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Dark Horse Comics Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Eight
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Hodder & Stoughton The Wayward Sisters: A Scottish Gothic mystery
Book SynopsisSomething wicked this way comes...'This Gothic feminist mystery is just magic' Heat'For fans of eerie Gothic mystery, The Wayward Sisters has it all' The UpcomingInverness, 1769. On a freezing winter's night, astronomer Nancy Lockaby arrives at Blackthistle House, home to renowned Shakespeare scholar Caleb Malles, to assist him in his research. She hopes to forget all that has happened to her in London. Nancy initially finds herself captivated by Caleb's eccentric mind and deep passion for Macbeth. So, when she is warned by three mysterious women that Caleb is keeping secrets from her, she is dismissive - after all, the women also claim to have lived many centuries and possess powers that defy any logical reasoning. Yet, as Caleb's behaviour becomes more erratic, she begins to suspect that she has walked into a trap.Offering a fresh, feminist perspective on literature's most infamous trio, The Wayward Sisters is an enthralling, intricately woven story of friendship, intrigue and magic. Trade ReviewThis Gothic feminist mystery is just magic. * Heat *For fans of eerie Gothic mystery, The Wayward SIsters has it all * The Upcoming *
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Image Comics Silverlake
Book SynopsisThis is Kano Barnett, a young half-Native-American from the Pacific Northwest who has volunteered to join the army during the First Great War and finds himself on the front lines of Belgium in 1917. Here, he not only learns how to fight but also discovers that an amulet, made of silver from a sacred lake has imbued him with the power of his spirit animal, the Black Bear. As the war intensifies, No Man's Land becomes more than a blood-soaked battleground, it becomes Kano's hunting ground as he transforms into a hybrid predator unlike any the world has ever seen.
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Image Comics Lost Fantasy Volume 1
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IDW Publishing Pig Wife
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Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC Nightfall Travelers Leave Only Footprints Vol. 2
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Catapult Playing Wolf
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Vertical Inc. Dragon Head 1
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New York Review Books The Frog in the Throat
Book SynopsisIn a small town in Switzerland, Franz—ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends— is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which Klement never spoke to him again. In death, Klement visits his son in the form of a frog in the throat, choking him, yes, but also giving voice to an old dairy farmer devoted to the old ways, forever railing against his son and the whole modern mess he represents.The same can be said of this novel, in which these two voices clash, harmonize, and ultimately offer up all the mutual recognition and incomprehension that is family life. A miniature tragicomic masterpiece, Markus Werner’s second novel is as bursting with life as a Dickens novel: not only Franz’s high-strung shenanigans and the father’s settled life among the cattle, but the lives of his sister and brother and the land all around.As in all of Werner’s work, the world looks grim (“I sit around, I drink, I brood, I pat myself down for flaws and find many and each evening I say: Starting tomorrowI’m going to get a grip on myself”) but never less than comic—a view captured marvelously in Michael Hofmann’s vivid translation.
