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  • Hunter Quatermain's Story

    The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain

    by H. Rider Haggard, Peter Haining ...
    Over a century after the debut of the intrepid hunter explorer Allan Quatermain in King Solomon's Mines, he remains one of the great heroes of literature whose adventures have been adapted for cinema and television. This new anthology brings to light a novelette and four short stories which have never been collected in one volume. Introducing the tales with a detailed resume of the author's life ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cat Compendium

    The Worlds of Louis Wain

    Edited by Peter Haining ...
    An in-depth biographical study, rare essays by and about Wain, and 60 of his best-loved illustrations make this a must-have for fans of the cult cat artistWith a wealth of Wain's most famous drawings, as well as rare writings by and about the artist, this is an ideal book for both Wain fans and cat-lovers in general. Louis Wain drew cats: cats playing poker, boxing, playing cricket, and doing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hunted Down

    The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens

    by Charles Dickens ...
    A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genreCharles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination, his detectives have had a profound effect on the development of crime fiction, and Dickens is now seen as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

    by Peter Haining ...
    Series Book 268 - Mammoth Books
    Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

    by Peter Haining ...
    Series Book 269 - Mammoth Books
    Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood.This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. It is just a little over a hundred years ago that the most famous literary ghost story, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Millionaire Mystery

    by Fergus Hume ...
    Series series Detective Club Crime Classics
    Fergus Hume was renowned as the bestselling mystery writer of Victorian times after his first book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, broke all records. In 1901 he returned to form with this ingenious tale, selected to represent Hume’s prolific output by Collins’ Detective Club panel in 1930.Cicero Gramp was, according to himself, a ‘professor of elocution and eloquence’ – to anyone else he was no more ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings

    by Peter Haining ...
    Series Book 270 - Mammoth Books
    This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Tintagel in Cornwall that led actress Kate Winslet to pull out of buying the property.It covers the full spectrum of credible hauntings, from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Spitfire Log

    Sixtieth Anniversity Tribune

    by Peter Haining ...
    Of all the airplanes that defended Britain during World War Two, none inspired as much affection as the Spitfire, the plane that became a symbol of courage and determination during the Battle of Britain. Today, over sixty years later, it is still one of the world's most loved planes. This splendidly illustrated tribute to the fighter and the men who flew her is essential reading. It brings ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Wrotten English

    by Peter Haining ...
    Following on from the hilarious collection of typos, gaffes and howlers in Portico’s A Steroid Hit the Earth, comes Wrotten English – a fabulously funny collection of literary blunders from classic, and not-so classic, works of literature. This book is an anthology of side-splitting authors' errors, publishers' boobs, printers' devils, terrible titles, comical clangers and all manner of literary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Night Stalks the Mansion

    A True Story of One Family's Ghostly Adventure

    by Constance Westbie, Harold Cameron ...
    Back by popular demand, a supernatural detective story revealing the true account of a house haunted by ghosts lingering after a nineteenth century murder.This true story recounts a Philadelphia family's encounter with a spectral presence in their eighteenth-century mansion. After experiencing footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and activity that centered around the library, the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haunted England: True Ghost Stories Part I

    by Mary Devey ...
    Like Ireland, England is filled with the ghosts of the ancient and the new. There are many ghosts which walk the English castles reliving their history time and time again. Then there are the phantom ghosts which walk the busy highways teasing the unwary and having a field day testing the nerves of the motorists who know not what to expect! For those who love the stories about the ancient ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This House Is Haunted

    by Hans Holzer ...
    Series Book 10 - True Encounters with the World Beyond
    Join paranormal expert and storyteller extraordinaire Hans Holzer as he investigates the most famous, and infamous, real-life haunted housesPerhaps no other paranormal situation captures our imagination more than a haunted house. The idea of sharing a home with the dead is unsettling for the current inhabitants, but according to professor Hans Holzer, it can be equally as upsetting to the ghost. ... Read more

    $6.29 USD