacy: A Gypsy Fantasy (1914) [60,952 word count]
https://archive.org/details/haunted-legacy-by-paul-regard

Forrest Reid (1875-1947)
Pender Among the Residents (1923) [278 pages]
Pender soon discovers himself to be among another group of residents as well: the ghosts of the dead haunt an old chamber, long disused, where a century earlier a tragedy played out, involving his great-grandfather Edward, his young wife, Roxana, and her lover. As Pender passes the period of his convalescence in piecing together the family history from dusty portraits and long-concealed letters, the haunted chamber begins to exercise its influence upon him, and the barrier that divides past from present and the living from the dead, begins to break down, leading to an eerie and unsettling climax . . .
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pender_Among_the_Residents/Hik1AAAAMAAJ

George W. M. Reynolds
Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals (1847)
This book followed Faust as he sold his soul to the devil...It includes the Borgias, hidden tribunals, secret societies, the black death, the eruption of Vesuvias, kidnapping and impersonation, poison, murder and devilry.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Faust/Q_EVnMeT_BsC?hl=en

The Coral Island; or, The Hereditary Curse (1849)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112000614526

The Necromancer (1857)
. On the Isle of Wight stands the ruined Castle of Danvers, whose forbidding walls conceal unspeakable horrors. In its Chamber of Mysteries, the names of five women are emblazoned in letters of fire-five women all seduced to a horrible fate by members of the Danvers family. What is the connection among these women?
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101032970855

Mrs. J.H. Riddell (1832-1906)
Fairy Water (1873) [56,135 word count]
...But the barrister has troubles of his own when he discovers that the uncanny legends surrounding his own country house, Crow Hall, might have more than a grain of truth in them. Moreover, it seems that the haunting at Crow Hall and the fate of the widow at Fairy Water are destined to become intertwined...
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fairy_water_A_Christmas_story/h_LAmyTCxtsC

The Haunted River (1877) [50,433 word count]
Indeed, the house seems too good to be true and Magraret discovers that the locality is said to be haunted by the ghost of a suicide. Soon, she has to contend not only with the possibility that the stories of ghostly neighbours might have more than a grain of truth, but also with the unscrupulous actions of the house's London landlord. Soon, the sisters are caught between earthly misdemeanours and supernatural forces intent on revenge...
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_uninhabited_house_and_The_haunted_ri/cxkCAAAAQAAJ

The Disappearance of Jeremiah Redworth (1878) [48,701 word count]
When Jeremiah Redworth fails to return from home, his family are understandably worried. As time goes on, it becomes clear that Redworth has died in mysterious circumstances that may never come fully to light. But they say murder will out, and when stories start spreading of uncanny goings on in the countryside around Redworth's former home, it seems that the troubled dead might succeed where the police have failed.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_disappearance_of_Mr_Jeremiah_Redwort/xIHkAuEjgRIC

The Nun's Curse (1888)

Conway, returning from Christian's banquet, spied and gave chase to a surviving, escaping nun. Before she died she cursed every future owner of Calgarry, that they may have no good of their wealth nor happiness in their home and that their family be always divided. Father against son and wife against husband. At the time of our story the curse has been totally realized for the last three centuries.
Vol. 1: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_nun_s_curse/KTMVAAAAQAAJ [297 pages]
Vol. 2: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_nun_s_curse/OTMVAAAAQAAJ [291 pages]

Leitch Ritchie
The Magician (1836)
A tale of magic, secrets, and betrayal, Leitch Ritchie’s 1846 novel set in France features several romances that must overcome the divides created by religion and class, while trust is tested by unknown foes with sinister motives
Vol. 1: http://www.archive.org/details/magician01ritc
Vol. 2: http://www.archive.org/details/magician02ritc
Vol. 3: http://www.archive.org/details/magician03ritc

Sax Rohmer (1883-1959)
The Romance of Sorcery (1914) [372 pages]
The present work is the only non-fiction book Sax Rohmer wrote. He was thirty when it was published, and it shows that by then he was a profound student of things occult. In this book he comes to the conclusion, in a very sane and reflective way, that the occult contains a great deal of truth which we can find only by the occult path.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013431786

The Golden Scorpion (1919) [63,658 word count]
Four brilliant men have died mysteriously -- and the only clue is the carved tail of a golden scorpion, left beside their bodies. The man behind the horror calls himself The Scorpion, and he clearly is a man of superior cunning. When the finest detectives of France and England join forces to stop The Scorpion before he can add a fifth victim to his list, the twisting trail takes them through the haunts of London's underworld to the seamy opium dens of Chinatown -- and from there into the Lair of the Scorpion.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18613

Fire Tongue (1921) [61,489 word count]
Detective Paul Harley investigates cases that go beyond your standard-issue crimes and misdemeanors -- his inquiries often veer into the realm of the supernatural. In the novel Fire-Tongue, Harley finds himself up against a shadowy secret society that will stop at nothing to achieve world domination.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1159

The Green Eyes of Bast (1920) [71,708 word count]
Psychic investigator Dr. Damar Greefe is strolling home. It's been a tough day, assisting the police. During this stroll, he feels someone or something watching him -- but when he turns to see who it is, he faces only emptiness. Then he sees a cat staring at him, eyes as green as jade. But when he goes to investigate, the cat has disappears!
Then the body of Sir Marcus Coverly is found in a crate headed out to sea. The ensuing investigation leads Dr. Greefe deeper into Egypt's mysteries. And into -- the Green Eyes of Bast!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15323

Grey Face (1924) [81,978 word count]
The horrible grey face. It appeared in Limehouse; it appeared in Soho, and in the most fashionable quarters of London, and one night a woman dies in an evil district gasping "The Grey Face -- The Grey Face." While Douglas Carey is trying to clear up a gigantic plot, the face appears to him and his reason totters. The girl he loves begins to mistrust him and accuses him of horrible deeds. The Grey Face appears to her and she joins with her lover in an attempt to solve the sinister mystery. The climax is tremendous, incident having followed upon incident with such rapidity, that the expose of the whole fabric is exceptionally dramatic.
https://archive.org/details/greyface00rohm

Katharine Metcalf Roof
The Great Demonstration (1920)
A tale of a love triangle involving mind control and astral projection gone awry.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Great_Demonstration/Fe8_AAAAYAAJ

Adrian Ross (1859-1933)
By One and by Two and by Three (1887)
https://archive.org/details/1887byoneby2andby3adrainrossdectemplebar

Sapper (Cyril McNeile)
The Green Death (1920) [11,200 word count]
A dinner party ends with a sudden death, and it is up to Major Bob Seymour to get to the bottom of the mystery, using his knowledge of exotic flora.
Part 1: https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1920bVol.LxJul-dec/page/n107/mode/2up
Part 2: https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1920bVol.LxJul-dec/page/n241/mode/1up

Frank Savile (1865-1950)
Beyond the Great South Wall (1899) [80,815 word count]
a classic romantic adventure that can be classified as both archaeological and cryptozoological fiction. The search for the source of strange ancient coins leads to danger in the Antarctic, both from the harsh environment and a monstrous creature.
https://archive.org/details/beyondgreatsout00masogoog

Nellie T. Sawyer
The Egyptian Ring (1901) [18,888 word count]
theosophically inflected romance features a scarab in a gold setting that once belonged to the historical Cleopatra VII and is now in the possession of her reincarnation in the modern world
https://archive.org/details/egyptianring00sawy

Robert W. Service (1874-1958)
Master of the Microbe (1926) [118,455 word count]
featuring a deadly "Purple Pest" virus developed by a German Mad Scientist who wishes to wreak vengeance on Europe for the German defeat in World War One by infecting the continent with plague
https://archive.org/details/the-master-of-the-microbe

House of Fear (1927) [124,974 word count]
Judge de Marsac, eldest son of an ancient family of French nobles, uses mind control to force his brother to commit violent acts, ultimately multiple murders in the guise of a werewolf.
https://archive.org/details/the-house-of-fear_202401

Frederick Henri Seymour a.k.a. Lord Gilhooley (1850-1913)
Maugis, Ye Sorcerer (1898)
A Wonderful Tale from Ye Writings of Ye Mad Savant of Ye Maison Maugis in Ye Olde Citie of Mouzon, France
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100495334

Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938)
Beauty’s Hour: A Phantasy (1896) [13,485 word counbt]
A plain woman wishes to be beautiful and one day discovers that she has the ability to transform herself into a beauty at will.
Part 1: https://archive.org/stream/savoy02symo#page/n123/mode/2up
Part 2: https://archive.org/stream/savoy02symo#page/n223/mode/2up

