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With an Introduction by M.J. Elliott. 'My eyes, perversely shaken
open, gazed for an instant upon a sight which no human creature
could even imagine without panic, fear and physical exhaustion...'
A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen
and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train carriage
with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method
of capital punishment... A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using
as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the
human soul... Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft's more
obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including
several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true
Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume.
The mesmerizing adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo
Galaxy 'Alex' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most elite universities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her?
Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies, well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than she ever imagined . . .
Welcome to a world of secret societies and the occult that's perfect for fans of Deborah Harkness, Neil Gaiman, Susanna Clarke and Ben Aaronovitch.
'Like any other boy I expected ghost stories at Christmas, that was
the time for them. What I had not expected, and now feared, was
that such things should actually become real.' Strange things
happen on the dark wintry nights of December. Welcome to a new
collection of haunting Christmas tales, ranging from traditional
Victorian chillers to weird and uncanny episodes by
twentieth-century horror masters including Daphne du Maurier and
Robert Aickman. Lurking in the blizzard are menacing cat spirits,
vengeful trees, malignant forces on the mountainside and a skater
skirting the line between the mortal and spiritual realms. Wrap up
warm - and prepare for the longest nights of all.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives,
than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the
human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or
sentiments, which gives direction to the character of Man.'
Including Poe's most terrifying, grotesque and haunting short
stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination is the ultimate
collection of the infamous author's macabre works. Considered to be
one of the earliest American writers to encapsulate the genre of
detective-fiction, the collection features some of his most popular
tales.'The Gold-Bug' is the only tale that was popular in his
lifetime, whereas 'The Black Cat', 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and
'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' became more widely read after his
death. Focussing on the internal conflict of individuals, the power
of the dead over the living, and psychological explorations of
darker human emotion that appear to anticipate Sigmund Freud's
later theories on the psyche, Poe's Gothic terror stories are
considered masterpieces the world over.
"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth..." Arthur Conan Doyle - On the banks
of the river Thames a massive new building is being completed. A
stunning creation of glass and concrete that will be a new landmark
on London's skyline. And people are dying because of it...Dozens of
mysterious unexplained accidents have claimed the lives of workmen
during the construction and journalist Jessica Anderson is
convinced that the owner of the building, a billionaire Russian
businessman, knows more about the accidents than he is revealing.
Enlisting the help of a former colleague, Jess tries to investigate
the shadowy industrialist but finds that far harder than she
imagined. Protected by a private security force and cocooned by his
entourage, this powerful man proves to be as elusive as anyone she
has ever known. He values his privacy and seems willing to go to
any ends to protect it. But what is he hiding? As she delves into
his background she discovers that one of his ancestors lived in
London during the 1930's on the same site where the Crystal Tower
was constructed and death and destruction surrounded that ancestor
too.Is there a link between these two men? Jess is convinced there
is and when a series of horrific attacks and murders take place,
perpetrated against men who want to stop the Russians next building
project, she finds herself plunged into a maelstrom of fear and
events that threaten not just her life but her very
sanity...Something from the darkest reaches of myth and
superstition has been unleashed upon a modern world and it seems no
one can stop it...Shaun Hutson. On the banks of the river Thames a
new building is being completed. A stunning creation of glass and
concrete that will be a new landmark on London's skyline. Now
people are dying because of it. Dozens of mysterious accidents have
claimed the lives of workmen during the construction of the Crystal
Tower. The owner, an enigmatic Russian businessman, has family
links back to the site to the 1930s and a dark family secret of
unstoppable force. Of malevolence created by man. Something evil
has been reawakened and no one can stop it.
Wieland, the story of religious delusions and horrific violence on
the eve of the American Revolution, is the first gothic novel in
America and a cornerstone of the Early American literary canon. A
family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited first by
a set of mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air,
followed soon after by an itinerant rustic named Carwin. Violence
erupts when the family's young patriarch believes he hears God's
voice demanding a human sacrifice as a sign of faith. Testing the
limits of religious and literary authority in the new United
States, Brown's novel has for more than two centuries kept readers
debating questions of agency, accountability, and revolutionary
politics as the story's moral chaos unfolds. The editor provides
explanatory annotation throughout the volume. This Norton Critical
Edition also reprints Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Brown's
fragmentary sequel to Wieland. "Sources and Contexts" presents
inspirations for Brown's work, including an account of the
real-life Yates family murders, an excerpt from Christoph Martin
Wieland's The Trial of Abraham, as well as religious and medical
accounts of delusion, spontaneous combustion, and ventriloquism.
