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Paranormal fiction

Here are entered collections of fiction on witchcraft, spiritualism, psychic phenomena, vodou, supernatural powers, etc.; beings whose existence is not confirmed by science; extraterrestrial life and unidentified flying objects; and, other subjects beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation.

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• Fiction

• Paranormal fiction -- Bibliography
• Paranormal fiction -- Translations into English
• Paranormal fiction, English
• Paranormal fiction, German

• Occult fiction
• Occult stories
• Paranormal stories

• Coraline (read by the author and others in its entirety; originally published 2002), by Neil Gaiman, contrib. by Lemony Snicket, Natashya Hawley, Neal Shusterman, Melissa Marr, Lauren Oliver, Cassandra Clare, R. L. Stine, Holly Black, John Hodgman, and Fairuza Balk
  • Chapter 1: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 2: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 3: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 4: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 5: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 6: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 7: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 8: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 9: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 10: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 11: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 12: video with commentary at Youtube
  • Chapter 13: video with commentary at Youtube
• The Graveyard Book (read by the author in its entirety; 2008), by Neil Gaiman (videos at Youtube)
• Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1865), by William Harrison Ainsworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Auriol: or, The Elixir of Life (author's copyright edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1898), by William Harrison Ainsworth, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In a Glass Darkly (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1872), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Incredible Adventures (London: Macmillan, 1914), by Algernon Blackwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey From This World to the Next, by Henry Fielding (Gutenberg text)
• The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension, by George Chetwynd Griffith (Gutenberg text)
• A Phantom Lover, by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text)
• Pharos, the Egyptian (as serialized in the Windsor Magazine in 1898), by Guy Boothby, illust. by John H. Bacon
  • illustrated HTML at Forgotten Futures
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
• Pharos, the Egyptian: A Romance (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Guy Boothby (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Strange Story; and, The Haunted and the Haunters (also includes Zanoni; New York: Cassell, n.d.), by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Twilight Stories, by Rhoda Broughton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (London: Heath Cranton Limited, 1922), by Jessie Douglas Kerruish (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (Gutenberg text)
• With the Immortals (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by F. Marion Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories (c1921), by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• More Spook Stories (1934), by E. F. Benson (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Gap in the Curtain (1932), by John Buchan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Spook Stories (1928), by E. F. Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• Don Miguel Lehumada, Discoverer of Liquid from the Sun's Rays: An Occult Romance of Mexico and the United States (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., c1906), by Sue Greenleaf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evening Tales for the Winter: Being a Selection of Wonderful and Supernatural Stories (3 volumes in 1; New York: R. Marsh, 1856), ed. by Henry St. Clair (multiple formats at Google)
• The Ghost-Ship (story collection), by Richard Middleton, contrib. by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg text)
• The Ghost Ship and Other Stories (New York: M. Kennerley, 1913), by Richard Middleton, contrib. by Arthur Machen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House of Souls (4-story US compilation), by Arthur Machen (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Liquid from the Sun's Rays (New York et al.: Abbey Press, 1901), by Sue Greenleaf
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Co., c1891), by Ambrose Bierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of Terror (London: Chatto and Windus, 1899), by Dick Donovan
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Twenty-Five Ghost Stories (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, c1904), ed. by W. Bob Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Visible and Invisible (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1924), by E. F. Benson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, c1924), by Vere H. Collins, contrib. by M. R. James, Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Frederick Marryat, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, George Eliot, Mrs. Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, W. W. Jacobs, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, and Barry Pain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales of Terror, or the Mysteries of Magic: A Selection of Wonderful and Supernatural Stories, Translated from the Chinese, Turkish, and German (2 volumes in 1; Boston: C. Gaylord, 1833), ed. by Henry St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ghost Stories and Tales of the Supernatural (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1909), by Jean Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man-Wolf and Other Tales, by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (Gutenberg text)

• Tales of the Uneasy (London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Violet Hunt
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ghost Stories (this collection c1932), by Michael Arlen (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Perfume of Egypt, and Other Weird Stories, by C. W. Leadbeater (multiple formats at manybooks.net)
• The Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances (London: Methuen and Co., 1894), by Murray Gilchrist (page images at Google)
• The Wolves of God, and Other Fey Stories (c1921), by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Alraune: Die Geschichte Eines Lebenden Wesens (in German; Munich: G. Müller, c1911), by Hanns Heinz Ewers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Alraune, Die Geschichte Eines Lebenden Wesens (in German; Munich: G. Müller, 1919), by Hanns Heinz Ewers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.