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Quirk Books The Z Word
Book SynopsisPacked with action, humor, sex, and big gay feelings, The Z Word is the queer Zombieland you didn’t know you needed.Chaotic bisexual Wendy is trying to find her place in the queer community of San Lazaro, Arizona, after a bad breakup—which is particularly difficult because her ex is hooking up with some of her friends. And when the people around them start turning into violent, terrifying mindless husks, well, that makes things harder. Especially since the infection seems to be spreading.Now, Wendy and her friends and frenemies—drag queen Logan, silver fox Beau, sword lesbian Aurelia and her wife Sam, mysterious pizza delivery stoner Sunshine, and, oh yeah, Wendy’s ex-girlfriend Leah—have to team up to stay alive, save Pride, and track the zombie outbreak to its shocking source. Hopefully without killing each other first.The Z Word is a propulsive, funny, emotional horror debut about a found family coming
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Fantagraphics The EC Artists Library Slipcase Vol. 7
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Haunting of Rookward House
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling gothic horror author Darcy Coates comes a terrifying story of cruelty, despair, and long-forgotten secrets. There's someone in Rookward House, and she's always watching...When Guy finds the deed to a house in his mother's attic, it seems like an incredible stroke of luck. Sure, it hasn't been inhabited in years and vines strangle the age-stained walls, but Guy's convinced he can clean the building up and sell it. He'd be crazy to turn down free money. Right?Rookward House may be hours away from its nearest neighbor, but he can't escape the feeling that he's being watched. Still, he doesn't believe in ghost stories and decides to camp in the crumbling old mansion while he does repairs. Surely nothing too bad can happen in the space of a week.But there's a reason no one lives in the haunting house, with its twisting shadows and whispering walls. The dilapidated rooms aren't as empty as they seem. Forty years ago, a deranged woman tormented the family that made Rookward its home. Now her ghost clings to the building like rot. She's bitter, obsessive, and fiercely jealous... and once Guy has moved into her house, she has no intention of letting him go.A disturbing tale of haunted houses and the things that live inside them, The Haunting of Rookward House is:Perfect for fans of Simone St. James and Shirley JacksonFor lovers of horror and ghost storiesHorror novels also By Darcy Coates:The Haunting of Ashburn HouseCraven ManorCarrow HauntThe House Next DoorVoices in the Snow
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Three Stories About Ghosts
Book SynopsisThree standalone novellas, telling three chilling ghost stories, by three of the finest new voices in fiction.A full-time medium and part-time cook is recruited by the nightmarish Boneman to hunt down and destroy a monster…Two children of warring houses, in a city-state ruled by the noble houses’ long-dead ancestors, fall in love…In a hidden college in America, a man and the shade of his wife seek out the answers behind her death…
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Poetry Wales Press Let a Sleeping Witch Lie
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Follow Me To Ground
Book Synopsis'A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book' DAISY JOHNSON, author of Everything Under'Beautiful and terrifying' SUNDAY TIMES'Seethingly assured debut fuses magical realism with critical and feminist theory' GUARDIANIn house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk – named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments. When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town – and the Ground itself – for ever.A poised and simmering tour-de-force, FOLLOW ME TO GROUND is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer.'Equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year’ TEA OBREHT'Fierce, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling dream' COLIN BARRETT'A writer to watch' METRO'An astonishing debut heralding the career of an exciting new writer. Strange, lyrical, and arresting, this novel will draw readers into its extraordinary spell.' KIRKUS starred review LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2019Trade ReviewSeethingly assured ... odd and muscular enough to resist easy interpretation. It can be read on many levels – as a fable about female yearning, or about containment and contagion; as an investigation into toxic relationships or a puzzle over the borders between human and non-human – but it is always singularly and entirely itself * GUARDIAN *Enthralling . . . Lyrical, dark and detailed, the story twists like a root, bent in one way by desire, in another by fate. * Daily Mail *Impressive . . . Rainsford is a writer to watch. * Metro *A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book * DAISY JOHNSON *Rainsford writes beautifully with a lyrical, earthy prose which is evocative and eviscerating yet mesmerising. She gives Ada a unique voice which fills and haunts the narrative. One of the strangest books I've read in a long time, it is utterly compelling and will linger, uninvited, in your consciousness long after you've turned the last page. * Irish Independent *
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Vintage Publishing Ghosts
Book SynopsisA high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty. A bed that hasn’t been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. In these chilling tales of the supernatural, M. R. James proves he truly is the master of the ghost story. Selected from the book Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Drinking by John CheeverSummer by Laurie LeeFriendship by Rose TremainLove by Jeanette Winterson
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Flame Tree Publishing Lovecraft Short Stories
Book SynopsisH.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, to Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on the several short stories, some of which are also included here, in this special deluxe edition. This title, alongside H.G. Wells Short Stories, is a companion volume to our hugely successful Gothic Fantasy series of classic and modern writers.
