Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Penguin Putnam Inc The Ghost Woods
£13.35
Diversified Publishing The House on Prytania
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£27.00
Random House USA Inc The Invisible World
Book SynopsisAn eerie and virtuosic debut (Helen Phillips, author of The Need) about a paranormal investigations TV show that loses control of its subject as they investigate a haunted house Eve is a frustrated young artist and the owner of what she believes is a haunted house. Sandra is an overworked producer at Searching for . . . the Invisible World, a paranormal investigations show perpetually on the brink of cancelation. When the show descends upon Eve's home, they’re intent on creating just another staged spectacle. But, unexpectedly, the crew encounters some very real activity—shelves collapse, electronics go haywire, a cameraman disappears in the dead of night. Meanwhile, the show’s teenage ghost hunter Caitlin is caught up in the unexplained events, convinced she’s glimpsing the “other side” and desperate to make contact—even if it means putting the investigation, and herself, in jeopardy.
£12.59
University of Wales Press Bram Stoker
Book SynopsisThis study examines Stoker's contribution to the modern notion of Gothic and demonstrates that Gothic excess is Stoker's way of focusing on social, economic, and political problems. What makes this study unique is that it privileges Stoker's development of modern Gothic in Dracula but also addresses Stoker's works that are decidedly not Gothic.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Gothic through Stoker's Short Stories Chapter 1: Gothic Material in The Snake's Pass, The Watter's Mou and The Shoulder of Shasta Chapter 2: Dracula: Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece Chapter 3: Ongoing Work with the Gothic in Miss Betty, The Mystery of the Sea and The Jewel of Seven Stars Chapter 4: Gothic-Tinged Romances: The Man, Lady Athlyne and The Lady of the Shroud Chapter 5: Stoker's Return to the Gothic in Famous Impostors and The Lair of the White Worm
£27.00
University of Wales Press Bram Stoker
Book SynopsisThis study examines Stoker's contribution to the modern notion of Gothic and demonstrates that Gothic excess is Stoker's way of focusing on social, economic, and political problems. What makes this study unique is that it privileges Stoker's development of modern Gothic in Dracula but also addresses Stoker's works that are decidedly not Gothic.Trade Review"With careful and meticulous textual analysis and in clear and succinct prose, Senf traces Gothic patterns, images and themes throughout Bram Stoker's significant body of fiction. From his earliest short stories in the 1870s through his major novels (including, of course, "Dracula"), Senf demonstrates how Stoker developed a deeper sense of the Gothic as a means of social commentary. This is an invaluable companion for readers of Victorian Gothic."--Elizabeth Miller, Memorial University of NewfoundlandTable of ContentsIntroduction: Tracing the Gothic through Stoker's Short Stories Chapter 1: Gothic Material in The Snake's Pass, The Watter's Mou and The Shoulder of Shasta Chapter 2: Dracula: Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece Chapter 3: Ongoing Work with the Gothic in Miss Betty, The Mystery of the Sea and The Jewel of Seven Stars Chapter 4: Gothic-Tinged Romances: The Man, Lady Athlyne and The Lady of the Shroud Chapter 5: Stoker's Return to the Gothic in Famous Impostors and The Lair of the White Worm
£49.50
British Library Publishing The Face in the Glass
Book SynopsisA selection of haunting supernatural tales from prominent Victorian novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, reissued in the Tales of the Weird series from the British Library.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Cold Embrace; Eveline's Visitant; My Wife's Promise; At Chrighton Abbey; Three Times; Her Last Appearance; The Shadow in the Corner; The Face in the Glass; His Oldest Friends; The Ghost's Name; The Island of Old Faces; The Higher Life; Herself; Good Lady Ducayne
£9.49
British Library Publishing The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
Book SynopsisThis new collection of Lovecraft's stories is the first to concentrate on his Gothic writing and includes tales from the beginning to the very end of the author's career.
£13.49
British Library Publishing The Open Door
Book SynopsisThis newly edited volume collects six of her greatest ‘Seen and Unseen’ stories – Oliphant’s most popular series in her day – and includes a new introduction exploring the life of this pioneering novelist.
£13.49
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.
£13.23
British Library Publishing Into the London Fog
Book SynopsisAs the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are tales from writers such as Charlotte Riddell, Lettie Galbraith and Violet Hunt, who delight in twisting the urban myths and folk stories of the city into pieces of masterful suspense and intrigue.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Queens of the Abyss
Book SynopsisThis new anthology follows the instrumental contributions made by women writers to the weird tale, and revives the lost authors of the early pulp magazines along with the often overlooked work of more familiar authors.
£9.49
British Library Publishing The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu
Book SynopsisAiming to firmly position Sheridan Le Fanu alongside other canonical horror writers published by the British Library, this anthology focuses on some of his lesser-known stories, exploring eight thoroughly Gothic tales of murderous families, dark castles and ghosts whose business with the living remains unfinished.
