The canon of Sherlock Holmes adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle contains fifty-six stories and four novels. But there were yet other adventures and artifacts pertaining to Mr. Holmes not listen in the canon. Peter Haining has collected them here, complete with informative and entertaining introductions. This special, revised collector's edition is profusely illustrated. A must for any Sherlock enthusiast.

Known for writing "The Phantom of the Opera," Gaston LeRoux also wrote a small number of outstanding macabre and weird short stories which are collected together in this volume. Most of these stories were written in the early 1920s when LeRoux's popularity was at its peak.

Haining assembles a group of Bram Stoker's stories which all relate in some way or another to "Dracula," some pre-dating it and revealing how his love of the weird was leading him inexorably towards its creation, and the rest subsequent works which show how its influence was never far from his mind when he took up his pen again.

Here are treasures This is no ordinary anthology of Poe items but a unique collection of tales that in most cases have not appeared in print for well over a century and that will be completely new to all but a few Poe specialists. Then there's a group of tales that Poe acknowledged reading, and that clearly influenced him: tales of premature burial, of a man trapped beneath a great clanging bell, of a doomed girl reborn and doomed again. To describe this book as a "must" for all admirers of Edgar Allan Poe is surely unnecessary: it's so self-evident.

The world knows W.S. Gilbert as half of the enduringly popular duo of Gilbert and Sullivan whose comic operas with their ingenious plots and witty songs have delighted audiences. But long before this great partnership began, Gilbert was already writing inventive, humorous, romantic, and occasionally even grim short stories which have been restored to print in this first-ever collection.

The Gothic "Bluebooks" were the hugely popular paperbacks of their time, eagerly sought by uncounted numbers of readers in the 19th century. Containing sensational tales of lustful monks, terrified females, dashing heroes, and a whole variety of supernatural creatures, this unique collection reprints some of the best of the best, complete with their original illustrations.

For the first time, Dickens seasonal titles are brought together to include all 10 ghost stories he wrote for Christmas issues of his magazines "Household Words" and "All the Year Round."

Originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this text includes a wealth of unique articles, thought-provoking essays, and rare illustrations.