Whether you're partial to pumpkins and lanterns or crave scary shenanigans and ghoulish goings-on, here is where you will find a great selection of gift ideas for Halloween on Tuesday 31 October. From frightening fiction to gruesome gifts and from supernatural stories to activity books filled with witches, vampires and ghosts, we’ve got the best range of spooky books for both children and adults.

Frightful Fun: First Halloween Books for Babies & Toddlers

Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire
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Funnybones
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We're Going on a Ghost Hunt
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My Bum is So Spooky! (PB)
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The Dinosaur that Pooped Halloween!
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Leila, the Perfect Witch
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That's not my bat...
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Room on the Broom
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Hey Duggee: The Halloween Badge
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Spooky Little Halloween
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Halloween Sound Book
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£7.99
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Peekaboo Pumpkin
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£7.99
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Room on the Broom Touch and Feel Book
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Peter Rabbit Tales: Trick or Treat
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Spot's Pumpkin Surprise
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Peppa Pig: Peppa's Magical Halloween
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Meg and Mog
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£6.99
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A masterfully told fable from the author of Ways to Live Forever adorned with gloriously gothic illustrations by Julia Sarda, Godfather Death warns of the dangers of making a deal with the grim reaper.
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Horrid Henrys and Mildred Hubbles: Scares for Younger Readers

Mirabelle and the Haunted House
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The Pug who wanted to be a Witch
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Spellbinding Stories
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Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster!
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Emerald and the Sea Sprites
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The Big Book of Mysteries
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Ghosts
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£6.99
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Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad
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Draw With Rob at Halloween
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The Worst Witch
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£7.99
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Sparkly Halloween Sticker Book
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Horrid Henry: Prank Wars!
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World of Weird
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£16.99
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Kitty and the Star Stone Robber
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Monster Hunting For Beginners
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Keeping the Little Monsters Busy: Activity Books for Halloween

Monsters
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£20.00
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Sticker Dolly Dressing Trick or treat
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Draw With Rob: In Space
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Shadow Chaser
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£7.99
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Isadora Moon and the Frost Festival
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Bluey: Let's Get Spooky
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£9.99
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Little Children's Halloween Puzzles
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Where's the Monster Poo?
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The Spooky Halloween Activity Book
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Disney Hocus Pocus Colouring Book
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First Magic Painting Halloween
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Sparkly Halloween Sticker Book
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Halloween Sticker Book
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Sleuth & Solve: Spooky
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Draw With Rob: Monster Madness
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First Sticker Book Princesses
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Room on the Broom Sticker Book
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Dead Brilliant: Terrifying Tales for Older Readers

Read, Scream, Repeat
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The World's Worst Monsters
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The Double Trouble Society and the Worst Curse
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The Witches
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£7.99
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Shiver Point: It Came from the Woods
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Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
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The Witchstone Ghosts
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CHILD OF THE BEAST
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The Girl, the Ghost and the Lost Name
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The October Witches
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Fear Ground
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£7.99
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Rules for Vampires: Ghosts Bite Back
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Witchstorm
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Super Ghost
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The Shadows of Rookhaven
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Agatha Christie meets Karen M. McManus in this whip-smart and stylish whodunit, which finds a group of high school friends embroiled in a murder mystery during a 1920s themed party in an island's stately home.
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Grisly Glories: Spooky Stories for Teen & Young Adult Readers

A Taste of Darkness
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Wranglestone
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£8.99
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Pumpkinheads
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£12.99
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The Lighthouse
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£8.99
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Their Vicious Games
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
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The Gifts That Bind Us
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Channel Fear
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Timberdark
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£8.99
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Mina and the Slayers
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£8.99
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Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders
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The Ripper of Whitechapel
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The Graveyard Book
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£7.99
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Fear Street the Beginning
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Night Games
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£6.99
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The Confession
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£6.99
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Graphically Gruesome: Our Favourite Horror Manga

Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
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Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1
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Battle Royale: Remastered
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Alice in Borderland, Vol. 1
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MADK, Vol. 1
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Wolverine: Snikt!
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£15.99
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Boys of the Dead
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Ajin: Demi-human Vol. 1
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Danganronpa: The Animation Volume 1
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Devilman: The Classic Collection Vol. 1
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The Hellbound Volume 1
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Macbeth
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£9.99
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MoMo -the blood taker- Vol. 1
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Blackguard 1
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£12.99
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Test your skills of duplicity and emotional intelligence to the max with this seriously addictive board game version of the smash hit reality show, where faithfuls must hunt out the traitors in their midst.
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Monstrous Mayhem: Tricks, Treats and Toys

Zombie Kittens
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£19.99
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Ooky Bat
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£15.99
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One Night Ultimate Werewolf
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Vivacious Vegetable Pumpkin
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£17.99
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The Addams Family Board Game
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Cauldron Cuties
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£31.99
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Beetlejuice: Framed Photo
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£10.99
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Mini Crystal Pendulum
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£10.99
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Cluedo The Classic Mystery Game
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Slippery Slime
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£8.99
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ROTB WITCH 6" PLUSH
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£12.99
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Exit: The Dead Man On The Orient Express
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Chainsaw Man Vibration Stars Chainsaw Man
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Horrified Monsters Board Game
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Pandemic
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£44.99
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Slime Lab
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The Traitors Card Game
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Fresh Frights: Chilling New Reading for Halloween

Hallowe'en Party
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The Night House
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The Ghost Woods
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Fairy Tale
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Out There Screaming
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth
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The Haunting Season
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All Hallows
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A Haunting on the Hill
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Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome
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Our Share of Night
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The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
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The Toll House
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The Butcher and the Wren
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Night Side of the River
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Girls of Little Hope
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Bad Dolls
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Centred around Christmas or Advent, these chilling tales from Bridget Collins, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Jess Kidd and others make for a gorgeously gothic follow-up to the bestselling ghost stories anthology The Haunting Season.

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Old Familiars: Classic Tales of Terror

Dracul
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The Rats
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Classic Ghost Stories
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The Turn of the Screw
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The Woman in Black
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Let the Right One In
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Ghost Story
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Meddling Kids
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Geek Love
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Dracula
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Song of Kali
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Frankenstein
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I Am Legend
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Terrifying True Tales: Our Most Disturbing Non-Fiction

The Theory of Everything Else
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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes
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Beyond the Wand
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Rogues
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The Devil You Know
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The Ruin of All Witches
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Once Upon a Tome
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The Premonitions Bureau
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The Witches
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Devil-Land
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£16.99
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Murder: The Biography
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Ghostland
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£10.99
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
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The First Ghosts
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The Penguin Book of Hell
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
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Nightwalking
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Clive Barker's Dark Worlds
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From Thomas' love poetry to Fanny's rules of etiquette, dive deeper into the wonderful, warm-hearted world of the hit BBC sitcom Ghosts courtesy of this side-splitting literary spin-off.
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Ghoulish Gifts

Classic horror in beautiful editions

Dracula
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The Masque of the Red Death
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Necronomicon
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Carmilla
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£9.99
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Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
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The Ghost Stories Of Edith Wharton
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The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
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Complete Ghost Stories
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The Gothic Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales
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Playing with Fire
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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Ghost Stories
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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

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

Alaina Urquhart on a Lifetime's Obsession with True Crime

Alaina Urquhart, author of The Butcher and the Wren and presenter of the true crime podcast Morbid, on the effect scary stories and true crime has had on her life and career.

Philippa Pride on Stephen King's Holly Gibney

Ahead of the publication of Holly and fresh jackets for the rest of the series, Stephen King's British editor talks Holly Gibney.

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