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Classic Ghost Stories(1st Edition)
(Dover Thrift Editions)
by Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs. Henry Wood, Amelia B. Edwards, Henry James, J. S. Lefanu, Fitz-James O'brien, John Grafton, Ralph A. Cram, Mary E. Wilkins, Dover Thrift Editions
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1998 by Dover Publications
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-40430-1, ISBN: 0-486-40430-7

"Assembled from the works of the finest masters of the genre, these compelling narratives promise to raise gooseflesh and accelerate pulses with their supernatural scenarios.Featured stories include J. S. LeFanu's -An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, - with a mysterious old mansion as the focal point; Mary E. Wilkins' -The Lost Ghost, - in which a strange child's disturbing presence instills fear and foreboding in ..."






Christmas Classics
Graphic Classics Volume Nineteen (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels))
by Charles Dickens, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Clement Clarke Moore, Mark Twain, Fitz-James O'brien, Alex Burrows, Rich Rainey, Hunt Emerson, Micah Farritor, Rick Geary, Cynthia Martin, Simon Gane, Tom Pomplun, Evert Geradts, Florence Cestac, Anton Emdin, 欧•亨利
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2010 by Eureka Productions
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825630-1-4, ISBN: 0-9825630-1-9

"Christmas Classics presents comics adaptations of both holiday favorites and rarities, featuring Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Also included are an early F. Scott Fitzgerald tale, an O. Henry western, a fairy tale by Willa Cather, and a Christmas horror story by Fitz-James O'Brien. Plus, a seasonal Sherlock Holmes adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle, Clement C. Moore's Christmas Classics presents comics adaptations of both holiday f ..."






The Diamond Lens and Other Stories
by Fitz-James O'brien
Paperback, 108 Pages, Published 2012 by Hesperus Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-358-0, ISBN: 1-84391-358-5

"Fitz-James O'Brien capitalised on the success of his predecessor Edgar Allan Poe in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists. This collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. 'The Diamond Lens' tells the tale of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession in particular with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but ne ..."






Fantastic Tales(1st Edition)
by Fitz-James O'brien, Michael Hayes, Hayes Michael
Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 1977 by Calder Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-7145-3617-0, ISBN: 0-7145-3617-2

"Book by O'Brien, Fitz-James"






The Monster-Maker and Other Science Fiction Classics(1st Edition)
by Ambrose Bierce, A. Merritt, John Buchan, W.C. Morrow, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fitz-James O'brien, Michael Kelahan, Goerge Allen England, J.H. Rosny, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe
Hardcover, 417 Pages, Published 2012 by Fall River
ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-2507-0, ISBN: 1-4351-2507-X

"Science fiction classics !"






My Wife's Tempter and other Mysteries
by Fitz-James O'brien
Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 2012 by Indoeuropeanpublishing.Com
ISBN-13: 978-1-60444-750-7, ISBN: 1-60444-750-8

"Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; December 31, 1828 - April 6, 1862) was an Irish-born American writer, some of whose work is often considered one of the forerunners of today's science fiction. CONTENTS What Was It? My Wife's Tempter The Child Who Loved a Grave The Diamond Lens The Golden Ingot The Wondersmith"






The Diamond Lens
by Fitz-James O'brien
Published 2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-4192-5919-7, ISBN: 1-4192-5919-9






One Dark Night(1st Edition)
13 Masterpieces of the Macabre
by Kathleen Blease, F. Marion Crawford, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lafcadio Hearn, Washington Iriving, Fitz-James O'brien, Ambrose Bierce, Guy De Maupassant, H. G. Wells, R. Murray Gilchrist
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Ballantine Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-345-44044-0, ISBN: 0-345-44044-7

"An artist can't shake the eerie, cold embrace from the ghost of his jilted love. An enormous rat with baleful, glaring eyes, possesses the spirit of a notorious hanging judge. A hauntingly beautiful woman appears to a student in his dreams--and then in flesh and blood. . . . From old-fashioned ghost stories by H. G. Wells and Guy de Maupassant to chilling tales that defy description by literary masters Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and ..."






Fitz-James O'Brien
Short Stories (The Collected Writings of O'Brien) (Volume 1)
by Fitz-James O'brien, Fitz-James O. Brien, John P. Irish
Paperback, 364 Pages, Published 2017 by Bit O'irish Press, A
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-96589-4, ISBN: 0-692-96589-0

"For the first time, all the major writings of Fitz-James O'Brien will be published in a multi-volume edition. This is an important publishing event, making the writings of this long-lost nineteenth-century Irish-American writer available to the public in a uniform and scholarly edition. Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862) came to the United States from Ireland in 1852 looking to make his way in the literary world. With impressive recommenda ..."






Fitz-James O'Brien(3rd Edition)
Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Library Editions) (Volume 1)
by Fitz-James O'brien, John P. Irish
Paperback, 514 Pages, Published 2017 by Bit O'irish Press, A
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-96210-7, ISBN: 0-692-96210-7

""Fitz-James O'Brien is the most important figure after Poe and before Lovecraft in modern horror literature . . . and [was] imitated by such authors as Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, and F. Marion Crawford." Jessica Amanda Salmonson "Fitz-James O'Brien was the most distinguished short story teller between Edgar Allan Poe and Bret Harte." Edward J. O'Brien "[When O'Brien] turned to science fiction & fantasy he begin to display the ..."