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Flame Tree Publishing The Hungry Moon
Book Synopsis"In every respect, Campbell's best." - Kirkus Reviews Isolated on the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends into the pit where the ancient being who’s been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann’s shape, and only the town’s outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong. As the evil spreads, Moonwell becomes cut off from the rest of the world… FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Trade Review"This horror story is beautifully written, populated with well-realized characters and pervaded by an increasingly chilling atmosphere of dread and anxiety." -- Publishers Weekly"In every respect, Campbell's best." -- Kirkus Reviews“Britain’s most respected living horror writer” -- Oxford Companion to English Literature“Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today” -- Time Out“Britain’s leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better” -- City Limits“One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers” -- Oxford Star“The John Le Carre of horror fiction” -- Bookshelf, Radio 4“One of the best real horror writers at work today” -- Interzone“The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition” -- The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural“England’s contemporary king of the horror genre” -- Atlanta Constitution“One of the few real writers in our field... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all” -- Peter Straub“Ramsey Campbell has a talent for terror – he knows how to give you nightmares while you’re still awake... Only a few writers can lay claim to such a level of consummate craftsmanship” -- Robert Bloch“Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive” -- Twilight Zone Magazine“He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you’re just reading a story” -- Publishers Weekly“One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story” -- Sounds“Britain’s greatest living horror writer” -- Alan Moore“For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly” -- Fangoria“Britain’s leading horror novelist” -- New Statesman“Campbell writes the most disturbing horror fiction around” -- Today“Ramsey Campbell is better than all the rest of us put together” -- Dennis Etchison“Ramsey Campbell is the best horror writer alive, period” -- Thomas Tessier“A horror writer in the classic mould... Britain’s premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin” -- Q Magazine“The undisputed master of the psychological horror novel” -- Robert Holdstock“Perhaps the most important living writer in the horror fiction field” -- David Hartwell“Ramsey Campbell’s work is tremendous” -- Jonathan Ross“Campbell is a rightful tenant of M. R. James country, the genuine badlands of the human psyche” -- Norman Shrapnel in the Guardian“One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story... His writing explores the potential for fear in the mundane, the barely heard footsteps, the shadow flitting past at the edge of one’s sight” -- Daily Telegraph“Britain’s greatest horror writer... Realistic, subtle and arcane” -- Waterstones Guide to Books“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James” -- Times“Campbell is literate in a field which has attracted too many comic-book intellects, cool in a field where too many writers – myself included – tend toward panting melodrama... Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good” -- Stephen King“Easily the finest practising British horror novelist and the one whose work can most wholeheartedly be recommended to those who dislike the genre... His misclassification as a genre writer obscures his status as the finest magic realist Britain possesses this side of J. G. Ballard” -- Daily Telegraph“The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers” -- Financial Times“He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acquaintance” -- Washington Post“The foremost stylist and innovator in British horror fiction” -- The Scream Factory“There are a few writers who are special. They make the world in their books; or rather, they open a window or a door or a magic casement, and they show you the world in which they live. Ramsey Campbell, for example, writes stories that, read in quantity, will re-form your world into a grey and ominous place in which strange shapes flicker at the corner of your eyes, and a patch of smoke or a blown plastic shopping bag takes on some kind of ghastly significance.” -- Neil Gaiman“One of the century’s great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific” -- Guardian
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Flame Tree Publishing The Rift
Book SynopsisJoe Jimenez, grieving father and estranged husband, on the eve of the anniversary of his son's death is on the brink of complete despair when he witnesses the arrival of a strange atmospheric anomaly. The rift – a curious tear in the very air of his backyard – appears nightly, and after some experimentation, Joe discovers that for everything that's sent through the rift, something similar, but horribly wrong, comes back. And when something on the other side claims to be in possession of his son, Joe has to make the most important decision of his life: should he go through and find out? FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
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Titan Books Ltd Alpi the Soul Sender Vol.4
Book SynopsisThe epic tale takes a new turn, as Alpi hunts for her parents in the fourth volume of the hit Magical Girl manga! Alpi and Perenai find unlikely friends, and journey to a wondrous places to find her lost family!The adventure continues and Alpi and her assistant Perenai strike out again to help ease the passing of the spirits of the world! Alpi gains a clue in the hunt for her lost parents, as an unlikely friend passes on a tale of their meeting! The hints lead them to a legendary library city, where all the knowledge in the world just might help them on their quest!
