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Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks
$16.99 Add to cartSuddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body… he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunkard…
With a stiff measure of the supernatural,- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Lock, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0712354093
- Language: English
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Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites
$16.99 Add to cartThere was no sleep for him that night; he fancied he had seen the stone – which, as you know, was a couple of fields away – as large as life, as if it were on watch outside his window.
The standing s- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Soar, Katy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 071235459X
- Language: English
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Mortal Echoes: Encounters with the End
$15.95 Read moreA strange figure foretells tragedy on the railway tracks. A plague threatens to encroach upon an isolated castle. The daughter of an eccentric scientist falls victim to a poisonous curse.
Yet for all- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Buzwell, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0712352813
- Language: English
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The Open Door: And Other Stories of the Seen & Unseen by Margaret Oliphant
$24.95 Add to cartDespite being a household name during the latter half of the 19th century, few today are aware of the thrilling tales of Margaret Oliphant, and yet they are ripe for rediscovery. From suspenseful haun… [more below]
- Series: British Library Hardback Classics
- Author: Oliphant, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0712353542
- Language: English
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Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird
$16.99 Add to cart‘What a terrible calamity, what a stupefying circumstance, if mosquitoes were the size of camels, and a herd of wild slugs the size of elephants invaded our gardens and had to be shot with rifles…’ … [more below]
- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Leaf, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0712353496
- Language: English
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The Uncanny Gastronomic: Strange Tales of the Edible Weird
$16.99 Add to cart‘Well, ‘ he said, looking at the waiter and giving him a sly wink, ‘all I can tell you is that I think it was pig’s meat.’
A brush with the mus
‘You mean you’re not sure?’
‘One can never be sure.’- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Stubbs, Zara-Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 071235428X
- Language: English
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A Children’s Literary Treasury
$29.99 Read moreFrom Louisa May Alcott to Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken to Catherynne Valente, magical stories for every feeling.
Great stories ignite a child’s imagination and can fill a childhood with unforgettable char- Author: James, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0712353976
- Language: English
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Can You Read This Book?: A Book of Nonsense to Twist Your Tongue to
$16.99 Read moreA new collection by the author of previous British Library title Swallowed by a Whale: How to Survive the Writing Life, this book challenges readers with impossible tongue-twisters and word-mangles in
- Author: Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0712354654
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Whisky
$16.95 Read moreThe true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad but Whiskey! – Mark Twain
From illicit distillation to worldwide export, whisky has a powerful and multi-faceted- Series: British Library Philosophy of
- Author: Abbott, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0712354557
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book
$24.95 Read moreThe British Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, large-scale surveys, and … [more below]
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0712352996
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Tattoos
$16.95 Read moreTattooing is an ancient practice with profound religious and cultural significance. While western tattooing centers on three main traditions – Polynesian, Japanese and Euro-American – it has been reco… [more below]
- Series: British Library Philosophy of
- Author: Miller, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0712353089
- Language: English
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I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R. Murray Gilchrist
$15.95 Read moreThrough vampiric trysts, heady visions of ghostly processions, and metaphorical tales of murdering one’s own psyche, the portrait of a truly unique writer of the strange tale emerges.
R. Murray Gilch- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Gilchrist, R. Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 02 2022
- ISBN10: 071235400X
- Language: English
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A Children’s Literary Christmas: An Anthology
$19.99 Read moreImmerse yourself in festive magic with this brand-new collection of the finest Christmas stories and poetry for children from some of the greatest writers in the English language. Inspired by the appr… [more below]
- Author: James, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0712352791
- Language: English
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Spirits of the Season: Christmas Hauntings
$15.95 Read moreFestive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1850s to the 1960s. The traditional trappings of the holiday ar… [more below]
- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Kirk, Tanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 071235252X
- Language: English
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The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson
$15.99 Read moreA creepy collection of 10 unsettling horror stories from a master storyteller
The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil i- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Hope-Hodgson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0712352333
- Language: English
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Playing with Fire: The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle
$26.99 Add to cartTales of weird and supernatural suspense from Arthur Conan Doyle, the author best known for the creation of the illustrious detective Sherlock Holmes. The next addition to the Hardback Classics series… [more below]
- Series: British Library Hardback Classics
- Author: Ashley, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0712354255
- Language: English
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Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood
$16.99 Read moreFour of the best novellas from one of the most underrated names in horror and weird fiction. Writers such as H. P. Lovecraft rated Blackwood as one of the very best writers of the genre. This title fe… [more below]
- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Blackwood, Algernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0712353054
- Language: English
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Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
$16.99 Read more‘The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.’
The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed a- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Kirk, Tanya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0712353232
- Language: English
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Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
$16.99 Add to cartUnlike the Gothic, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted, and the ghostly, early weird fiction tends to probe, instead, the very boundaries of reality, exploring the laws and limits of time, … [more below]
- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Bartholomew, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0712353682
- Language: English
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Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird
$16.95 Read moreFrom the ringing of a disconnected bell to footsteps in the halls of an abandoned house and the whisper of an unexplained voice in the ear, uncanny sounds are often the heralds of danger and terror in… [more below]
- Series: Tales of the Weird
- Author: Burz-Labrande, Manon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0712354174
- Language: English