£13.49
British Library Publishing Cornish Horrors
Book SynopsisOffering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the region in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism.
£9.49
British Library Publishing I Am Stone
Book SynopsisExploring tales of annihilation and shattered identities, fatalistic romances, bewildering visions of the sublime and mythological evils preying on the innocent, this new anthology is a journey through an entrancing and influential oeuvre essential for any reader of the weird.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Randalls Round
Book SynopsisRandalls Round has long been revered by devotees of the weird tale. First published in 1929, its stories of ritualistic folk horror and M. R. James-inspired accounts of ancient forces terrorising humanity are thoroughly deserving of wider recognition.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Penny Bloods
Book SynopsisCollecting seven tales from classic penny publications including the story of Mrs. Lovett, the piemaking counterpart to Sweeney Todd, this volume features newly edited text and insights from Dr. Dittmer’s research to revive a wild company of witches, femme fatales, and deadly criminals for a new generation of readers.
£13.49
British Library Publishing Playing with Fire
Book SynopsisThis volume collects Doyle's most enduring strange stories - ranging from monster encounters and deadly hauntings to dark tales of mesmerism - and also includes a new introduction along with Doyle's never-before-reprinted essay on his own spiritual experiences, 'Stranger than Fiction'.
£14.44
British Library Publishing The Horned God
Book SynopsisAssembling ten tales and six poems – along with Machen’s novella – from the boom years of Pan-centric literature, this new collection revels in themes of queer awakening, transgression against societal bonds and the bewitching power of the wild as it explores a rapturous and culturally significant chapter in the history of weird fiction.
£9.49
British Library Publishing The Lure of Atlantis
Book SynopsisThis new anthology collects stories from the vast, yet seldom recognised, vault of Atlantean fiction from the Golden Age of Weird Tales magazine, presented in four core sections.
£9.49
British Library Publishing All the Fear of the Fair
£10.44
British Library Publishing Medusa
Book SynopsisA new edition of an important novel which is now extremely scarce, its only recent edition having been a short-run collector's item. This novel is regularly listed as one of the twentieth-century's best horror novels in reviews throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.
£9.49
British Library Publishing The TigerSkin
£10.44
British Library Publishing The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton
Book SynopsisA new edition exploring the works of one of the great ghost story writers, Edith Wharton, aiming to position her firmly amongst the household names published so far in the Gilded Nightmares series. Featuring some of Wharton's essential classics such as 'The Eyes' and 'Afterward' along with less-anthologised masterpieces of the short story form.
£14.24
British Library Publishing Illusions of Presence
£15.29
CAMCAT BOOKS The Beached Ones
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£15.15
Little, Brown Book Group Dawn of the Dead
Book SynopsisWHEN THE END OF THE WORLD COMES, WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?The classic horror that inspired a genre: if you haven''t read this yet, you need to. If you have, you''ll want to again. Includes a brilliant and exclusive introduction from Simon Pegg.When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.George A. Romero''s iconic film and novel terrified generations.Now Dawn of the Dead is back to terrify once more.The world is being devastated by zombies. No one knows how far they have spread, or how to stop them. And as the living fight to save themselves, society collapses. Four people escape the chaos of downtown Philadelphia and find shelter in a shopping mall. As the survivors exhaust their greed and the undead scrape at the doors, the refuge becomes a prison.And soon there will be nowhere left to hide . . .
£9.49
Running Press It Pennywise Talking Bobble Bust
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£12.07
Mira Books Whispers at Dusk
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£24.00
Mira Books The Unforgiven
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£9.49
Mira Books The Forbidden
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£9.49
Mira Books Whispers at Dusk
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£8.99
Mira Books Secrets in the Dark
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£8.99
Mira Books Cursed at Dawn
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£8.99
Mira Books Voice of Fear
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£9.49
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Book SynopsisThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories features the timeless short stories of Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle,” and others.
£9.99
Chartwell Books Frankenstein
Book SynopsisIn the age of AI, this classic tale of technology gone wrong is a must-read collectible in this handsome faux-leather hardcover edition.The combination of fantastical elements and scientific exploration makes this Mary Shelley novel one of the first true models of science fiction. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus pioneered the deeply explored battle between monster and man. Follow three narratives in this ageless tale that navigates fear, fixation, love, and desire, while finding an anchor in humanity. The story comes alive anew in this beautifully designed edition featuring: An elegant faux-leather cover with foil-embossed designs An introduction by writer and English professor Catherine Steindler An author’s introduction A timeline of the life and times of Mary Shelley This gorgeous, heirloom-quality collection is an ideal edition for classic book lovers to acquire for their home librar
£12.74
Chartwell Books The Picture of Dorian Gray
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£12.74
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Muckross Abbey and Other Stories
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£12.99
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.
