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Charles Dickens ranks amongst the greatest novelists of all time. However, often overshadowed by his famous novels is Dickens'' extensive body of ghost tales, which mark him out as one of the true masters of the genre. Collected here are his greatest spooky stories, including ''The Signal Man'', ''The Ghost Chamber'' and ''The Haunted Man and the Ghost''s Bargain''.

After being kidnapped by a local tour guide who bears a striking resemblance to an ancient pharaoh, Harold Houdini is thrown in a deep pit next to the Great Sphinx. Whilst trying to break free, he happens across a large cave where he encounters the ancient god and inspiration for the Sphinx.

Delve into the mysteries of Yharham in the continuing comic series spinning out of Fromsoftware/Hidetaka Miyazaki's critically-acclaimed Bloodborne videogame!

Sex and the City meets The Shining in this debut novel that the perfect storm of a thriller, horror and women's fiction.

“Clever, funny, romantic,sad and absolutely essentialâ€? - KirkusThe acclaimed TREES series, currently beingadapted for television, returns with a brand new story of murder and ghosts. In the remoteRussian village of Toska, there's a dead body by the leg of the Tree that landedeleven years ago. Police sergeant Klara Voranova, still haunted by that day,has no idea how this murder will change everything, nor what awaits her in theTree's shadow. Collects TREES: THREE FATES 1 -5

The excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this new collection of 12 stories ranging from the 1880s to 1940s.

Actions speak louder than words in this spin-off of the absurd and raunchy Prison School! With lovingly detailed art by ReDrop, no task is too small (and no shirt too big) for Meiko Shiraki, the domineering yet kind vice president of the Shadow Student Council!

"THEPENTOCULUS"The smash hit horror seriescontinues! After the time and space shifting journey of the last arc, Norton andClara are trapped in "small town" Gideon Falls with a murderous psychopath. Meanwhile, Father Fred and Angie confront the Bishop in "big city" Gideon Fallsand the secrets of "The Pentoculus Machine" are revealed in all theirmind-twisting glory. And what will happen when The Ploughman finally answer thecall of duty? COLLECTS GIDEON FALLS17-21

"At the end of a long night... You must pay... ...Satou takes back her angel. ...for the sins... There's nothing to fear now. ...you commit. Not a thing. Not one... You must...So what is this uneasiness? ...be punished.What is this bitterness piercing her tongue?"--Provided by publisher.

No man knows the place of her birth, nor where she learned to wield a sword to shame many a male. They know only that she is called The She-Devil of The Hyrkanian Steppes. That, and RED SONJA.MARK RUSSELL (The Flintstones) and MIRKO COLAK (Conan) bring a savage tale of metal and blood. A world conqueror possesses a massive army and a fatal prophecy. A bastard sorceress craves revenge. And a fearsome red-haired warrior is made wartime ruler of a homeland set for decimation.

After his grandfather falls ill, Kasuga goes with his parents back to Gunma-his first trip back to his hometown ever since the incident with Nakamura-and Kasuga must confront the friends and family he hurt in the past. A former classmate gives him a tip regarding Nakamura's current whereabouts, but will he have the courage to track her down and ask her the question that has haunted him since that day?In this final installment, time passes and people grow, change and heal, and we get a glimpse into the first fateful encounter between Nakamura and Kasuga, from her point of view…

A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin

Weird fiction wouldn t exist without the women who created it. Meet the female authors who defied convention to craft some of literature s strangest tales. And find out why their own stories are equally intriguing.

"It is my firm opinion that...The Willows is the greatest weird tale ever written." - H.P. LovecraftFrom one of the greatest and most prolific authors of twentieth century weird fiction come four of the very best strange stories ever told.

The #1New York Timesbestselling sequel toA Discovery of Witches,book two of the All Souls Trilogy';as enchanting, engrossing, and impossible to put down as its predecessor' (Miami Herald). Look for the hit TV series ';A Discovery of Witches' airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, and streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder. J. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Anne Riceonly a few writers capture the imagination the way that Deborah Harkness has with her New York Timesbestselling All Souls trilogy. A Discovery of Witches introduces reluctant witch Diana Bishop, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and the battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them, and they embark on a very differentand vastly more dangerousjourney.

