Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Sagga Publishing House LLC Infestation
£14.99
Terrorcore Publishing Doors of Darkness
£14.61
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Sentence
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Penguin Books Ltd This Cursed House
Book SynopsisA young woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: they're under a curse 'A sinister and beautifully rendered Southern Gothic, This Cursed House explores the real-life horrors of racism and trauma. Del Sandeen's stunning debut haunted me' Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching ---- Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon family has always been a little different. Light-skinned enough to pass as white, they've always felt superior to their black peers, ensconced in their palatial but decrepit New Orleans mansion. Meanwhile in Chicago, Jemma Barker is desperate to escape another winter in the freezing cold - and the spirits she has always been able to see.When Jemma receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family, she can't say yes soon enough. But it's not long before Jemma
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Random House USA Inc Grave Expectations
Book SynopsisA fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize her ability to see ghosts and team-up with a band of oddball investigators to figure out which member(s) of a posh English family are guilty of murder.“This book has bags of humor, bags of heart, and a proper murder mystery at its core.” —Janice Hallett, author of The AppealAlmost-authentic medium Claire and her best friend, Sophie, agree to take on a seemingly simple job at a crumbling old manor in the English countryside: performing a seance for the family matriarch's 80th birthday. The pair have been friends since before Sophie went missing when they were seventeen. Everyone else is convinced Sophie simply ran away, but Claire knows the truth. Claire knows Sophie was murdered because Sophie has been haunting her ever since.Despite this traumatic past, Claire and Sophie are still unprepared for what they encounter when they arrive at the manor: a ghost, tragic and unrecognizable, and clearly the spirit of someone killed in a rage at the previous year's party. Given her obsession with crime shows—not to mention Sophie's ability to walk through walls—Claire decides they're the best people to solve the case. And with the help of the only obviously not-guilty members of their host family—sexy ex-policeman Sebastian and far-too-cool non-binary teen Alex—they launch an investigation into which of last year's guests never escaped the manor's grounds.What follows is somewhat irregular detective work involving stealing a priest's cassock, getting too drunk to remember to question your suspect, and of course, Chekhov's sparkly purple dildo. As Claire desperately tries to keep a lid on the shameful secret that would definitely alienate her new friends, the gang must race against their own incompetence to find the murderer before the murderer finds them.
£12.75
Penguin Putnam Inc The Ghost Woods
£14.07
Transworld Publishers Ltd Cold Eternity
£14.24
Mention the War Publications The Dark Part of the Sky A Collection of Bomber Command Ghost Stories
£9.77
Sterling Publishing Co Inc Illustrated HP Lovecraft
Book SynopsisThis collection, illustrated in colour, brings to life some of Lovecraft's greatest, most profound works � including 'The Call of Cthulhu' and 'The Whisperer in Darkness'.
£999.99
Union Square & Co. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde Other
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Draculas America Shadows of the West Hunting
Book SynopsisThis supplement for Dracula''s America: Shadows of the West contains a host of new rules and material and offers something for every player.- Two New Factions: The Forsaken, ragged survivors of the 7th Cavalry tormented by a bestial curse, and the White Dragon Tong, crimelords with an agenda as mysterious as the powers wielded by their enforcers.- The Hunting Grounds: Scenarios and encounters that focus on this mythical realm and the power and threats found within it.- Territory: Build and develop your headquarters, and exploit the benefits it offers, but beware your enemies taking the fight to your home turf.- Outlaws, Mercenaries and Bounty Hunters: New campaign options, allowing you to turn to a life of crime, bring in wanted fugitives, or sell your gun to the highest bidder.- New Monsters: The denizens of the Hunting Grounds, in all their terrifying glory.- New Hired Guns: There''s all kinds of folk willing to sell their skills, and these new H
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Hodder & Stoughton The Dark Net
