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Lesbian Gothic: Transgressive FictionsLesbian Gothic: Transgressive Fictions
Best Price: $24.99
Tales of the Dark 3Tales of the Dark 3Final ShadowsFinal Shadows
Best Price: $14.89
Final Shadows is a collection of 36 stories published in 1991, all by different authors, some by...
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Heroes!Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Heroes!
Best Price: $5.75
What has drawn us all to Brian Lumley is here in smaller portions. Having read all of the...
Touch WoodTouch Wood
Best Price: $4.99
Touch Wood by t. Winter-Damon Holding Hands by Charles L. Grant Lodgings by Colin Greenland...


Damage LandDamage Land
Best Price: $4.97
Here the newest and most talented of Scottish writers create a set of demons for a modern age:...
Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No 19)Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No 19)
Best Price: $50.00
Red Jack: 2Red Jack: 2Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997
Best Price: $13.57
In 1897, Archibald Constable & Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That...
The Arbor House NecropolisThe Arbor House Necropolis
This book collects, in one volume, two previously published horror anthologies, on Voodoo and...


Frankenstein (Bloom's Major Literary Characters)Frankenstein (Bloom's Major Literary Characters)
Best Price: $7.48
Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female GothicDead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic
Best Price: $50.00
"Shows how the English writer used the female Gothic tradition to write novels about class...
Art of Darkness: A Poetics of GothicArt of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic
Best Price: $23.27
A great book for students looking to understand the Gothic or applications of literary...
Classic Tales of Horror and SuspenseClassic Tales of Horror and Suspense
Best Price: $8.99
The renderings of Dracula and the ghost ship stories (Douglas Fairbanks) are excellent. I was...
Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat HorrorTwists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror
Wildside Press is reissuing Twists of the Tale in trade paperback this spring.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Monarch notes)Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Monarch notes)
Study guide to the classic novel, with analysis, bibliography and background on both book and...
Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and "Lost Children" (The Children of the Night)Children of the Night: Stories of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves, and "Lost Children" (The Children of the Night)
Best Price: $1.91
I was a little dissapointed in the horror content. But the stories were interesting and very...
The Call and Other Stories (Puffin Teenage Fiction)The Call and Other Stories (Puffin Teenage Fiction)
Best Price: $0.95
The Wine Dark SeaThe Wine Dark Sea
What the other reviewers say is true. Aickman's stories are painstakingly crafted, or at least...
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book  of Best New Horror)The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Mammoth Book of Best New Horror)
Well, the writing was a little bit buggery. That's okay. The stories were on odd subject, but...

Gathering the BonesGathering the Bones
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This book's back cover proclaims that "horror may never be the same." Well if this...
Mary Shelley (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)Mary Shelley (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Best Price: $42.80
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, a story she wrote at the age of 19, is still a...
Beneath the Moors and Darker PlacesBeneath the Moors and Darker Places
Best Price: $24.95
All the stories (well maybe one) in this book are seething with Lovecraft: just read Lovecraft,...
A Whisper in the NightA Whisper in the Night
Compelling and crackling with suspense, these thirteen evocative stories of young people's...
Horror's Classic Masters: RemasteredHorror's Classic Masters: Remastered
Best Price: $2.99
I loved this book. It's the kind of book you can read over and over, because the stories are so...

The Loved DeadThe Loved Dead
Best Price: $4.95
considering it was my first non lovecraft mythos fiction i've read (even though he worked on...
In the FleshIn the Flesh
Best Price: $3.00
This is one of Barker's earliest collections, and shines because it is free of the usual flights...
Blood and Water and Other TalesBlood and Water and Other Tales
Best Price: $5.25
Fan that I am of director David Cronenberg, I learned recently that his next film was to be an...
The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 1: The Gothic TraditionThe Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition
Best Price: $52.69
David Punter's historical approach to Gothic literature reads like the finest page-turner of the...
Clive Barker's Books of Blood 3 (Clive Barker's Books of Blood)Clive Barker's Books of Blood 3 (Clive Barker's Books of Blood)
Best Price: $1.48
I have now read the "Books of Blood 1-3" and although I enjoyed a few of the stories...

