Classic horror & ghost stories
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A Christmas Carol
£10.99A Christmas Carol
An illustrated, full-colour edition of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale.
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A gothic cookbook
£20.00A gothic cookbook
A literary-inspired cookbook that reveals the hidden meaning behind food in your favourite Gothic tales, ‘A Gothic Cookbook’ is the perfect culinary companion for those who enjoy a slice of the macabre with your meal.
SKU: 9781800183223 Category: Food And Drink Tags: Classic horror & ghost stories, Cooking for parties, Cultural studies: food & society, General cookery & recipes, Literary theory£20.00 -
Christmas Gothic
£20.00Christmas Gothic
The Christmas Gothic Short Story Collection is a seasonal celebration of the dark and moody, the ghastly, the ghostly and the magical Christmas short story. New stories from open submissions join the classic tales of Algernon Blackwood, James Joyce, E.F. Benson, Elizabeth Gaskell and more.
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Classic horror stories
£10.99Classic horror stories
A collection of ingeniously crafted, classic horror stories to fire the imagination and give you chills.
SKU: 9781035014941 Category: Classics Tags: Classic fiction, Classic horror & ghost stories, Short stories£10.99 -
Dead Drunk
£9.99Dead Drunk
A collection of Victorian and early twentieth-century fiction, reflecting the anxieties about the impact of alcohol and intoxicants in society. This new collection offers a (somewhat poisoned) chalice of dark and stormy short fiction, brimming with the weird, the grotesque, the entertaining and the outlandish.
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Don’t go to sleep in the dark
£9.99Don’t go to sleep in the dark
‘Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark’ was the first gathering of Celia Fremlin’s short fiction, a form in which she had published prolifically while building her reputation as a novelist of psychological suspense. Female characters predominate in these tales, as does the doom-filled atmosphere that was Fremlin’s metier.
SKU: 9780571391288 Category: Fiction Fantasy Tags: Classic horror & ghost stories, Ghosts & poltergeists, Horror & supernatural fiction£9.99 -
Dracula
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Frankenstein
£10.99Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, presented in a beautiful, pocket-sized collector’s edition, with a new afterword from David Pinching.
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Frankenstein
£16.99Frankenstein
Mary Shelly’s classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
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Frankenstein
£9.99Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece, presented in a beautiful paperback edition.
SKU: 9781035034840 Category: Classics Tags: Classic fiction, Classic horror & ghost stories, Classic science fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Speculative fiction£9.99 -
Frankenstein
£7.99Frankenstein
Mary Shelley’s classic horror story is bought back to life in this contemporary graphic novel, featuring atmospheric illustrations and electrifying explorations of the cultural impact of Shelley’s gothic masterpiece. The novel follows the obsessive scientist Victor Frankenstein as he robs graveyards and gathers body parts to build a monster of superhuman strength. But as he begins to develop his own mind, consciousness and agency, how will the creature react to being left alone in the world by his creator? Perfect for reluctant readers and visual learners, this faithful, fast-paced adaptation brings ‘Frankenstein’ to vivid life with full-colour artwork and speech bubbles to enhance the retelling.
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Japanese ghost stories
£9.99Japanese ghost stories
The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore – including the headless ‘rokuro-kubi’, the monstrous goblins ‘jikininki’ or the faceless ‘mujina’ who stalk lonely neighbourhoods – and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in 19th-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power.
SKU: 9780241675298 Category: Fiction Fantasy Tags: Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic horror & ghost stories, Folklore, myths & legends, Short stories£9.99 -
Murder by candlelight
£9.99Murder by candlelight
As the nights draw in and the old year slips away, the haunting season begins. Twigs scrape at windowpanes in the darkness, mysterious footprints are found in the snow, and all sorts of mysteries, monsters and nastiness are in the offing. Bringing together ten classic tales of mystery, murder and mayhem from the greatest writers in the genre, ‘Murder by Candlelight’ will puzzle your mind and chill your blood in equal measure.
SKU: 9781805222552 Category: Fiction Crime Tags: Classic horror & ghost stories, Crime & mystery: cosy mystery£9.99 -
Petrified
£9.99Petrified
Braydon Harris and Suki, his little girl, are leaving her grandparent’s house when a huge truck jack-knifes in front of their car. Suki is thrown from the vehicle and winds up in hospital suffering with terrible burns. Luckily, cryptozoology professor Nathan Underhill is working on a perfect cure. Underhill breeds mythological beasts, and lately he’s been working with the legendary phoenix – whose cells he believes might hold exceptional healing properties against burns. Despite the treatment, Suki finds that the pain from the burns and this remedy only exacerbates a terrible nightmare she’s had for years – one that’s becoming realer by the minute, about scary things flying through the sky – and now they’re headed straight for her.
SKU: 9781035909841 Category: Fiction Fantasy Tags: Classic horror & ghost stories, Horror & supernatural fiction, Monsters & legendary beings, Science fiction£9.99 -
Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories
£20.00Pirates & Ghosts Short Stories
A powerful new addition to the bestselling Gothic Fantasy series of new writing and classic stories. With tales of pirates, deathly fogs and ferocious rocks, these dark tales of the haunted mind, trapped like ghosts at sea, are sure to entertain and enthrall.
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Roads of Destiny
£9.99Roads of Destiny
This new collection brings together tales of strange parallel destinies, unexplored forks in humanity’s history, twisted pocket dimensions and forays into unsettling regions of dark fantasy.
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