Book Synopsis ''One of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself'' - New York Times*******************The dark net is an online shadowland for criminals to operate anonymously, but when a demonic force begins to hack the minds of its users there is nowhere left to hide.Twelve-year-old HANNAH has been fitted with a high-tech prosthetic that restores her sight, but can''t understand why she can now see shadows surrounding certain people.LELA, an emotionally shut-off, technophobic journalist stumbles onto a story nobody wants her to uncover. A story someone will kill to keep hidden.A former evangelist, MIKE, suffers demons - figurative and literal - and keeps an arsenal of weapons stored in the basement of the homeless shelter he runs.And DEREK is a hacker who believes himself a soldier, part of a cyber army dedicated to changing the world for the better.With the virus spreading throughout the net and Trade ReviewWritten in vivid, often lyrical prose, but with exhilarating comic-book energy, THE DARK NET is a megawatt defibrillator to the reader's heart. Quirky but very human characters confront an explosive emergence of the supernatural into our world, in this imaginative, spooky, swiftly paced tale threaded through with dark humor. -- Dean KoontzTHE DARK NET kicked my ass with its deft mash-up of both blackhat hacker culture and black magic. Percy reveals an upgraded, rebooted battle between good versus evil - a fast, fantastic, throat-punch of a read. -- Chuck Wendig, NYT bestselling author of Blackbirds and Zer0esBenjamin Percy's THE DARK NET channels the spirit of your favorite sprawling and epic, 1980's horror/thriller novels into a tightly paced, nasty, unrelenting 21st century nightmare. An addictive and frightening read. -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's RockThis is one hell of a body of work. Red Moon is about the rise of extremist, The Dead Lands about the decline of the American Dream, The Dark Net about privacy, surveillance and our technocratic state. They have nothing to do with one another, except that they're all dark mirrors to the now: genre fiction used in its hardest-hitting and most daring way. * Pornokitsch *Simply a cracking read. It is fast paced, and left me reeling in places. I highly recommend The Dark Net. * Brew & Books Review *An impressive, propulsive narrative velocity at work here * Metro *Verdict: A truly dark urban horror tale * Sci-Fi Bulletin *Simply a cracking read. It is fast paced, and left me reeling in places. I highly recommend The Dark Net * Brew & Books Review *Percy's narrative is as lean as a jaguar, and it sprints ahead with a clean, swift motion . . . Restrained yet lyrical, his prose raises his characters off the page, while making Portland more than a generic urban setting. * Locus *A lean, scary, Stephen King-infused chiller with great characters, mythology, villains and, impressively, a genre story about the dangers of technology addiction that doesn't feel like it's a dated piece of panic. * SciFiNow *The fate of the world in Percy's novel depends on the ability of a motley gang of misfits to head off the satanic forces emanating from the murkiest recesses of the internet. It's one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. * New York Times *A highly entertaining read * BookRiot.com *
£11.78
JournalStone Bridge of Souls
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Upfront Publishing The Deadly Oak
Book SynopsisA tree and its impact on the inhabitants of a nearby cottage and manor house over the last century or so is the theme of this compelling tale. We enter a world where humans and spirits mingle with sometimes surprising results. The setting is the remote but beautiful wilds of the Yorkshire moors. You will come to understand the harshness of the winters and the tragedy the cottage and manor house has seen through the years; the pain and anguish of the residents is firmly lodged in the walls of thee buildings. What sights they have seen, what memories they hold, what a fertile breeding ground for the host of spirits and souls that burst from the pages of this surprising and original story. We discover a host of beings, and have the opportunity to enter the lives of a multitude of compelling characters as we journey from a time when living was usually simple and unsophisticated into the end of the last century where the focus of all our lives changed dramatically.
£11.52
Titan Books Ltd Petra's Ghost
Book SynopsisPart ghost story, part travel novel, an enticing tale of exorcising one’s demons and learning to put the past to rest, for fans of Shirley Jackson and Susan Hill. A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife Petra’s ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really died. When he teams up with vibrant California girl Ginny, she seems like the perfect antidote for his grieving heart. But a nightmare figure begins to stalk them, and Daniel's mind starts to unravel as they are pursued by things he cannot explain. Unexpected twists and turns echo the path of the ancient trail they walk upon. The lines begin to blur between reality and madness, between truth and the lies we tell ourselves.
