Figurehead
By: Carly Holmes
3.93
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
In this debut collection of stories Carly Holmes peers into every corner of the strange fiction gen…
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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- short stories
3. Kissing Carrion
By: Gemma Files
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Paperback
In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more
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4. Girl Meets Boy
By: Ali Smith
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new s… read more
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5. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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- short stories
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
6. Nights at the Circus
By: Angela Carter
3.00
Format: 112 pages,
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wa… read more
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7. The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
By: Daphne du Maurier
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The lost stories of Daphne du Maurier, collected in one volume for the first time. Before she wrote… read more
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8. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
9. Little Eve
By: Catriona Ward
3.75
Format: 271 pages, Hardcover
A heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist“A great day is upon us. He is c… read more
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- horror
"It is a kind of privilege, to witness the darkness."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
"I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end."-Catriona Ward, Little Eve
10. Looking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
3.49
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more
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- horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound
11. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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12. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
By: Katie Lumsden
3.67
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more
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"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
13. The Last Word
By: Elly Griffiths
3.92
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more
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14. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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15. Unsettled Ground
By: Claire Fuller
3.78
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more
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16. My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more
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- horror
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
17. A Haunting in the Arctic
By: C.J. Cooke
3.78
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
1901-ben járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more
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18. A Bitter Remedy (The Oxford Mysteries, #1)
By: Alis Hawkins
3.92
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to… read more
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19. The Whispering Muse
By: Laura Purcell
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more
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- horror
20. Fyneshade
By: Kate Griffin
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more
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- horror
21. Good Girls Don’t Die
By: Christina Henry
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Celia wakes up in a house that isn’t hers. She doesn't recognize her husband or the little girl who… read more
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- horror
"[S]he marveled at how easily the heroines of her favorite books stumbled across physical clues after a crime. Fiction really was easier than truth."-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die
"Maggie resisted the urge to explain to the other woman that life was not fair, that it had never been fair, that terrible things happened all the time that nobody planned on, that even when you tried…"-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die
"Most women faked half their lives daily, pretending to have their work and their family and their health completely under control, moving through the world with just enough makeup and effortless sham…"-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die
22. Swedish Cults
By: Anders Fager
3.47
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as… read more
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- horror
23. The Half Life of Valery K
By: Natasha Pulley
4.20
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more
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"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K
24. Welsh Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends
By: Claire Fayers
3.94
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
Enjoy Wales's rich heritage of myth and fairy tales, re-told for young readers. From magical Welsh … read more
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25. The Path of Thorns
By: A.G. Slatter
4.00
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess t… read more
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"I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders."-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns
26. Breakable Things
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.94
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
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27. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen
By: Ellen Datlow
3.85
Format: 428 pages, Paperback
From Ellen Datlow— “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times —comes a new … read more
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- horror
28. This Wild, Wild Country
By: Inga Vesper
3.53
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old mystery. They hate me down there, in Boldville. I c… read more
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29. The Seawomen
By: Chloe Timms
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Esta has known nothing but Eden's Isle her whole life. Raised by her grandmother, after a fire clai… read more
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30. Figurehead
By: Carly Holmes
3.93
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
In this debut collection of stories Carly Holmes peers into every corner of the strange fiction gen… read more
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31. Darkness Beckons
By: Mark Morris
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An incredible fourth book in the horror anthology series which Booklist called "Highly recommended … read more
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