The Fig Garden and Other Stories
By: Mark Valentine
4.65
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This new collection of short and some longer stories by Mark Valentine explores ‘the Real Map of En…
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1. The Woman in White
By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet
4.01
Format: 672 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more
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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
2. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
3. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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4. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
5. The House of Souls
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages,
Four of Machen's classic novellas (A Fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The… read more
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6. The Hill of Dreams
By: Arthur Machen
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through so… read more
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7. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
By: Robert Aickman
4.40
Format: 436 pages,
Cold Hand in Minewas first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from … read more
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8. Written In Darkness
By: Mark Samuels , Reggie Oliver
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
...Written in Darkness, represents the quintessential statement of Samuelism. "I believe that menta… read more
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9. The Travelling Grave and Other Stories
By: L.P. Hartley , Frank Utpatel
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Travelling Grave and Other Stories contains the following tales: "A Visitor from Down Under" "P… read more
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10. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
11. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales
By: Attila Veres
4.17
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original… read more
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12. The World Below
By: David Peak
3.98
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more
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13. A Trick of the Shadow
By: R. Ostermeier
4.62
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
R. Ostermeier lives and works on the peninsula. This first collection of strange tales draws predom… read more
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14. Fifty Forgotten Books
By: R.B. Russell
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-p… read more
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15. The Sleep of the Assassins and Other Stories
By: Damian Murphy
4.86
Format: 61 pages, Hardcover
The Sleep of the Assassins and Other Stories is very much akin to a collection of b-sides and rarit… read more
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16. Therapeutic Tales
By: R. Ostermeier
4.52
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
“—it was then Doktor Gaitskill asked me the question that led to this book. Are we stranger than pe… read more
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17. Nocebo
By: R. Ostermeier
4.80
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
R. Ostermeier's new collection comprises four longer tales of peninsula folklore and history. Noceb… read more
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18. The Angry Dead
By: Rosemary Pardoe
3.93
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
"All of the elements of literate, affectionate, and skilful pastiche are the country churches, the… read more
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- horror
19. The Fig Garden and Other Stories
By: Mark Valentine
4.65
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
This new collection of short and some longer stories by Mark Valentine explores ‘the Real Map of En… read more
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20. Rumsy Schoolchildren
By: R. Ostermeier
4.80
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
“There’s evidence childhood games mimic desired behaviour of fairness. The Opies found there were c… read more
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21. Wild Marjoram Tea
By: Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs
4.45
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
May your pockets be deep in dust, for each mote is a star, little one, and your right pocket hold… read more
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- fiction
22. This World and That Other
By: John Howard
4.20
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This new shared volume offers two original novellas influenced by the supernatural and metaphysical… read more
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23. We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories
By: Elizabeth Jane Howard
4.39
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
We Are for the Dark is a remarkable collection, and one that can be said to have kick-started the ‘… read more
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24. The Dusk
By: John Hirschhorn-Smith
4.36
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Edited by John Hirschhorn-Smith, 'The Dusk' is an anthology of twenty pieces of weird fiction set i… read more
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25. The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Follies and Grottoes
By: Rosemary Pardoe
4.43
Format: 177 pages, Hardcover
Sarob Press is spookily delighted to present thirteen eerie spectral tales (eight are wholly origin… read more
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26. The Settlements
By: O. Jamie Walsh
4.48
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising… read more
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27. The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny
By: Sarban
4.10
Format: 235 pages, Hardcover
Described by no less an authority than E.F. Bleiler as 'excellent', 'The Doll Maker' is the story o… read more
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28. Old Children
By: Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs
4.33
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
“Another world was beside them even now. Jack would never be able to articulate it, but he knew the… read more
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29. Oculus Praedecessoris
By: Forrest Aguirre
4.33
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
"" Through the thorny brambles we go," he said aloud, though alone, as if she was still with him. E… read more
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30. The Night of Turns
By: Edita Bikker
4.67
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Once upon a time, you died. I put this mark on your skin so I’d know you on returning. You were … read more
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31. Child of the Dawn
By: Ron Weighell
3.80
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Child of the Dawn is a fast-paced almost cinematic tale of occult conspiracy and adventure with Ale… read more
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