£8.54
Unbound Blood on Satan's Claw: or, The Devil's Skin
Book SynopsisBeware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs...Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the ‘unholy trinity’ of cult classics which gave birth to the film genre that would become known as folk horror. Along with The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General, it found new ways to terrify audiences using elements of superstition and folklore.Now, fifty years after its release, readers can experience the unearthing of this terror in the film’s first official novelisation: a compelling and frightening retelling of the fate of unfortunate villagers sacrificed by their own children as devil worship infiltrates their rural existence.Written by the film’s original screenwriter Robert Wynne-Simmons and featuring haunting new illustrations from Richard Wells, it is an atmospheric and defining cult classic in the making.Trade Review'A compelling and frightening retelling … atmospheric and defining cult classic.' Yvette Fielding, Paranormal Activity podcast
£12.34
Flame Tree Publishing American Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisSettling in for a night of spine-chilling entertainment? Here's a gripping collection of classic American ghost tales by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe ('The Masque of the Red Death'), Francis Bret Harte ('The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle'), Edith Wharton ('Afterward'), Mark Twain ('A Ghost Story'), Harriet Beecher Stowe ('The Ghost in the Mill'), O. Henry ('A Ghost of a Chance'), H.P. Lovecraft ('The Outsider') and many more. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
£6.99
Association for Scottish Literary Studies As It Was Told To Me: Three Short Stories by Sir
Book SynopsisSir Walter Scott (17711832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists, with his best-known works including Waverley (1814), Ivanhoe (1819), and Redgauntlet (1824). His experiments in short fiction, however, began before he published his first novel and throughout his career he returned to the short story form, writing tales which often contained elements of Scottish supernaturalism or the macabre.As It Was Told to Me, introduced by Daniel Cook, collects three of Scott's short stories in one volume. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror', mixes a tale of reckless romance with supernatural theatrics; The Two Drovers' offers a slow-burn exposé of national conflict; and Wandering Willie's Tale' weaves a yarn around the grisly death of a despotic laird and a trip to hell.
£9.33
Two Lines Press Lion Cross Point
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£12.34
Undertow Publications Nothing is Everything
£12.99
Divus Sounds Familiar: Or the Beast of Artek
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£14.24
Draft2digital A Vampires Girl
£999.99
Omnidawn Publishing The Ghost Trio
Book SynopsisA story set in Prague that crosses the lines between the living and the dead. The great love of your life is dead, but that doesn’t stop him from communicating with you—or luring you to join him in the afterlife. To remain safe in this world, you accept the help of a professional medium who develops his own emotional agenda. The Ghost Trio that emerges takes us to pre- and post-World War II Prague where a poignant and chilling love triangle finds its resolution. There we meet great Czech creators of the past including Leoš Janácek and Karel Capek. Inspired by the ghost stories of Henry James and Daphne du Maurier, Clyde Derrick introduces three characters whose passions defy time and the accepted boundaries between the dead and the living. The author, who has lived in and visited purportedly haunted sites in advance of writing this novella, contends that this story and its characters found him. Meanwhile, his portrayal of two Pragues—one poised to fall to Hitler’s army, the other muted by Communist oppression—offers us insights into the past and reminds us to stay vigilant against dangerous politics. The Ghost Trio is a spiritual excursion in which we ponder the limitations and hazards of romantic love as well as the possibility of other lives in other times. The Ghost Trio is the winner of the 2020 Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook / Novelette Contest, chosen by Molly Gloss. Trade Review"A couple is haunted by spirits who take them through 20th-century history in Derrick’s novella. . . . An engaging historical ghost story." * Kirkus *"This is an irresistible and original ghost story that moves seamlessly through time and space as it unfolds the history of a brilliant, troubled Czech musician and his lost love. It’s a lyric as intricate and passionate and mournful as Beethoven’s Ghost Trio." -- Molly Gloss, judge of the Omnidawn 2020 Fabulist Fiction Chapbook / Novelette contest"A fabulous literary page-turner, Clyde Derrick’s short, and wonderfully disturbing The Ghost Trio will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about identity, the human spirit, and the possibilities of love and partnership. Even if ghost stories aren’t your thing, you’ll be haunted by these audacious ghosts and befuddled humans long after the final, satisfying page" -- Karen Karbo, author of The Diamond Lane