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Titan Books Ltd Firefly - Carnival
Book SynopsisA heist by the Serenity crew goes badly wrong in a captivating original Firefly tie-in novel from the award-winning series by Titan Books. City of sin Neapolis: a desert city on planet Bethel where all manner of entertainment can be found: high-stakes gambling, luxurious hotels, exclusive clubs and any form of diversion imaginable may be had for a price. It's the eve of the annual carnival: three days of decadent revelry, and Serenity arrives to take a security job, guarding a costly shipment. An unattainable ransom Tragedy strikes: the shipment is stolen, and the wealthy owner kidnaps Zoe and Book, holding them to ransom for the lost shipment's value. If Mal can't find the enormous sum of five hundred platinum by the next evening, both of them will be killed. A race against time As the carnival begins the crew must attempt the impossible, calling on contacts, calling in favours, and revealing hidden talents to save their crewmates' lives. Meanwhile, the hostages have their own plans...Trade ReviewPraise for Big Damn Hero "Feels like it could be a lost episode from the show" The Verge
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Templar Publishing Tales of the Damned: A Collection of Classic
Book SynopsisTales of ghosts, monsters and murderers have terrified and delighted readers for thousands of years.This spine-chilling collection features retellings of eight classic horror stories. From the disturbing short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, to gothic classics and chilling ghost stories, this striking anthology is the perfect introduction to the world of horror.Includes:DraculaFrankenstein The Masque of the Red DeathBluebeard And many more...Written by Matt Ralphs and with vivid illustrations by artist Taylor Dolan.Trade ReviewYou won't get much better than this collection of spine-chilling retellings of horror classics. * CultureFly *
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Titan Books Ltd The Toxic Avenger The Official Movie
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Titan Books Ltd Marginal
Book SynopsisA man returns to the cult he escaped from to bury his brother, only to discover the past is monstrous, hungry and mutating, in this devilishly gory body horror. Perfect for fans of Adam Nevill and John Carpenter.
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Titan Books Ltd Wild Spaces
Book SynopsisA young boy's life is upended after the arrival of his grandfather, who is hiding a terrifying secret in this sweltering southern gothic horror, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw and John Langan.
