Horror, Ghost Stories & Supernatural

Dennis Wheatley - Strange Conflict : A Black Magic Story ( Vintage Arrow PB 1974 ) - Originally 1941

When the bombs fall on London the elderly Duke de Richleau considers a problem of the utmost urgency.  What methods are the Germans using to discover – with sinister effect – the secret routes of the Atlantic convoys?  His answer is...

Karen Russell / Vampires in the Lemon Grove : Stories (Hardback)

From the author of the novel Swamplandia! — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best.Within these pages, a...

Dennis Wheatley / Gateway to Hell (Vintage Paperback)

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Anne Rice / Angel Time (Hardback)

At the Toby O'Dare - Lucky the Fox - a contract killer of underground fame. A soulless soul, a dead man walking...He's fallen far from grace, and lives under a series of aliases. Lucky takes his orders from someone he calls 'The Right Man', someone whose...

St. John D. Seymour & Harry L. Neligan ( Editors) / True Irish Ghost Stories (Hardback)

Classified by geographical area, these simple yet compelling narratives provide amazing descriptions of poltergeists and banshees, spirit-filled houses, deathbed scenes pervaded by specters, legendary and ancestral phantoms, uncanny forewarnings of...

Robert Lloyd Parry - Friends and Spectres - PB - BRAND NEW

Friends and Spectres is an exploration of the world of M. R. James through his colleagues’ stories and biographies. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over half appeared first in amateur magazines or...

Helen Grant - Atmospheric Disturbances - HB - BRAND NEW

In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window A glimpse of a grotesque illustration combined with the onset of fever instigate a descent into a hellish nightmare. In the...

David Ambrose / Superstition (Large Paperback)

Parapsychologist Sam Towne believes that ghosts come from the human mind, not from "beyond". To prove his theory, he invites eight volunteers, including skeptical reporter Joanna Cross, to take part in an experiment. In a series of seances they invent...

Steve Feasey / Mutant City (Mutant City Book 1)

Fifty years ago, the world was almost destroyed by a chemical war. Now the world is the mutants and the pure, the broken and the privileged, the damaged and the perfect. Thirteen years ago, a covert government experimental facility was shut down and...

Phil Rickman / Midwinter of the Spirit (Hardback) (A Merrily Watkins Novel)

When offered the post once styled Church of England Deliverance Minister, the Reverend Merrily Watkins -- parish priest and single parent -- cannot easily refuse. But the retiring exorcist, strongly objecting to women priests, not only refuses to...

Peter Sellers / Whistling Past the Graveyard: Stories of Bizarre Crime and Dark Fantasy (Large Paperback)

Weekend package trips to hell. A hunter of human heads. A lover’s bed wired to execute. Welcome to the offbeat world of Peter Sellers. No, not the actor who stumbled through all those Pink Panther movies as the ineffectual Inspector Clouseau...

Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan /The Night Eternal ( The Strain Novels - Book 3 ) (Large Paperback)

The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in...

Christopher Fowler / Red Bride (Large Paperback)

John Chapel is a statistician's,  he's twenty-nine, has a loving wife and son, a comfortable home, and a promising career. Then he meets the stunningly beautiful, mysterious Ixora, and his life starts to change disturbingly. He first sees her...

E.E. Richardson / Grave Dirt

Darren would do anything to see his dead best mate once more - even try out Mad Mary's grave doll. But tampering with evil forces brings terrible consequences and the monster Darren has raised is coming after him...

F.G. Cottam / Dark Echo (Hardback)

Dark Echo is an unlucky boat. Despite this knowledge, Martin Stannard falls under her spell and prepares to sail her across the Atlantic with his wealthy father. But his lover Suzanne begins exploring the yacht's past. What she finds is terrifying...

Sarah Waters / The Little Stranger (Hardback)

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked...

H.P. Lovecraft / Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales (Hardback)

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmology that are as powerful today as they were when first published.This tome presents original...

Jeff Crook / The Sleeping and the Dead: A Mystery (Hardback)

A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistanceJackie Lyons, a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department, is trying to put her life back together. Her husband has served her with divorce papers,...