Fitz-James O'Brien
Short Stories (The Collected Writings of O'Brien) (Volume 2)
by Fitz-James O'brien, John P. Irish
Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 2017 by Bit O'irish Press, A
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-96590-0, ISBN: 0-692-96590-4

""Fitz-James O'Brien is the most important figure after Poe and before Lovecraft in modern horror literature . . . and [was] imitated by such authors as Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, and F. Marion Crawford." Jessica Amanda Salmonson "Fitz-James O'Brien was the most distinguished short story teller between Edgar Allan Poe and Bret Harte." Edward J. O'Brien "[When O'Brien] turned to science fiction & fantasy he begin to display the ..."






Dragon Tales(1st Edition)
by Isaac Asimov, Charles G., Martin Harry Greenberg, David Drake, L.Frank Baum, Fitz-James O'brien, Orson Scott Card, Dean R. Koontz, Gordon R.Dickson, Joseph Ross, Nelson S. Bond, Edmond Hamilton, John B. Harris, Frank Herbert, David H. Keller, Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson, Larry Niven, Martin H. Greenberg, Gregory Benford, Marc Laidlaw, Leslie Seldon-Truss, Janet Fox, Anne Mccaffrey
Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 1982 by Fawcett
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-449-24523-1, ISBN: 0-449-24523-3

"Contains: Gerda - Evelyn E. Smith - Dragons' Teeth - David Drake - Two Yards of Dragon - L. Sprague de Camp - A Hiss of Dragon - Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw - The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjurer Piou-Lu - Fitz-James O'Brien - The Bully and the Beast - Orson Scott Card - The King's Head and the Purple Dragon - L. Frank Baum - Soft Come the Dragons - Dean R. Koontz . St. Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson . John Robert a ..."






Entranced by Eyes of Evil
Tales of Mesmerism and Mystery (Phantom Traditions Library) (Volume 1)
by Louisa May Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, Fitz-James O'brien, Rhoda Boughton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, L.T. Meade, Tim Prasil
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by Brom Bones Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-948084-03-1, ISBN: 1-948084-03-1

"Animal Magnetism. Mesmerism. Hypnosis.More than one name has been applied to the phenomenon of one person putting another into a deep trance–and into a deep state of submission. But how far does this power truly go? Can a devious hypnotist entrance an unknowing subject from across a room? Can a mesmerized person be compelled to commit murder? Can a hypnotic spell extend beyond death? In the 1800s, such questions had no certain answers, ..."






Ghost and Horror Stories
by Robert Chambers, M. R. James, Algernon Blackwood, Fitz-James O'brien, Quiller Couch, Book Library Cassette
ISBN-13: 978-0-89926-174-4, ISBN: 0-89926-174-4






The Dead Valley and Others(1st Edition)
H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Horror Stories Vol. 2
by Fitz-James O'brien, Guy De Maupassant, A. Merritt, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Ralph Adams Cram, John Metcalfe, Anthony M. Rud, Irvin S. Cobb, Robert W. Chambers, Algernon Blackwood, Henry S. Whitehead, Hanns Heinz Ewers, H. Russell Wakefield, Alex Mcvey, S. T. Joshi
Paperback, 372 Pages, Published 2014 by Dark Renaissance Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-937128-80-7, ISBN: 1-937128-80-6

"H. P. Lovecraft was a voracious reader of supernatural and fantastic fiction, and he was continually on the hunt for powerful and stimulating works in these genres. Many of the stories he read directly influenced his own writings. This first volume of H. P. Lovecraft s Favorite Horror Stories presents 16 stories that Lovecraft found to be of particular merit. Among them are the beautiful poetic fantasy Idle Days on the Yann by Lord Duns ..."






American Fantastic Tales
Terror and the Uncanny from Poe tothe Pulps (Library of America)
by Peter Straub, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Charles Brockden Brown, Straus Peter Editor, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fitz-James O'brien, Bret Harte, Harriet Prescott Spofford, W.C. Morrow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Stephen Crane
Hardcover, 750 Pages, Published 2009 by Library Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-047-6, ISBN: 1-59853-047-X

"From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume anthology demonstrates, it is a tradition with many unexpected detours and hidden chambers, and one that continues to evolve, finding new forms and new themes as it ..."






The Diamond Lens
by Fitz-James O'brien
37 Pages, Published 2012 by The Floating Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-77556-301-3, ISBN: 1-77556-301-4

"In this early science fiction tale, a man so obsessed with his scientific research that he will do whatever is necessary to advance his work concocts an elaborate scheme to obtain a state-of-the-art lens for his microscope."






The Diamond Lens
by Fitz-James O'brien
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-77652-227-9, ISBN: 1-77652-227-3






The Diamond Lens
And Other Stories
by Fitz-James O'brien
118 Pages, Published 2012 by Hesperus Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78094-092-2, ISBN: 1-78094-092-0

"The Diamond Lens tells the tale of a lone scientist’s discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession in particular with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never ..."






Great Weird Tales(1st Edition)
14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others
by S. T., Fiona Macleod, William H. Hodgson, W. C. Morrow, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, F. Marion Crawford, Lord Dunsany, M. P. Shiel, Frank Belknap Long, R. H. Barlow, Fitz-James O'brien, H. P. Lovecraft, Dover Publications
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2011 by Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-486-40436-3, ISBN: 0-486-40436-6

"Weird tales — exquisitely chilling works of fiction dealing with supernatural horrors, fantasy, and pseudo-science — became an established genre with the enduring masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. The 14 spellbinding stories assembled in this outstanding collection are by later writers, who produced a great outpouring of weird fiction in the “Golden Age” of the genre, between 1880 and 1940.Included in this treasury are "The Sin Eater," b ..."



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