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Whether you are searching for petrifying gothic tales of horror, a collection of ghoulish ghost stories, or the latest TikTok Young Adult horror hit, you have come to the right place. From the ever-chilling classics such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle to bestselling masterpieces from the likes of Stephen King and James Herbert, explore our best new and classic horror books and ghost story collections here. 

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Our Bestselling Horror Books

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Stephen King
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The Haunting of Hill House
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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All The Devils
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All The Devils
Catelyn Wilson
£16.99
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The Shining
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The Shining
Stephen King
£10.99
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Interview With The Vampire
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Interview With The Vampire
Anne Rice
£9.99
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Blackwater I: The Flood
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Blackwater I: The Flood
Michael McDowell
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Monstrilio
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Monstrilio
Gerardo Samano Cordova
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Carmilla
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SHERIDAN LE FANU
£10.99
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It
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It
Stephen King
£12.99
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The Exorcist
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The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
£9.99
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Misery
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Misery
Stephen King
£10.99
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Carrie
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Carrie
Stephen King
£9.99
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Pet Sematary
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Pet Sematary
Stephen King
£10.99
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Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel
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Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel
Kiersten White
£18.99   £16.99
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Carrie
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Carrie
Stephen King
£20.00
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The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
£9.99
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So Thirsty
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So Thirsty
Rachel Harrison
£9.99
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
£9.99
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Graveyard Shift
Graveyard Shift (Hardback)
M. L. Rio
£14.99
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From the author of the internationally bestselling If We Were Villains comes another irresistible slice of dark academia, as a group of disparate individuals seek the truth about a series of sinister happenings in a college cemetery.
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Graveyard Shift
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M. L. Rio
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You Like It Darker
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You Like It Darker
Stephen King
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Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
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Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito
£20.00
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The Death Watcher
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The Death Watcher
Chris Carter
£20.00
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Carrie
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Carrie
Stephen King
£20.00
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Queen B
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Queen B
Juno Dawson
£16.99
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The Coven
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The Coven
Harper L. Woods
£16.99
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The Book of Witching
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The Book of Witching
C.J. Cooke
£16.99   £14.99
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The Last Séance
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The Last Séance
Agatha Christie
£14.99
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Empire of the Damned
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Empire of the Damned
Jay Kristoff
£22.00
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Atlas of Paranormal Places
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Atlas of Paranormal Places
Evelyn Hollow
£22.00
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A Christmas Ghost Story (Signed Edition)
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A Christmas Ghost Story (Signed Edition)
Kim Newman
£11.99
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The Haunting of Hill House
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
£16.99
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The Shadow Key
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The Shadow Key
Susan Stokes-Chapman
£16.99
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The Eyes Are The Best Part
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The Eyes Are The Best Part
Monika Kim
£16.99
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Heads Will Roll
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Heads Will Roll
Josh Winning
£18.99
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The King's Witches
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The King's Witches
Kate Foster
£16.99
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Alice
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Alice
Christina Henry
£18.99
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2024's Best Paperbacks

The Empusium
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The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
£12.99
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Holly
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Holly
Stephen King
£9.99   £7.99
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Rouge
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Rouge
Mona Awad
£9.99   £8.49
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
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A Sunny Place for Shady People
Mariana Enriquez
£14.99
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Blackwater I: The Flood
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Blackwater I: The Flood
Michael McDowell
£9.99   £8.49
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Monstrilio
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Monstrilio
Gerardo Samano Cordova
£10.99   £9.49
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So Thirsty
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So Thirsty
Rachel Harrison
£9.99
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Greatest Hits
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Greatest Hits
Harlan Ellison
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Bloom
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Bloom
Delilah S. Dawson
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Out There Screaming
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Out There Screaming
Jordan Peele
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Pay the Piper
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Pay the Piper
George A. Romero
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Compound Fracture
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Compound Fracture
Andrew Joseph White
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Cuckoo
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Cuckoo
Gretchen Felker-Martin
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The House of Last Resort
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The House of Last Resort
Christopher Golden
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A House at the Bottom of a Lake
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A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Josh Malerman
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The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors
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The Little Coffee Shop of Terrors
Hazel Graves
£8.99
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

