Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics: Black Magic, Sweeney Todd, The Vampyre, Dracula, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Frankenstein...

Wilhelm Hauff · Charles Dickens · Mark Twain · Harriet Beecher Stowe · Adelbert von Chamisso · Oscar Wilde · Robert Louis Stevenson · Edgar Allan Poe · William Hope Hodgson · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · John Buchan · Louis Tracy · Bram Stoker · Anatole France · Charlotte Brontë · Emily Brontë · Jack London · Henry James · Théophile Gautier · Arthur Conan Doyle · Richard Le Gallienne · Jane Austen · Algernon Blackwood · Ralph Adams Cram · Thomas De Quincey · John Meade Falkner · Guy de Maupassant · Thomas Hardy · William Archer · Daniel Defoe · John Kendrick Bangs · Cleveland Moffett · Brander Matthews · Marie Belloc Lowndes · Sax Rohmer · Horace Walpole · Rudyard Kipling · Lafcadio Hearn · Ambrose Bierce · Frederick Marryat · Ellis Parker Butler · Washington Irving · Leonid Andreyev · David Lindsay · Nathaniel Hawthorne · Grant Allen · Arthur Machen · Wilkie Collins · William Makepeace Thackeray · Thomas Peckett Prest · James Malcolm Rymer · Fergus Hume · Edward Bellamy · Walter Hubbell · S. Mukerji · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · Leopold Kompert · Richard Marsh · Florence Marryat · Catherine Crowe · Marjorie Bowen · John William Polidori · Vincent O'Sullivan · H. G. Wells · Robert W. Chambers · W. W. Jacobs · M. P. Shiel · E. F. Benson · Jerome K. Jerome · M. R. James · E. T. A. Hoffmann · George W. M. Reynolds · H. P. Lovecraft · Robert E. Howard · Edith Nesbit · Sabine Baring-Gould · William Thomas Beckford · Francis Marion Crawford · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · Mary Louisa Molesworth · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · Nikolai Gogol · Mary Shelley · Elizabeth Gaskell · Gertrude Atherton · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · Frank R. Stockton · A. T. Quiller-Couch · Olivia Howard Dunbar · Ann Radcliffe · Louisa M. Alcott · Amelia B. Edwards · Leonard Kip · Matthew Gregory Lewis · Fitz-James O'Brien · Katherine Rickford · Bithia Mary Croker · Catherine L. Pirkis · Émile Erckmann · Alexandre Chatrian · Pedro De Alarçon · J. K. Huysmans · H. H. Munro (Saki) · Pliny the Younger · Helena Blavatsky · Villiers de l'Isle Adam · William F. Harvey · Fiona Macleod · William T. Stead · Gambier Bolton · Andrew Jackson Davis · Nizida · Walter F. Prince · Chester Bailey Fernando

Dec 2023 · DigiCat

About this ebook

DigiCat presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal... John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Black Cat... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island Ancient Sorceries... Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf The Waters of Death... Amelia B. Edwards: Monsieur Maurice The Phantom Coach... Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Wind in the Rose-bush The Shadows on the Wall Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror... William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Wilhelm Hauff: The Severed Hand Adelbert von Chamisso: Shadowless Man Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Haunted and the Haunters... Robert E. Howard: Beyond the Black River Devil in Iron People of the Dark David Lindsay: The Haunted Woman Marie Belloc Lowndes: From Out the Vast Deep Edward Bellamy: Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

About the author

Wilhelm Hauff (1802–1827) was a German poet and novelist known for his rich contributions to German literature, despite his short life. He was born on November 29, 1802, in Stuttgart, and exhibited a literary bent from a young age. Hauff studied theology at the University of Tübingen, but soon devoted himself entirely to writing. He became renowned for his ability to weave the fantastic and the realistic into captivating narratives, a talent that is prominently on display in his collection 'Warlock's Play: 550+ Supernatural Mysteries, Macabre & Horror Classics', which showcases his proficiency in the horror and supernatural genres. An exponent of the Romantic period, Hauff was influenced by the folklore and fairy tales traditions, much like his contemporaries the Grimm Brothers. His works were characterized by elements of satire, irony, and a keen interest in the secret drives within human nature. Though his career was tragically cut short at the age of 24 due to typhoid fever, Hauff's legacy endured through works such as 'Lichtenstein' (1826), a historical novel that contributed to the German Romantic movement, and his Fairy Tales collection which includes 'The Cold Heart' (Das kalte Herz). It is through these timeless stories that Wilhelm Hauff continues to enchant readers and occupy a significant place in the annals of storytelling.