£9.37
Comic Toolbox Tiny Acts Of Violence
£29.70
Cambridge University Press The Eternal Wanderer
Book SynopsisThe Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. It argues that early Gothic writing conjured iterations of this figure that reimagine and revise him, adding Gothic layers to a popular Christian myth that refuses to die. Drawing on the work of Carol Margaret Davison, Lisa Lampert-Weissig and Galit Hasan-Roken and Alan Dundes, whose studies trace the myth''s development across history, folklore and literature, this Element studies the figure as an antisemitic, palimpsestic Derridean spectre and establishes early Gothic writing as a significant development in his continued spectral existence. By reading the production of the Wandering Jew in conversation with his historical and theological contexts, and employing theoretical traditions of spectralisation according to Jacques Derrida and Steven F. Kruger, this Element provides a dedicated account of Gothic iterations of this figure and examines its alchemical, Faustian and theological figurations.
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Cambridge University Press Folk Gothic
Book SynopsisFolk Gothic asserts that a significant part of what has been categorised as folk horror is more accurately and usefully labelled as Folk Gothic. In emphasising temporal and spatial structures, it tells stories that foreground land and 'things', consequently loosening the grip of anthropocentrism.Table of Contents1. Folk gothic; 2. From horror to folk gothic: The Descent, The Green Inferno, Midsommar, The Ritual, Pet Sematary, In the Earth; 3. Folk gothic things: 'Randalls Round', 'The Temple', 'The Flint Knife'; 4. Folk gothic's place: The Owl Service, The Feast; References.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Folk Gothic
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£47.49
Cambridge University Press Democracy and the American Gothic
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HarperCollins A Good House for Children
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£13.09
Harper Voyager Gather the Fortunes Crescent City Novel
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£15.19
WW Norton & Co Reality and Other Stories
Book SynopsisA Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.Trade Review"A smart book, scary as hell, and also a whole lot of fun…[Reality and Other Stories is] as endlessly entertaining as it is legitimately frightening." -- Michael Schaub, NPR.org"Ingenious…[Lanchester's stories] send a shiver down the spine." -- Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal"John Lanchester's collection of tech-y ghost stories seems especially appealing right now...The eight tales in Lanchester's Reality and Other Stories are meant to entertain, to take you out of yourself for a space—and that they deftly do." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"This intriguing debut collection grapples with technology and its illusion of convenience, choice and escape. Lanchester, a British novelist and journalist, has a sharp eye for social class and setting in his ghost stories for the digital age." -- Vanessa Hua, New York Times Book Review"Brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure." -- Guardian"A mind-bending collection about the multifaceted scariness of the way we live now." -- Times Literary Supplement (UK)"Very clever, very modern 'entertainments.'" -- Financial Times (UK)"Across these immensely enjoyable and varied tales, Lanchester embraces the camp silliness of the gothic sensibility, while also making astute observations about our ever-developing digital reality." -- Booklist
£19.79
Penguin Putnam Inc Lost Among the Living
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Random House USA Inc Small Angels
Book SynopsisIn a hypnotic tale of sisterhood, first love, and hauntings, a wedding in a small English village stirs up unsettling magic and forces a troubled family’s secrets out into the open.“This beautifully written modern ghost story is an enchanting place to get lost.”—Danielle Trussoni, The New York Times Book Review“A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak, and revenge.”—Jennifer Saint, author of AriadneThe woods are stirring again. . . . Lucia and her sisters grew up on the edge of Mockbeggar Woods. They knew it well—its danger, but also its beauty. As a lonely teenager, Kate was drawn to these sisters, who were unlike anyone she’d ever met. But when they brought her into the woods, something dark was awakened, and Kate has never been able to escape the terrible truth of what happened there. Chloe has been planning her dream
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Penguin Putnam Inc The House on Prytania
