The Halloween shelf
Dracula. Frankenstein. Poe's Raven. The Headless Horseman. Jekyll and Hyde. The real books, never retellings, each with a note before every chapter so you never lose your way in the dark.
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The Raven and Tales of Terror · The Call of Cthulhu · The King in Yellow
Every one is the real book, never a retelling or a summary, with an introduction, a note before every chapter or story, a who's who and a glossary. Hardcover US$39.99 with the ebook included, paperback US$25.99, ebook US$15.99.
Whose diary, what day? A note before every chapter says.
The 1897 first-edition text, all 27 chapters. A who's who of over 50 entries and a glossary of over 400 terms, from paprika hendl to Mr. Swales's Whitby dialect. The introduction tells how Stoker found the name in a Whitby library.
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It began as a dare, in the year without a summer.
The 1818 text, as first published. Three voices, and a note before every letter and chapter saying whose you're in. Mary Shelley's own 1831 account of the dare is printed at the back.
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Nemo me impune lacessit. Now you'll hear the threat.
16 tales in full, The Raven, and Poe's own account of how he built it. The notes translate the epigraphs; a glossary of over 500 terms covers the rest. No note gives away an ending.
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In Sleepy Hollow, a "cow-boy" was a Loyalist cattle raider.
Thirteen complete stories: the Headless Horseman, Rip Van Winkle, The Devil and Tom Walker and more. A glossary of over 500 terms, oly koeks (fried sweet dough) and Hollands (Dutch gin) included.
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You know the name Jekyll and Hyde. Now read the mystery.
The 1886 text, plus The Body Snatcher, Markheim, Thrawn Janet and Olalla, every one complete, and Stevenson's essay on the dreams that gave him stories. Over 500 glossary terms, more than 170 of them for Thrawn Janet's Scots.
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Eldritch. Gibbous. Cyclopean. At last, you'll know.
Twelve stories in their 1920s magazine texts. A who's who and where's where of over 100 people, places, books and beings, and a glossary of over 200 terms. Read it with the lights low.
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The vampire tale printed as Byron's. He hadn't written it.
Both tales complete, plus Byron's own abandoned Fragment of June 1816, to read beside the tale it became. About 38,000 words: an evening or two, finished before the storm is.
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A play no one should read. Follow what Chambers lets slip.
The 1895 first-edition text, all ten stories, with a guide that gathers what the tales let slip of the forbidden play, from Cassilda's Song to the Pallid Mask. Over 200 glossary terms. Read it slowly, with the lights on.
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There really is water beneath the Paris Opera.
The first English translation of 1911, with a note before every chapter: where we are in the building, who's on stage, what to watch for. The introduction walks you through the real Opera. No opera knowledge needed.
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The novel read aloud in court against its own author.
Wilde's complete 1891 text with the Preface and all 20 chapters. A note before each flags the lines worth stopping on; over 350 glossary terms decode his London. A ghost story in evening dress.
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She's the only witness. Now you can weigh her word.
The 1898 text: the prologue and all 24 chapters, each with a note recording what the governess saw, what she concluded and what others said. It never tells you what to believe. You'll be arguing about it by the last page.
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Read a free sample of The Turn of the Screw →Each printed book is made for your order and ships within 14 days. In the US it usually arrives in about 3 weeks from your order; in Canada a little longer. Ebooks are emailed within 5 days, so if you want to read one this October, the ebook is the quickest way in. Your order confirmation gives the exact ship date, and if it looks as though we might miss it, we'll email you before it, and you can keep waiting or cancel for a full refund.
The Victorians told ghost stories at Christmas, and The Turn of the Screw begins that way: guests round the fire in an old house on Christmas Eve, trading tales until one of them promises a worse one. Sleepy Hollow's collection has its own snowbound night of ghost stories by the Baronet's fire. These are books for every long evening between now and spring, and a hardcover makes a Christmas present for anyone who likes their reading dark.
