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In 'The Exiles of Faloo', Barry Pain takes readers on a captivating journey to a remote island where Sir John Sweetling is awaiting the arrival of two guests: Mr Bassett and Dr Soames Pryce Pain's vivid descriptions of the... See More
Classics
If Winter Don't by Barry Pain is about Luke Sharpe's whimsical life with his wife in the Jawbones house in Halfpenny Hole, Surrey. Excerpt: "If Winter Comes" placed its author not only as a Bestseller, but as one of the... See More
Here and Hereafter' is a collection of short stories written by Barry Pain, featuring more than a dozen tales, including 'Mala', 'An Idyll of the Sea', 'A Brisk Engagement', 'The Gardener', and 'The Scent'. See More
Classics
"Marge Askinforit" by Barry Pain is written in the author's signature style. Known for his light-hearted stories, Pain became a favorite for readers who were looking for a good-humored book to read in a world where so many... See More
Classics
"The New Gulliver, and Other Stories" is a collection of novellas by the English journalist, poet, humorist and writer Barry Pain. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. The titles of the novellas... See More
Horror
A collection of 5 influential classic short horror stories. This edition contains the horror fiction works: The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit by Barry Pain Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's... See More
Humour & SatireBarry Pain, english journalist, poet and writer. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories, but he also wrote many horror stories, which were well received by the lay men and critics alike. Best... See More
Horror
This early work by Barry Pain was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Gray Cat' is a short story about a cat, a little statue, and a mysterious... See More
Horror
Barry Pain was a prolific and popular mystery and horror writer whose career spanned forty years. Though somewhat neglected in his day, he is now seen as an important writer, and a great inspiration for authors such as H. P... See More
Horror
A collection of rare horror stories that will thrill fans of classic writers such as M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and E. F. Benson. Jerome K. Jerome's reputation as a humorist, renowned for his comic novel... See More
Stories and interludes (c1892) See More
Nonfiction
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. See More
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. See More
Humour & Satire
Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer. Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was... See More
Horror
First published in 1901, Barry Pain's collection of short stories plays deftly with an array of supernatural and macabre ideas - the Roman soldier who encounters a nameless horror when he falls through a crack in the earth... See More
Horror
A distraught woman is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband on a voyage to England... or is she? A billiard-room echoes to the sounds of a spectral game... A haunted tower reveals its terrifying secret on Christmas... See More
Holidays
A third selection of vintage Victorian and Edwardian ghost and horror stories by masters of the genre. Set during the Christmas period, these are perfect festive reading for long winter nights... See More
Horror
"You have done something which is against Nature... And Nature punishes." In An Exchange of Souls (1911), a novel which greatly influenced Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep", Doctor Myas is obsessed with proving his... See More
FantasyPublished by Nodens Books. Going Home is one of Barry Pain's late shorter novels. It mixes realism and fantasy with some mild social satire. Plotwise, the book follows young Dora Muse, who meets a boy who has wings and who... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Constantine Dix is a model English clergyman. Fine, upstanding, of moderate habits and fully committed to helping society's least fortunate. He is also one of the most talented thieves in England. Originally published in... See More
Classics
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives... See More
AnthologiesThis book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the... See More
Classics
Stories in the Dark in the dark is a collection of short stories (and one novella, "The Undying Thing") bordering on the macabre and the fantastic. See More
Classics
Barry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine... See More
ClassicsBarry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine... See More
ClassicsBarry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine... See More
ClassicsBarry Eric Odell Pain was born at 3 Sydney Street in Cambridge on 28th September 1864. He was one of 4 children. He was educated at Sedbergh School and then Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine... See More