Classic Horror & Ghost Stories

Relish a brief encounter with Bram Stoker, master of Gothic horror, in this chilling tale and other stories that serve as a doorway into the dark world of Dracula. Step into the night where tombs lie open and wolves prowl under a cursed moon. A solitary traveller strays from the road on the eve of Walpurgis Night. Snow closes in,...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Edith Wharton, grande dame of American letters, in these spectral tales of longing, loss, and the uncanny. Edith Wharton's ghost stories whisper of passion, exile, and the things we cannot forget. In an old Dorset house, a couple settle into a life of quiet comfort — until a presence makes itself felt. At a country...

Their arrival could mean the end of everything...The remote, isolated village of Withered Hill is rocked by unexpected visitors, a film crew hoping to make a low-budget horror movie.Despite the villagers' misgivings, the small crew insists on staying, desiring to put their plans for the film Twisted Pike into action.They are not in Withered Hill by accident. But they are...

Winner of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award and the International Impact Book Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement in Contemporary Fiction: Supernatural Suspense! In La Llorona: The Awakening, award-winning novelist Mary Romasanta reimagines one of Latin America's most enduring legends through the lens of psychological suspense, grief, and modern technology. The house is quiet now. Mi-Ra is drowning in sorrow....

Gothic Dementia: Troubled Minds in Gothic Timelines introduces Gothic studies as a valuable lens through which to critically consider how we think about dementia. It argues that the Gothic's foundational narrative techniques can model approaches to similar dementia symptoms, such as chronological confusion, fragmentation, cyclical storytelling, repetition, unreliable narrators, unstable identities, uncanny behaviours, and Otherness. If we can navigate these...

It had taken, at most, three seconds for the elevator to pass downwards from the sixteenth to the twelfth... Mr Meldrum had ceased to be, and something hideously different took his place. A man convinced that he has developed a phantom beak edges towards a terrible metamorphosis. Interlopers dismissing the superstitions of hare-women in the countryside pay for their scepticism...

Oh! Grandmamma, do tell us a story a nice, horrible ghost story. A trip to the dentist becomes a ghoulish ordeal on Christmas Eve. Blood spilt over a Christmas wedding begets a ghostly vengeance. In the dark of a mine, an elemental spirit claims its Yuletide sacrifice. The Christmas ghost story is a cornerstone of supernatural writing, with a legacy...

This luxurious hardback compendium showcases the very best of the cosmic horror genre through 10 classic tales, beautifully presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers, and cover embossing. The Necronomicon is a fictional book of dark magic that appears in several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories. With its ancient evils and long-forgotten secrets, it symbolises the essence of cosmic horror...

This exquisite gift edition compiles Lovecraft's iconic Cthulhu mythos tales, featuring a silver embossed cover, ivory pages, and gilded edges. From The Call of Cthulhu to The Shunned House, these stories showcase Lovecraft's vivid imagination, offering terrifying rituals and grotesque comedies that reshaped horror literature in the 20th century. A luxurious treasury, perfect for classic fiction enthusiasts, part of the...

In this chilling tale, Lieutenant Thornhill vanishes after visiting Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls, unveiling gruesome mysteries in London. Todd's apprentice Tobias faces abuse and terror as the barber's behaviour grows more sinister. Menace and murder lurk as criminals operate in plain sight. Adapted by Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd remains a British horror classic, with its iconic villain enduring....

This beautiful jacketed hardback edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, is strikingly presented with specially-commissioned, full-colour illustrations by Kim Ekdahl. Frankenstein - or, The Modern Prometheus - is considered to be the earliest example of science fiction ever written. It tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein and the catastrophic consequences of his attempts to reanimate human remains. The...

Antigone can see death coming. Same as all the women in her family, death always takes the form of a black dog, nipping at the heels of the soon-to-be-departed. Only forty years old when her own black dog appears on her doorstep, Antigone isn't frightened. Instead, she welcomes her death inside, and watches it make itself at home on her...

A comprehensive collection of the mysteries, dread figures, poetry, and horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line. Featured in these pages are Edgar Allan Poe's best-loved and most-feared literary creations: the clever C. August Dupin, precursor to Sherlock Holmes; the terrifying ghouls of Tales of...

Sheridan Le Fanu's queer Gothic pre-Dracula vampire tale, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Gilded Editions line. Laura's sheltered life in Austria is forever changed by the arrival of Carmilla, a beautiful and enigmatic stranger whose obsession with Laura is both sensual and destructive. A foundational and unconventional work of vampire literature that...

Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares. A Penguin Classic For millennia, societies have told tales of their fears incarnate—otherworldly couriers of plague, death, temptation, and moral decline. The Penguin Book of Demons summons these supernatural creatures—and the humans who have hunted and been haunted by them—across cultures and continents:...

WINNER OF THE 2026 LOCUS AWARD - BEST FIRST NOVEL NOMINATED FOR 2025 NEBULA AWARD - BEST NOVEL 'Slow, haunting and strangely beautiful' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Read it and be changed' B. PLADEK 'Beautifully told in rhythmic, singing prose' RORY POWER 'Masterfully crafted ... Theodoridou has an amazing talent for storytelling' ASSOCIATED PRESS Something terrible has happened. In...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen... but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas figures of all? Not all children fear just a lump of coal in their stocking. Discover the terrifying Yuletide fables that have horrified children for generations with this stunning leather-bound edition of the Christmas best-seller. He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows...

I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik! A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer Christine Daaé. Under his guidance, her singing rises to new heights and she is triumphantly acclaimed. But Christine is also loved by Raoul de Chagny,...

Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek: The story of a...

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...

"I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain." In this intriguing literary fragment—published seventeen years after Bram Stoker's most famous novel—an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal on Walpurgis Nacht: the night when, according...

A haunting collection of short stories from famed Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Nine spine-tingling stories from the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Mournful cries in an ice-bound sea, a potion that allows the user to commune with ghosts, an Egyptian priest who cannot die, and a mesmerist of unrivalled power. Brace yourself for these and other chilling encounters...

The mummy that started it all... A chilling addition to the acclaimed Haunted Library of Horror Classics series, complete with annotations and extra materials. Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into...

While engrossed in an account of the death of a student obsessed with his own hair, a man leans down to absently pet his dog—oblivious of the true nature of the creature crouching beside him. This classic ghost story by M.R. James is a spooky holiday delight. The Diary of Mr. Poynter captures the eerie and suspenseful essence characteristic of...

'A gothic masterpiece and a devastating exploration of humanity's capacity for evil' Sunyi Dean, author of The Book Eaters The Black Hunger is a phenomenal book full of rich historical detail, occult mysticism, and slow, creeping horror... a triumph' Thomas D. Lee, author of Perilous Times John Sackville will soon be dead. Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell...

Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it's because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems and ballads with...

'A bawdy burlesque' Guardian A collection of witty, transgressive tales from the great Enlightenment thinker, best known for his inimitable blend of philosophy and scandalous sexuality. The Marquis de Sade's fiction has electrified generations of readers and earned him a scandalous reputation. But Sade was a moralist above all. In these baroque, salacious tales, aristocrats are caught in a web...

Experience Bram Stoker's timeless masterpiece like never before with the Dracula Deluxe Hardbound Edition. Immerse yourself in the chilling tale of the vampire count and his nocturnal reign of terror. This beautifully crafted edition features a luxurious hardcover binding, making it a perfect addition to any collector's library. Features include: Stunning cover design Perfect for horror enthusiasts Timeless classic Features...

Available for the first time in trade paperback, the fourth of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction, horror, and the fantastic. William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. His...

H. P. Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness. This mastery of weird and unspeakable terror is underpinned by the writer's sizeable contribution to Gothic fiction. This new collection of Lovecraft's stories is the first to concentrate on his Gothic writing and includes tales from the beginning...

Carmilla (1872) is a novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Published twenty-six years before Bram Stoker's Dracula, Le Fanu's work of Gothic horror and mystery is considered an important early entry in the genre of vampire fiction. Recorded in the casebook of Dr. Hesselius, a medical professional with a detective's sensibility, is the story of Laura, a teenager bearing a...

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • As the Civil War looms, a young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost in this “poignant story of love, family and friendship [that] celebrates the power of liberation” (People). “An enrapturing tale of survival . . . Eckstine has poured a ton of heart into her characters.” —The...

A collection of the stories of Algernon Blackwood, precursor of Lovecraft and early master of weird fiction and uncanny horror. Lavishly illustrated by the celebrated graphic artist Paul Pope. Algernon Blackwood was one of the first true masters of horror and weird fiction. This deluxe oversized slipcase hardcover, illuminated by illustrations from the brilliant designer and graphic storyteller Paul Pope,...

I had desired it with an ardour... but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Consumed by the desire to discover the secret of life, Victor Frankenstein, a man with unremitting curiosity and hunger for knowledge, infuses a spark of life into the inanimate body created from stolen...

