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The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan by Michael Wheatley 9780712354967
RRP: $19.48$11.21'...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,... -
Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Jay Rubin 9780241634479
RRP: $21.43$15.15A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese... -
Marple: Twelve New Stories by Agatha Christie 9780008467357
RRP: $19.48$12.71A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple,... -
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $19.48$13.86The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings is a collection that displays the full force of Edgar Allen Poe's mastery of both Gothic horror and the short story form. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by David... -
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $21.43$15.15Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the secret of finding happiness' DAME JUDI DENCHIncludes an... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: $25.33$17.73From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature -... -
Marple: Twelve New Stories by Agatha Christie
RRP: $39.00$35.14A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple,... -
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele
RRP: $39.00$28.82The New York Times Bestseller'A glorious showcase of Black American horror' Guardian'A brilliant anthology of stories that will keep you awake at night and linger with you in the day. I loved it.' Daisy JohnsonJordan Peele, the visionary writer and... -
Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Richard Coward
RRP: $21.43$15.15This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including stories by Bolanger, Cotnoir, Le Clezio and Germain, this volume gives... -
Short Stories in German: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Ernst Zillekens
RRP: $21.43$15.15This new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original, with the aid of parallel translations.The majority of these stories have been written in the... -
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights by British Library 9780712354103
RRP: $19.48$13.96'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... -
Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell
RRP: $19.48$12.95An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist Azincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, St Crispin's Day, is one of England's best-known battles, in part through the... -
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by John Polidori
RRP: $19.48$14.04`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"' John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a... -
The Garden House: a sweeping story about family and buried secrets set in Devon by Marcia Willett
RRP: $21.43$15.15'A warm and engaging read' Trisha Ashley'Lovely... Made me long for a long hot summer by the sea' Jo ThomasA sweeping story about family and buried secrets set in Devon, perfect for fans of Erica James and Veronica Henry.After the death of her father, El... -
The Best of World SF: Volume 1 by Lavie Tidhar
RRP: $19.48$14.55Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. 'Rare and wonderful' The Times 'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions' Adam Roberts 'Fizzes with great ideas and... -
Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology by Johnny Mains 9780712354325
RRP: $33.13$23.48From the shorelines, hills and towns of ancient lands, tales of twisted creatures, sins against nature and pagan revenants have been passed down from generation to generation. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, folklore from Wales, Scotland,... -
Best British Short Stories 2022 by Nicholas Royle
RRP: $21.43$16.46The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been... -
Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories by Darin Strauss
RRP: $58.40$40.79Following the successful literary musings on art at the Frick, The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Cocktails with a Curator, this anthology of newly commissioned texts from graduate students in New York University s Creative Writing Program pays homage to... -
The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smiley
RRP: $42.90$31.24In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures - as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set... -
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce by Michael Newton
RRP: $25.33$18.92This terrifying selection of ghost stories brings together the very best classic works from the masters of the supernaturalPhantom coaches, evil familiars, shadowy houses, spectral children and mysterious doppelgangers haunt these tales. They range from... -
Classic Tales of Mystery by Editors of Canterbury Classics
RRP: $37.03$25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645178149Author Editors of Canterbury ClassicsFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution... -
Samuel Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $37.03$26.54Samuel Beckett is the greatest Irish novelist of the later twentieth century, and this trilogy of novels is his masterpiece -which makes it perhaps the outstanding literary work of our time. Because Beckett has a reputation for being difficult, even... -
Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc 9781035017409
RRP: $19.48$12.71First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times.Terrifying and funny at the same time,... -
Short Stories in Italian: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Nick Roberts
RRP: $21.43$15.15This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation. Including stories by Calvino, Benni, Sciascia and Levi, this volume gives a fascinating... -
Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors by Grist
RRP: $25.33$18.17Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need "This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of... -
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories by Michael Cox
RRP: $27.28$20.22The thrill and chill of the ghost story is displayed in all its variety and vitality through this marvellous anthology. Ranging from the early 19th century to the 1960s, the collection reveals the development of the genre, and showcases many of its... -
Short Story Anthology: 2 by Dai Smith 9781908946430
RRP: $29.23$22.13The Library of Wales' Story anthologies feature the very best of Welsh short fiction, written amid the political, social and economic turbulence of twentieth century Wales. More than eighty outstanding works from the classics of Dylan Thomas, Rhys... -
Great Italian Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various 9780241634455
RRP: $21.43$15.15A spellbinding selection of short stories in the original Italian alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century... -
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens 9780140439052
RRP: $15.58$11.29'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has had an enduring... -
Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird by Mike Ashley 9780712353915
RRP: $19.48$13.96It is too often accepted that during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was the male writers who developed and pushed the boundaries of the weird tale, with women writers following in their wake - but this is far from the truth. This new... -
Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text by John Balcom
RRP: $19.48$13.86Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without... -
Seven Viking Romances by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $25.33$17.73Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic... -
Short Story Anthology: 1 by Dai Smith 9781908946416
RRP: $29.23$22.13The Library of Wales' Story anthologies feature the very best of Welsh short fiction, written amid the political, social and economic turbulence of twentieth century Wales and beyond. More than eighty outstanding works from the classics of Dylan Thomas,... -
Lovecraft Mythos New & Classic Collection by Ramsey Campbell
RRP: $39.00$26.81Featuring new stories specially commissioned for the collection this offering of H.P. Lovecraft's shared universe is a thrilling immersion into the world of Old Ones and the Elder Gods, an ancient race of terrifying beings. In Lovecraft's vision we live... -
Classic Monsters Unleashed by Kim Newman 9781645481225
RRP: $54.50$39.96Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology edited by James Aquilone and featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others. Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and... -
Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway
RRP: $29.25$22.52Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCracken's eccentric library did not happen in... -
Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood by Various
RRP: $33.13$23.95A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite.______________'To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colours of a rainbow' MAYA... -
Will You Read This, Please? by Joanna Cannon
RRP: $29.23$18.92'Moving and vital' i NEWS 'A beautiful book' EVENING STANDARD 'Deserves to be read by as wide an audience as possible' DAILY MIRROR How do we... -
Tree Stories by Various
RRP: $25.33$17.73Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from...