From the prolific pen of John Oxenham (the pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley), a popular Edwardian novelist and adventurer, comes a thrilling piece of speculative fiction that utilizes the burgeoning, sprawling infrastructure of the capital.
From the brilliant mind of Johann Ludwig Tieck, a cornerstone figure of German Romanticism and master of the Schauerroman (Gothic horror), comes a mesmerising and melancholic tale of doomed, eternal love.
By the Master of Horror, in James Herbert's The Jonah, detective Jim Kelso is sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling and stumbles on a dangerous organization.
When Lea Sutter visits the Caribbean island of Chat Noir and witnesses a devastating earthquake, she is moved to adopt two beautiful, blue-eyed orphan twins, Daniel and Samuel, and take them home to America.
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics.
Acting on behalf of his firm of solicitors, Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountainsto finalize the sale of Englands Carfax Abbey to Transylvanian noble Count Dracula.
Classic Supernatural Stories is a cornucopia of thrills and chills, featuring twenty-five tales of the uncanny and macabre regarded to be among the finest weird tales in the English language.
In a land where the wolves howl 'yassss kween' and Bloody Marys are the only cocktail on offer, Jonathan Harker (a most basic b*tch) makes a series of horrifying discoveries at the House of Dragula.
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood.
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, dark angel Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless - and if he isn't careful, he'll lose his wings.
*The inspiration behind Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor*Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories.
'It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open .
Set in the bohemian caf society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister Crowley.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCAWith an Introduction by 'Britain's most sophisticated film critic' David Thomson, THE TIMES'A remarkable imagination continually provokes both pity and terror' OBSERVER 'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH'She wrote exciting plots .
READERS LOVE GEMMA'S DARK, ITCHY WORLD 'If you are after something that is both shocking and horrifically beautiful then take a journey and discover this little atrocity for yourself' 'I kept telling myself I really should turn off the light and get to bed now, eyes dry, head heavy, but every sentence in this book commands the reader keep turning the pages and press onward.
Neuübersetzung von "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", einer Gothic-Story des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Washington Irving, die geschrieben wurde, als Irving im Ausland in Birmingham, England, lebte; erstmals 1819 veröffentlicht.