Brown's outline for Wieland and his letter to Thomas Jefferson are
also reprinted. "Criticism" includes contemporary responses to the
novel from both the United States and the United Kingdom along with
fourteen essential modern critical approaches. Recent contributors
include Shirley Samuels, Christopher Looby, Nancy Ruttenberg, Laura
Korobkin, David Kazanjian, Bryan Waterman, and Stephen Shapiro,
among others. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also
included.
Peter V. Brett, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Demon Cycle,
begins a brand new epic fantasy adventure set in his beloved world,
following a new generation of heroes. Fifteen years have passed
since the demons were destroyed. Heroes have become legend, and
those that remain live in their shadows. Olive, Princess of Hollow,
has her entire life planned out-a steady march toward succession.
But the more her mother writes the script, the more Olive rails
against playing the parts she is assigned. Darin is the son of the
man people say saved the world. Everyone expects greatness from
Darin, but the only thing he's ever been great at is hiding. But
now it's time to fight the darkness. When Olive and Darin step
across the wards one night, they learn that the demons are not all
gone, and those that remain hunger for revenge. Are Darin and Olive
ready to be heroes?
"Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in
horror. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond
beautiful. With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of
Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of
horror that's filled with grit and heart. Don't miss this book;
it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023."-
Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust
Maidens and Reluctant Immortals The Best of Our Past, the Worst of
Our Future collects Christi Nogle's finest psychological and
supernatural horror stories. Their rural and small-town characters
confront difficult pasts and look toward promising but often
terrifying futures. The pieces range in genre from psychological
horror through science fiction and ghost stories, but they all
share fundamental qualities: feminist themes, an emphasis on voice,
a focus on characters' psychologies and a sense of the gothic in
contemporary life. Stories here may recall Charlotte Perkins
Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," Shirley Jackson's "The Renegade,"
or Kelly Link's "Stone Animals."
The spooky, swoony YA debut from BookTok star @Merrowchild! Someone
is stripping Europe's most haunted city of its spirits. When
self-destructive, 16-year-old seer, Charlie Frith, realises that
one of his own ghostly friends has gone missing, he must put aside
his own safety - and reclusive existence - if he is to find them.
Charlie reluctantly teams up with Sam Harrow - the new seer in town
- and a rag-tag group of ghosts, to save their friends from a fate
literally worse than death. But there is a dark purpose behind
these disappearances - more sinister than Charlie could ever have
imagined. And, as he slowly comes to terms with his romantic
feelings for Sam, the stakes become even higher as time quickly
runs out! Perfect for fans of Cemetery Boys, Becky Albertalli and V
E Schwab. #SixteenSouls has more than a-quarter-of-a-million views
on TikTok and counting. A must-read for all young adult fans with
intricately plotted mystery, sublime world-building and
fantastically diverse cast of characters. Praise for Sixteen Souls:
"Delivers fun and frights in equal measure. A fantastically spooky,
thrilling adventure!" - Kat Ellis, author of Wicked Little Deeds
"Flawless twists, this book immediately pulled me in." - H.M Long,
author of Hall of Smoke "A captivating take of loss, friendship and
love that had me gripped from first to last." - Menna van Praag,
author of The Sisters Grimm "Absolutely gripped." - Amy McCaw,
author of Mina and the Undead "The writing is rich; the characters
sharply drawn." - K.D Edwards, author of The Tarot Sequence Series
"Sixteen Souls is a boundlessly clever, heartfelt queer take on the
story of a sensitive young man who sees dead people. Talbot has
crafted something chillingly delightful! Perfect for any
ghoul-lover's shelf!" - Adam Sass, author of Surrender Your Sons
and The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers "Deliciously dark" - Cynthia
Murphy, author of Last One to Die, Win Lose Kill Die and The
Midnight Game "A delectable mystery" - Dawn Kurtagich, author of
The Dead House "An outstanding debut" - Bex Hogan, author of Isles
of Storm and Sorrow series
It's never been easier to attack Attack on Titan than with these
new, giant-sized 3-in-1 omnibus editions! If you've been waiting
for the final anime season to check out the do-or-die shonen
adventure that defined a decade, now's your chance. These new books
tuck almost 600 pages of manga behind a specially-embossed cover,
all in a larger size than the regular version. Includes Vol. 25-27
of Attack on Titan. Eren and everyone he has ever known have lived
on the island of Paradis. For many years, the Marleyans have been
threatening Paradis in an attempt to monopolize the power of the
Titans and keep the world trembling before their military might. In
an effort to prove their worth and cement their truth, the
Marleyans prepare for the ultimate declaration of war on Paradis.