A spine-tingling, boundary-crossing, mind-blowing conceptual horror novel from the bestselling author of Let the Right One In

Anne Rice is the author of more than thirty internationally bestselling books including the Mayfair Witches sequence, Songs of the Seraphim and the Wolf Gift Chronicles. The phenomenon that became the Vampire Chronicles began with Interview with the Vampire in 1976, later made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, and culminated with Blood Canticle in 2003. Prince Lestat, published in 2014, and Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, published in 2016, were the first new Vampire Chronicle novels for over a decade. Anne Rice lives in California.

"A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it." -Joe HillA Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award!Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster's heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.

Welcome to the ThundercloudInn, a curious establishment that opens its doors to the troubled masses, humanor otherwise. But to pay for the stay, the equally curious innkeeper takespayment only in the form of one''s deepest secrets...Who will come callingtoday?

Their happiness wasinterrupted.Though itwas deep into thenight,Satou wouldn''tcome home.Beset withworry,Shio was gentlyled by the handBy thephantom of a long-hairedwoman.Cry oryellAs youwill,Cover yourearsShut youreyesBut the phantompersists.

The hot horror series that WIRED magazine named one of the best books of 2018 returns from the creative team that Brian Michael Bendis said "will go down as one of the greatest comic teams of all time!" Father Burke tracks a vicious killer named...Norton Sinclair? And when that killer can travel through time (and space!) readers are in for a wild ride.

Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) `killer plant' in fiction, film and video games.

From the creator of One-Punch Man and now a Netflix Live Action Series! Do you or someone you know need an exorcist who works cheap? Reigen's your guy!What's his secret to busting ghosts while keeping prices low? Well, first, he's a fraud, and second, he pays the guy who's got the real psychic power--his student assistant Shigeo--less than minimum wage. Shigeo is an awkward but kind boy whose urge to help others and get along with them is bound up with the mental safety locks he's placed on his own emotions. Reigen knows he needs to exploit Shigeo to stay in business, yet for better or worse he's also his mentor and counselor. And he also knows whenever the normally repressed kid's emotions reach level 100, it may unleash more psychic energy than either of them can handle! Winner of the 2017 Shogakukan Prize for Best Shonen Manga.

"To be loved-that was my wish. But what is love, truly?"Whether led by fate or by dark forces, a young girl named Viola finds herself at the witch Ellen's door. This chance encounter bursts open the gates of tragedy as Viola, drawn to the mysterious Ellen, becomes entangled in their friendship-and in Ellen's web of lies. In this final volume of The Witch's House: The Diary of Ellen, what new bloody beginnings will unfold from Ellen's house of horrors?

Delving deep into the sub-genre of Dark Fantasy, fiction expert Mike Ashley has gathered an unsettling mixture of twisted tales, encounters with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to perplex, beguile and of course, entertain.

"Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark." As the survivors turn against each other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches beyond the fury of the natural elements, to something more primal and far more deadly.

A town in the thrall of evil. A summons that can't be ignored. The mass-market reprint of the nail-biting SCU novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper.The Chosen have been warned. Powerful psychics across the globe have gotten the same eerie and insistent message: Go to Prosperity. Because in this small North Carolina mountain town, madness has taken hold...Trapped in a nightmare they can't escape, the residents of Prosperity are killing one another, waking up with no memory of the monstrous acts they've committed--or the reasons why. Chief Deputy Katie Cole knows that whatever evil is afoot is beyond her expertise, and beyond the understanding of Sheriff Jackson Archer. They need help.The Special Crimes Unit is called in for its specific brand of investigation, to aid the Chosen as well as the once-peaceful mountain town. It will take all the agents' training, all their experience, and every extra sense they can call on to get to the bottom of things in Prosperity. And as a sinister pattern begins to emerge, even the most experienced and hardened SCU agents must brace themselves for a flood of darkness unlike any the world has ever seen...

The powerful, gut-wrenching New York Times bestseller Dread Nation from `YA Twitter's leading warrior' Justina Ireland, tells the gripping story of a young black girl trained to fight the walking dead in an alternate America.