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  • Dracula

    by Bram Stoker ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the world, an ancient creature bent on bringing his contagion to London, the very heart of the British Empire. Only a handful of men and women stand between Dracula and his long-cherished goal, but they are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. The respectable doctor's ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Zombies

    A Cultural History

    by Roger Luckhurst ...
    Zombies: A Cultural History, now available in paperback, sifts materials from anthropology, folklore, travel writing, colonial histories, long-forgotten pulp literature, B-movies, medical history and cultural theory to give a definitive short introduction to the zombie, exploring the manifold meanings of this compelling, slow-moving yet relentless monster. ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Graveyards

    A History of Living with the Dead

    by Professor Roger Luckhurst ...
    From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the problem of laying their dead to rest? Roger Luckhurst sets out in search of answers in this arresting book. Taking readers on an unforgettable tour ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Late Victorian Gothic Tales

    Edited by Roger Luckhurst ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' The Victorian fin de siècle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Shining

    by Roger Luckhurst ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Though the film opened to poor reviews, it has since become one of the most admired horror films in cinema history. Exerting an enormous influence on popular culture, The Shining has spawned a vast array of interpretations and conspiracy theories.Roger Luckhurst's illuminating study explores ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mummy's Curse

    The true history of a dark fantasy

    by Roger Luckhurst ...
    In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Time Machine

    by H. G. Wells ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...' At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Supernatural Horror Short Stories

    by Daniele Bonfanti, Carolyn Charron, E.E.W. Christman, Kay Chronister, Morgan Elektra, Matthew Gorman, Jason L. Kawa, Stephen Kotowych, G.L. McDorman, Michelle Muenzler, Cody Schroeder, Oliver Smith, Lucy A. Snyder, Mariah Southworth, Angela Sylvaine, Damien Angelica Walters, Desmond Warzel, Michaël Wertenberg, Trisha J. Wooldridge ...
    Series series Gothic Fantasy
    New Authors and collections. Following the great success of our Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror, Science Fiction, Murder Mayhem and Crime & Mystery this latest title crawls with the dark fingers of terror, the chilling sensation of another presence sitting alongside you while you read the tales of horror laid out before you. Contains a fabulous mix of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Claire Brock, Marwa Elshakry, Sujit Sivasundaram, Ralph O'Connor, Roger Luckhurst, Justin Sausman ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Claire Brock, Marwa Elshakry, Sujit Sivasundaram, Ralph O'Connor, Roger Luckhurst, Justin Sausman ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $225.99 USD

  • Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 5

    by Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Claire Brock, Marwa Elshakry, Sujit Sivasundaram, Ralph O'Connor, Roger Luckhurst, Justin Sausman ...
    This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD