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The Unicorn Murders Carter Dickson 9780712369305
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The diplomat Sir George Ramsden is returning to Britain from France with the mysterious "unicorn" in tow. The legendary thief Flamande has declared that he will be on the same flight as Ramsden, in... -
Possessed: A Lost Novel of the Occult Rosalie and Edward Synton 9780712355391
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRosalie and Edward Synton was the joint pseudonym used by the married couple Rosalie (18891939) and Edward... -
Illusions of Presence: Lost Christmas Ghost Stories Johnny Mains 9780712355933
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.67As clanging bells pierce the Winter calm, a bustling throng of spectral visitants is making its approach. The eminent anthologist and seeker of forgotten tales, Johnny Mains, has been scouring the... -
The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation by Mark Morris 9780712369152
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It had taken, at most, three seconds for the elevator to pass downwards from the sixteenth to the twelfth ... Mr Meldrum had ceased to be, and something hideously different took his place.A man... -
Bird of Ill Omen: The Gothic Tales of Catherine Crowe by Catherine Crowe 9780712355995
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02When morning broke, the ravages of this strange visitant were but too visible graves had been opened, and the remains of the dead, frightfully torn and mutilated, lay scattered upon the earth.A... -
The Black Fox by Gerald Heard 9780712369053
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
The Luck of the Town by Marion Fox 9780712369251
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"Much more than a ghost story... One might say that Fox is haunted by the spirit of the place and time of which she writes, and she is able to reproduce in a remarkable way that sense of foreboding... -
Haunted Yorkshire: Ghostly Tales from God's Own County Elizabeth Dearnley 9780712369459
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The stars gave light enough for me to discern the figure as that of a man, but I could scarcely discover more. "Dark night, this," I said. "Darker below," he muttered, as though to himself; "darker,... -
Cat and Mouse: A Mystery in Wales Christianna Brand 9780712355520
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Girls Together magazine agony-aunt 'Mrs Friendly-wise', aka Katinka Jones, finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine's regular... -
Return of the Ancients: Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird by Katy Soar 9780712355674
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the sun-seared shores of the Aegean to the misty bogs of ancient England, the dark tendrils of mythological gods and monsters have remained embedded in the minds of those who once believed, and... -
Medusa: A Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror by E. H. Visiak 9780712355728
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"...a little on one side of me, I spied something that moved along upon the verge with a sliding writhing motion, seeming like the extremity of a sort of trunk; like the body of a huge serpent..... -
As If By Magic: And Other Miraculous and Locked-Room Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712355636
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond... -
The Lost Stradivarius by J. Meade Falkner 9780712355384
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The discovery of a beautiful Stradivarius violin in a hidden cupboard at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, appears to be a stroke of good fortune for music student John Maltravers. But there is something... -
Puzzles of the Parish: Short Tales of Ministers, Murder and Mystery Martin Edwards 9780712369404
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02"I think that it is desirable to discuss the affair - here, in the room in which the Bishop's body was found."A pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treasury... -
The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins Wilkie Collins 9780712355964
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Vengeful spirits, mysterious revenants and haunted objects stalk the pages of Wilkie Collins' short fiction, and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his... -
Julia Roseingrave by Marjorie Bowen 9780712355322
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"I hear from Mrs Barlow, who is a good gossip, that your mother and your sister are both ill. You must, then, have very little company." "Very little human company," she replied.On a moonlit night, a... -
Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird by Daisy Butcher 9780712353496
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'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... -
The Ten Teacups by Carter Dickson 9780712355278
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested."Writing as Carter... -
Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall Joan Passey 9780712355773
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As 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... -
Midsummer Mysteries Martin Edwards 9780712355575
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Martin Edwards presents a jam-packed travel case of short mysteries bristling with murder and chicanery, perfect for a summer getaway.About the AuthorMartin Edwards is series consultant for British... -
The Haunted Trail: Classic Tales of the Rambling Weird Weird Walk 9780712355810
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A 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... -
Still Waters E. C. R. Lorac 9780712355346
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Trouble is brewing once more for the Hoggetts and their friend Chief Inspector Macdonald in Lunesdale, deep in the Lancashire fell country. The treacherous slopes and still waters of a quarry pool... -
The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves by Tanya Kirk 9780712355292
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As 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... -
Murder as a Fine Art by Carol Carnac 9780712355179
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.78The newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts has a staffing problem - one minister dead within six months of its inception, his successor snuffed out shortly before the General Election. When a third... -
Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library by Tom Harper 9780712353328
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.25From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly... -
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom and Myth by Gerry Smyth 9780712355490
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the... -
Holmes & Watson by S. C. Roberts 9780712352161
Booksplease Price: £12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorS.C. Roberts (1887-1966) was a publisher, university administrator, noted Sherlockian, and first president... -
All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow by Edward Parnell 9780712355094
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Step 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... -
Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives Martin Edwards 9780712355513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes John Dickson Carr's Dr Gideon Fell Baroness Orczy's Old Man in the Corner Anthony Berkeley's Inspector Moresby Josephine Bell's Dr David Wintringham. The streets... -
Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain Johnny Mains 9780712355025
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days of the druidic Samhain, storytellers have... -
The Strange Stories of John Buchan John Buchan 9780712355827
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712355827Author John BuchanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science Xavier Aldana Reyes 9780712353557
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712353557Author Xavier Aldana ReyesFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Philosophy of Houseplants by Sarah Gerrard-Jones 9780712355131
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712355131Author Sarah Gerrard-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 112Impri -
Summoned to the Séance: Spirit tales from Beyond the Veil Emily Vincent 9780712355919
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Through the electric silence around the seance table, the rapping of an unknown hand spells out a horrible revelation. A posthumous journey through the spirit realm strips bare the mind of an avowed... -
Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink John Miller 9780712353304
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this new collection of 12 stories ranging from the 1880s to the 1940s.Book InformationISBN 9780712353304Author John... -
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land's End by Joan Passey 9780712353991
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods... -
The Philosophy of Coffee by Brian Williams
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40This is a short, entertaining and illuminating introduction to the history and culture of coffee, from the humble origins of the bean in northeast Africa over a millennium ago, to what it is today, a... -
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe 9780712357548
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the... -
The Whole Art of Dress by A Cavalry Officer 9780712352710
Booksplease Price: £12.71Part fashionable guide, part defence of dandyism, this manual for menswear was originally published in 1830. It advises on the nuances of men's fashion, from the elegant staple of cravatiana to the... -
Four-Sided Triangle by William F. Temple 9780712352314
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72When a brilliant scientist believes that a cutting edge replication process offers the solution to an excruciating love triangle, the limits of the new technology are tested - and impossible...