Mary Shelley
The Heir of Mondolfo (1877) [12,283 word count]
It tells the story of Count Odoardo di Mondolfo, a nobleman living in 19th-century Italy. After the death of his beloved wife, Odoardo becomes withdrawn and melancholy, but he finds solace in his young daughter, Imma. However, when Imma is kidnapped by a band of brigands, Odoardo must set out on a perilous journey to rescue her. Along the way, he encounters a series of colorful characters, including a cunning thief, a beautiful gypsy woman, and a mysterious monk. As Odoardo races against time to save his daughter, he must also confront the dark secrets of his own past and the treacherous politics of his homeland.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66545

Percy Bysshe Shelley
St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian (1811) [34,636 word count]
he main character is Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer, who encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.
https://archive.org/details/workspercybyssh01formgoog/page/n212/mode/2up

Elizabeth Shenkin
Midsummer's Nightmare (1960)
Sherwood Forest, home of Oberon, Titania, Puck, Cobweb, Peaseblossom and the rest of the mob, has been whittled away by urban development. It's time to move on, the fairies decide. Sid, their captive, a kindly if gruff young car mechanic, teaches Titania to drive, and on Midsummer's Eve the party sets off in a battered and smelly old bus. They're bound for the New Forest, where they hope to be able to regenerate their magic.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001752277

M. P. Shiel (1865-1947)
The Yellow Danger (1898) [125,560 word count]
a Future War tale in which a "yellow horde" invades Europe, under the malign leadership of Dr Yen How (a clear precursor of Sax Rohmer's Dr Fu-Manchu[/i]
https://archive.org/details/yellowdanger00shierich

The Lord of the Sea (1901) [83,972 word count]
THE LORD OF THE SEA, published in May 1901, is one of Shiel's most important and popular works. "... with the aid of a cache of diamonds recovered from a meteorite [Richard Hogarth] finances the building of giant floating fortresses that give him command of the sea-lanes. He uses this advantage to blackmail the nations into peace and social progress
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6993

The Last Miracle (1906) [77,290 word count]
Part of a loosely linked trilogy of science fiction novels, the first two being THE LORD OF THE SEA (1901) and THE PURPLE CLOUD (1901).
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41794

The Isle of Lies (1909) [264 pages]
Romance set on an island, combining themes of mad scientist, the creation of a superman and the conflict of scholarship and romantic love. "A tale of the power of suggestion written before the word 'suggestion' was in everyone's mouth, as now ..
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112002739024

The Dragon (1913) [392 pages]
Science fiction novel of future war between Britain and China.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112042037769

How the Old Woman Got Home (1928)
The incredible and uproarious tale of Hazlitt and the strange people who kidnapped his old mother...a science fiction mystery novel.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_the_Old_Woman_Got_Home/Ed0_AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

George Robert Sims (1847-1922)
The Devil in London (1908) [43,209 word count]
In this novel, the devil appears in Soho to cause mischief.
https://archive.org/details/devilinlondon00sims

Thorne Smith (1892-1934)
Topper (1926) [74,480 word count]
It all begins when Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners--the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab "summer of suburban Sundays" that is his life--and they commence a series of madcap adventures that leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Topper/HLsD5HaSDE4C

Edmund Snell (1889-1972)
Blue Murder (1927) [62,958 word count]
involves a mad scientist with a flame-like Ray which disintegrates its victims
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241570

Riccardo Stephens (1860-1923)
The Cruciform Mark: The Strange Story of Richard Tregenna, Bachelor of Medicine (1896) [144,442 word count]
Novel of occultism and crime in Fin-de-Siécle Edinburgh. The first-person narrator, a medical student, describes the rash of strange deaths in the city: all have a cruciform mark at the back of their necks and are reported to have acted hysterically in their final days.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.93635

The Mummy (1912) [90,007 word count]
Dr. Armiston, middle-aged bachelor and general practitioner, has his quiet and routine life interrupted when he is called in to consult on the deaths of two young men. One case seems to be a tragic accident, the other the result of natural causes, but they have one strange thing in common: the presence of the same ancient Egyptian mummy case in both men's homes. When Armiston learns that the sarcophagus is inscribed with a terrible curse promising vengeance on anyone who disturbs the mummy's repose, and as the series of deaths continues, the doctor will risk his own life to unravel the mystery and find out whether the mummy - or something or someone else - is responsible
https://archive.org/details/the-mummy_202401

