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Our eBook range was launched in November 2011, and new titles are being added on a regular basis. Ash-Tree eBooks are available in Kindle and ePub formats (for Nook, Kobo, etc.), and are available direct from this site (eBook files are delivered to you by email as soon as possible following receipt of payment advice from Paypal). Alternatively, Kindle versions are available via amazon websites. Keep checking . . . there will be a number of eBook specials appearing in due course. Contact us if there are any particular titles you would like to see available as Ash-Tree eBooks.

THE TERROR BY NIGHT by E. F. Benson
The first volume in the Ash-Tree Press Collected 'Spook Stories' of E. F. Benson. Read more . . .

THE PASSENGER by E. F. Benson
The second volume in the Collected 'Spook Stories' series. Read more . . .

MRS AMWORTH by E. F. Benson
The third volume in the Collected 'Spook Stories' series. Read more . . .

A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER by Simon Bestwick
Step into the world of Simon Bestwick's modern ghost/supernatural/horror stories. You will never look at your own world in quite the same way. Read more . . .

THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAIDEN VOYAGE: Sherlock Holmes and the R.M.S. Titanic
by Alexander E. Braun

When Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are summoned by Mycroft Holmes to a dinner at the Diogenes Club, they learn of the vitally important work being carried out by Phineas Farnsworth. Farnsworth is developing HEDAR, the Hertzian Echo Detector and Ranger, which will be vital to Britain in the anticipated war with Germany. Farnsworth, however, needs to consult with scientists in America, and Holmes and Watson are commissioned to accompany him and his invention on the trans-Atlantic voyage. Plans have been carefully made, and tickets have been booked for the journey . . . on the R.M.S. Titanic. This account by Dr Watson, suppressed for a full hundred years following the events of the voyage, is now made available for the first time.

THE WATCHER BY THE THRESHOLD by John Buchan
The complete weird and supernatural tales by this master of the short story. Read more . . .

INTRUDERS by A. M. Burrage
The first volume of the Ash-Tree Press series gathering together the supernatural fiction of this master of the short tale. Read more . . .

THE OCCULT FILES OF FRANCIS CHARD: SOME GHOST STORIES by A. M. Burrage
The second collection in the Ash-Tree series gathering the bulk of Burrage's supernatural fiction. Read more . . .

SOMEONE IN THE ROOM: STRANGE TALES OLD AND NEW by A. M. Burrage
Ash-Tree's third collection in the series gathering the bulk of Burrage's supernatural fiction. Read more . . .

WARNING WHISPERS by A. M. Burrage
The fourth volume of A. M. Burrage's supernatural stories. Read more . . .

SCREAM FOR JEEVES: A Parody by P. H. Cannon
Three wonderful adventures of Jeeves and Wooster, in which they tackle problems from the Lovecraftian world, with the help of Sherlockian influences. Read more . . .

THE BLACK REAPER by Bernard Capes
Twenty-three chilling stories from a much overlooked master of the genre. Read more . . .

DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP by Matt Cardin
Matt Cardin's highly acclaimed collection of glimpses into the primal chaos which God fashioned into an ordered cosmos, and the threads which occasionally unravel at the seams of the universe. Read more . . .

THE CANONICAL COMPENDIUM by Stephen Clarkson
This is 'the' must-have reference volume for Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts! The Canonical Compendium comprises a Topical Index of places, people, events, and items appearing in the Sherlockian canon, in 80 categories and 144 sub-categories, together with sixty different Story Indexes, one for each of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Entries are cross-referenced to five major editions of the Sherlockian canon, making this volume of practical use to virtually all readers of the Sherlock Holmes stories. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EDITION IS AVAILABLE ONLY IN PDF FORMAT (fully searchable).

THE HORROR OF ABBOT'S GRANGE by Frederick Cowles
The First of three volumes of ghost/horror stories, collecting twenty of the sixty-one stories written by Cowles. Read more . . .

THE NIGHT WIND HOWLS by Frederick Cowles
The second volume of ghost/horror stories by Frederick Cowles collects a further twenty-four chilling tales. Read more . . .

FEAR WALKS THE NIGHT by Frederick Cowles
The third and final volume of Cowles's stories. These seventeen stories were not published until afther the author's death. Read more . . .

ROBERT AICKMAN : AN INTRODUCTION by Gary W. Crawford
Robert Aickman was one of the most important writers of ghost stories in the last century. His personal, deeply felt tales were consummately poetic. Very much feeling a sense of twentieth century Angst, Aickman wrote elegant, moving tales of subtle terror. He also founded the Inland Waterways Association in Britain, which upgraded Britain's rivers and canals. He was a drama and film critic as well as being a member of the boards of British opera and ballet companies. This volume is an overview of his life and works.

WILD JUSTICE edited by ELLEN DATLOW
Previously only published in the U.K. (as LETHAL KISSES), this eighteen-story anthology edited by Ellen Datlow is now receiving International eBook publication. Read here for full details . . .