Great Tales of Horror and the SupernaturalGreat Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
Best Price: $4.09
THIS WAS AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK. MOST BOOKS OF OLDER STORIES AREN'T PARTICULARLY SCARY, BUT THIS...
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular FictionVampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
Best Price: $21.90
Nearly a hundred years after its debut in 1897, Dracula is still one of the most popular of...
The Mark of the Beast (Dover Horror Classics)The Mark of the Beast (Dover Horror Classics)
Best Price: $4.94
Kipling was the pre-eminent man of letters circa 1900, but pretty much unread today. Here S. T....
Shades of Darkness: More of the Ghostly Best StoriesShades of Darkness: More of the Ghostly Best StoriesThe History of Gothic FictionThe History of Gothic Fiction
Best Price: $23.85
Compared to my other Gothic books, this one is a bit more scholarly at times. You have to...

The Rise of the Gothic NovelThe Rise of the Gothic Novel
Best Price: $37.65
Looks at the novels of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, RAdcliffe, Lewis and Shelley to demonstrate that...
Gothic and Gender: An IntroductionGothic and Gender: An Introduction
Best Price: $33.20
Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or...
The Mammoth Book of Terror (Mammoth Books)The Mammoth Book of Terror (Mammoth Books)
This book epitomises the 80-s streak of horror stained by blood & gore. Neverthless,...
Touch of Chill, ATouch of Chill, A
Best Price: $3.30
Joan Aiken is one of my favourite authors, best known among children as the writer of the...
The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in LiteratureThe Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature
Best Price: $14.00
Today the vampire is undoubtedly a major cultural icon. Present in breakfast foods, comics,...

Horror Fiction: An Introduction (Literary Genres)Horror Fiction: An Introduction (Literary Genres)
Best Price: $36.94
The latest in the Continuum Studies in Literary Genre series, Horror Fiction: An Introduction...
Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and OthersGaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others
Best Price: $7.63
Bloodcurdling tales from beyond the grave — teeming with sinister figures, grisly...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Modern Critical Interpretations)Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Modern Critical Interpretations)
Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein is remembered as a novel valuable in itself and prophetic of an...
The Brian Lumley CompanionThe Brian Lumley Companion
Best Price: $1.95
This work obviously targets die hard fans of the author of the Necroscope tales. The BRIAN...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Oxford Progressive English Readers)Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Oxford Progressive English Readers)
Best Price: $3.90
What is kind Dr Jekyll's terrifying secret? And who is the evil Mr Hyde? Find out in the first...

Horror Fiction in the Protestant TraditionHorror Fiction in the Protestant TraditionGothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century FictionGothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Best Price: $11.98
The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism....
Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body, and the LawGothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body, and the Law
Best Price: $78.53
Gothic Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)Gothic Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
Best Price: $16.00
This Reader's Guide focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era...
Gothic Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)Gothic Fiction (Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism)
Best Price: $16.00
This Reader's Guide focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era...

VampiresVampires
Best Price: $19.35
This book contains some of the greatest vampire short stories of all time. Stories by John...
Ghosts and Grisly ThingsGhosts and Grisly Things
Best Price: $7.95
I found this book confusing and disapointing. I like subtlety, but after reading many of these...
Demons and Shadows: The Ghostly Best Stories of Robert WestallDemons and Shadows: The Ghostly Best Stories of Robert Westall
Best Price: $3.95
The chilling story of the Graveyard shift is a story you must read. It is a creepy tale written...
Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Adrenaline)Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Adrenaline)
Best Price: $4.00
Note: I heard the audiobook version. "Horror" covers a lot of ground and so does this...
RipperRipper

Modern Gothic: A ReaderModern Gothic: A Reader
This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the...
Mummy StoriesMummy Stories
Best Price: $6.50
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the SupernaturalArbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
Best Price: $80.33
It's hard to imagine a better collection of horror stories, with chilling tales by Edgar Allen...
Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the BrontesGothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontes
Best Price: $56.00
 
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