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Tananarive Due
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he…
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Paul Tremblay
The Cabin at the End of the World adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense.
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The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Mariorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are…
Michelle McNamara
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted…
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Gabriel Bergmoser
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide - an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller - a bestselling debut from talented newcomer, Gabriel Bergmoser.
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Eric LaRocca
A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.
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Stephen Graham Jones
Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them…
C.J. Tudor
A crashed coach full of students. A stuck cable car full of strangers. An isolated chalet full of friends. A killer snowstorm outside. Inside one group, a killer.
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Ally Wilkes
A vivid ghost story exploring identity, gender and selfhood, set against the backdrop of the golden age of polar exploration. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and Michelle…
Catriona Ward
Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It’s so good you’ll read it twice…
Matt Ruff
Matt Ruff, the critically acclaimed cult novelist, makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination…
A gripping gothic masterpiece from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Last House on Needless Street, Sundial is a must-read for fans of Girl A and Sharp Objects…
Sara Gran
Discover this cult classic, available in the UK for the first time in many years, and step into a world of the dark, bizarre, and unexplained …
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An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained.
Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)
A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve.
Stephen King
A a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours.
Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear.
Agustina Bazterrica
Everyone’s eating human meat. Would you? The shocking, darkly gripping dystopian novel in which cannibalism is legal.
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Ling Ling Huang
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.
Samanta Schweblin
A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood.
In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
A Startlingly Original Horror Novel from the Author of HEX.
Ira Levin
Ira Levin’s classic novel reissued with a new introduction by Chuck Palahniuk.
William Peter Blatty
A revised edition, expanded by the author and includes a chilling new episode.
Lucy A. Snyder
A bloody and unforgettable tale of transformation and survival, told by three women surviving in a world devastated by a disastrous transformation.
Kay Dick
Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish through-a-glass-darkly Britain, they are coming closer…
Andrew F. Sullivan
The Marigold explores the precarity of community and the fragile designs that bind us together.
Jade Daniels faces down a brutal serial killer in his pulse-punding tribute to the golden era of horror cinema and Friday the 13th.
Emil Ferris
In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.
Carmen Maria Machado
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
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Tamsyn Muir
Tamsyn Muir’s necromantic science fantasy debut Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you’ll ever have with a skeleton.
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s extraordinary tale of childhood dreams and supernatural agency in small-town America.
Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece - the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer.
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The Shining is an iconic chilling classic, regarded as one of Stephen King’s masterpieces.
Sayaka Murata
Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?
Justin Cronin
The first instalment of the bestselling The Passage Trilogy
Emily Carroll
A fantastically dark and timeless graphic debut, for fans of Grimm Tales, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and the works of Neil Gaiman.
Thomas Harris
An FBI trainee. A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes. And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim…
John Ajvide Lindqvist
This extraordinary and powerful novel is part horror, part comedy and mostly love story.
Anne Rice
Reissue of the first volume of Anne Rice’s celebrated Vampire Chronicles - a cult classic.
Jenny Hval
A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot.
Bram Stoker
A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host.
Jay Kristoff
From the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Nevernight Chronicle, comes this masterful new series.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A glamorous young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a mysterious mansion in 1950s Mexico.
James Han Mattson
Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism to present a chilling portrait of American life.
Angela Carter
An absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
Stephanie Perkins
Stephanie Perkins returns with another blood-chilling contemporary horror novel.
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