"This is a ghost story about ghost stories. It tells a tale about the telling of tales, and of the need, the absolute necessity, for stories that strike fear into men’s hearts - stories that delve into the unknown and the uncanny..." ... and in most of the stories in this collection, the telling of ghostly tales plays a vital part. Here are stories told by firelight in isolated cottages, by lantern-light on storm-lashed beaches, by gaslight in scholars’ studies and clubrooms, or by twilight in libraries and in lonely asylum cells. Here are stories of things that crawl stealthily across moonlit lawns, of legends it is better to remember, and of relics that are best left forgotten in the dark, of the malice of objects that are not as inanimate as they might seem, and of ancient tragedies re-enacted before helpless and horrified eyes. Here are stories of... Strange books unearthed from the college library foundations, and the dreadful shadowy form that seeks their return... The man with no sense of humour who plays a joke that has deadly results... The legendary gambling club where something far more precious than money is at stake... The book of ghost stories whose contents prove more than usually absorbing for the unfortunate reader... The solitary lighthouse in the middle of a treacherous sea, and the nightmare that awaits its keepers one stormy night, when someone comes knocking at the door... The painter whose commission for an unseen sponsor produces horrifying portraits that capture more than a mere likeness of the subjects... The old house with an alarming history, and the professor who is drawn to it in hope of fulfilling his overwhelming ambition to finally see a ghost... And the gentlemen’s club where the patrons gather on Hallowe’en night to exchange ghoulish tales, and where a very special tale of horror must yet be told. Here are stories of phantoms and demons, of those who are haunted by them, and those, like Dr. Lawrence, the antiquarian scholar, who seek them and face them. Here are stories of They That Dwell In Dark Places!

They That Dwell In Dark Places

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Daniel McGachey

Mystery

Dark Regions Press

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."-Sherlock HolmesIn these recently discovered accounts, sealed and hidden from prying eyes for almost a century, Dr. John H. Watson puts pen to paper once more, as he accompanies his friend, that most rational of detectives, Mr. Sherlock Holmes in the utterly irrational realm of the otherworldly, the uncanny, and the supernatural.Enter the gaslit world of Holmes and Watson-a world caught halfway between the bright glare of science and logic and the darker clutches of superstition and fear-a world of unknown creatures, secret seances, ancient curses, and forbidden knowledge-where the enquiring mind of the world's first consulting detective must search for the answers to some new and challenging questions...What was it about the loathsome contents of a match-box that sent an apparently fearless man stark raving mad?How can Sherlock Holmes be called upon to investigate a murder where the victim is his client, and where the murder has already taken place?Can mere words in a stolen manuscript really open men's minds to maddeningly terrifying visions of a world beyond our own?In order to find the solutions to these problems, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson may yet discover that sometimes it is not so easy to eliminate the impossible!

Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases

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They That Dwell In Dark Places

Sherlock Holmes: The Impossible Cases