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'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh (...)' 
 
H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable. At the heart of these three stories are terrors unthinkable and strange: a crash-landing meteorite, the wretched inhabitant of an ancient castle and a grave-robber's curse. 
 
This book includes The Colour Out Of Space, The Outsider and The Hound.

The Colour Out of Space

Shirley Jackson

'Her tooth, which had brought her here unerringly, seemed now the only part of her to have any identity. It seemed to have had its picture taken without her; it was the important creature which must be recorded and examined and gratified; she was only its unwilling vehicle...' 
 
 
The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these five tales of casual cruelty by a master of the short story. Portraying insanity, disturbing encounters, troubling children and a sinister lottery, Shirley Jackson's work has an unmatched power to unnerve and unsettle. 
 
This book includes The Tooth, The Witch, Charles, The Lottery and The Intoxicated.

The Tooth

Elizabeth Gaskell

Fear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God. 
 
Newly orphaned, the God-fearing and heart-broken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle&rsquo;s family in Salem, but on her arrival she finds herself the object of cruel hostility, potent jealousy and mad desire. 
 
When the local Pastor&rsquo;s daughters are contorted and convulsed by apparently satanic powers, the whole town is whipped into a hysterical witch hunt. And when Lois&rsquo;s cousins start to resent her presence in their household, life becomes precarious and an old woman&rsquo;s curse returns to haunt her.

Lois the Witch

M. R. James

Evil comes with many different faces. 
 
A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls&rsquo; house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly &hellip; 
 
M. R. James&rsquo;s chilling ghost stories reveal a world where the familiar becomes diabolical, the smallest object can lead to unimaginable horror, and evil brushes against everyday life in the most unexpected and sinister of ways.

The Haunted Dolls' House

Wilkie Collins

Horror lies waiting. 
 
A sinister Countess is driven mad by a dark secret. An innocent woman is made the instrument of retribution. A murdered man&rsquo;s fury reaches beyond the grave. 
 
When Countess Narona marries Agnes Lockwood&rsquo;s fianc&eacute; and takes him to live in a rundown Venetian palace, strange things start happening, a servant mysteriously vanishes and the husband dies a recluse. But the dead won&rsquo;t rest. When the palace is transformed into a hotel the two women are drawn to its chambers, where a force stronger than death is waiting to wreak its vengeance ...

The Haunted Hotel

A Mystery of Modern Venice

William Hope Hodgson

From the beasts of the pit to the endless terror of the void 
 
A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home &ndash; and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam. 
 
Soon his more earthly home is no less terrible than this bizarre vision, as swine-like creatures boil from a cavern beneath the ground and besiege it. But a still greater horror will face the recluse &ndash; more inexorable, merciless and awful than any creature that can be fought or killed.

The House on the Borderland

Bram Stoker

An ancient evil walks among them. 
 
When Adam Salton arrives at his grand-uncle&rsquo;s Derbyshire estate he quickly senses that a macabre and malevolent force is at work. In his attempts to uncover the grisly mystery he encounters the chilling Lady Arabella and the obsessive Edgar Caswall, each harbouring their own dark and dreadful desires. 
 
To his horror, Adam discovers that something hideous is living in the grounds of nearby Castra Regis, something that feeds on the flesh of humans. And so begins a terrifying quest to destroy the evil lurking in their midst ...

The Lair of the White Worm

Edgar Allan Poe

However you try to escape it, horror is always there 
 
Outside the abbey&rsquo;s armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the &lsquo;Red Death&rsquo;, while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the Prince and his guests are not as safe as they hope from the horrors of the outside world &hellip; 
 
In &lsquo;The Masque of the Red Death&rsquo; and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors &ndash; of torments of ingenious, malevolent tormentors and of a mind&rsquo;s own sickening madness.

The Masque of the Red Death

And Other Stories

Ambrose Bierce

Death awaits them all &hellip; 
 
A man stares into the deep river swirling beneath him &ndash; hands tied, noose around his neck &ndash; and waits for the order to end his life. Another is trapped for eternity in a room full of corpses. A cowering woman is strangled in the dead of night. 
 
These are just some of the countless victims for whom all hope is lost in Ambrose Bierce&rsquo;s chilling stories of death, delusion and the supernatural.

The Spook House

Terrifying Tales of the Macabre

Vernon Lee

He lusts and kills in equal measure. 
 
The brutal Don Juan &ndash; an unrepentant sinner &ndash; makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation. 
 
Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infantas Don Juan is called upon to uphold his side of the bargain and in doing so lose everything his lustful heart desires.

The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

Excursions into Fantasy

A mysterious attack on Margaret Trelawney&rsquo;s father brings young lawyer Malcolm Ross into the Egyptologist&rsquo;s bizarre home, and the couple soon find they are battling ancient forces greater than they previously could have imagined. The Egyptian queen Tera has been awoken, and is coming to take what she believes to be hers &ndash; whatever the cost to the Trelawney family. Set in London and Cornwall, and written at a time when a fascination with the East pervaded Victorian England, The Jewel of Seven Stars reflected the perceived contrast between the Orient&rsquo;s savagery and moral degradation, and its exotic beauty and opulence.

The Jewel of Seven Stars

A unique one volume collection of all Poe's best tales and poems. Full of variety, entries include The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter - three classic detective stories - plus The Raven, one of his greatest poems. A wonderful selection of tales and poems that are representative of every genre written by Poe, from the macabre and horrifying to the humorous and purely descriptive.

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Midonia, a freelance interplanetary transporter, is on thin ice after a fatal accident on the job. 
So she doesn’t argue when she’s given the less than luxurious job of flying devout Sister Irena to the remote fringe planet she calls home, a religious colony that worships a strange deity they call Anguish. 
When a solar flare grounds her ship, Midonia finds herself stuck in their castle ruins on the planet. 
In the ruin, she meets a shadow, a horror, a dark shape that consumes her body and soul — the god they call Anguish. 
He speaks to Midonia as if he knows her, has been waiting for her. He invades her mind with his want, sparking an obsession that will be near-impossible to escape. . .

Fervor

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Drown your ghosts… or die trying?Autumn 2006. Low-rise jeans are in, grunge is out, and all Spencer Brown should be worrying about is his new job as Assistant Swim Coach at Crestwood University. It’s been 10 years since that fateful night in the university’s wellness centre, but Spencer is determined to sink his skeletons and focus on a winning season for his team.? 
 
Until two swimmers are found dead in the pool the first night of training. While everyone assumes it was an accidentally tragedy, Spencer is overcome with an ominous sense of déjà vu – this isn’t the first-time blood was spilt in the wellness centre. As freak accidents turn into something more sinister, the pool echoes with the ghosts of Spencer’s past, this time demanding to be heard.

Splasher

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear. 
 
The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and go West. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the ‘lone women’, a female homesteader travelling by herself to stake her claim, taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it. Except that she’s not really alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the untamed and unforgiving American frontier. 
 
Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.

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