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Wayfarer's Weird
Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles
Av Algernon Blackwood, Walter de la Mare m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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'Come to-night', I heard the old man say, 'come to me to-night into the Wood of the Dead'.Join Weird Walk for a new journey into the ghostly and bizarre, striking out from the shelter of the inn for the places where the path begins to fade, from the sublime wilderness of mountains, coasts and …
Fiendish Felines
Twisted Tales of Uncanny Cats
Av Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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As it came closer Dick felt that shuddering faintness, which often affected him in the presence of cats, come over him, and he stamped and clapped his hands. At this it turned tail quickly: a sort of dark shadow streaked the garden-wall for a moment, and it vanished.A mother cat takes revenge for …
Polar Horrors
Strange Tales from the World's Ends
Av John Miller
Häftad, 2022
150 kr
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Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird and supernatural began to construct a literary Arctic and Antarctic in which terrors lay undiscovered in the ice and gateways to bizarre hidden worlds were waiting. From James Hogg's …
Possessed
A Lost Novel of the Occult
Av Rosalie and Edward Synton, Johnny Mains
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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John Travers has been hanged for the murder of his mother-in-law Helga, but to those who knew him something is amiss. Driven by justice and a sense of uncanny forces at work, John’s friend Doctor Toogood recounts a haunting tale of love and jealousy under the fell influence of a shadowy and …
Roarings from Further Out
Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood
Av Algernon Blackwood, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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The reputation of early-twentieth century British writer Algernon Blackwood currently resides with his two novellas `The Willows' (1907) and `The Wendigo' (1910), and with good reason. They are perfectly crafted horror tales that convey feelings of mystical otherness; they hint at the possibility …
Platform Edge
Uncanny Tales of the Railways
Av Mike Ashley
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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Howling down the tunnels comes a new collection showcasing the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which are republished here for the first time since their original departure.Waiting beyond the barrier are ghostly travelling companions bent on disturbing the commutes of …
Haunted Trail
Classic Tales of the Rambling Weird
Av Weird Walk, Weird Walk
Häftad, 2024
142 kr
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A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than a post-walk pint; a night hike on the Fens takes a terrifying turn when the fog rolls in. From the darkly humorous to the chillingly sinister, …
Spores of Doom
Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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From the fungus-webbed House of Usher to the maddening, fungus-like wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic tale of madness, and Ray Bradbury's account of insidious mushroom dispersal via the US postal system, weird fiction has harboured a thriving culture of fungal horrors throughout the …
Weird Sisters
Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era
Häftad, 2025
138 kr
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It is natural, especially at her age, that she should crave, need meat. When I am a little better I will go out and set traps, as I used to do as a boy... We must give her meat; she has done a great deal for us. Springing forth from the heyday of Weird Tales magazine and its contemporaries comes a …
House on the Borderland
Häftad, 2023
150 kr
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'I had been staying just within the shadow of the exit of the great rift. Now, without volition on my part, I drifted out of the semi-darkness and began to move slowly-toward the House.'Amidst the din of roaring water, in a chasm where a house once stood in an isolated corner of Ireland, a …
Danse Macabre
Strange Stories from France
Av Guy de Maupassant, Theophile Gautier m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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Spurned lovers return from the grave to haunt their partners, ghost ships materialise on the sea, a bird's eerie cry lures the unsuspecting to their deaths in a marsh... Welcome to the unsettling world of the French weird.From German-inspired gothic tales to chilling contes cruels, the stories in …
Chill Tidings
Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
Av Tanya Kirk
Häftad, 2020
145 kr
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'The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.'The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door.Welcome to a …
Sunless Solstice
Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights
Av Lucy Evans, Tanya Kirk
Häftad, 2021
181 kr
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'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, …
Haunters at the Hearth
Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights
Av Tanya Kirk
Häftad, 2022
150 kr
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"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wives' tale, but-well, these old houses-you hear strange things-" He lifted his shoulders and stared into the fire..."From the troves of the British Library collections comes a new volume …
Night Wire
and Other Tales of Weird Media
Av Aaron Worth (ed), Aaron Worth
Häftad, 2022
144 kr
