Crime and Thriller
The House that Horror Built
A woman working in the house of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets, from the author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman.
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All Hallows
Perfect for fans of Stephen King and the 1980s nostalgia of Stranger Things. A gripping suburban nightmare from the New York Times-bestselling, Bram-Stoker Award-winning master of horror fiction.
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The Mysterious Affair Of Judith Potts
*Pre-order the brand-new gripping novel in the Marlow Murder Club Mystery series now!*
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And He Shall Appear
'As stunning as it is unsettling. A contemporary gothic masterpiece' KATY HAYS
'A beautiful and haunting examination of toxic friendships' HEATHER DARWENT
'Darkly glamorous'Guardian
A DAILY MAIL BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025
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A Neighbour's Guide to Murder
'A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping. Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a league of her own.' Lisa Jewell 'Tense, clever and bitingly observed. Superb' Claire Douglas 'a taut, deliciously twisted tale with sting after sting... Just brilliant' John Marrs 'Sensationa
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Nightshade
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Detective Stilwell gets a report of a body found wrapped in plastic and weighed do
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Last Chance
A totally gripping thriller of contract killers and geopolitics from beloved million copy bestseller Stephen Leather.
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Darkrooms
A darkly compulsive debut thriller for fans of Tana French, Chris Whitaker and Colin Walsh, Darkrooms explores the insidious, cyclical power of the past on the present
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Best Offer Wins
House hunting is a special kind of hell... Get ready to be gripped by the darkly funny and unputdownable new domestic thriller, perfect for fans of How to Kill Your Family and Yellowface.
'Not since Gone Girl have I been so gripped by a narrative voice' Alex Michaelides, bestselling author of The Silent Patient
'Darkly satirical
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Don't Let Him In
He’s the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart. And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with. And you realise - if you looked back - you’d say to yourself: DON’T LET HIM IN.
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Chill Tidings
'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 and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door.Welcome to a new collection of Christmas nightmares, ushering in a fresh host of ghastly phantoms and otherworldly
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Haunters at the Hearth
"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wives' tale, but-well, these old houses-you hear strange things-" He lifted his shoulders and stared into the fire..."From the troves of the British Library collections comes a new volume for Christmas nights-when the boundary between the mundane and the unearthly is ever so thin-ushering i
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Crawling Horror
'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him.'A brush with a killer hornet upends a reverend's life. A moth wreaks a strange vengeance on an entomologist. Bees deliver a supernatural dilemma to a mother-to-be. This new anthol
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Holy Ghosts
"I confess I have a particular dislike to remain in a church after dusk; it recalls to my mind the most painful story I ever heard."A festering evil lurks in the grotesque carvings of a cathedral's hallowed inner sanctum; sheltering in an Alpine chapel, a young libertine confronts his eerie monastic doppelganger; locked in a Spanish cathedral, a honeymooning couple bears witness to a fatal process
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Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird
From the fungus-webbed House of Usher to the maddening, fungus-like wallpaper of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's classic tale of madness, and Ray Bradbury's account of insidious mushroom dispersal via the US postal system, weird fiction has harboured a thriving culture of fungal horrors throughout the past two centuries.
With stories of mycological possession alongside dark, pulpy science fiction mo
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All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow
Step right up to see the enchanted Ferris wheel whose magical gifts are to die for! Marvel at the man-eating menagerie and dreadful secrets of 'Satan's Circus'! Behold the nightmare waxworks of Mrs. Groby's Chamber of Horrors!
Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of horror cinema, but in the realms of literature, there is a strain of uncanny fairground fiction
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The Human Chord
When Robert Spinrobin, drifting through life in a daydream, answers a newspaper ad asking for an imaginative tenor with a grasp of ancient languages, he soon finds himself travelling to rural Wales and the home of ex-clergyman, Philip Skale. Here Skale, the housekeeper Mrs. Mawle and her niece, Miriam, have been pursuing a new science, harnessing sound to discover the true names of people - and re
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Fear in the Blood
Timothy followed, in his dream, and saw the ungainly, yet agile creature clamber in through the cat-flap… He could hear the flip-flop as it went up the stairs, and he woke himself, screaming, in a tangle of sheet and blanket.On Sunday night the dream was even worse.Through eighteen dark tales bubbling with the ghostly and the occult, Mike Ashley traces the phenomenon of families in which a talent
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The Haunted Trail
A remarkable blood-soaked stranger upends the lives of two Lake District ramblers; a lonely tavern offers its guests something much more disturbing than a post-walk pint; a night hike on the Fens takes a terrifying turn when the fog rolls in.
From the darkly humorous to the chillingly sinister, tales of the haunted trail are as old as time. We have always travelled on foot and our worst fears
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