Charles Keeping

The story of Jack, a young man who embarks on an unexpected journey to find his bride. This strangely moving story of a ghostly wedding has become a classic of its time.

When the man next door is forced to sell his cart horse Shaun sets out to find it and to raise the money to buy it back.

A young boy learns that it can be a harmful thing to care too much about the one plant in his bleak yard.

This book tells the story of Mary, Jesus, and Joseph.

The body snatchers / Robert Louis Stevenson -- [Black Cat]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- The adventures of the German student / Washington Irving -- The Canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde -- Escort / Daphne du Maurier -- Wailing well / M.R. James -- The sweeper / A.M. Burrage -- The signalman / Charles Dickens.

Late one night, when everyone is asleep, Willie joins his heroes, the firemen, in a daring rescue.

In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface), Julian Barnes examines the British, French, and American writers who have shaped his own writing, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures.

An illustrated version of the poem about the fate of the beautiful Lady of Shalott.

Sir Gawain is lying feverish and wounded in his tent outside of Lancelot's castle. As he dies, he tells his young squire the stories of the rise and fall of the noble knights of the round table. Gawain tells of Arthur's boyhood and of the wonderful moment when the young King drew the magic sword from the stone and claimed his kingdom. He tells of his own fight with the supernatural Green Knight. He tells of the search for the Holy Grail. And finally, he tells of Lancelot's love for Guinevere and of the rivalries and jealousies that splintered the fellowship and set friend against friend ...

A young scholar of medieval England, accused of having leprosy, is denounced by the church and community. He is befriended by Solomon, a Jewish physician, who cures his skin disorder, and the two friends embark upon a mysterious mission for the queen.

Table Of Contents: Close behind him - Wyndham, J. The house surgeon - Kipling, R. The helmsman - Kafka, F. Me and my shadow - Russell, E. F. The waxwork - Burrage, A. M. The inn - Burrage, A. M. The cloak - Bloch, R. The soul cages - Croker, T. C. The whistling room - Hodgson, W. H. The music of Erich Zann - Lovecraft, H. P. Deadline - Matheson, R. . Don't look behind you - Brown, F.

A young Roman army medical officer, sent to Britain during the period of waning Roman rule, befriends a kinsman with whom he shares an adventure of intrigue, exile, and underground activity with the Lost Ninth Legion.

Contents:  Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre • (1987) • interior artwork by Charles Keeping 7 • Introduction (Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre) • (1987) • essay by Charles Keeping 9 • The Judge's House • (1891) • shortstory by Bram Stoker 27 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe 46 • The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham • (1896) • shortstory by H. G. Wells 63 • Lot No. 249 • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle 95 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy 124 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James 143 • The Statement of Randolph Carter • [Randolph Carter] • (1920) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft 150 • Between the Minute and the Hour • (1922) • shortstory by A. M. Burrage 164 • Notes (Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre) • (1987) • essay by uncredited

Thirteen stories of horror and the supernatural by well-known American and British authors include "The Foghorn" by Ray Bradbury, "Moxon's Master" by Ambrose Bierce, and "In The Avu Observatory" by H. G. Wells.

An orphaned nanny goat must fend for herself to survive the winter.