Justin Sterns
Osru, A Tale of Many Incarnations (1910) [24,720 word count]
Experience the journey of a soul through its many reincarnations throughout the eons.
https://archive.org/details/osrutaleofmanyin00steriala

Louis Lacy Stevenson (1879-1953)
His Dead Life (1925) [27,839 word count]
THE STRANGE STORY OF JOHN DEAN, OF LEESVILLE, AND PHILIP BRENT, OF DETROIT, WHO WERE ONE AND THE SAME MAN AND ALSO TWO DIFFERENT MEN
https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1925-11_86_2/

Wilbur Morris Stine (1863-1934)
Amos Meakin's Ghost (1924)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3325104

Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902)
The Great War Syndicate (1889) [35,701 word count]
This story was written and is set towards the end of the 19th century at a time of increasing tension between the United States of America and the British Empire. When the tensions threaten to spill over into an actual conflict and the American public are demanding that their leaders declare a war which the United States is not well equipped to fight, a syndicate offer the US government a novel way to deal with the problem ...
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/427

The Stories of the Three Burglars (1889) [33,157 word count]
Three burglars are captured and tell a series of fantastical stories in an effort to free themselves.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10948

The Vizier of Two-Horned Alexander (1899) [38,145 word count]
To find the fountain of youth - what would that entail, to live forever, to pass through many generations, without dying? Would it be a blessing or a curse? We are taken on an amazing journey, as the man originally known as Kroudhr, Vizier to the King Alexander, tells his rather bewildered American guest a bizarre story
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10368

Weldon Stone
Devil Take a Whittler (1948)
Strikingly and refreshingly different, happily combining, with a lilting humor and an earthy lustiness, folklore, fact and fantasy, this is a timeless story placed in the Ozark hills. Lem Skaggs, a barefoot whittler and friend of old Nick, woos and wins Myra Johnson, the schoolteacher's well-shoe-d and religious daughter, by whittling for her an entire house and its furnishings. Their wedding, a pagan rite atop a hill, promulgated by old Nick with his flute, finished by the parson with handcuffs in lien of wedding rings, is rivaled only by the birthnight revels of the Skaggs several years later when Lem and Myra have a year-old son, and the devil ""tootles"" a jig, the baby stands up and calls the figures and all are ""tootled"" up the mountain to the wild clan festival.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89098986482

T. S. Stribling (1881-1965)
The Web of the Sun (1922) [62,371 word count]
A harrowing lost race adventure where children are sacrificed to a giant spider!
https://archive.org/details/web-of-the-sun-by-t.-s.-stribling

J. Harry Sugden
The Sphinx-like Head: a tale of mystery (1896)
Lost race adventure novel set on an unknown island and concerning two subdivisions of the same race in conflict; the villains inhabit an underground City of Destruction
https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003F0B4

Alan Sullivan (1868-1947)
The Jade God (1924) [71,373 word count]
The story is centred upon a jade god, made by one Lung Sen. The jade god seems to reach out and exert a powerful influence over events, both strange and mysterious. The author incorporates telepathy and the atmosphere of the East to create this 1925 mystery novel
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65559

The Days of Their Youth (1926) [330 pages]
A Thoughtful and profoundly conceived novel, delineating the spiritual growth of an English middle class family, and the influence wielded on its members by the spirit of the dead father.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Days_of_Their_Youth/fDk3Xx5SUGcC

Creswick J. Thompson (1862-1943)
Zorastro: A Romance (1899) [49,110 word count]
“Historical romance with pronounced supernaturalism; title character a Renaissance magus practicing black magic. Thompson was a noted writer on occult subjects, knowledge here put to good use in descriptions of magical beliefs and rituals.”
https://archive.org/details/b2488439x

T.R. Threlfall
The Great Magician (1901) [92,605 word count]
Lost race weird adventure novel set in North Africa where a British soldier and his Arab companions encounter subhuman cave dwellers in the Sudan who worship fire.
https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.13605