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Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£16.99
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Carmilla
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Carmilla
SHERIDAN LE FANU
£10.99
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Carrie
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Carrie
Stephen King
£20.00
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Necronomicon
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Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft
£30.00
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The Masque of the Red Death
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
£9.99
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
£16.99
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Halloweird
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Halloweird
Johnny Mains
£16.99
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Tales Accursed
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Tales Accursed
Richard Wells
£25.00
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The Burial of the Rats
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The Burial of the Rats
Bram Stoker
£14.99
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The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
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The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
£14.99
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
Lafcadio Hearn
£9.99
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
£14.99
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The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
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The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
Roger Luckhurst
£14.99
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The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton
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The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
£14.99
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Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
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Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
Mary Shelley
£30.00
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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
£10.99
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
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Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix
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Barrowbeck
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Barrowbeck
Andrew Michael Hurley
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The Hotel
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The Hotel
Daisy Johnson
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Halloweird
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Johnny Mains
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The Lamb
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The Lamb
Lucy Rose
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Hungerstone
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Kat Dunn
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Stay in the Light
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Stay in the Light
A.M. Shine
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Supernatural Tales
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Supernatural Tales
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Carmilla
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Carmilla
SHERIDAN LE FANU
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Creepshow Deluxe Book One
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Creepshow Deluxe Book One
Paul Dini
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Freakslaw
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Freakslaw
Jane Flett
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Bad Dolls
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Bad Dolls
Rachel Harrison
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Oracle
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Oracle
Moïra Fowley
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ITCH!
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ITCH!
Gemma Amor
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House Woman
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House Woman
Adorah Nworah
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Engines Beneath Us
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Engines Beneath Us
Malcolm Devlin
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Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
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Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
John Langan
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The Haunted Trail
The Haunted Trail: Classic Tales of the Rambling Weird - British Library Tales of the Weird 53 (Paperback)
Weird Walk
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Perfect for Halloween, this fifty-third instalment in the British Library Tales of the Weird series features sublimely dark and bloody tales from the likes of Robert Aickman, Charlotte Riddell and M. R. James.
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Great Books You Must Read 

Our selection of classic titles

Classic Titles

The Haunting of Hill House
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Shirley Jackson
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Interview With The Vampire
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Interview With The Vampire
Anne Rice
£9.99
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The Exorcist
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The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
£9.99
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Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£7.99
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The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
£9.99
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
£9.99
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Turn of the Screw
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
£7.99
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Dark Tales
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Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
£9.99
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The Rats
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The Rats
James Herbert
£9.99
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Dawn of the Dead
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Dawn of the Dead
George Romero
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Let the Right One In
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Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist
£10.99
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Exquisite Corpse
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Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z Brite
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Ghost Story
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Ghost Story
Peter Straub
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Dracul
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Dracul
Dacre Stoker
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Our Bestselling Teen & Young Adult Horror Books

YA Horror

You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
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Kalynn Bayron
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A Taste of Darkness
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A Taste of Darkness
Maria Kuzniar
£8.99
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Wranglestone
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Wranglestone
Darren Charlton
£8.99
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Pumpkinheads
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Pumpkinheads
Rainbow Rowell
£12.99
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The Lighthouse
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The Lighthouse
Alex Bell
£8.99
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The Gifts That Bind Us
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The Gifts That Bind Us
Caroline O’Donoghue
£7.99
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Channel Fear
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Channel Fear
Lisa Richardson
£8.99
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Timberdark
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Timberdark
Darren Charlton
£8.99
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Mina and the Slayers
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Mina and the Slayers
Amy McCaw
£8.99
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Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders
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Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders
Ransom Riggs
£14.99
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The Ripper of Whitechapel
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The Ripper of Whitechapel
Yvette Fielding
£8.99
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The Graveyard Book
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
£7.99
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Their Vicious Games
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Their Vicious Games
Joelle Wellington
£8.99
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Fear Street the Beginning
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Fear Street the Beginning
R. L. Stine
£8.99
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Night Games
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Night Games
R. L. Stine
£6.99
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Graphically Gruesome: Our Favourite Horror Manga

