The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird
By: Zara-Louise Stubbs
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
‘Well,’ he said, looking at the waiter and giving him a sly wink, ‘all I can tell you is that I thi…
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1. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
2. The Feast
By: Margaret Kennedy
3.93
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
Initially was published in a shortened form in a 1949 Ladies Home Journal magazine under the title … read more
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- fiction
"She writes this biographical fiction, or fictional biography, whichever you like to call it. She takes some juicy scandal from the life of a famous person, and writes a novel round it. Any facts that…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"MYSELF: You have never understood. My integrity means more to me than happiness. CHRISTINA: You have none. There is no such thing. You are not a whole person. Nobody is. We are members one of another…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"[W]hen she was dying she asked me to promise never to leave Father. I couldn't refuse. It was the last thing she said. She was worried over what would happen to him. So you see!' 'How could she conde…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
"What kind of books do you like?' 'I like books about nice people. And a story where it all comes out right in the end.' 'But Nancibel, that's not true to life.' 'I daresay not. Why should it be?' 'Yo…"-Margaret Kennedy, The Feast
3. The Driver's Seat
By: John Lanchester , Muriel Spark
3.61
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 0141188340 Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking.… read more
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- fiction
"Sonra bu kumaş leke de tutmaz "diyor tezgahtar kız."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
"It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up."-John Lanchester, The Driver's Seat
4. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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- fiction
- horror
5. Nutcracker
By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more
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- fiction
6. Not to Disturb
By: Muriel Spark
3.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
A storm rages round the towers of the big house near Geneva. Behind the locked doors of the library… read more
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- fiction
7. Autumn
By: Ali Smith
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more
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- fiction
8. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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- fiction
9. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
By: Oscar Wilde
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim… read more
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10. 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
- fiction
- horror
"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
11. 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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12. Beyond Black
By: Hilary Mantel
4.80
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab b… read more
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13. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
14. The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1
By: Kazuo Umezz
4.03
Format: 744 pages, Hardcover
A definitive edition featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablishe… read more
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- fiction
- horror
15. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
16. Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more
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- horror
"Too much human touching will change a thing."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing
17. Life Ceremony
By: Sayaka Murata
3.75
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more
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- fiction
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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony
18. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
19. Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection
By: Junji Ito
4.23
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
FRESH NIGHTMARES BROUGHT TO YOU BY HORROR MASTER JUNJI ITO. Countless tombstones stand in rows, … read more
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20. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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- fiction
"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
21. Lanny
By: Max Porter
4.06
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."-Max Porter, Lanny
"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"-Max Porter, Lanny
"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."-Max Porter, Lanny
22. Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
By: Alex Pheby
3.60
Format: 617 pages, Hardcover
GOD IS DEAD, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered… read more
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- horror
"You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. S…"-Alex Pheby, Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)
23. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- horror
24. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- fiction
- horror
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
25. The Glutton
By: A.K. Blakemore
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy tur… read more
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- horror
26. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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27. The Question Mark
By: Muriel Jaeger
3.32
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Edward Bellamy, set o… read more
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28. Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction
By: Margrét Helgadóttir
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The first true celebration of contemporary Nordic science fiction, fantasy and horror! A Unique … read more
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- horror
29. The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird
By: Zara-Louise Stubbs
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
‘Well,’ he said, looking at the waiter and giving him a sly wink, ‘all I can tell you is that I thi… read more
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- food
- short stories
- horror
30. My Gothic Heart (Macmillan Collector's Library)
By: Charlie Castelletti
4.08
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
The word gothic conjures up crumbling castles, passion and unnerving supernatural events. It's a po… read more
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31. Ladybugs in November
By: Brittany Johnson
4.61
Format: None pages, None
When two lifelong friends return to the site of a childhood tragedy thirty-seven years later, they … read more
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