Signe Toksvig (1891-1983)
The Last Devil (1927)
HERE is mystery and demonology and horror with a literary flavor. The infernal rites that accompany devil worship and the rites no les infernal by which it is exorcised, in an inaccessible Basque community, are vividly presented.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Last_Devil/WrJEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Edith Sessions Tupper (1855-1927)
House of the Dream (1919) [22,109 word count]
This is the sort of yarn that is best read before a blazing fire on a stormy, windy night, when conditions are best for the full enjoyment of the pleasurable “ creeps that tales of the mysterious and unknown — if well written — always produce.
https://archive.org/details/asw-1919-12-27/page/217/mode/2up

J. Aubrey Tyson (1870-1930)
The Scarlet Tanager (1922) [89,918 word count]
Near Future thriller... set in 1930, rousingly presents a submarine pirate and his right-wing cohorts; a tough US intelligence agent opposes their efforts to topple the American government. A UK agent, the actress of the title, also becomes involved.
https://archive.org/details/scarlettanager00tysoiala

The Barge of Haunted Lives (1923) [100,822 word count]
Interlocking sequence of macabre mysteries, involving vampirism, metempsychosis and cursed gems, in addition to the usual murder and mayhem.
https://archive.org/details/bargeofhauntedli00tyso

Louis Joseph Vance (1879-1933)
The Dark Mirror (1920) [71,256 word count]
A psychic, paranormal tale of dual personality and crime.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008660986

Catherine M. Verschoyle (1874-1951)
Oldham (1927)
Literary horror portraying a sadistic maid who gains control over a household, with hints of psychic vampirism, magnetism, astral travel, the fourth dimension.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063963261

Johannes von Guenther (1886-1973)
Cagliostro (1927)
based on the life of the false Italian Count and noted occultist.
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b802486

Cedric Dane Waldo (1864-1943)
The Ban of the Gubbe (1896) [29,139 word count]
The Ban of the Gubbe presents a folkloristic rendering of a race of fish-like beings who have for aeons co-inhabited Scotland with Homo sapiens. The leader of the "Fiskmann", who is known as the Gubbe, may be Immortal, and possesses Psi Powers.
https://archive.org/details/the-ban-of-the-gubbe

Alfred H. Wall
A Princess of Chalco (1892)
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000049770

J. Provond Webster
The Oracle of Baal (1896)
http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000041EF2

S. Byron Welcome (1861-1948)
From Earth's Center: A Polar Gateway Message (1894) [79,734 word count]
a Lost World tale whose protagonists descend into a Symmes-style Hollow Earth, where they discover an English-speaking country called Centralia, a Utopia where laissez-faire capitalism is luckily controlled by some mixed socialistic joint ownership of the land itself.
https://archive.org/details/cu31924030366722

H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
The Undying Fire (1919) [45,258 word count]
A modern retelling of the Book of Job with God and Satan vying for the soul of a schoolmaster who is put through a series of misfortunes.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61547

Francis Brett Young (1884-1954)
Cold Harbour (1924) [75,043 word count]
A mad man seeks to convince those around him that his house is haunted.
https://archive.org/details/cold-harbour
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Bram Stoker - The Chain of Destiny (1875) https://librivox.org/the-chain-of-destiny-by-bram-stoker/
Maurice Renard - New Bodies for Old (1923) https://librivox.org/new-bodies-for-old-by-maurice-renard/
Leonid Andreyev - The Red Laugh (1905) https://librivox.org/red-laugh-by-leonid-nikolayevich-andreyev/
Arthur Machen - Strange Roads and With the Gods in Spring (1923) https://librivox.org/strange-roads-with-the-gods-in-spring-by-arthur-machen/
Lord Dunsany - Charwoman's Shadow (1926) https://librivox.org/the-charwomans-shadow-by-lord-dunsany/
E. H. Visiak - The Haunted Island (1910) https://librivox.org/the-haunted-island-by-edward-harold-visiak/
The Unholy Three - Tod Robbins (1917) https://librivox.org/the-unholy-three-by-tod-robbins/
Francis Stevens - The Labyrinth (1918) https://librivox.org/the-labyrinth-by-francis-stevens/
Louisa May Alcott - A Modern Mephistopheles (1889) https://librivox.org/a-modern-mephistopheles-by-louisa-may-alcott/
Fredric Brown - Knock Three One Two (1959) https://librivox.org/knock-three-one-two-by-fredric-brown/
H.P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness https://librivox.org/at-the-mountains-of-madness-by-h-p-lovecraft/
A. Merritt - The Face in the Abyss https://librivox.org/the-face-in-the-abyss-by-abraham-merritt/
Algernon Blackwood - The Education of Uncle Paul (1909) https://librivox.org/the-education-of-uncle-paul-by-algernon-blackwood/
Louisa May Alcott - Whisper in the Dark https://librivox.org/a-whisper-in-the-dark-by-louisa-may-alcott/

