Gothic Classics
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The best horror is Gothic horror. With Halloween coming up, AbeBooks.co.uk has teamed up with our friends at Penguin Red Classics to offer a very special competition prize to fans of the macabre.
We have a full set of the just-released Gothic Classics Series to give away to one lucky winner. The set features 10 first-class examples of Gothic horror writing with enough ills and kills to truly deliver chills and thrills. Bram Stoker, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre are included in the set.
The 10 classics have eye-catching black and yellow covers that make them jump off the bookshelf. "The inspiration for the jackets covers came from Romek Maerber’s two-tone covers for the 1960s Penguin Crime...indistinct lines was ideal for ghostly tales, while the bold graphic elements and colour scheme were selected for maximum visual impact," explained Penguin designer Coralie Bickford-Smith.
The Haunted Hotel
Wilkie Collins
A marriage, mysterious disappearances and a strange death fill the pages of this Victorian novel. A story of retribution beyond the grave and how the innocent are not always safe.
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The Spook House, Terrifying Tales of the Macabre
Ambrose Bierce
A little boy gets lost in the wasteland with nothing but his toy knife to defend himself with… This is just one of many victims in Bierce’s unsettling stories of death.
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Lois the Witch, and Other Stories
Elizabeth Gaskell
A tale of witch hunts, satanic powers, desire, and jealousy. Set in the town of Salem where the famous witch hunt of 1692 took place, Gaskell demonstrates the power and persuasive nature of community.
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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers, Excursions into Fantasy
Vernon Lee
The serial sinner Don Juan makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers to be saved from eternal damnation. However, during an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infants, he is called upon to uphold his side of the pact…
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The Beetle, A Mystery
Richard Marsh
A marriage, mysterious disappearances and a strange death fill the pages of this Victorian novel. A story of retribution beyond the grave and how the innocent are not always safe.
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The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
While the poor are ravaged with the pestilence known as the ‘Red Death’, Prince Prospero holds lavish parties in an abbey. Unbeknown to them, they are not as safe as they think from the horrors of the outside world.
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The Haunted Dolls’ House and Other Stories
M.R. James
In these terrifying stories the familiar turns into the unfamiliar, an innocent object can lead to unimaginable horrors and the dead are never forgotten.
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The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
A manuscript is found which details the story of an old recluse, his bizarre house and a second home on a plain where gods and monsters roam. The two homes begin to merge and his earthly home is besieged with creatures that boil from beneath the ground.
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The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories
H.P. Lovecraft
The arrival of a child with unusual parentage causes gossip among the community of Dunwich. But his arrival paves the way for something much more unsettling – a monster at night that destroys everything in its path.
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The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker
Adam Salton arrives at his grand-uncle’s estate and immediately senses that something is not right. His fears are confirmed when he discovers that something is living in the grounds which feeds on human flesh.
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