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HERE LIESKNOWLEDGE. POWER. GLORY. LOVE.¿¿'Devilishly macabre ... As dark as a midnight graveyard' PATRICE McDONOUGH'Hauntingly gothic, intimately told, and wickedly, wonderfully grotesque' MARIELLE THOMPSON

In the hidden folds of the world, Lily possesses a gift unlike any other - the ability to hear the untold stories of the departed. In All the People Who Died Here, Lily's journey unfolds as she listens to the echoes of forgotten lives, each whisper revealing a new layer of truth. From the tender sighs of unrequited love to the haunting melodies of lost dreams, Lily becomes intertwined with the souls she encounters, their stories becoming her own. But as she delves deeper into the labyrinth of human emotion, she realises that some secrets are better left buried. In this captivating tale of love, loss and redemption, Lily must confront the shadows of the past to find her own path to freedom. All the People Who Died Here is a poignant exploration of the power of storytelling and the resilience of the human spirit.

A pawsitively adorable furry and fluffy slice-of-life Boys' Love manga! Kentarou is a gruff and stoic dogman who can't help but wag his tail whenever he sees his boyfriend, Inukai. Despite his stern exterior, he's an affectionate and doting boyfriend. So together with Inukai, their coworker Nekomiya and his feline boyfriend Shimada, the days are filled with sappy partners and heaps of affection!

This eerie tale sees a group of men haunted by one traumatic event from their childhood. They thought they'd moved on . . . but someone - or something - won't let them!'Ginny Greenteeth comes for the naughtiest boys and girls . . . and from what I hear you've been very, very bad.' 1988: 13-year-old Andy Miller and his four friends become witnesses in the brutal murder of their classmate Melanie Bishop, and the severe beating of her sister, Poppy, at a decommissioned flooded railway line they call the frog ponds. The boys lead the police to a suspect, a vulnerable older boy who later commits suicide while on remand for the attacks - his guilt never proven. Their guilt ingrained on them forever. Now: Carl Butler's body is found beside the now gentrified frog ponds - and the lives of Andy, Brian, Johnny and Gavin start to unravel. Is the hag-like woman terrorizing their reality the grown-up Poppy set on revenge? Or something else . . . something steeped in childhood nightmares? As the friends try to piece together and understand what's happening to them, they can't stop the spiralling fear that the truth is something altogether scarier than a mere cautionary tale . . . For those who love spooky fairy tales with a twist - this first in a new series will not disappoint!

A new collection of 8 stories demonstrating Collins as one of the great ghost story writers of the Victorian era, on the 200th anniversary year of his birth. It features a new introduction by Xavier Aldana Reyes, exploring Wilkie Collins' contribution to the ghost story form, as well as the rarely anthologised story 'The Last Coachman'.

Two titans of the Weird collide in this collaboration with the social media and publishing phenomenon Weird Walk, including notes and real-life walk recommendations for each story to help readers to arrange their own journeys into the rambling weird. This collection features classics alongside lesser-known finds from the Library's collections.

Seven Minutes to Four is an evocative paranormal story that explores the torment of guilt and our inability to escape it.

A new and definitive collected works of neglected master of weird fiction, including never-before-published stories from the author's archive. With introduction by Haynes expert Craig Lamont, and a foreword by Johnny Mains, it features spellbinding Mervyn Peake illustrations, champion of Haynes' writing, from the Library's collections.

A new anthology collecting tales of strange and ghostly happenings across the memorable landscapes of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and the fens bordering Lincolnshire.

Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the theft of a mysterious grimoire.

In the mid-nineteenth century, public fascination with spiritualism surged. This new anthology collecting tales of séances, spirit summoning and spiritual phenomena features stories from literary legends Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Florence Marryat, amongst others with notes tracing three key cultural phases of ghostly obsession.

A new collection of classic stories and poems celebrating Halloween's unique legacy of weird and spooky storytelling. Featuring a new introduction by Johnny Mains charting the history of Halloween fiction and the traditions of Samhain through to All Souls' Night and beyond, includes the works of rare authors from the archives.

Meet Archibald, the supernatural detective! Archibald, a shy and observant boy, has a dream: to become a great detective. And not just any sort of detective! He wants to explore secret worlds, those where magic reigns and monsters lurk in the shadows. All he needs is his first big case! When it arrives in the form of Monk, a talkative and cowardly, one-eyed dog, Archibald is introduced to the Monster Investigation Bureau. Together, Archibald and Monk set out on the trail of a giant snake, a mysterious black mage, and an army of zombies...and along the way, encounter a war declared between the werewolves and the bear-men, and a horde of goblins who harass trolls, among other curious creatures. Thrills, chills, humor, blunders, and more are in store for the adventures of this unique tandem of Sherlock Holmes apprentices!

A gripping gothic tale from the majestic Bram Stoker, which led to the birth of a legend and stoked the fertile imagination of film-makers, artists and novelists. When Jonathan Harker visits the remote Transylvanian castle of Count Dracula, little does he know that he will become a captive of the undead!

H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories flourished in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers from Robert E. Howard to Clark Ashton Smith. This is a companion volume to the many gothic horror witers in the series.