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The Mist

Stephen King

King’s terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a mysterious mist, now available for the first time from Hodder in standalone form, as part of their exciting Stephen King reissue…

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Salem’s Lot

Stephen King

A superb novel set in classic Stephen King territory - a small new England town about to be engulfed by terror.

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Misery

Stephen King

King’s classic bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage by his Number One Fan…

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It

Stephen King

Film tie-in for the new 2017 film, which will be in theatres from September 8th.

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Pet Sematary

Stephen King

King’s #1 bestselling, timeless classic, is among King’s most iconic and beloved novels.

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Christine

Stephen King

A supernatural tale about girlfriends, boyfriends and a car called Christine.

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It

Stephen King

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place…

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Cujo

Stephen King

Stephen King’s classic tale of survival, as a young mother fights to protect her child against a horrifyingly familiar monster.

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Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural

Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories!

Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches…

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House of Hunger

Alexis Henderson

Inspired by the true story of the infamous Elizabeth Bathory, a compelling Gothic tale of blood and dark desire from the author of the acclaimed The Year of the Witching...

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The Penguin Book of the Undead

The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.

The walking dead from…

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Gothic Tales

Elizabeth Gaskell

The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell’s novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to…

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The Cabin at the End of the World

Paul Tremblay

The Cabin at the End of the World adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense.

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A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay

The lives of the Barretts, a suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Mariorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia. To her parents’ despair, the doctors are…

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The Hunted

Gabriel Bergmoser

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide - an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller - a bestselling debut from talented newcomer, Gabriel Bergmoser.

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The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

Eric LaRocca

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.

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The Drift

C.J. Tudor

A crashed coach full of students. A stuck cable car full of strangers. An isolated chalet full of friends. A killer snowstorm outside. Inside one group, a killer.

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All the White Spaces

Ally Wilkes

A vivid ghost story exploring identity, gender and selfhood, set against the backdrop of the golden age of polar exploration. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and Michelle…

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The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It’s so good you’ll read it twice…

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Lovecraft Country

Matt Ruff

Matt Ruff, the critically acclaimed cult novelist, makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination…

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Sundial

Catriona Ward

A gripping gothic masterpiece from the bestselling and award-winning author of The Last House on Needless Street, Sundial is a must-read for fans of Girl A and Sharp Objects…

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Come Closer

Sara Gran

Discover this cult classic, available in the UK for the first time in many years, and step into a world of the dark, bizarre, and unexplained …

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Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained.

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Fairy Tale

Stephen King

A a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours.

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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Hill House is a chilling story of the power of fear.

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece - the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer.

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Tender is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

Everyone’s eating human meat. Would you? The shocking, darkly gripping dystopian novel in which cannibalism is legal.

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Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin

A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood.

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Looking Glass Sound

Catriona Ward

In a windswept cottage overlooking the sea, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write.

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Echo

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

A Startlingly Original Horror Novel from the Author of HEX.

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Rosemary’s Baby

Ira Levin

Ira Levin’s classic novel reissued with a new introduction by Chuck Palahniuk.

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The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

A revised edition, expanded by the author and includes a chilling new episode.

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Sister, Maiden, Monster

Lucy A. Snyder

A bloody and unforgettable tale of transformation and survival, told by three women surviving in a world devastated by a disastrous transformation.

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They (Faber Editions)

Kay Dick

Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish through-a-glass-darkly Britain, they are coming closer…

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The Marigold

Andrew F. Sullivan

The Marigold explores the precarity of community and the fragile designs that bind us together.

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Don’t Fear the Reaper

Stephen Graham Jones

Jade Daniels faces down a brutal serial killer in his pulse-punding tribute to the golden era of horror cinema and Friday the 13th.

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.

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Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen

From Ellen Datlow - 'the venerable queen of horror anthologies' per the New York Times - comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from…

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Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.

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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

Tamsyn Muir’s necromantic science fantasy debut Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you’ll ever have with a skeleton.

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The Shining

Stephen King

The Shining is an iconic chilling classic, regarded as one of Stephen King’s masterpieces.

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Earthlings

Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)

Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?

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The Passage

Justin Cronin

The first instalment of the bestselling The Passage Trilogy

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Through the Woods

Emily Carroll

A fantastically dark and timeless graphic debut, for fans of Grimm Tales, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and the works of Neil Gaiman.

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Silence Of The Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter)

Thomas Harris

An FBI trainee. A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes. And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim…

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Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist

This extraordinary and powerful novel is part horror, part comedy and mostly love story.

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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Trilogy, Book 1)

Anne Rice

Reissue of the first volume of Anne Rice’s celebrated Vampire Chronicles - a cult classic.

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Girls Against God

Jenny Hval

A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot.

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Stories to keep you awake at night

The Mist

Salem’s Lot

Misery

It

Pet Sematary

Christine

It

Cujo

Strange Tales from Japan: 99 Chilling Stories of Yokai, Ghosts, Demons and the Supernatural

House of Hunger

The Penguin Book of the Undead

Gothic Tales

The Cabin at the End of the World

A Head Full of Ghosts

The Hunted

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories

The Drift

All the White Spaces

The Last House on Needless Street

Lovecraft Country

Sundial

Come Closer

Everything the Darkness Eats

Fairy Tale

The Haunting of Hill House

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Tender is the Flesh

Fever Dream

Looking Glass Sound

Echo

Rosemary’s Baby

The Exorcist

Sister, Maiden, Monster

They (Faber Editions)

The Marigold

Don’t Fear the Reaper

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Best Horror of the Year, Volume Fifteen

Her Body and Other Parties

Gideon the Ninth

The Shining

Earthlings

The Passage

Through the Woods

Silence Of The Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter)

Let the Right One In

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Trilogy, Book 1)

Girls Against God