BENDING THE WILLOW: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes by David Stuart Davies
The definitive study of Jeremy Brett in his role as the Master Detective in the Granada TV series.

THE NIGHT COMES ON by Steve Duffy
Steve Duffy's first highly acclaimed collection of stories in the Jamesian style. This new electronic edition adds four further stories, two original to the revised collection. Read more . . .

TRAGIC LIFE STORIES by Steve Duffy
Steve Duffy's work has been described as 'exquisite' and 'heartbreaking' (Mark Flowers School Library Journal), 'compelling' (Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker), and 'exceptional . . . full of menace, thrills, and growing terror' (Mario Guslandi, The Short Review). TRAGIC LIFE STORIES demonstrates all these qualities, bringing the classic ghost story up to date in a way that is as unsettling as it is terrifying. In these nine stories, nothing is what it seems, no one is safe, and there is absolutely nowhere to hide. Read more . . .

THE PHANTOM COACH: Collected Ghost Stories by Amelia B. Edwards
The first time that all of Amelia Edwards's known supernatural stories have been gathered together in one volume. Read more . . .

AFTER SHOCKS by Paul Finch
The British Fantasy Award-winning collection from the ever-popular British writer of horrors. Read more . . .

ROPE TRICK by Mark P. Henderson
Thirteen highly acclaimed strange tales, including the Aickmanesque 'Rope Trick'. Read more . . .

AMERICAN MORONS by Glen Hirshberg
From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS, comes AMERICAN MORONS, a collection of dazzling and haunting tales. . . .
Two travelling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown-lane along the Italian Superstrade; a woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier; a pair of lonely, recently retired teachers leans just how much Los Angeles has taken from them; and chilling, post-funeral events reveal so much more of a family's horrific legacy.
In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice-cream-truck drivers, and judges, travelers and invalids all discover�and sometimes survive�the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

THE FELLOW TRAVELLERS by Sheila Hodgson
When M. R. James penned his essay 'Stories I Have Tried to Write', he left several plot ideas for, as he wrote, 'the benefit of somebody else'. One writer who appreciated James's generosity was Sheila Hodgson, who determined to bring some of his ideas to fruition. Hodgson's collection contains twelve stories, eight based on radio plays, which remain true to both the character and spirit of M. R. James. Read more . . .

VAMPIRES OVERHEAD by Alan Hyder
Alan Hyder's 1935 novel of the vampire invasion of earth, the destruction of London, and the human battle between three survivors. Read more . . .

SIX GHOST STORIES by T. G. Jackson
Jackson's relatively little known collection, which was first published in 1919. Read more . . .

THE FIVE JARS by M. R. James
M. R. James's classic fantasy tale for children and adults alike. Read more . . .

A PLEASING TERROR : The Complete Supernatural Writings by M. R. James
Complete, annotated, the only edition of M. R. James's supernatural stories you will ever need. Read more . . .

NO. 472 CHEYNE WALK by A. F. (Chico) Kidd & Rick Kennett
Like the detective stories of Sherlock Holmes, the Carnacki tales of William Hope Hodgson contain several references to never-described cases. Chico Kidd and Rick Kennett explore those references in the stories which go to make up this highly acclaimed collection of the untold stories of Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder. Read more . . .

THE EARTH WIRE and Other Stories by Joel Lane
Love and Death. Sex and Despair. In this critically acclaimed collection of seventeen short stories, Joel Lane examines the means and the cost of survival.

NINE GHOSTS by R. H. Malden
Richard Henry Malden (1879�1951), Vicar of Headingley, Leeds, and later, until the end of his life, Dean of Wells Cathedral, knew M. R. James for more than thirty years, and greatly admired his friend's ghost stories. The stories in NINE GHOSTS, Malden's only collection of supernatural fiction, were intended as a tribute to James's memory. In the years that have elapsed since the book's first publication, however, Malden has emerged as more than merely an imitator of James's style, and is now regarded as one of the finest ghost story writers of the last century. Read more . . .

THE ALABASTER HAND by A. N. L. Munby
Fourteen chilling tales make up Munby's tribute to M. R. James in what is a cornerstone collection of the genre. Read more . . .

IN GHOSTLY COMPANY by Amyas Northcote
A collection of classic ghost stories by a contemporary of M. R. James. Read more . . .

MASQUES OF SATAN: Twelve Tales and a Novella by Reggie Oliver
Reggie Oliver's third, highly acclaimed collection of supernatural stories. A must for enthusiasts of the genre. Read more . . .

