Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Lady of Lyons

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Although the author of this play is now famous for writing the most cliché opening line in literature – “It was a dark and stormy nig…

Great Ghost Stories

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards, Joseph Lewis French, Théophile Gautier, Thomas Hardy, E. T. A. Hoffmann, M. R. James, Frederick Marryat, Fitz-James O'Brien, Margaret O. Oliphant, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and William Sharp

A great collection of 12 classic stories about ghosts and the supernatural. Included are stories by Thomas Hardy, Fitz-James O'Brien, and Ma…

Caxtons: A Family Picture

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secr…

Best Ghost Stories

E. F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ellis Parker Butler, Daniel Defoe, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, Leopold Kompert, Brander Matthews, Vincent O'Sullivan and Arthur B. Reeve

Collected together here by master anthologist Joseph Lewis French are some of the finest ghost stories ever to be put to paper. From the ea…