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Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside... -
The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside... -
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371894Author Robert AickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.26Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before widely available, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasia about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the... -
The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.93'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside... -
Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of Inside Number 9 and... -
The Inner Room: Faber Stories by Robert Aickman
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $4.52Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his... -
Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60'Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection.' TLSHousehold gizmos with a mind of their own.Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.And the creeping suspicion that none of this is... -
Reginald Perrin Omnibus: (Reginald Perrin) by David Nobbs
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $16.83______________________________________A classic collection of the hilarious Reginald Perrin books: The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, The Return of Reginald Perrin and The Better World of Reginald... -
The Dunwich Horror: And Other Stories by H. P. Lovecraft
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.36Deadly forces are about to be awakened ...In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an... -
Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic... -
The Dark Side of the Sky by Francesco Dimitri 9781803362786
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.35A page-turning literary fantasy filled with terror and wonder, set in a sun-baked Southern Italy, for fans of The Girls by Emma Cline, The Magus by John Fowles and The Great Believers by Rebecca... -
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,... -
Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.57A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspective of a blind teenager in Puglia, Southern Italy, set in the same world as The Book of Hidden... -
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... -
Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Richard Coward
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26This 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,... -
Trying To Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72This collection of short writing is a treat for John Irving addicts and the perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a... -
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... -
My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories by Frank O'Connor
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's... -
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling... -
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Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.33In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
The House on the Borderland William Hope Hodgson 9781405972949
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.33Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.A manuscript is found. Filled with small, precise... -
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... -
The Shorter Poems by Edmund Spenser 9780140434453
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.Spenser's shorter poems reveal... -
History of the Thirteen by Honore de Balzac
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society... -
Rameau's Nephew / D'alembert's Dream by Denis Diderot
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two... -
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... -
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Original Bliss by A. L. Kennedy 9780099730712 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $2.55The stories collected in Original Bliss are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has... -
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... -
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life by Roald Dahl
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl's country stories - but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrowth . . .Whether it... -
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of American Supernatural Tales, The White People and Other Weird... -
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Trying To Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving 9780552995733 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.11This collection of short writing is a treat for John Irving addicts and the perfect introduction to his work for the uninitiated. In a spirited opening piece, John Irving explains how he became a... -
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Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Richard Coward 9780140265439 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.74This 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,... -
Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith... -
The Modern Weird Tale: A Critique of Horror Fiction by S. T. Joshi 9780786409860
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish... -
All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow by Edward Parnell 9780712355094
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Step 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... -
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights by British Library 9780712354103
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.29'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... -
Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen Edward Parnell 9780712355711
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55A seaside honeymoon holiday is plagued by the mystery of bells which never stop ringing - and that which answers the call. Druidic rites and modernity spells disaster at a Norfolk golf course... -
Celtic Weird: Tales of Wicked Folklore and Dark Mythology by Johnny Mains 9780712354325
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.02From 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...