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Titan Books Ltd Among the Living
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestseller and author of Netflix's The Silence comes a terrifying horror novel set in a melting Arctic landscape. Something deadly has lain dormant for thousands of years, but now the permafrost is giving up its secrets... Estranged friends Dean and Bethan meet after five years apart when they are drawn to a network of caves on a remote Arctic island. Bethan and her friends are environmental activists, determined to protect the land. But Dean's group's exploitation of rare earth minerals deep in the caves unleashes an horrific contagion that has rested frozen and undisturbed for many millennia. Fleeing the terrors emerging from the caves, Dean and Bethan and their rival teams undertake a perilous journey on foot across an unpredictable and volatile landscape. The ex-friends must learn to work together again if they're to survive... and more importantly, stop the horror from spreading to the wider world. A propulsive horror thriller--fast-moving, frightening, and shockingly relevant-this adventure will grip you until the final terrifying page.Trade ReviewPraise for Among the Living: "A nail-biting scientific thriller worthy of Michael Crichton. Readers will be wowed." Publishers Weekly "Tim Lebbon is the absolute king of modern climate-change eco-horror. Fans of EDEN will adore this one, set on an island in the Arctic Circle, where something lurks in caves underneath the permafrost. Explosions! Body horror! A doomed ship! MONSTERS" Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces "The closest thing to an actual nightmare I've encountered on the page in a very long time. Among the Living is doom-laden, frantic, desperation horror of the highest order, filled with the most what-the-f**k twists you'll read all year. Lebbon is a master." Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and All Hallows "Among The Living may be Tim Lebbon's best work yet. Riveting, immersive and timely, it pits flawed, damaged people in an unequal and desperate struggle to prevent a catastrophe that may be just around the corner for us all. Read it now." Daniel Church, author of The Hollows "Tim Lebbon is a master of weird fiction! Among the Living is a riot of body horror, desperation, wild action, and totally relatable characters. Bloody brilliant!" Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Cave 13 and Empty Graves "A heart-pounding suspense novel set in a highly believable, not-too-distant future, with humankind and the environment bringing the terror in equal measures. Among the Living is yet another absolute belter from Tim Lebbon, a true master of the eco-horror subgenre." Rio Youers, author of Lola on Fire and No Second Chances "Among the Living is expertly tense, showcasing not only the dread of human distrust, but the destructive possibilities that rest beneath the surface. Tim Lebbon is a master of eco horror." Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author "At the melting edge of the world, Lebbon confidently cracks open the earth to confront our cosmic insignificance." Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold and The Handyman Method "When it comes to ending the world, nobody does it better than Tim Lebbon, and Among the Living is his most intense, harrowing effort yet." Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award -winning author
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Titan Books Ltd Bad Dolls
Book SynopsisIn this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explores themes of body image, female friendship, heartbreak and hauntings with her trademark humour and insight.
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PS Publishing Wings of Night
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Olympia Publishers The Mercantile
Book SynopsisWelcome to the little town of Playnesville. Things might seem a little strange here but be assured that these are just regular folks... regular folks with most irregular experiences. From these irregularities arise great stories and here is just one of those stories, told by a real-life local at the trusty town pub, ever present for any weary travellers. This here story in particular is concerned with the history behind ''The Mercantile: General Store'' which was the location of some very strange and sinister goings-on... things you''d rather see only in your nightmares. Violence, mystery and terror fills the quiet town of Playnesville, but the simple lives of the townsfolk must go on.
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Titan Books Ltd Cold Snap
Book SynopsisA grieving mother and son hope to survive Christmas in a remote mountain cabin in Pennsylvania, in this chilling novella of dread, isolationand sinister spirits lurking in the frozen woods. Perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians, The ShiningandTheBabadook.Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire?s husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn.Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and flees to the cabin they?d reserved deep in the remote Pennsylvania Wilds to wait out the holidays.It isn?t long before Christine begins to hear strange noises coming from the forest. When she spots a horned figure watching from between frozen branches, Christine assumes it?s just a forest animal?a moose, maybe, since the property manager warned her about them, said they?d stomp a body so deep into the snow nobody?d find it ?til spring.But moose don?t walk upright like the shadowy figure does.They don?t call Christine?s name with her dead husband?s voice.
