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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
The Yellow Wallpaper is a psychological short story about a
Victorian woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown. When her
husband deems she needs a "rest cure" after the birth of their
child, they rent an abandoned colonial mansion with a "queer air"
about it. The narrator's claustrophobic room has unpleasant,
oppressive yellow wallpaper which incites her decent into madness.
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Ursus
(Hardcover)
David Dvorkin
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R748
Discovery Miles 7 480
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What does a telepathic, parasitic creature with tentacles, a
moonlit-eyed stalker who murders his victims with a pair of
scissors, and a retired professional wrestler who pieces together
mysterious puzzles in order to ward off an ancient evil force, all
have in common? They're just a few of the unique characters inside
this ambiguous collection of ten novellas called Midnight World.
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Nalapazoo
(Hardcover)
Troy Patoine
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R722
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Discovery Miles 6 460
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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 . . .
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