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Whether you are searching for Halloween thrills, 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 Shining
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The Shining
Stephen King
£10.99
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The Haunting of Hill House
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
£9.99
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It
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Stephen King
£12.99
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Fairy Tale
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Fairy Tale
Stephen King
£9.99
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The Exorcist
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The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
£9.99
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Interview With The Vampire
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Interview With The Vampire
Anne Rice
£9.99
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Our Share of Night
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Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez
£9.99   £8.49
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Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
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Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
Garth Marenghi
£9.99
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
Grady Hendrix
£11.99
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The Lighthouse Witches
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The Lighthouse Witches
C.J. Cooke
£9.99
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The Final Girl Support Group
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The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix
£8.99
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Camp Damascus
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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
£8.99
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World War Z
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World War Z
Max Brooks
£9.99
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Necronomicon
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Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft
£30.00
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Carmilla
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
£9.99
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A Haunting on the Hill
A Haunting on the Hill
Elizabeth Hand
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The first officially sanctioned sequel to Shirley Jackson's ghostly masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House finds a troop of actors holing up in the gothic mansion as events take a turn for the chilling.
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New For 2023

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Stephen King
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Masters of Death
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Masters of Death
Olivie Blake
£20.00   £17.99
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The Night House
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The Night House
Jo Nesbo
£22.00   £18.99
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The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
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The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
Various
£16.99
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Out There Screaming
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Out There Screaming
Jordan Peele
£20.00
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Night Side of the River
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Night Side of the River
Jeanette Winterson
£18.99   £16.99
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Mister Magic
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Mister Magic
Kiersten White
£16.99
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Palace of Shadows
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Palace of Shadows
Ray Celestin
£16.99
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Bad Dolls
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Bad Dolls
Rachel Harrison
£12.99
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How to Sell a Haunted House
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How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix
£19.99
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The Winter Spirits
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The Winter Spirits
Bridget Collins
£16.99   £14.99
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The Salt Grows Heavy
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The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw
£9.99
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Incarcerat
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Incarcerat
Garth Marenghi
£20.00
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Everything the Darkness Eats
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Everything the Darkness Eats
Eric Larocca
£13.99
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The Kindness
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The Kindness
John Ajvide Lindqvist
£30.00
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£16.99
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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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Necronomicon
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Necronomicon
H.P. Lovecraft
£30.00
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
£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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Carmilla
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
£9.99
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Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
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Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
Mary Shelley
£30.00
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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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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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Complete Ghost Stories
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Complete Ghost Stories
M. R. James
£10.99
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe
£10.99
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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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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
£10.99
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Playing with Fire
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Playing with Fire
Arthur Conan Doyle
£14.99
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Out There Screaming
Out There Screaming
Jordan Peele, Jordan Peele
£30.00
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Coming soon - 01/10/2023
Curated by the horror movie maestro behind Get Out and Nope, this dazzling collection of spine-chilling stories by Black authors boasts contributions from N.K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due and Nalo Hopkinson.
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2023's Best Paperbacks

The Book Eaters
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The Book Eaters
Sunyi Dean
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The Ghost Woods
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The Ghost Woods
C.J. Cooke
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Our Share of Night
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Our Share of Night
Mariana Enriquez
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All Hallows
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All Hallows
Christopher Golden
£8.99
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw
£8.99
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Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
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Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
Garth Marenghi
£9.99
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Camp Damascus
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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
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Schrader's Chord
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Schrader's Chord
Scott Leeds
£9.99
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Girls of Little Hope
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Girls of Little Hope
Dale Halvorsen
£9.99
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Holy Ghosts
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Holy Ghosts
Fiona Snailham
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Don't Fear the Reaper
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Don't Fear the Reaper
Stephen Graham Jones
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Maeve Fly
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Maeve Fly
C. J. Leede
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Leech
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Leech
Hiron Ennes
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The Sun Down Motel
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The Sun Down Motel
Simone St James
£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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The Beast You Are: Stories
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The Beast You Are: Stories
Paul Tremblay
£9.99
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Boys in the Valley
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Boys in the Valley
Philip Fracassi
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Night Side of the River
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Night Side of the River
Jeanette Winterson
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A Haunting on the Hill
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A Haunting on the Hill
Elizabeth Hand
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Palace of Shadows
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Palace of Shadows
Ray Celestin
£16.99
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Brainwyrms
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Brainwyrms
Alison Rumfitt
£10.99
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The Toll House
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The Toll House
Carly Reagon
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The Damned Thing
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The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
£12.99
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The House in the Pines
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The House in the Pines
Ana Reyes
£8.99
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The Winter Spirits
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The Winter Spirits
Bridget Collins
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Incarcerat
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Incarcerat
Garth Marenghi
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The Pale House Devil
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The Pale House Devil
Richard Kadrey
£10.99
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The Haunting of Alejandra
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The Haunting of Alejandra
V. Castro
£8.99
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Christmas and Other Horrors
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Christmas and Other Horrors
Ellen Datlow
£19.99
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The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond
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The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond
Louise Davidson
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The Diver
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The Diver
Samsun Knight
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Our Bestselling Classic Horror Books