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Titan Books Ltd House of Idyll
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Zaffre The Hiding Place: The most unsettling ghost story
Book Synopsis 'A supernatural tour-de-force' Daily Mail'Haunting and atmospheric' A.J. Gnuse, author of Girl in the Walls'The perfect modern ghost story' Katie Lowe, author of The Furies 'Mason is one of the best ghost story writers around today' Jess Kidd Some secrets can never be concealed . . .Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea, needing time and space away from home. Nell grew up in this small, wind-blown town and has mixed feelings about returning, and it isn't long before she is recognised by a neighbour, seemingly desperate to befriend her. The cottage has been empty for some time, and from the start Nell feels uncomfortable there. Something isn't quite right about this place . . .Maude, furious about being brought here against her will, soon finds herself beguiled by the house's strange atmosphere. There are peculiar marks in the roof beams above her bedroom, and in another room, a hiding place, concealing a strange, unnerving object.As the house gradually reveals its secrets, Nell becomes increasingly uneasy - and Maude spellbound. But these women - and the women that surround them - are harbouring their own secrets too, and soon events will come to a terrible head . . .A brilliant, unsettling and chilling ghost story of mothers and daughters, truth and deception that asks how far you would go, to get what you truly desire . . . Everyone is talking about The Hiding Place...'There's nothing like a haunted house to get the heart racing and this deliciously dark contemporary gothic tale set in Whitby will do just that. Hugely atmospheric, the writer builds the tension gradually - unsettling and creepy, it's a perfect supernatural read for Halloween' My Weekly'Satisfyingly unsettling, this is a hugely atmospheric novel that oozes with uncanny menace' Lucie McKnight Hardy'Tense, atmospheric and suffused with the peculiar longing of motherhood' Araminta Hall'Full of intrigue . . . sure to leave readers unsettled' Anita Frank, author of The Lost OnesTrade ReviewAn unsettling, supernatural tour de force ... with a back story steeped in local history and plot teeming with everyday anxieties, Amanda Mason has created a new gothic myth. Home for a family party, Nell decides it's time for a proper holiday with new hubby and step-daughter Maude. But the house they rent is, well, unwelcoming, with marks carved on ancient beams, ghostly footsteps, drifting smells and sinister secrets buried behind panels. As poison from the past seeps into the fractures within Nell's new family, personal histories and past horrors entwine to trap the reader in a claustrophobic, terrifying embrace. * Daily Mail *There's nothing like a haunted house to get the heart racing and this deliciously dark contemporary gothic tale set in Whitby will do just that. This gothic tale about mothers and daughters explores the lengths people will go to, to obtain power and control. Hugely atmospheric the writer builds the tension gradually - unsettling and creepy, it's a perfect supernatural read for Halloween. * My Weekly *A masterful, unnerving thriller. * Woman's Own *Haunting and atmospheric, The Hiding Place lingers in the dark spaces of a home as Amanda Mason deftly crafts a steady, creeping tension. As the Elder House's secrets are revealed, Mason shines a brilliant light on the unsettling extents of desire. * A.J. Gnuse, author of The Girl in the Walls *he Hiding Place has everything; chills that build, an immersive setting and a wonderful clash between the present and the past, the living and the dead. At the heart of this haunting novel are characters so real and compelling their stories continue to resonate long after reading. * Jess Kidd *The Hiding Place is the perfect modern ghost story--evocative, unsettling and genuinely spine-tingling. With vividly realised characters and a chilling mystery at its heart, I truly couldn't put it down--and the atmospheric, immersive world Amanda Mason has created stayed with me long after I'd turned the final page. * Katie Lowe, author of The Furies *Full of intrigue, with hidden agendas, lingering resentments & thwarted desires, this sinister tale is dripping with an insidious malice that is sure to leave readers unsettled. * Anita Frank, author of The Lost Ones *Satisfyingly unsettling, this is a hugely atmospheric novel that oozes with uncanny menace. * Anita Frank, author of The Lost Ones *A really convincing ghost story. Elder House, like Shirley Jackson's Hill House, evoked a chilling and eerie sense of past mystery and unhappiness. I was completely pulled along by the narrative and read it in a fevered rush. * Zoe Somerville, author of The Night of the Flood *A gripping and readable novel, full of subtle characterisation, an acute sense of atmosphere and place, and narrative tension. The Hiding Place is an accomplished modern-gothic haunted-house story, elevated by its exploration of the threads which link mothers and daughters (and step-daughters), the secrets they share (and also hide from each other), and women's wishes and desires, and what they will do to achieve them. * The Countryman *
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Atlantic Books Black Mamba