Wes Craven / Fountain Society (Hardback)

The developer of a superweapon that will guarantee U.S. military supremacy is dying, and only a frightening operation can extend his life, fusing him with another human being...     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...

Shaun Hutson / Necessary Evil (Hardback)

It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of them are shot dead and another fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but...

Justin Evans / The White Devil : A Ghost Story (Hardback)

When seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is transplanted from his American high school to a British boarding school—a high-profile academy for the sons of England’s finest—his father hopes that the boy’s dark past will not follow him...

Jackson Pearce / Sweetly (Hardback)

One deadly secret,eight missing teenage girls,and a town full of fear...Twelve years ago three siblings went looking for a witch in the forest. Only two of them returned.Now, Ansel and Gretchen find sanctuary with Sophia Kelly at her sweet shop. Gretchen...

S.L. Grey / The Mall (Hardback)

Dan is an angsty emo-kid who works in a deadly dull shopping mall. He hates his job.Rhoda is a junkie whose babysitting charge ran off while she was scoring cocaine. She hates her life. Rhoda bullies Dan into helping her search, but as they explore the...

Karen Brown / The Clairvoyants (Hardback)

Karen Brown’s most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical giftOn the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman,...

John Collier / Fancies and Goodnights (Large Paperback)

John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and...

Kenneth Oppel / This Dark Endeavor (Large Paperback)

The purest intentions can stir up the darkest obsessions.In this prequel to Mary Shelley’s gothic classic, Frankenstein, 16-year-old Victor Frankenstein begins a dark journey that will change his life forever. Victor’s twin, Konrad, has...

John Meade Falkner / The Lost Stradivarius (Large Paperback)

Chilling in the extreme, The Lost Stradivarius is a classic tale of the supernatural. While practicing in his rooms in Oxford, gifted violinist John Maltravers notices a strange phenomenon: whenever a certain air is played, a mysterious...

Michael Koryta / So Cold The River (Large Paperback)

So Cold the River is a chilling, supernatural tale "guaranteed to put the cold finger down your spine" (Michael Connelly). It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to...

Ed & Lorraine Warren / Graveyard (Large Paperback)

Ghosts are always hungry,” someone once said—and no one knows how ravenous they really are more than Ed & Lorraine Warren, the world’s most renowned paranormal investigators. For decades, Ed and Lorraine Warren hunted down the truth...

James Buxton / The Wishing Tree (Large Paperback)

Kingsmeade Close, on the edge of Epping Forest, is a nice community of ordinary people, but the rape and murder of a girl is only the start of a series of increasingly horrific events, as the Wishing Tree sucks in more and more souls in return for wishes...

Christopher Pike / Chain Letter: Two Books in One

He knows their secret and he wants to play...Chain Letter - When Alison and her friends start receiving chain letters demanding dangerous and impossible deeds from them, they figure it is just a sick joke. Until one by one they start to go missing .....

Andrew Post / Chop Shop

Amber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, business partners and roommates at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. People are complaining about the makeup jobs they're giving deceased loved ones--the word clownish has been used--and both young women...

Gordan McGill / The Final Conflict ( The Omen Trilogy - Book 3 ) (Vintage Paperback)

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Fritz Leiber - The Pale Brown Thing - PB - BRAND NEW

Serialised in 1977, The Pale Brown Thing is a shorter version of Fritz Leiber’s World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the supernatural, Our Lady of Darkness. Leiber maintained that the two texts “should be regarded as the same...

Katharine Tynan - The Death Spancel and Others - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

“Come to me, a lonely ghost, / Out of the night and rain.” Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many other writers of the early twentieth century, she made numerous forays into literature...

Bram Stoker - Old Hoggen & Other Adventures - Swan River Press - PB - BRAND NEW

A paperback Swan River Press edition, BRAND NEW.  At the time of his death in 1912, Bram Stoker was preparing for publication three volumes of stories. The first, Dracula’s Guest, saw print in 1914; the second and third never manifested...

Ethel Mannin- Lucifer and the Child - PB - Swan River Press - 2020 - BRAND NEW

"She did not want to be organised at all. She wanted to be solitary and free."This is the story of Jenny Flower, London slum child, who one day, on an outing to the country, meets a Dark Stranger with horns on his head. It is the first day of August...

