Stories of Dark Magic

A magic trick is always fun tinged with a sense of wonder even when we know how they did it the question is asked again ‘Really, how did they do it?’ But magic in literature has two sides both good and bad, light and dark and in this volume our pen laden authors bring forth tales that disturb and menace as only the creations of Nikolai Gogol, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Arthur Machen, Edith Nesbit and many others possibly can. 1 - Stories of Dark Magic - An Introduction 2 - St Johns Eve by Nikolai Gogol 3 - Blood - Part 1 by Hanns Heinz Ewers 4 - Blood - Part 2 by Hanns Heinz Ewers 5 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit 6 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling 7 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford 8 - A Witch's Den by Helena Blavatsky 9 - Witchcraft by Arthur Machen 10 - The Mass of Shadows by Anatole France 11 - Casting the Runes by M R James 12 - Beyond the Pale by H D Everett 13 - Warning Whispers by A M Burrage 14 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson 15 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster 16 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 1 by Edward Bulwer Lytton 17 - The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain - Part 2 by Edward Bulwer Lytton