Beasts with Five Fingers
Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands
- Publication
- May 21, 2026
- Publisher
- British Library Publishing
British Library Tales of the Weird
The British Library Tales of the Weird series revives and unearths classic strange fiction from the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the form of novels, single-author collections and thematic anthologies, complete with new introductions and fascinating notes by expert editors.
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- Books in series
- 77
- This book
- #73
British Library Tales of the Weird
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#1From the Depths8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#2Haunted Houses 
#3Glimpses of the Unknown10.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#4Mortal Echoes 
#5Spirits of the Season 
#6The Platform Edge8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#7The Face in the Glass 
#8The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson10.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#9Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#10Evil Roots 
#11Promethean Horrors 
#12Roarings from Further Out 
#13Tales of the Tattooed 
#14The Outcast: and Other Dark Tales by E F Benson8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#15A Phantom Lover 
#16Into the London Fog 
#17Weird Woods 
#18Queens of the Abyss8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#19Chill Tidings 
#20Dangerous Dimensions 
#21Heavy Weather 
#22Minor Hauntings 
#23Crawling Horror 
#24Cornish Horrors 
#25I Am Stone8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#26Randalls Round 
#27Sunless Solstice 
#28Shadows on the Wall 
#29The Ghost Slayers9.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#30The Night Wire: and Other Tales of Weird Media7.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#31Our Haunted Shores 
#32The Horned God 
#33Spectral Sounds 
#34Haunters at the Hearth 
#35Polar Horrors6.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#36The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair 
#37The Ways of Ghosts 
#38Holy Ghosts 
#39The Uncanny Gastronomic 
#40The Lure of Atlantis 
#41Dead Drunk 
#42The House on the Borderland6.1 / 10 · 11 ratings 
#43Roads of Destiny 
#44Circles of Stone 
#45Doomed Romances 
#46The Undying Monster8.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#47Fear in the Blood 
#48Out of the Past 
#49The Night Land6.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#50Deadly Dolls 
#51The Human Chord 
#52Eerie East Anglia 
#53The Haunted Trail7.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#54The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes 
#55The Haunted Vintage 
#56Summoned to the Séance 
#57Weird Sisters10.0 / 10 · 1 ratings 
#58Julia Roseingrave 
#59Spores of Doom 
#60Medusa 
#61Return of the Ancients 
#62Phantoms of Kernow 
#63The Lost Stradivarius 
#64The Wayfarer's Weird 
#65The Tiger-Skin 
#66All the Fear of the Fair 
#67The Haunted Library 
#68Possessed 
#69Bird of Ill Omen 
#70The Black Fox 
#71The New Flesh 
#72The Luck of the Town 
#73Beasts with Five Fingers 
#74Haunted Yorkshire 
#75Danse Macabre 
#76The Black Mirror 
#77Fiendish Felines 
#78 · Coming 2026Terror Australis 
#79 · Coming 2026A Walk on the Weird Side 
#80 · Coming 2026The Unwelcome