Book Synopsis'Great fun... the suspense slips its slow coils around you' Daily MailDaddy, there's a man in our room... This is the chilling announcement Alfie hears one night, when he wakes in his quiet, suburban house to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed. It's been nine months since Pippa - their mother - suddenly died and they've been unsettled ever since, so Alfie assumes they've probably had a nightmare. Still, he goes to check to reassure the girls. As expected he finds no man, but in the following days the girls begin to refer to someone called Black Mamba. What seemingly begins as an imaginary friend quickly develops into something darker, more obsessive, potentially violent. Alfie finds himself struggling to cope, and so he turns to Julia - Pippa's twin and a psychotherapist - for help. But as Black Mamba's coils tighten around the girls, Alfie and Julia must contend with their own unspoken sense of loss, their unacknowledged attraction to one another, and the true character of the presence poisoning the twins' minds... A darkling tale of tragedy, hauntings and sexual desire, Black Mamba is a novel of a father's love for his struggling daughters, and a widower's growing love for a woman after his wife's death. With smart, gothicky touches and a large and generous challenge to our assumptions of what and who constitutes a modern family, it explores both the limits we'll go to for our children and the sunken taboos of grief - of how erotics can still exist, and can even be life giving, after suffering loss.Trade ReviewGreat fun... the suspense slips its slow coils around you * Daily Mail *Fans of literary horror will be absolutely captivated... I found it almost impossible to put down * Horror Magazine *
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Flame Tree Publishing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Book SynopsisA stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. First published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who comes to live in Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch settlement near the Hudson River. It is a place that abounds with local superstitions, including one concerning a headless horseman. Crane’s eye is caught by Katrina van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and he starts to court her. This behaviour provokes the ire of another would-be-suitor, Brom Bones, a renowned village prankster. At a party, Crane confesses his love for Katrina, who rejects him. On his way home, he encounters the ‘horseman’, who hurls his head at Crane. Ichabod Crane is never heard of again. The only traces that remained of him were his horse, saddle, hat and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. What did happen to Ichabod Crane that night, and who was the Headless Horseman?
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Everyman Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisTales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As traditional religions declined in the West during those years, people looked for new ways of describing the spiritual realities explained by religion. The ghost story is a literary expression of this need, its rise corresponding to the growing popularity of Spiritualism. Ghost stories balance the increasingly powerful scientific materialism of the age with intimations that there are other orders of experience which we cannot define and only glimpse. The Everyman selection of ghost stories includes examples from this period by major writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James and Edith Wharton. M. R. James is featured as a specialist in the genre. Later writers include Elizabeth Bowen, Penelope Lively and Ray Bradbury.One feature of this collection is to show that there is more to the ghost story than the thrill of horror, important though that is. These stories include comedy and tragedy, pathos, drama and even poetry. Each is a masterpiece in its own right, irrespective of whether or not we believe in the realm of spectres.
£13.50
Alma Books Ltd The Ghost-Seer
Book SynopsisThe brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering an enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an uncanny pronouncement, a bizarre chain of events unfolds, involving a Jesuit secret society, a ghostly seance and a mysterious Sicilian magician – leading the Count to question his faith and morality. First serialized in 1787–89, this multilayered, fragmentary novel – which gave Friedrich Schiller a platform to expound his Enlightenment ideas on society and religion – has thrilled and engaged lovers of Gothic literature for over two centuries.Trade ReviewFrederick von Schiller was something more than a great author; he was also in an eminent sense a great man; and his works are not more worthy of being studied for their singular force and originality than his moral character for its nobility and aspiring grandeur. -- Thomas De Quincey
£7.59
Canongate Books The Auguries
Book Synopsis"Cottam is a masterly maven of the deeply disturbing occult. His latest may well leave you with nightmares Kirkus ReviewsIn the 1500s an almanac full of magic spells was put together by someone intent on bringing about The End Times. It has resurfaced and is being used indiscriminately.An unexpected lunar eclipse. A poisonous fog that cripples the capital. Statues that weep blood.As the catalogue of calamities mount, fear and paranoia provoke rumours of terrorist attacks. But from whom?History professor Juliet Harrington is an authority on sixteenth-century mysticism and a long-time believer in the existence of the Almanac of Forbidden Wisdom, a potent spell-book legend insists was compiled in that period by a cabal of powerful occultists. Its magic is summoned though only at disastrous cost, signalled by The Auguries. Juliet is convinced that the recent plague of disasters means someone reckless is using the book - and she has little time left to stop them.,br>
£12.34
BackPage Press Limited The Shadow of the Black Earl
Book SynopsisLeo Moran - connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions - sets out from the splendid isolation of his Glasgow apartment for Biggnarbriggs Hall in Kirkcudbrightshire. He soon finds himself haunted by visions after a local girl mysteriously disappears.