£12.20
New Directions Publishing Corporation Three Streets
Book SynopsisYoko Tawada—winner of the National Book Award—presents three terrific new ghost stories, each named after a street in BerlinTrade Review"Tawada's stories agitate the mind like songs half-remembered or treasure boxes whose keys are locked within." -- The New York Times"Tawada is reminiscent of Nikolai Gogol, for whom the natural situation for a ghost story was a minor government employee saving up to buy a fancy coat, the natural destiny of a nose to haunt its owner as an overbearing nobleman." -- Rivka Galchen - The New York Times Magazine"Tawada’s strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity, and what it means to own someone else’s story or one’s own." -- The New Yorker"These stories reinvent familiar landmarks and artworks, giving readers an imaginative and hopeful way to grapple with the history that’s written into the urban landscape." -- Publishers Weekly"Three Streets is one of the most explicitly dialectical works in Tawada’s oeuvre. It pursues a left project not only in form but also in content—an engagement with the plight of the poor, the disenfranchised, the forgotten—and leaves her readers no doubt that, at the end of the day, her project has political stakes." -- Reed McConnell - The Baffler"“The mystery of what it means to be human”—this phrase, which pops up early in “Kollwitz Strasse,” is an apt description of what Tawada aims to explore in these stories. From one moment to the next, her narratives can be mystifying. In time, though, they cohere into engrossing meditations on historical memory and the oft-baffling nature of life in this century.” " -- Kevin Canfield - World Literature Today"In her latest work of fiction Three Streets, Tawada brings her remarkable intelligence and linguistic playfulness to bear on the cityscape of Berlin itself – or, more specifically, its former East. On Kollwitzstraße, Majakowskiring and Puschkinallee, Tawada conjures a series of ghostly encounters with the past, present and supernatural possibilities of our history-heavy city. This klein aber fein addition to Tawada’s oeuvre, translated elegantly by Margaret Mitsutani, compresses plenty of its author’s trademark offbeat brilliance into a pleasingly short format." -- Alexander Wells - Exberliner"Each ‘street’ in the volume, translated by Margaret Mitsutani, is both charming and unnerving...This may well be Tawada’s finest work, partly because of how moving it is when someone capable of so much wit knows when to be reverent. A perfect story." -- J.W. McCormack - The New Left Review
£12.34
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.
£14.45
Random House USA Inc Slade House
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£13.60
£22.03
£18.65
£21.07
McNidder & Grace The Witch the Seed and the Scapel
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£9.49
Quercus Publishing Little Star
Book Synopsis''The new Stephen King. Don''t miss it'' The TimesHe found her as a baby, abandoned in the forest. He saved her life. With her first breath - a perfect, musical note - he realised she was no ordinary child. It was for her own protection that he hid her from the authorities. Was it his fault, what she turned into? Or was that why she was left for dead in the first place? The girl who became a little star. Who became, with her extraordinary powers, the most terrifying thing imaginable.In John Ajvide Lindqvist''s fourth masterpiece, he ratchets up the tension until the story reaches its blood-chilling conclusion. In doing so, he confirms his place as the undisputed new king of horror.''A magician of genre fiction'' IndependentTrade Review'The imagery is so intense you can visualise the torture, and the comparisons so inventive you can picture the unimaginable ... readers will remain gripped' Sci-Fi Now. * Sci-Fi Now *'Excellent. And near unputdownable ... a superbly crafted, deliciously twisted constantly shocking tale' SFX. * SFX *
£9.49
Quercus Publishing Curious Warnings The Great Ghost Stories of MR
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated collector''s edition containing all the supernatural tales ever written by M.R. James, the undisputed father of the modern ghost story.''James is clearly the best that''s ever been'' MARK GATISSM.R. James is one of the finest authors of supernatural fiction in the English language and revered as the father of the modern English ghost story. Many of his stories were originally written as Christmas entertainments and were read aloud by the author to selected gatherings of friends.''There are all sorts of writers of all sorts of nightmares, but M.R. James wrote the best ghost stories. He may well have created the ghost story in its current form. Nobody can do what he did as well as he could'' NEIL GAIMANAuthorised by the writer''s estate, Curious Warnings: The Complete Ghost Stories is the only volume that collects together all of James'' much-loved supernatural tales - including the classics, ''OTrade ReviewThere are all sorts of writers of all sorts of nightmares, but M.R. James wrote the best ghost stories. He may well have created the ghost story in its current form. Nobody can do what he did as well as he could * NEIL GAIMAN *James is clearly the best that's ever been * MARK GATISS *There are some authors one wishes one had never read so that one might have the joy of reading them for the first time. For me, M.R. James is one of these * RUTH RENDELL *The stories are still marvellous. Atmospherically creepy, disturbing, and wonderfully English in their understated nature and simple statements of supernatural happenings . . . their inherent creepiness is eminently readable * SFF World *What better time of year to curl up with ghost stories from the father of the genre? * Sunday Express *Curious Warnings can fairly lay claim to being the most comprehensive collection of M.R. James' fiction to date * The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter *A book to keep forever! * Words and Pieces *If you like horror/ghost stories then this book is a must * Thestral's Books *
£29.75