Book SynopsisA woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in this second novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White.Nola Trenholm may not be psychic herself, but she’s spent enough time around people who are to know when ghosts are present, and there are definitely a few lingering spirits in her recently purchased Creole cottage in New Orleans. Something, or someone, is keeping them tethered to this world. And not all of them are benign. But with the sudden return of Sunny Ryan, Beau Ryan’s long-lost sister, Nola has plenty to distract her from her ghostly housemates. Especially when the tempting—yet firmly unavailable—Beau, wanting to mete out justice to those he blames for Sunny’s kidnapping, asks Nola for a favor that threatens to derail her hard-won recovery and send her hurtling backward. He asks her to welcome Michael Hebert back into her life,
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Penguin Books Ltd 13 Months Haunted
£19.37
Diversified Publishing The House on Prytania
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British Library Publishing Dangerous Dimensions
Book SynopsisIn twelve speculative tales of our universe's mathematics and physics gone awry, this new anthology presents an abundance of curiosities - and terrors - with stories from Jorge Luis Borges, Miriam Allen deFord, Frank Belknap Long and Algernon Blackwood.
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CAMCAT BOOKS The Beached Ones
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Mira Books The Unforgiven
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Mira Books Voice of Fear
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Random House USA Inc Lost and Wanted
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • FRESH AIRAs a professor of physics at MIT, Helen Clapp disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it’s perhaps especially vexing when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died. That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen’s roommate at Harvard. The two women once confided in each other about everything: Helen’s struggles as a young woman in science, Charlie’s as a black screenwriter in Hollywood, their shared challenges as parents. But as the years passed, they gradually grew apart. And now Charlie is permanently, tragically gone. Drawn back into her friend’s orbit, Helen is forced to question the laws of the universe that have always steadied her mind and heart. Suspenseful, perceptive, deeply affecting, Lost and Wanted is a story of friends and lovers, lost and found, at the most defining moments of their lives.
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Random House USA Inc Angelica
Book Synopsis“A masterpiece . . . seamlessly mixes psychological disintegration, the dissolution of a marriage and . . . a classic ghost story.”—USA Today NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Angelica impresses first as a clever send-up of the late Victorian novel, and then becomes its own very original thing. It is engrossing, deeply moving, and—precisely because it is moving—very frightening.”—Stephen King London, the 1880s. In the dark of night, a chilling spectre is making its way through the Barton household, hovering over the sleeping daughter and terrorizing her fragile mother. Are these visions real, or is there something more sinister, and more human, to fear? As the family’s story is told several times from different perspectives, events are recast, sym- pathies shift, and nothing is as it seems.
£15.30
WW Norton & Co The New Annotated Frankenstein
Book SynopsisTwo centuries after its original publication the most complete Frankenstein ever compiled.Trade Review"... Leslie S. Klinger offers a unique and incisive commentary on one of the great gothic horror novels of all time." -- This is Horror
£27.99
Tor Publishing Group Schraders Chord
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£13.09
St Martin's Press The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World
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St Martin's Press The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle
Book SynopsisGhostalker Ropa Moyo and her rag-tag team of magicians are back in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book in the spellbinding USA Today bestselling Edinburgh Nights series by T. L. Huchu.She came for magic. She stayed to solve a murder . . . Ropa Moyo is no stranger to magic or mysteries. But she's still stuck in an irksomely unpaid internship. So she's thrilled to attend a magical convention at Dunvegan Castle, on the Isle of Skye, where she'll rub elbows with eminent magicians. For Ropa, it's the perfect opportunity to finally prove her worth. Then a librarian is murdered and a precious scroll stolen. Suddenly, every magician is a suspect, and Ropa and her allies investigate. Trapped in a castle, with suspicions mounting, Ropa must contend with corruption, skulduggery and power plays. Time to ask for a raise?Edinburgh Nights series:The Library of the DeadOur Lady of Mysterious Ailments
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Tor Publishing Group The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle
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