But when the time for deliverance comes, neither side is equipped
for the shocking drama that unfolds.
"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth..." Arthur Conan Doyle - On the banks
of the river Thames a massive new building is being completed. A
stunning creation of glass and concrete that will be a new landmark
on London's skyline. And people are dying because of it... Dozens
of mysterious unexplained accidents have claimed the lives of
workmen during the construction and journalist Jessica Anderson is
convinced that the owner of the building, a billionaire Russian
businessman, knows more about the accidents than he is revealing.
Enlisting the help of a former colleague, Jess tries to investigate
the shadowy industrialist but finds that far harder than she
imagined. Protected by a private security force and cocooned by his
entourage, this powerful man proves to be as elusive as anyone she
has ever known. He values his privacy and seems willing to go to
any ends to protect it. But what is he hiding? As she delves into
his background she discovers that one of his ancestors lived in
London during the 1930's on the same site where the Crystal Tower
was constructed and death and destruction surrounded that ancestor
too. Is there a link between these two men? Jess is convinced there
is and when a series of horrific attacks and murders take place,
perpetrated against men who want to stop the Russians next building
project, she finds herself plunged into a maelstrom of fear and
events that threaten not just her life but her very sanity...
Something from the darkest reaches of myth and superstition has
been unleashed upon a modern world and it seems no one can stop
it...
From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon
and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, a suspenseful
story about the complex relationship between two sisters. When a
beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the
clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her
small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she
merely get away for fun? Or did she finally make the decision to
leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities? Her
younger sister Gigi wonders if the flimsy silk Dior dress, so
casually abandoned on the floor, is a clue to Marguerite's having
seemingly vanished. The police examine the footprints made by her
Ferragamo boots leaving the house, ending abruptly, and puzzle over
how that can help lead to her. Gigi, not so pretty as her sister,
slowly reveals her hatred for the perfect, much-loved, Marguerite.
Bit by bit, like ripping the petals off a flower blossom,
revelations about both sisters are uncovered. Subtly, but with the
unbearable suspense at which Joyce Carol Oates excels, the fate of
the missing beauty slowly comes to light... Reviews for Joyce Carol
Oates: 'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian 'Oates
chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.'
Sunday Express 'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review
'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times 'Visceral, psychologically
involving, and socially astute.' Booklist
Joe Bovshover had chosen the park. He knew that this full moon he'd
become wolf. He knew the deer in the park would make easy prey. The
deer lived simply and were soft, there was no wildness to these
city animals, but there was in Joe. . . It's now 1980, and Joe, the
skinhead werewolf, once again stalks London. Lights in the night,
burning red and white; amidst aggro, proper shmatta, and mod
witches. Tim Wells brings us another short, sharp instalment of his
pulp skinhead-punk-horror series.
'A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness' Florence Welch
When Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in
catastrophe, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Whatever
happened in that vessel stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has
carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As
Miri searches for answers to her wife's altered state, she must
face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her
grasp... 'Frightening, otherworldly, but above all gripping' Sunday
Times 'Deeply romantic and fabulously strange' Sarah Waters
'Beautiful, otherworldly, like floating through water with your
eyes open' Daisy Johnson 'Essential and haunting' Stylist 'Deeply
romantic and devastating' Refinery29
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'You won't find a more
thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who
have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa
Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Featuring new and original tales from: Bridget Collins Sunday Times
bestselling author of The Binding | Imogen Hermes Gowar Sunday
Times bestselling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock | Kiran
Millwood Hargrave Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies |
Andrew Michael Hurley Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loney
| Jess Kidd International award-winning author of Things in Jars |
Elizabeth Macneal Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll
Factory | Natasha Pulley Sunday Times bestselling author of The
Watchmaker of Filigree Street | Laura Purcell Award-winning author
of The Silent Companions ______________ Long before Charles Dickens
and Henry James popularized the tradition, the shadowy nights of
winter have been a time for people to gather together by the
flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a
ghost story. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - all of
them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring
the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of
original spine-tingling tales. Taking you from the frosty Fens to
the wild Yorkshire moors, to the snow-covered grounds of a haunted
estate, to a bustling London Christmas market, these mesmerizing
stories will capture your imagination and serve as your
indispensable companion to the cold, dark nights. So curl up, light
a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past . . .