Dracul
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Dacre Stoker
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The Rats
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The Rats
James Herbert
£9.99
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Classic Ghost Stories
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Classic Ghost Stories
Various
£9.99
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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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The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
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Let the Right One In
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Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist
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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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The Haunting of Hill House
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
£9.99
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Ghost Story
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Ghost Story
Peter Straub
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Meddling Kids
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Meddling Kids
Edgar Cantero
£8.99
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
£8.99
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Geek Love
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Geek Love
Katherine Dunn
£9.99
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Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£6.99
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
£7.99
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Song of Kali
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Song of Kali
Dan Simmons
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
£7.99
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I Am Legend
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I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
£8.99
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Our Bestselling Teen & Young Adult Horror Books

A Taste of Darkness
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A Taste of Darkness
Kathryn Foxfield
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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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Their Vicious Games
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Their Vicious Games
Joelle Wellington
£8.99   £7.49
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Jamison Shea
£8.99   £7.49
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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
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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
£7.99
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The Graveyard Book
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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
£7.99
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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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The Confession
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The Confession
R. L. Stine
£6.99
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Graphically Gruesome: Our Favourite Horror Manga

Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
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Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito
£20.00
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Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1
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Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1
Naoya Matsumoto
£7.99
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Alice in Borderland, Vol. 1
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Alice in Borderland, Vol. 1
Haro Aso
£15.99
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Battle Royale: Remastered
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Battle Royale: Remastered
Koushun Takami
£13.99
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Wolverine: Snikt!
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Wolverine: Snikt!
Tsutomu Nihei
£15.99
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MADK, Vol. 1
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MADK, Vol. 1
Ryo Suzuri
£9.99
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Boys of the Dead
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Boys of the Dead
Douji Tomita
£10.99   £7.69
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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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Danganronpa: The Animation Volume 1
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Danganronpa: The Animation Volume 1
Spike Chunsoft
£12.99
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The Hellbound Volume 1
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The Hellbound Volume 1
Yeon Sang-Ho
£16.99
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MoMo -the blood taker- Vol. 1
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MoMo -the blood taker- Vol. 1
Akira Sugito
£12.99
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Dead Company, Volume 1
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Dead Company, Volume 1
Yoshiki Tonogai
£12.95
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Blackguard 1
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Blackguard 1
Ryo Hanada
£12.99
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
Robert Deas
£9.99
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Our Bestselling Horror 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 Seance
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The Last Seance
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

Cornish Horrors
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Cornish Horrors
Joan Passey
£8.99
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Weird Woods
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Weird Woods
John Miller
£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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Crawling Horror
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Crawling Horror
Daisy Butcher
£9.99
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The Outcast
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The Outcast
E. Benson
£8.99
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The Ghost Slayers
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The Ghost Slayers
Mike Ashley
£9.99
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Evil Roots
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Evil Roots
Daisy Butcher
£8.99
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The Horned God
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The Horned God
Michael Wheatley
£9.99
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Dangerous Dimensions
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Dangerous Dimensions
Henry Bartholomew
£9.99
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Polar Horrors
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Polar Horrors
John Miller
£9.99
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Shadows on the Wall
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Shadows on the Wall
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
£8.99
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Roarings from Further Out
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Roarings from Further Out
Xavier Aldana Reyes
£8.99
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Queens of the Abyss
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Queens of the Abyss
Mike Ashley
£9.99
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Sunless Solstice
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Sunless Solstice
Lucy Evans
£9.99
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From the Depths
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From the Depths
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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Randalls Round
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Randalls Round
Eleanor Scott
£8.99
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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.

Weird and Wonderful Sisters: The Best Witch Lit Books

Weird and Wonderful Sisters: The Best Witch Lit Books

From Circe to The Witches of Vardo, discover our top witchy reads.

Malcolm Gaskill on Real-Life Fairytales

Malcolm Gaskill on Real-Life Fairytales

Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin of All the Witches, our Non-Fiction Book of the Month for October, discusses religion, superstition and malice in the New World.

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.

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