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Jaws

Peter Benchley
It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first...
Jaws

The Winter Ghosts

Kate Mosse
From the bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre - a compelling story of ghosts and remembrance. The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation...
The Winter Ghosts

Banquet for the Damned

Adam L. G. Nevill
Few believed Professor Coldwell was in touch with an unseen world - that he could commune with spirits. But in Scotland’s oldest university town something has passed from...
Banquet for the Damned

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the...
The Turn of the Screw

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice
In a darkened room, a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed...
Interview with the Vampire

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill
Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summonded to attend the...
The Woman in Black

Selected Tales

Edgar Allan Poe
Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many...
Selected Tales

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Robert Louis Stevenson
Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association...
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

The Shining

Stephen King
Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out...
The Shining

Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

M. R. James
M. R. James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of...
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories

The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'....
The Historian

Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours...
Rosemary's Baby

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