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Solitude by Carmela Ciuraru 9781841597676
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness and... -
Bedtime Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.42As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical... -
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is edited with an... -
When Things Get Dark by Ellen Datlow
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.57The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman,... -
When Things Get Dark by Ellen Datlow 9781789097153
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.22The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman,... -
American Supernatural Tales by S. T. Joshi 9780143105046
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07As Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this... -
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury 9781841593265
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.34p-Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent... -
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.03Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him 'unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living'. Clark Ashton Smith - autodidact, prolific... -
Selected Stories by E. M. Forster
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.88Although he is best known for his exquisite novels, E.M. Forster also wrote remarkable short stories. He referred to his stories as 'fantasies' and his attraction to myth and magic is apparent in... -
The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories by J. Hendry
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09'In this collection the heretical principle has been adopted that if a writer is Scots, something of the Scottish spirit must inevitably emerge from his work.'In the twenty stories collected here we... -
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives On in the Land! by Stephen Jones
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.63Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James , Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher... -
Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle by Kirsten MacLeod 9781403999085
Booksplease Price: $60.29Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of... -
Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle by Jason David Hall 9781137348289
Booksplease Price: $59.70Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied... -
Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siecle by Jason David Hall 9781349467624
Booksplease Price: $60.29Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied... -
Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin De Siecle by Kirsten MacLeod 9781349547654
Booksplease Price: $60.29Fictions of British Decadence is a fresh account of the emergence, development and legacy of fiction written in the era of Oscar Wilde. It examines a broad range of texts by a diverse array of... -
Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird Aaron Worth 9780712355629
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35From 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... -
A Treasury of Classic Ghost Stories by Various 9781435173446
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $27.15A Treasury of Classic Ghost Stories celebrates the rich literary legacy of the tale of the supernatural and the macabre with more than 40 stories that span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The... -
Short Story Anthology: 1 by Dai Smith 9781908946416
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.58The 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... -
Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain by Andrew McCann 9781107064423
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $111.12With the increasing commercialization of publishing at the end of the nineteenth century, the polarization of serious literature and popular fiction became a commonplace of literary criticism. Andrew... -
Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film: Song of Death in Paradise by Sabine Planka 9781793625885
Booksplease Price: $117.89Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art and Film: Song of Death in Paradise explores the combination of two motifs, death and gardens, to show how the two subjects are intertwined and used in... -
Song of the Sandman by J-F Dubeau 9781942645962
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.66"The kind of Gothic/cosmic mashup that would make Arthur Machen and Robert Chambers proud." -Shane Keene, Horror DNA & InkHeist After a terrible mass shooting at Cicero's Circus, the evil... -
Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City by Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712353762
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.82As 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... -
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910: Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival Dennis Denisoff 9781108994279
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.86Casting fresh light on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British art, literature, ecological science and paganism, Decadent Ecology reveals the pervasive influence of decadence and... -
Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle by Emily Alder 9783030326517
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $104.13This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siecle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P... -
Weird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle by Emily Alder 9783030326548
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $104.13This book explores how nineteenth-century science stimulated the emergence of weird tales at the fin de siecle, and examines weird fiction by British writers who preceded and influenced H. P... -
The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales by Various 9781435167131
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $32.57The influence of the gothic and its atmosphere of gloom and decay have inspired classics of horror and the supernatural for more than two centuries. The Phantom of the Opera and Other Gothic Tales... -
Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction by Edward Wagenknecht 9780313279607
Booksplease Price: $98.70An unusual grouping of mainly British writers, this insightful study includes some, like Henry James, who are indisputably leaders of the canon regardless of genre, and others, like Algernon... -
Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 by James Machin 9783030080365
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $34.31This book is the first study of how 'weird fiction' emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale. It... -
Open Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain's Occult Revival, 1842-1936 Christine Ferguson 9780197651599
Booksplease Price: $86.16Open Secrets examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie... -
Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 by James Machin 9783319905266
RRP: $103.19Booksplease Price: $51.59This book is the first study of how 'weird fiction' emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale. It... -
The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 by Christine Ferguson 9780367885069
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $49.79Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an... -
Classic Fantasy Stories Farah Mendlesohn 9781035026432
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.49From the eerie to the magical by way of the deeply strange, this collection is a must for fans of the hugely popular fantasy genre.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning,... -
Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites by Katy Soar 9780712354592
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55In the wood the grey stone rose from the grass, and she cried out and ran back in panicked terror. 'What a silly little girl,' the nurse had said. 'It's only the... stone.' Standing stones, stone... -
The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan by Michael Wheatley 9780712354967
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'...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... -
Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain by Andrew McCann 9781107676886
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $26.33With the increasing commercialization of publishing at the end of the nineteenth century, the polarization of serious literature and popular fiction became a commonplace of literary criticism. Andrew... -
Lost Souls Short Stories by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.69A collection of new tales with brilliant new writers and lost souls from the darkest corners of literature and legend: Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer mingles with Dante's infernal spirits and a... -
Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology by Johnny Mains 9780712354325
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.07From 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... -
The Astounding Illustrated History of Fantasy & Horror by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99Companion title to The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction this new book reflects the same roots in Gothic literature but follows a complementary path through the 20th century, to the... -
Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fey by Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712354301
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.24'You see - no, you do not, but I see - such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly, often at your elbow when you least expect it, and looking close into your face, as... -
Divine Representations: The Rise of the Mystical Novel in Twentieth-Century England by Carla A. Arnell 9798855805321
Booksplease Price: $105.53Explores how Edwardian era writers used the mystical novel as a way to represent transcendent experiences within the tradition of the English realist novel.Divine Representations examines the...