Horror Manga

Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
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Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito
£20.00
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Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition)
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Uzumaki (3-in-1 Deluxe Edition)
Junji Ito
£28.00
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Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1
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Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1
Naoya Matsumoto
£8.99
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Battle Royale: Remastered
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Battle Royale: Remastered
Koushun Takami
£13.99
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Alice in Borderland, Vol. 1
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Alice in Borderland, Vol. 1
Haro Aso
£18.99
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Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
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Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito
£20.00
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MADK, Vol. 1
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MADK, Vol. 1
Ryo Suzuri
£9.99
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Danganronpa: The Animation Volume 1
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Danganronpa: The Animation Volume 1
Spike Chunsoft
£12.99
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Ajin: Demi-Human Vol. 1
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Ajin: Demi-Human Vol. 1
Gamon Sakurai
£12.99
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Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2
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Homunculus (Omnibus) Vol. 1-2
Hideo Yamamoto
£24.99
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#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 1
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#DRCL midnight children, Vol. 1
Shin'ichi Sakamoto
£22.00
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Wolverine: Snikt!
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Wolverine: Snikt!
Tsutomu Nihei
£15.99
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Boys of the Dead
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Boys of the Dead
Douji Tomita
£10.99
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
Robert Deas
£9.99
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Dead Company, Volume 1
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Dead Company, Volume 1
Yoshiki Tonogai
£12.95
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Our Bestselling Horror Anthologies

Anthologies

Classic Ghost Stories
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Classic Ghost Stories
Various
£9.99
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Ghosts from the Library
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Ghosts from the Library
Tony Medawar
£14.99
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Damnable Tales
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Damnable Tales
Richard Wells
£12.99
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Tales for Twilight
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Tales for Twilight
Alistair W.J. Kerr
£10.00
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Dark Tales
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Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
£9.99
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Japanese Ghost Stories
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Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn
£9.99
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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
M. R. James
£8.99
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The Last Séance
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The Last Séance
Agatha Christie
£9.99
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The Classic Horror Stories
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The Classic Horror Stories
H. P. Lovecraft
£8.99
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Things We Say in the Dark
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Things We Say in the Dark
Kirsty Logan
£9.99
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The Complete Short Stories
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The Complete Short Stories
Roald Dahl
£14.99
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The Great Horror and Fantasy Collection
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The Great Horror and Fantasy Collection
Various authors
£59.99
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Dark Entries
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Dark Entries
Robert Aickman
£9.99
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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
E F Benson
£8.99
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Autobiography Of A Corpse
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Autobiography Of A Corpse
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
£15.99
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If It Bleeds
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If It Bleeds
Stephen King
£10.99
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British Library Tales of the Weird

Weird Tales

Eerie East Anglia
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Eerie East Anglia
Edward Parnell
£9.99
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Weird Woods
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Weird Woods
John Miller
£9.99
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The Human Chord
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The Human Chord
Algernon Blackwood
£9.99
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Deadly Dolls
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Deadly Dolls
Elizabeth Dearnley
£9.99
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Circles of Stone
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Circles of Stone
Katy Soar
£9.99
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Cornish Horrors
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Cornish Horrors
Joan Passey
£9.99
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Glimpses of the Unknown
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Glimpses of the Unknown
Mike Ashley
£9.99
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Doomed Romances
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Doomed Romances
Joanne Ella Parsons
£9.99
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Holy Ghosts
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Holy Ghosts
Fiona Snailham
£9.99
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Evil Roots
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Evil Roots
Daisy Butcher
£9.99
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The Night Land
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The Night Land
William Hope Hodgson
£10.99
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From the Depths
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From the Depths
Mike Ashley
£9.99
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Out of the Past
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Out of the Past
Aaron Worth
£9.99
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The Uncanny Gastronomic
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The Uncanny Gastronomic
Zara-Louise Stubbs
£9.99
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Our Haunted Shores
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Our Haunted Shores
Emily Alder
£9.99
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Fear in the Blood
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Fear in the Blood
Mike Ashley
£9.99
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Queens of the Abyss
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Queens of the Abyss
Mike Ashley
£9.99
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Haunters at the Hearth
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Haunters at the Hearth
Tanya Kirk
£9.99
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Garth Marenghi On Why He Won't Blog

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Legendary darkscribe and author of Incarcerat Garth Marenghi puts us all in our place in a piece of writing that is definitely not a blog.

On Shirley Jackson and Writing A Haunting on the Hill: A Q&A with Elizabeth Hand

On Shirley Jackson and Writing A Haunting on the Hill: A Q&A with Elizabeth Hand

In this fascinating Q&A, Elizabeth Hand discusses penning the sequel to one of the most revered ghost stories of all time.

The Best Classic Horror Stories

The Best Classic Horror Stories

From vampires and ghosts to possession and twisted folklore, prepare for Halloween with our pick of spooky classics.

The Best Horror Manga

The Best Horror Manga

From Junji Ito to Sui Ishida, here is our guide to the most chilling and visceral manga from the masters of horror.