The second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost
Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his
quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of
these stories is a slowly escalating sense of unease and dread,
which ultimately shifts into the wildly uncanny. James' characters
exist in a world of ancient objects whose atrocious histories begin
to repeat when they are disturbed, and the blinkered repression
common to James' narratives only amplifies the shock of the
spectral appearance.
"In this atmospheric novel, Cavendish tells what happens when tour
guides go from telling dark and haunting stories to becoming the
haunted ones drawn into the story." - Publishers Weekly Ghosts have
always walked there. Now they're not alone... In the depths of
Edinburgh, an evil presence is released. Hannah and her colleagues
are tour guides who lead their visitors along the spooky, derelict
Henderson Close, thrilling them with tales of spectres and murder.
For Hannah it is her dream job, but not for long. Who is the
mysterious figure that disappears around a corner? What is
happening in the old print shop? And who is the little girl with no
face? The legends of Henderson Close are becoming all too real. The
Auld De'il is out - and even the spirits are afraid. FLAME TREE
PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched
in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more
established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
You can run from your past, but you can't hide forever... Rebecca
Bray has moved on from a childhood she desperately wants to forget.
She has everything she's ever wanted - the perfect fiance, a loving
stepdaughter, a career she's proud of, and now the house of her
dreams. But when the family move to the Cornish village where
Rebecca grew up, everything she wanted to bury from those years
starts to claw at the surface. Then, when her stepdaughter goes
missing at a New Year's Eve party, Rebecca must finally face the
ghosts of her past - or Ava might never come home safely... A
haunting, atmospheric read full of twists, turns and bumps in the
night - perfect for fans of Ruth Ware, Nuala Ellwood and Sophie
Draper. 'Atmospheric, haunting and superbly plotted. I still have
goosebumps!' Carissa Ann Lynch, USA Today bestselling author of The
Secrets of Cedar Farm 'Claustrophobic, emotional, suspenseful and
packed full of twists' Sarah A. Denzil, bestselling author of
Little One 'Eerie, atmospheric and full of suspense. I couldn't put
it down' Amanda Brittany, author of The Island House READERS LOVE
RETURN TO BLACKWATER HOUSE: 'Full of suspense and twisty turns with
an unexpected ending' 'Really intriguing - I really couldn't put it
down' 'A brilliant suspense read that'll challenge perceptions' 'I
loved this gripping, atmospheric story and found it hard to put
down' 'You really need to add this one to your reading list'
New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter begins a dark,
sexy new series--Rise of the Warlords--with a fan-favorite
character from her beloved Lords of the Underworld series, Taliyah
Skyhawk. The ice maiden faces off with her greatest enemy, a
villain brutal beyond imagining. For centuries, Taliyah Skyhawk has
prepared to become Harpy General, leader of the deadliest female
army in existence. One of the requirements? Remain a virgin. But,
for a chance to save her people, she must wed the fearless leader
of the Astra Planeta, Alaroc Phaethon. The time has come for Roc to
sacrifice another virgin bride to his god. There has never been a
woman alluring enough to tempt him from his path. No warrioress
powerful enough to overcome his incredible strength. No enchantress
desirable enough to make him burn beyond reason. Until now. With
the clock ticking, war between husband and wife ignites. Except
Taliyah never expected the merciless king to challenge the future
she once envisioned. She certainly never anticipated the thrill of
their battles turning into games... The problem is, only one spouse
can survive. Love is a battlefield in Showalter's The Warlord.
Don't miss Ruthless, the second book in New York Times bestselling
author Gena Showalter's captivating and unforgettable Immortal
Enemies series.
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