Jack Fennell ( Editor) - Your Own Dark Shadow - PB - BRAND NEW ( November 2024) SIGNED

My hand holding the revolver dropped limply to my side when, in the full glare of the lamp, I saw the Creature that squatted in the doorway ...' An old house turns out to not be as empty as its new owners supposed. A nobleman barters his soul in exchange...

Clay McLeod Chapman / The Remaking (Large Paperback)

Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a tale as it evolves every twenty years—with terrifying results.Ella Louise has lived in the woods surrounding Pilot’s Creek, Virginia, for nearly...

Chris Priestley / Through Dead Eyes (Hardback)

Alex joins his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. During the day he hangs out with the daughter of a family friend. They visit the usual sights but also coffee shops and flea markets off the beaten track. At one of these markets Alex spots an...

L.T Meade - Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures - PB - BRAND NEW ( Swan River Press)

I was in the dark and alone, yet not alone.” Despite her wide contributions to genre literature, Cork author L. T. Meade is now remembered, if at all, for her girls’ school stories. However, in 1898 the Strand Magazine, famous for its...

Maria Giakaniki & Brian J Showers ( Editors) - Bending to Earth : Strange Stories by Irish Women - PB BRAND NEW - Gothic & Horror Short Stories

Swan River Press books are beautiful.  This is the 2019 issued Bending To Earth, edited introduced and selcetd by Maria Giakaniki and Brian J Showers, small format hardcover in illustrated boards, from a limitation of 400 copies. Brand new,...

Henry C. Mercer - November Night Tales - PB - Swan River Press - BRAND NEW

“History fades into prehistoric darkness . . . “ Each story in November Night Tales is a differently colored gem whose many facets reflect the lively mind of the author. Henry C. Mercer’s life-long interest in world...

Clotilde Graves - A Vanished Hand - PB ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“Only the dead are faithful to Love—because they are dead.” Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist “Clo Graves”, but became better known under her...

Lynda E. Rucker - Now It's Dark - HB - BRAND NEW - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION(Swan River Press)

“Have I not always loved terrible things?” – “The Seventh Wave” A student’s research into an obscure pulp writer takes on increasingly sinister tones; three friends reunite to fight an evil they thought...

Clotilde Graves - A Vanished Hand - HB ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“Only the dead are faithful to Love—because they are dead.” Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist “Clo Graves”, but became better known under her...

Joyce Carol Oates - The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences - HB SIGNED ( Swan River Press) - BRAND NEW

“To be fated, to be accursed—isn’t that also to be special?” A group of resourceful young girls punish the men of a small town for unspeakable lusts by luring them to a derelict factory and into the toils of a bizarre...

Timothy J. Jarvis - Treatises on Dust - HB SIGNED (Swan River Press ) - BRAND NEW

From the small bones of the middle ear can be fashioned a key.” “For a while now,” Timothy J. Jarvis tells us in the first tale here, “I’ve been collecting texts that hint at strange tales.” He goes on to explain that...

Kat Ellis / Harrow Lake

 The daughter of a horror film director is not afraid of anything--until she gets to Harrow Lake. Things I know about Harrow Lake:1.It's where my father shot his most disturbing slasher film.2.There's something not right about this town.Lola Nox is...

Liberty / Turnbull Bay : A Traditional Vampire Story (Large Paperback)

 A sinister character arrives in Florida and takes revenge against the man who tried to destroy him a half century earlier. In this erotic vampire tale, four terrified people unite to battle the forces of evil.     All of our books are...

Nancy A. Collins / A Dozen Black Roses (Large Paperback)

 An urban quagmire greedily devouring lost souls, its bloodstained streets haunted by the living dead. In an ancient war between two gluttonous vampires, Deadtown is both battleground and buffet table.     All of our books are second...

Kathy Cronin / The Nightmare Tangent (Large Paperback)

 The Nightmare Tangent" is a psychological-horror novel by Kathy Cronin, a teenage author of the horror variety. In "The Nightmare Tangent" The allegedly insane Jordison Steele, along with newfound friend Aran Winters, must fight to escape the...