£8.54
Authors Reach Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion: A Gripping
Book SynopsisWhen Ruby Davis gets a distressed call from Rosie Cowell, the latest inhabitant of Blakemort, little does she know that her life too will change forever, from the moment she steps over the threshold.
£9.49
Karma The House of the Seven Gables
Book SynopsisAlex Katz illustrates Hawthorne’s classic gothic tale of Puritan New England While enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century earlier, in 1851, Hawthorne’s classic novel is a solemn study of greed, guilt and atonement under the Puritan moral code of 19th-century New England, inspired by the curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a condemned woman during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century, known for his darkly romantic stories and novels such as The Scarlet Letter. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and belonged to a prominent circle of New England–based writers and philosophers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott. Alex Katz (born 1927) is a New York–based artist known for his large-scale Pop-inspired canvases of two-dimensional figures set against monochrome backgrounds. For over seven decades, his work has been the subject of hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
£22.50
VIZ Media LLC Otaku Vampires Love Bite Vol. 5
Book SynopsisSome vampires live to feast on the blood of their victims. Others just want to score super limited edition anime merch!Hina Alucard is a modern vampire who drinks blood from bags instead of from humans. But she's also a complete shut-in who hasn't left the house in 30 years. In an effort to reach her, Hina's dad does something that changes her lifehe gives her a DVD of the Vampire Cross anime! Hina is instantly obsessed, especially with the character Mao. But it's difficult to fangirl as hard as she wants from her bedroom in Romania, so now Hina is out of the house and off to Japan to live her otaku dream!Kyuta's having a hard time bouncing back after being attacked at the vampire bar, so Hina decides to drag him to some cute animal therapy at the zoo. But things definitely don't go as planned when Mao's voice actor crashes their date! Ordinarily, Hina would be thrilled to bump into her fave, but Rinya has too many secrets and asks too many questions for her to enjoy the occasion. Not to mention that his presence is ruining any benefit the cute animals had on Kyuta's mood!
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VIZ Media LLC Dark Gathering Vol. 16
Book SynopsisAn unwilling magnet for the supernatural and a ghost-hunting little girl join forces to capture Japan's most terrifying and dangerous spirits.After a dangerous encounter with a malevolent spirit, Keitaro Gentoga wants nothing to do with the supernatural. Unfortunately for this reluctant ghost magnet, he's stuck helping Yayoi Hozukia strange young girl who's intent on capturing Japan's most terrifying ghosts and ghouls. The final stage of Operation Bellflower Regicide begins when Yayoi finally unleashes the full might of her Graduates on Yin Jiao. The fates of Ai, Keitaro, Eiko, and Yayoi all hang in the balance as seven of the deadliest ghosts Japan has ever seen square off against one truly monstrous god.
£8.54
Double 9 Booksllp The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance
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£11.39
Fantagraphics Books Brain Damage
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£23.99
Boom! Studios Minor Arcana Vol. 2
£15.29
Boom Entertainment Seven Secrets Deluxe Edition Slipcased Edition
£66.38
