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A collection of ingeniously crafted, classic horror stories to fire the imagination and give you chills.
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Josephine Tey
A gripping mix of historical and contemporary crime, voted the number one crime novel of all time.
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A young girl claims she was kidnapped and abused, but who is really telling the truth?
Oscar Wilde
A beautiful collector’s edition of Oscar Wilde’s short stories
M. R. James
A chilling collection of ghost stories by the incomparable M. R. James
Robert W. Chambers
With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction.
David Stuart Davies
Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first of his Golden Age mysteries.
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In The Shadows: Weird Tales that Chill and Shock
By David Stuart Davies
Settle into your easy chair, but be sure to leave the lights on! This collection of twenty-five…
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Introducing Johnny One Eye, the exciting new detective operating in London during the Blitz.
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The sixth novel in the Detective Johnny (One Eye) Hawke series. Two laser-sharp detectives, two thought-provoking cases and two skilful plots.
Rupert Wilde and Kishen are a great new detective duo on the mystery scene.
A collection of short stories that includes tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the…
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Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. This book presents…
Features two of Sherlock Holmes’ most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures: The Shadow of the Rat and The Tangled Skein . In The Shadow of the Rat , a body…
Prepare to have your blood chilled and your nerves tingled …This collection of eighteen short stories blurs the line between the real and unreal, and transports you to the misty…
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Detective Inspector Paul Snow, heading the enquiry, must discover the pattern and reveal the chilling truth as a cunning and violent murderer becomes desperate and even more unpredictable. Haunted by…
A collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees.
A delightful collection of prose and poetry celebrating the rich literary history of Yorkshire.
An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.
A festive anthology of wintery mysteries in one pocket-sized gift edition.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are holidaying on the English coast when they discover a mysterious corpse on the beach. Then they are viciously attacked, and when Watson comes to…
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Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the case of a kidnapped child. With no ransom note, and a sinister connection to the highest echelons of Victorian society, the companions’ lives…
A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the sinister Dr Caligari
A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the return of the sinister Moriarty gang…
Franz Kafka
A beautiful gift edition of Kafka’s classic psychological novel with an afterword by David Stuart Davies.
H. P. Lovecraft
Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the…
This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and…
Bram Stoker
Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula , together in one volume for the first time
Terry Lynch
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, the Whitechapel murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. This book looks…
Lafcadio Hearn
A collection of ghost stories.
E.F. Benson
E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection.
Ernest Bramah
Here is a collection of the best of Max Carrados, a set of stories featuring a series of baffling puzzles to challenge the greatest of detectives.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame’s enchanting children’s classic, illustrated in colour
The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as ‘real’ apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.
Gaston Leroux
The little known, brilliant original text by Gaston Leroux has been immortalized by screen and stage adaptations. One of the greatest horror stories of all time, The Phantom of the…
Edith Wharton
A collection of tales of the ghost story genre.
Wilkie Collins
A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and…
Henry S. Whitehead
Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by…
Dorothy L. Sayers
The very best of Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey short stories in one volume, edited and introduced by crime writer David Stuart Davies.
D. K. Broster
Dorothy Kathleen Broster is best known for her historical novels. But there is a darker side to her writing, finding full expression in the stories she wrote after she had…
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A collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B…
A collection of nineteenth century short stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from…
DK
Chronicles every case of the world’s greatest detective and his assistant Dr Watson. This book explores every facet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most memorable creation. It offers all you…
M.R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing…
A collection of the author’s macabre tales including Dracula’s Guest .
The first ‘locked room’ mystery, which Agatha Christie considered, ‘One of the best detective stories’.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A set of tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, it includes tales such as: The Ring of Thoth , The Captain of the Polestar , The Terror of Blue John Cap…
