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A collection of ingeniously crafted, classic horror stories to fire the imagination and give you chills.
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This Wordsworth Classics 'The Best of David Stuart Davies' collection includes the following books:- Shadows of Sherlock Holmes; Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century
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Josephine Tey
A gripping mix of historical and contemporary crime, voted the number one crime novel of all time.
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Martin Edwards
Members of the Detection Club, the most prestigious group of crime writers in the world, celebrate the eightieth birthday of their former president - the original king of cozy crime…
David Stuart Davies
Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first of his Golden Age mysteries.
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Rupert Wilde and Kishen are a great new detective duo on the mystery scene.
The sixth novel in the Detective Johnny (One Eye) Hawke series. Two laser-sharp detectives, two thought-provoking cases and two skilful plots.
In The Shadows: Weird Tales that Chill and Shock
By David Stuart Davies
Settle into your easy chair, but be sure to leave the lights on! This collection of twenty-five…
A delightful collection of prose and poetry celebrating the rich literary history of Yorkshire.
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A collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings and banshees.
An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.
Prepare to have your blood chilled and your nerves tingled …This collection of eighteen short stories blurs the line between the real and unreal, and transports you to the misty…
A festive anthology of wintery mysteries in one pocket-sized gift edition.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are holidaying on the English coast when they discover a mysterious corpse on the beach. Then they are viciously attacked, and when Watson comes to…
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the case of a kidnapped child. With no ransom note, and a sinister connection to the highest echelons of Victorian society, the companions’ lives…
A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the sinister Dr Caligari
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A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the return of the sinister Moriarty gang…
This edited book explores multi-species approaches to dementia care. Drawing on work linking social and veterinary sciences, it offers readers the tools to respond to dementia in a multi-species way…
Edgar Allan Poe
A collection of stories, including The Pit and the Pendulum , The Fall of the House of Usher , The Premature Burial and The Tell-Tale Heart .
H. P. Lovecraft
Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the…
This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and…
Offers a collection of stories in which: a wax museum in London boasts an exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane; a businessman is trapped in a train…
Bram Stoker
Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula , together in one volume for the first time
A young girl claims she was kidnapped and abused, but who is really telling the truth?
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame’s enchanting children’s classic, illustrated in colour
Oscar Wilde
A beautiful collector’s edition of Oscar Wilde’s short stories
The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as ‘real’ apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.
Gaston Leroux
The little known, brilliant original text by Gaston Leroux has been immortalized by screen and stage adaptations. One of the greatest horror stories of all time, The Phantom of the…
Terry Lynch
Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, the Whitechapel murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. This book looks…
Edith Wharton
A collection of tales of the ghost story genre.
Wilkie Collins
A collection of strange stories from Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. It also includes the novella, The Haunted Hotel, a combination of detective and…
E.F. Benson
E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection.
A collection of the author’s macabre tales including Dracula’s Guest .
Henry S. Whitehead
Let Henry S. Whitehead take you into the mysterious and macabre world of voodoo where beasts invade the mind of man and where lives of the living are racked by…
David Stuart Davies,David Stuart Davies
Introducing Johnny One Eye, the exciting new detective operating in London during the Blitz.
M. R. James
A chilling collection of ghost stories by the incomparable M. R. James
Dorothy L. Sayers
The very best of Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey short stories in one volume, edited and introduced by crime writer David Stuart Davies.
DK
Chronicles every case of the world’s greatest detective and his assistant Dr Watson. This book explores every facet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most memorable creation. It offers all you…
A collection of nineteenth century short stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from…
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 beautifully-paced understatement, convincing…
Robert W. Chambers
With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction.
The first ‘locked room’ mystery, which Agatha Christie considered, ‘One of the best detective stories’.
Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned.
Jules Verne
Jules Verne’s much-loved classic about adventures beneath the waves
Henry James
Includes ten of Henry James’ ghost stories. This collection includes stories such as: The Jolly Corner , a story of psychological doubling and Owen Wingrave , which is also a…
When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of…
Matthew Lewis
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest.
