That's right! Some of the elements in the tale I have seen repeated in many stories- I agree- when you read Calvino's Italian Folk Tales or the complete Grimm's or any massive compilation like that, you realize that there are only so many stories...

Book: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris. Read it in one sitting. One of the great ones.

Eureka! is top quality and this is a magnificent film. The book was one of my youth favorites.

Lumet’s book on directing is a beautiful text no matter if you are starting or very experienced

Great book- and funny!

Book: Beauty by Kerascoet and Hubert. Do you trust me? Then buy this graphic novel and thank me later. SImply gorgeous.

Book of the day: TWELVE TALES OF SUSPENSE AND THE SUPERNATURAL by Davis Grubb. Better known for NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, Grubb is one of the American masters of the disquieting tale.

Book: Don't Look Now and other stories by Daphne du Marier.The basis for the superlative film by Roeg. Disquieting, creepy. Great final line.

Book: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester.

Book: The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander. The Chronicles of Prydain is a masterful book series full of magic and chills (Annuvin). Try it!

In all the dark pages of the supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk rid themselves of this hideous pest. The tradition is world-wide and of the greatest antiquity. How did it arise? How did it spread? Does it indeed contain some vestige of truth, some memory of savage practice, some trace of cannibalism or worse? These and similar problems inevitably suggested by a consideration of Vampirism in its various aspects are fully discussed in this work which may not unfairly claim to be the first serious and fully documented study of a subject that in its details is of absorbing interest, although the circumstances are of necessity macabre and ghastly in the highest degree. Included in this critical edition are the authoritative text, rare contextual and source materials, correspondence, illustrations, as well as Greek and Latin translations. A biographical note and chronology are also included.

THE VAMPIRE, His Kith and Kin examined the reasons for the old belief in Vampirism, its growth and dissemination in many lands, and its crystallization into a permanent and determinate legend. This new volume, The Vampire in Europe, uniform with the other, deals with the subject from a historical point of view and presents the evidence which gave rise to the theories. This evidence, drawn from little-known authors, musty chronicles, and the obscurer occultists, is in many cases derived from official sources, civil and ecclesiastical. The first chapter treats of Vampirism in ancient Greece and Rome. Accounts of the extraordinary outbreaks of Vampirism in England during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries have been gathered from Geoffrey of Monmouth and William of Newburgh. Particular attention is paid to the alleged irritation which gave rise to so much literature in the early eighteenth century, while the curious situation in modern Greece is fully discussed. Included in this critical edition are the authoritative text, rare contextual and source materials, illustrations, criticism, contemporary reviews, and Greek and Latin translations. A biographical note is also included.

Tales drawn from international sources provide a journey into the vast dimensions of the supernatural world

In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. “This study’s comprehensiveness and the author’s bone-dry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldn’t stay dead.”—Booklist “Barber’s inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking… [and] a convincing exercise in mental archaeology.”—Roy Porter, Nature “A splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy…. The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors.”—Anthony Daniels, Spectator “This book is fascinating reading for physicians and anthropologists as well as anyone interested in folklore.”—R. Ted Steinbock, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association “A fascinating and pain-staking (sorry!) thesis, which welds together folklore, epidemic panic, communal stupidity, and forensic and funereal science.”—Huw Knight, New Scientist

This book is an informative and comprehensive inquiry into the fairy mythology of the Celtic and Teutonic peoples.

In Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu's most celebrated novel, Maud Ruthyn, the young, naïve heroine, is plagued by Madame de la Rougierre from the moment the enigmatic older woman is hired as her governess. A liar, bully, and spy, when Madame leaves the house, she takes her dark secret with her. But when Maud is orphaned, she is sent to live with her Uncle Silas, her father's mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. And, once again, she encounters Madame, whose sinister role in Maud's destiny becomes all too clear. With its subversion of reality and illusion, and its exploration of fear through the use of mystery and the supernatural, Uncle Silas shuns the conventions of traditional horror and delivers a chilling psychological thriller.

