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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783788217 | ISBN 10: 1783788216
"Mariana Enriquez is a mesmerizing writer who demands to be read. Like Bolano, she is interested in matters of life and death, and her fiction hits with the full force of a train"(Dave Eggers) Welcome to Buenos Aires, a city thrumming with murdero ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008346928 | ISBN 10: 0008346925
'It’s a terrible story and one way to tell it is this: two girls in love and a fog of wasps cursed the place forever after...’ 1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as comple ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529111286 | ISBN 10: 1529111285
So here we go, into the dark. Some things can’t be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not. ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911284383 | ISBN 10: 191128438x
Winner of an English PEN Award Named a ‘new book you need to read in 2020‘ by i-D Named a ‘best book of the year so far‘ by Tatler Witty, inventive, and profound, Where the Wild Ladies Are is a contemporary feminist retelling of tr ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912766246 | ISBN 10: 1912766248
Early Weird fiction embraces the supernatural, horror, science fiction, fantasy and the Gothic, and was explored with enthusiasm by many women writers in the United Kingdom and in the USA in the late Victorian period and in the early twentieth centur ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472154125 | ISBN 10: 1472154126
A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781910989524 | ISBN 10: 1910989525
This novel is a masterpiece and something of an enigma. Part ghost story, part detective story and part something else entirely... It's 1945 and Martin Heath, like many men at that time, is struggling to settle, to find his place again after ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910463864 | ISBN 10: 1910463868
A rich collection of unnerving ghosts and sinister histories by Mark Haddon, Jeanette Winterson, Andrew Michael Hurley, Sarah Perry, Stuart Evers, Kate Clanchy, Kamila Shamsie and Max Porter. Rooted in place, slipping between worlds – a ri ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781409163367 | ISBN 10: 1409163369
A terrifying tale of a dark and deadly secret, beautifully told by million-copy bestseller, Michelle Paver. The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. The sacred mountain. Biggest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set out to con ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781409121183 | ISBN 10: 1409121186
January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330458153 | ISBN 10: 0330458159
Angela Carter meets Edgar Allen Poe in this mesmerizing spine-tingler from the talented author of The Icarus Girl. High on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the loss of Lily, mother of twins Eliot and Miranda, and beloved ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780747598626 | ISBN 10: 0747598622
When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning abou ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844085385 | ISBN 10: 1844085384
Bringing together the finest tales from the outstandingly successful Virago anthologies The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (Volumes I and II) and The Virago Book of Ghost Stories, comes this chilling new omnibus. Lost loves, past enmities and ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199556304 | ISBN 10: 019955630x
An enjoyable and wide-ranging anthology including some of the most frightening ghost stories ever written. Writers included: M. R. James, T. H. White, Elizabeth Bowen, Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Wells, J. S. Le Fanu, Vernon Lee, and W. S. Maugham. "h ... more
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