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A mysterious news signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. X-ray evidence suggests the impossible truth that a sculptor is becoming one with his creation. A gramophone channels the venomous words of a churlish spirit and its cruel vengeance.The ground-breaking new technologies of …
Crawling Horror
Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
Av Daisy Butcher, Janette Leaf
Häftad, 2021
138 kr
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'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him.'A brush with a killer hornet upends a reverend's life. A moth wreaks a strange …
Evil Roots
Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) `killer plant' in fiction, film and video games. Step within to marvel at Charlotte Perkins Gilman's giant wistaria and …
Black Fox
Av Gerald Heard
Häftad, 2026
142 kr
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'Two small green-silver spots, almost like small fragments of reflected moonlight, shone up at them, not more than three yards away. Then, as they watched, the two points moved, trailing after them a smear of black…'When the aspiring Canon Throcton is passed up for promotion to Dean of the …
Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
Av William Hope Hodgson, Xavier Aldana Reyes
Häftad, 2019
130 kr
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A splash of something huge resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. This new selection offers the most chilling and unsettling of Hodgson's short fiction, from encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly …
Randalls Round
Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott
Häftad, 2021
142 kr
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'These stories have all had their origins in dreams... Terrifying enough to the dreamer... I hope that some readers will experience an agreeable shudder or two in the reading of them.'A malignant entity answers the call of an ancient curse on the coast of Brittany; a traveller's curiosity delivers …
Into the London Fog
Eerie Tales from the Weird City
Av Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
150 kr
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As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an opening to another world among …
All the Fear of the Fair
Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow
Av Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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Step right up to see the enchanted Ferris wheel whose magical gifts are to die for! Marvel at the man-eating menagerie and dreadful secrets of 'Satan's Circus'! Behold the nightmare waxworks of Mrs. Groby's Chamber of Horrors!Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of …
Ways of Ghosts
And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce
Av Ambrose Bierce, Mike Ashley
Häftad, 2023
131 kr
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Motionless now and in absolute silence, she awaited her doom, the moments growing to hours, to years, to ages; and still those devilish eyes maintained their watch.Ambrose Bierce was one of America’s leading writers of the nineteenth century, seen by contemporaries as a successor to Edgar Allan Poe …
Undying Monster
A Tale of the Fifth Dimension
Häftad, 2024
127 kr
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“Where grow pines and firs amain,Under Stars, sans heat or rain, Chief of Hammand, ‘ware thy Bane!”So goes the ancient rhyme of the Hammands, a family hounded for centuries by a ferocious beast whose visitations wreak death and disorder. Now, in the wake of the First World War, siblings Oliver and …
Horned God
Weird Tales of the Great God Pan
Häftad, 2022
130 kr
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'…and then the music was so loud, so beautiful that I couldn’t think of anything else. I was completely lost to the music, enveloped by melody which was part of Pan.'In 1894, Arthur Machen’s landmark novella The Great God Pan was published, sparking the sinister resurgence of the pagan goat god. …
Haunted Library
Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves
Av Tanya Kirk (ed.), Tanya Kirk
Häftad, 2025
150 kr
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As he turned over its stiff and yellow pages, he noticed with pleasure the smell of corruption that had first repelled him in these decaying volumes, a smell, he now thought, of ancient and secret knowledge... Researchers prying into an obscure manuscript come face to face with its ghoulish …
Doomed Romances
Strange Tales of Uncanny Love
Av Jo Ella Parsons, Joanne Ella Parsons
Häftad, 2024
145 kr
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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood. Let us go to sleep now."A prophecy threatens a volcanic upheaval for a star-crossed pair. A forbidden rite binds a dark arts dabbler to a phantom bride. A barstool chancer invites a devilish retribution on the dance floor.Beckoning from …
Out of the Past
Tales of Haunting History
Häftad, 2024
127 kr
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"Come inside, my bonny witch-finder. Here is shelter for thee..."A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth-century Italy. A witch-finder's great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in Civil War Britain. A prisoner's fate at the hands of the Inquisition in …
Phantoms of Kernow
Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall
Av Daphne Du Maurier, E. F. Benson m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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As the storm booms out in the bay and the waves smash against the rocks, the masts of a cursed and spectral vessel are drawing near. As the mists roll over Bodmin moor, the moonlight reveals a night alive with spirits.Welcoming a fresh roster of seaside spectres, tin-mine terrors and holiday …
Weird Woods
Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
Häftad, 2020
150 kr
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Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach into underworlds of earth, myth and …