Specifically the stories The Way it Came and The Friends of My Friends

THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSESTHE PRINCESS MAYBLOSSOMSORIA MORIA CASTLETHE DEATH OF KOSHCHEI THE DEATHLESSTHE BLACK THIEF AND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.THE MASTER THIEFBROTHER AND SISTERPRINCESS ROSETTETHE NORKATHE WONDERFUL BIRCHJACK AND THE BEANSTALKTHE LITTLE GOOD MOUSEGRACIOSA AND PERCINETTHE THREE PRINCESSES OF WHITELANDTHE VOICE OF DEATHTHE SIX SILLIESKARI WOODENGOWNDRAKESTAILTHE RATCATCHERTHE TRUE HISTORY OF LITTLE GOLDEN HOODTHE GOLDEN BRANCHTHE THREE DWARFSDAPPLEGRIMTHE ENCHANTED CANARYTHE TWELVE BROTHERSRAPUNZELTHE NETTLE SPINNERFARMER WEATHERBEARDMOTHER HOLLEMINNIKINBUSHY BRIDESNOWDROPTHE GOLDEN GOOSETHE SEVEN FOALSTHE MARVELLOUS MUSICIANTHE STORY OF SIGURD

On the pleasant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gascony, stood, in the year 1584, the château of Monsieur St. Aubert. From its windows were seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne and Gascony stretching along the river, gay with luxuriant woods and vine, and plantations of olives. To the south, the view was bounded by the majestic Pyrenees, whose summits, veiled in clouds, or exhibiting awful forms, seen, and lost again, as the partial vapours rolled along, were sometimes barren, and gleamed through the blue tinge of air, and sometimes frowned with forests of gloomy pine, that swept downward to their base. These tremendous precipices were contrasted by the soft green of the pastures and woods that hung upon their skirts; among whose flocks, and herds, and simple cottages, the eye, after having scaled the cliffs above, delighted to repose. To the north, and to the east, the plains of Guienne and Languedoc were lost in the mist of distance; on the west, Gascony was bounded by the waters of Biscay. M. St. Aubert loved to wander, with his wife and daughter, on the margin of the Garonne, and to listen to the music that floated on its waves. He had known life in other forms than those of pastoral simplicity, having mingled in the gay and in the busy scenes of the world; but the flattering portrait of mankind, which his heart had delineated in early youth, his experience had too sorrowfully corrected. Yet, amidst the changing visions of life, his principles remained unshaken, his benevolence unchilled; and he retired from the multitude "more in pity than in anger," to scenes of simple nature, to the pure delights of literature, and to the exercise of domestic virtues.

Hilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. Her mother, an architect, has been offered a prestigious position in the bustling metropolis that she would find hard to reject. Besides, the tiny elven creatures making a daily habit of bombarding them with threats isn't making Hilda's case any better. As she seeks ways to stall her mother's decision, Hilda rushes to befriend the very source of her malady - will they help or hinder her? More importantly, who is this mysterious Midnight Giant? -- pub. website.

"First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob's collaging of primary source documents into fiction. Brimming with murder, suicide, royal leprosy and medieval witchcraft, Schwob's stories portray clergymen furtively attending medieval sabbaths, Protestant galley slaves laboring under the persecution of Louis XIV and dice-tumbling sons of Florentine noblemen wandering Europe at the height of the 1374 plague. These writings are of such hallucinatory detail and linguistic specificity that the reader is left wondering whether they aren't newly unearthed historical documents. To read Schwob is to encounter human history in its most scintillating form as it comes into contact with this unparalleled imagination"--Page 4 of cover.

Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Audio Books, Volume 1: Classic Horror Stories (Audible Audio Edition): Charles Dickens, William F Harvey, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Doug Bradley, Saki, Renegade Arts Entertainment Ltd: Audible Audiobooks