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Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from dead ancestors.

London is in the grip of fear and a series of brutal, bloody murders. As the country cowers and looks for safety, of Messrs. Singleton and Trelawney quietly arrive from Boston to set up their own detective agency.

Three Gothic tales from the author of Frankenstein.

These witty, perceptive and captivating tales range from fantasy to romance.

21 stories from one of the best writers of ghost stories.

The Whispering Muse is a work of outrageous and astounding strangeness: fusing horror with slapstick, magical realism with absurdist deadpan wit, and modernist high-jinks with the resonance of ancient myth.

In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult.

This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s.

John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.

The new book from acclaimed author Jon McGregor is nothing short of intense. Filled with hope and fury, it is a poetic mediation on the lives and deaths of those who have fallen through the cracks.

The new graphic novelist from Hannah Berry (trivia: she is Booktrust's writer in residence) takes her love of dark humour, les bandes dessinées and noir and twists them into a boiler room of a novel

The Guard is a superbly written novel, and a great read; part horror, part science fiction, but always original.

This work of contemporary noir is dark as they come and brilliantly executed within its non-linear skewed dissection of America.

This is the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe.

This selection of Poe's short fiction demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.

Roll up for the Arabian Derby, a sinister fairground booth where children are tempted, become addicted and can never escape.

Tinashe is a small boy growing up in revolutionary Rhodesia. He revels in the freedom of youth: swimming in the lazy brown river, playing with his friends, envying his city-cousin Abel's private schooling and motorcar, and working diligently at the lessons he loves.

Piranha to Scurfy is a intriguing mix of psychological crime, vengeance, mystery and horror.

Visitation takes place in a chillingly spooky house. The stories that surround the house and Visitation build a history of horror, taking in the German population during the Jahrhundertwende, the turn-of-the-century shift, and over the following decades of war, National Socialism and Soviet occupation.

Adapting the tradition of the Gothic tale of terror, Collins wrote ghost stories with a distinctively contemporary flavour.

Jeremy Dyson begins The Haunted Book telling the reader about his thwarted plans as a child to visit a genuine Hand of Glory (the mummified left hand of a hanged murderer, supposedly imbued with much magical power) which was kept at Whitby museum.

All of Spark's published short stories are brought together with some new writing in this volume, which displays her cool, biting humour and unique vision of human nature.

Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect, and form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels.

The Explorer, James Smythe's second novel in as many months, in a taut exercise in claustrophobia. Its tightly-wound plot and suffocating landscape brim with intensity and strangeness.

In tales that glitter and haunt - strange nuggets from a writer whose wayward pen spills forth stylish, erotic, nightmarish jewels of prose.

Chilling stories about Victorian London by the author of The Moonstone and Woman in White.

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones is a compelling blend of science and imagination, myth and madness, philosophy and folklore that will fascinate those who read it.

Everything in Starobinets' stories smacks of the sinister and perverse. An unnamed narrator assuages loneliness with a companion grown from mould, until the horrific smell alerts the authorities