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Classic horror & ghost stories
A historically significant novel of love and betrayal that led to a renewed interest in preserving the grand architecture of Paris. Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame was written in 1831, at a time when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was f..
16.26£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Translated by George Chapman, with Introductions by Jan Parker.ISBN: 9781840221176Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdImprint: Wordsworth EditionsPublished date: 05 Jul 2000DEWEY: 883.01DEWEY edition: 21Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 884Weight: 610..
13.07£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. 'He saw her wounded, and bleeding to death; saw her ashy countenance, and her wasting eyes ... turned piteously on himself, as if imploring him to save her from the fate that was dragging her to the grave...' A..
9.28£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
The fabled Jewel of Seven Stars has been stolen and the ancient Egyptian queen Tera has risen from her tomb to take it back - at any cost! The author of Dracula wrote this enthralling novel of a mummy's curse, a spellbinding blend of Eastern lore an..
13.13£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Rober..
8.67£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.ISBN: 9781840226454Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdImprint: Wordsworth EditionsPublished date: 05 Feb 2010DEWEY: 823.8DEWEY edition: 22Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 431Weight: 294gHeight: 197mmWidth:..
8.76£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
From the Queen of Crime, the first time all of her spookiest and most macabre stories have been collected in one volume.'From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream - such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It di..
12.56£
Brand: Flame Tree Publishing
Deluxe foiled and embossed cover, with gilded edges. Gift editions of much-loved classics. Accessible and timeless unabridged text. Features a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms. ISBN: 9781839641831Publisher: Flame Tree PublishingImpri..
15.92£
Brand: Arcturus Publishing
Adapted into the Academy Award winning film Sleepy Hollow, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. ISBN: 9781838573768Publisher: Arcturus PublishingImprint: ArcturusPublished date: 27 Apr 2020DEWEY: 813.2DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNu..
11.51£
Brand: British Library Publishing
Presenting 13 of the author's best tales from the 1920s and 30s - including accounts of uncanny living wax figures, unsettling timeslips into troubled pasts and Burrage's horror masterpiece 'One Who Saw' - this collection is another step towards res..
19.15£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Some houses are NEVER at peace…SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN'A gothic gem of intrigue and atmosphere' HWA Debut Crown JudgesEngland, 1917 Reeling from the death of..
13.38£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
'The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome ..
8.17£
The Magician (1909) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity and occult ritual, The Magician was instrumental in establishing Maugham's reputation as a leading author of the late Victorian era. Inspired by sto..
16.41£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
In 'The Masque of the Red Death' and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors, of malevolent tormentors and of a mind's own sickening madness Outside the abbey's armoured walls, the c..
11.58£
Brand: OUP Oxford
'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The r..
12.22£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
With an Introduction by Kathryn White. Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale..
8.37£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from hu..
11.38£
Brand: Liveright
"Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge", writes Leslie S. Klinger. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is ofte..
35.16£
Brand: British Library Publishing
A mysterious radio signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. Photography and X-ray evidence suggests there may be some truth to a sculptor's claim that he has created a god. A spectral projection sows terror amid the flickering light..
12.23£
Brand: British Library Publishing
The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in the innocuous setting of a terraced back garden . . . E F Benson'..
12.37£
The Australian novelist and playwright Helen de Guerry Simpson (1897-1940) published many supernatural short stories. This new edition selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless F..
18.18£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernaturalPhantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range ..
17.63£
Brand: Usborne Publishing
Strange things are happening at the Paris Opera House. Young singer Christine is suddenly famous - but who is her 'angel of music'? There are stories about a ghost. Can they be true?Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (..
11.03£
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.ISBN: 9781840220735Publisher: Wordsworth Editions LtdImprint: Wordsworth EditionsPublished date: 05 Mar 2008DEWEY: 843.912DEWEY edition: 22Language..
7.94£