London: Vintage Books, 2006. Paperback. Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more..... More
New York: Berkley Books, 1986. Paperback. More
New York: New York Review Books, 2015. Charles Burns (cover illustration). Third Printing. Trade Paperback. “The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1990. Anne Scott (lithographs; Collins); Michael Ayrton (monotypes; Poe). Folio Society Reissue Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Rare. Reissue of 1957 Folio Society edition 2 volume set Tales of Mystery and Imagination edited by Herbert van Thal Contains 21 stories, including "William..... More
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2015. Michael Whelan (illustrations), Glenn Chadbourne (illustrations). First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. The Stephen King Companion is an authoritative look at King's personal life and professional career, from Carrie to The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. King expert George Beahm, who has..... More
New York: Berkley Publishing Corp. 2005. Reprint. Paperback. More
London: Penguin Classics, 2002. Reprint. Paperback. Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics. Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum. 'Evil, in Lovecraft, is universal, pervasive' Michael..... More
Chicago: Adams Press, 1979. Count Dracula Fan Club Limited Edition. Paperback. A collection of poems by the poet laureate of Daculand. With an introduction by Dr. Stanley Krippner, and a foreword by William K. Everson. More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2019. Paul Murray (ed. and intro.). First Penguin Classics Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong’s novel The Sweetest Fruits In this collection..... More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1962. Teason (cover art). Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. R118. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. J. Paul Hunter (ed.). Second Edition. Paperback. The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition. Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work. This extensively revised Norton..... More
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1988. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A collection of ten horror stories by authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Russell Kirk, Algernon Blackwood, Lucius Shepherd, A.C. Benson, T.E.D. Klein, Oliver Onions, John Metcalfe, David Case and a complete novel by Stephen King. More
London: An Archway Paperback/Simon and Schuster, 1994. Martin Baker (illustration). Reprint. Paperback. It begins as an innocent prank, when Deena Martinson and her best friend Jade Smith make sexy phone calls to the boys from school. But Deena's half-brother Chuck catches them in the act and threatens to tell their..... More
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. Who better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the many permutations of the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the classic ghost story. As he realtes in the..... More
New York: Hippocampus Press, 2013. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Softcover. The tradition of weird poetry is one that stretches back for millennia, to the earliest literary expression of the human race. In this new volume-the first comprehensive historical anthology of weird, horrific, and supernatural poetry in more than 50..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2017. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best. There's something nasty in suburbia. In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2013. Seventh Printing. Paperback. Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman is a story of lurking disquiet and haunting disorientation, inspired by the real-life, unsolved disappearance of a female college student. 'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch Natalie Waite..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2009. Paperback. The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2018. New Edition. Ninth Printing. Paperback. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NEW NETFLIX SERIES DEBUTING THIS HALLOWE'EN The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels and a major inspiration for writers like Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2016. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt. Foreword by Ruth Franklin. From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures..... More
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Gail Doobinin (jacket design). First U.S. Edition (stated), Ninth Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. Book 1 of 4 in the Twilight Series Isabella Swan’s move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she..... More
New York: Fall River Press, 2009. Reprint. Hardcover. A selection of stories by Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe and others. More
London: Magpie Books, 1993. Luis Rey (cover illustration). First Edition (presumed). Trade Paperback. Contents Pin by Robert R. McCammon No Sharks in the Med by Brian Lumley ...To Feel Another's Woe by Chet Williamson The Horn by Stephen Gallagher A Short Guide to the City by Stephen Gallagher The..... More
London: BCA (Book Club Associates), 1998. Book Club Edition. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. More
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