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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic of gothic literature follows the
Pyncheon family in pre- and post-colonial New England, in their
ancestral home; the titular House of the Seven Gables. Published in
1851 at the height of the Gothic fiction craze, Hawthorne's book
follows two time frames: one involves flashbacks to the late 17th
century, while the other is set in the author's present day of the
mid-19th century. We witness the events leading up to the Salem
witch trials, and the construction of a house which came to
epitomise the foreboding gloom of late Gothic architecture. We hear
how the very construction of the house was unjust, the land was
seized from its rightful owner via cynical accusations of
witchcraft. The newly-built mansion is thought to harbor a curse
when Colonel Pyncheon dies during its housewarming party.
Thereafter this event overshadows the lives of the Pyncheon family
members, who begin to feel the house and its grim legacy weigh on
their shoulders.
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The Power
(Hardcover)
Stanley Brzycki
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R548
Discovery Miles 5 480
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THE DARK TOWER is the seventh volume in Stephen King's epic Dark
Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring
Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. The final book in King's epic
The Dark Tower series, sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster
ride of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting
quest to reach the dark tower. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have
journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across
multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland,
Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the
Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own
endings and beginnings and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence,
and discovery. And as he closes in on the Tower, Roland's every
step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. Finally, he
realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone... JOIN
THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER... THE DARK TOWER SERIES: THE DARK
TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE
THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND
GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG
OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE
KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL
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Sullivan House
(Hardcover)
A M Crane; Cover design or artwork by Fiona Jayde; Edited by K. H. Koehler
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R610
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A milestone of American supernatural fiction, The King in Yellow
created a sensation upon its 1895 publication. Since then, it has
markedly influenced writers in the genre, most famously, H. P.
Lovecraft. Author Robert W. Chambers has been hailed as a writer of
remarkable imaginative powers and the historic link between Edgar
Allan Poe and Stephen King. This edition features the original 10
gripping stories. The book is named after a fictional play with the
same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The
first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and
the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of
the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which,
"The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the
Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a
forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read
it.
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Succubus
(Hardcover)
Brandon Varnell; Edited by Linda Branam; Illustrated by Lawrence Mann
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R604
Discovery Miles 6 040
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Stephen King's international bestselling and highly acclaimed
novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks The Green
Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that
walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's
electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John
Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two
little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and
around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or
holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which
may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to
save him.
'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s
claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'
His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese
stalks the desolate Genoese coast. A monstrous creature, shipwrecked by
a ferocious storm, offers him unimaginable wealth to exchange bodies,
entwining their fates. Transformation, with two further tales of
striking and eerie power here, shows how Mary Shelley haunts us still.
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