ADOPTED BUT STILL IN PROGRESS:
H. G. Wells - The Dream (1926) viewtopic.php?f=28&t=95470
Robert W. Chambers - The Dark Star (1917) viewtopic.php?t=96960
Richard Marsh - A Spoiler of Men (1905) viewtopic.php?t=97023
Arthur Conan Doyle - Land of Mist (1926) viewtopic.php?t=97607
Robert W. Chambers - The Green Mouse viewtopic.php?t=97628
Gertrude Atherton - What Dreams May Come viewtopic.php?p=2207698
Eugene Sue - The Wandering Jew viewtopic.php?t=98676
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augustellar wrote: June 18th, 2022, 11:38 am https://voca.ro/1bxerTlLTNrS
Have you started recording THe Undying Monster? If you wish for it to be included in the Librivox catalog, you'll need to go create a project and secure a proof listener. The instructions for how to do so can be found here:
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=13513

Having said that, The Undying Monster is a pretty long book (it'd probably end up around 7 to 9 hours depending on how fast you read), and if you've never done any recording before, I would suggest heading over to the GROUP project sections and volunteer to do a story or two to get an idea of how everything at Librivox works which can be found here:
viewforum.php?f=19
All the ones listed here are collaboration project looking for readers. Let me know if you have any other questions. I always appreciate more people interested in reading horror and weird fiction!
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I just updated the first post with some new stuff including a whole bunch of unrecorded Edgar Wallace.
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I moved the Edgar Wallace out from the first post into a separate post since most of his work really doesn't fall under this genre. Also added quite a few additional novels as well. Apparently I've reached the max character limit, so I won't be adding anymore until someone reads something!
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I would like to BC A Modern Mephistopheles. Ok?
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brownrottger wrote: October 28th, 2022, 6:18 am I would like to BC A Modern Mephistopheles. Ok?
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Sure thing! Let me know when you launch the project and I'll mark it as adopted.
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flavo5000 wrote: October 28th, 2022, 6:51 am
brownrottger wrote: October 28th, 2022, 6:18 am I would like to BC A Modern Mephistopheles. Ok?
Christine
Sure thing! Let me know when you launch the project and I'll mark it as adopted.
I've put it in the Launch Pad.
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Post by flavo5000 »

brownrottger wrote: October 28th, 2022, 1:06 pm
flavo5000 wrote: October 28th, 2022, 6:51 am
brownrottger wrote: October 28th, 2022, 6:18 am I would like to BC A Modern Mephistopheles. Ok?
Christine
Sure thing! Let me know when you launch the project and I'll mark it as adopted.
I've put it in the Launch Pad.
Christine
Ok, I've marked it as adopted. Once you finish it, I'll delete it entirely.
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I was wondering if I may adopt Francis Stevens' The Labyrinth for a solo read? I've never done a solo before and I'd like to jump on!
"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything you're willing to practice you can do" -Bob Ross :9:

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plzwork1994 wrote: December 7th, 2022, 11:10 am I was wondering if I may adopt Francis Stevens' The Labyrinth for a solo read? I've never done a solo before and I'd like to jump on!
Sure! Once you create the project, let me know and I'll move it down to In Progress. :)
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flavo5000 wrote: December 7th, 2022, 12:09 pm
plzwork1994 wrote: December 7th, 2022, 11:10 am I was wondering if I may adopt Francis Stevens' The Labyrinth for a solo read? I've never done a solo before and I'd like to jump on!
Sure! Once you create the project, let me know and I'll move it down to In Progress. :)
viewtopic.php?p=2127985#p2127985

Hope I'm doing it right, here's the linky-link
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I've cleaned up some of the first post and added a bunch of new and interesting stuff!
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