THE THAMES HORROR and Other Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Barbara Roden
'I am an old man now, the last survivor of that small group which was witness to the events which occurred in Devonshire in October of 1899. If I do not commit the details�the true details�to paper, then the story will be lost forever.'
These true details are revealed in Barbara Roden's 'Of the Origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles', described by Publishers Weekly as 'exceptional' and 'on a level of its own'. It is one of the four tales included in The Thames Horror, which gathers together four new adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his companion, Dr John Watson. Roden�a lifelong Sherlockian and a member of the Baker Street Irregulars of New York�remains faithful to the immortal characters created by Conan Doyle while infusing her tales with suspense, mystery, and more than a little horror. In 'The Things That Shall Come Upon Them'�which SF Site praised as 'entertaining and elegantly written'�Holmes and Watson team up with psychic detective Flaxman Low to solve the mysterious occurrences at Lufford Abbey, in a tribute to M. R. James's classic tale 'Casting the Runes'. A previously unrecorded case provides the basis for 'The Suspect Servant', and a real-life horror takes centre stage in the previously unpublished title story, which sees Holmes and Watson on the trail of a serial killer in Victorian London. The Thames Horror is a must-read for anyone who has ever wished that Conan Doyle had written more stories about his immortal detective. Escape to the gaslit world where it is always 1895 and rejoice: the game is afoot once more!

RANDALLS ROUND by Eleanor Scott
Randalls Round, Eleanor Scott's only collection of supernatural stories, is one of the most rare and sought-after titles in the genre. For many years nothing was known about the author, who remained as shadowy and elusive as her book. Contemporaries, such as M. R. James and Montague Summers, remained silent about her collection. More recently, however, details of her life have been tracked down, and now at last Randalls Round is published for a new generation of ghost story connoisseurs. In her Foreword to the volume, Scott tells how all nine stories had their origins in dreams, and hopes that they will have lost none of their power to terrify when translated to the printed page. She need not have worried. Stories such as 'Randalls Round', 'The Twelve Apostles', and 'At Simnel Acres Farm' are easily equivalent to anything written by such acknowledged masters as M. R. James and E. F. Benson, and in 'Celui-l�', her tale of a nameless horror on a Breton beach, Scott has created a minor masterpiece of horror. Read more . . .

THE STONEGROUND GHOST TALES by E. G. Swain
E. G. Swain's delightful ghost stories involving The Revd. Mr Batchel and his haunted parish of Stoneground. Read more . . .

THE FAR SIDE OF THE LAKE by Steve Rasnic Tem
Steve Rasnic Tem's fine collection of thirty stories looking at people, life, places, all of them haunted in some way. Read more . . .

LOST PLACES by Simon Kurt Unsworth
In 2007, Simon Kurt Unsworth's story 'The Church on the Island' was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, and subsequently reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #19 and The Very Best of Best New Horror. Since then, Unsworth's stories have garnered widespread praise, being described as 'vivid and creepily effective' (Stephen Volk); 'deceptively amiable and creepy as hell�all the more powerful because they're told about characters like you and me, and the evils that are hidden just out of sight; (Rob Shearman); and 'emotionally devastating' (Mark Morris). Lost Places collects together eighteen of Unsworth's stories, tales which take the seemingly familiar sights and sounds of everyday life and then twist them into something strange, haunting, and terrifying. Read more . . .

THEY RETURN AT EVENING by H. R. Wakefield
The decomposing ghost of a murdered wife; the spectre of a dog which answers to the most terrifying of whistles; evil in the tradition of M. R. James's 'Casting the Runes', as a lawyer seeks to avenge the death of a friend. . . . These, and many more, are the ghosts which H. R. Wakefield has set to haunt us in his first book (the first of six Wakefield collections from Ash-Tree Press) of supernatural stories�a landmark collection first published in 1928. Read more . . .

OLD MAN'S BEARD by H. R. Wakefield
Mr Wakefield's first book of Ghost Stories, published under the happy title of THEY RETURN AT EVENING, was so successful both here and in America (where it was recommended by that curious institution 'The Book of the Month Club') that the author has been persuaded to draw further upon the resources of his horrific imagination. (From the dust jacket of the first edition.)

IMAGINE A MAN IN A BOX by H. R. Wakefield
When he wrote the stories in Imagine a Man in a Box, Wakefield was in experimental style, and as a result only seven of the thirteen stories in the collection are in the supernatural vein. Nevertheless, Wakefield fans will revel in the selection on offer here. Read more . . .

THE CLOCK STRIKES TWELVE and Other Stories by H. R. Wakefield
A total of twenty-one stories, plus an article from H. R. Wakefield on why he wrote ghost stories form this fourth collection in the Ash-Tree series of Wakefield's supernatural fiction. Read more . . .

STRAYERS FROM SHEOL by H. R. Wakefield
A further eighteen stories from a master of the genre in this, the fifth title in Ash-Tree's series of Wakefield's supernatural fiction. Read more . . .

REUNION AT DAWN and Other Uncollected Ghost Stories by H. R. Wakefield
The sixth and final collection in the Ash-Tree series of Wakefield's supernatural fiction. Seventeen further stories. Read more . . .

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