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror presents H.P. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror, science fiction, and the fantastic, which are among the most classic in all literature. His writing challenges readers, scares them senseless, and explodes the boundaries of the known. This stunning collection, illustrated in colour, brings to life some of his greatest, most profound works, including The Call...

I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The...

1899 Transylvania bleeds with history and evil. Young Solicitor Jonathan Harker braves ghosts, demons, living skeletons, and armies of rats as he encounters Dracula of Transylvania, the Son of Satan. The demonic, shapeshifting vampire imposes his wrath, malice, and vengeance upon an England about to enter the Modern Era, crushing everything in his path. A fresh, bold retelling of the...

It's easy to recognise Ocker as a future master of madness after this thrilling haunted house trip. - Fangoria Magazine Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them...

Vintage Minis bring you the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human - from birth to death and everything in between. A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to...

Agnes has been drifting away from herself. People look through her, her husband doesn’t understand her, and lately, she’s begun losing the sensations in her body. When a tube of shoplifted lipstick awakens her back to life, an impulse for stealing emerges that leads her to a court-ordered service at a camp for grieving children. Initially hoping only that the...

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of...

Life in seventh-century China teems with magic, fox spirits, and demons; there is a fervent belief that the extraordinary resides within the lives of both commoners and royalty. During the years when the empress Wu Zhao gains ascendancy in the Tang court, her evil-minded lover Xie becomes obsessed with finding and possessing the oracle bone, a magical object that will...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Stephen King, James created tales of understated horror that continue to transfix readers 80 years after his death. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 2 comprises graphic adaptations of...

Ghosts Revisited 3 by William P. Robertson is the third collection of his ghost stories, featuring 34 chilling tales from Pennsylvania and Western New York. Within these pages, you will encounter a witch, wailing babies, and a faceless phantom that lurk in creepy graveyards. Plane crash spectres shop at the Aliquippa Giant Eagle, too, while a Lady in White searches...

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age—thrills, spills, and chills perfect for Halloween. It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives—to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But...

Disturbing, exhilarating, potent, savagely funny.

A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautiful small-format hardback, perfect as a Halloween read or a Christmas gift. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth. It was dank, wet and gloomy; he couldn't wait to get home...

A story set in Prague that crosses the lines between the living and the dead. The great love of your life is dead, but that doesn’t stop him from communicating with you—or luring you to join him in the afterlife. To remain safe in this world, you accept the help of a professional medium who develops his own emotional agenda....

'It is almost impossible to put down' - Lisa Tuttle, GUARDIAN 'A stonking great slice of American folk horror: modern trauma layered with ancient evil' - DAILY MAIL The ranch was our dream home. Nestled in the arms of a valley below the Teton mountains, acres upon acres of wilderness, our nearest neighbours over a mile away... Beautiful, serene -...

THE DEAD CAN’T PUNISH PEOPLE – BUT THEY CAN SEEK REVENGE When composer Gideon Lake moves into his new apartment building, he becomes infatuated by his neighbour Kate Solway. After they begin a passionate affair, they travel to Europe to continue their fling in secret. But, when strange and unexplainable events start to happen, what should have been a romantic...

PENGUIN HORROR- A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. Joan Flower is long dead when she first appears to Samuel Fleming, a priest plagued by doubts about her and her daughters' execution for witchcraft. Did he do all he...

In the field of supernatural and fantastic literature, certain names come readily to mind – E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft – but the name of Fitz-James O’Brien has been unjustly overlooked and nearly forgotten since his premature death in 1862 during the American Civil War. The Diamond Lens, O’Brien’s most famous short story, can be regarded as a...

Tales of suspense for the twilight hour... Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland, with an air of historic authenticity – often referring to real events, objects and people. From a demonic text that leaves its readers strangled to the murderous spectre...

PENGUIN HORROR - A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. Like moths to a flame, people are drawn to Dower House. To see the estate in dappled sunlight, to feel the breeze blown in from the river, is to...

Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers an eerily captivating and accessible retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novel of murder and monstrosity. Evil Mr Hyde stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.Good Dr Jekyll keeps protecting him.Why? Is Hyde blackmailing Jekyll for some shameful past sin? Or is something stranger and more sinister going...

Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, a trove of iconic horror stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson, "the master of the haunted tale" (The New York Times Book Review). Featuring an introduction by A. M. Homes. One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A suspenseful magical realism novel about a mysterious teenage "go-between" who arranges meetings between the living and the dead, from multimillion-copy Japanese bestselling author Mizuki Tsujimura. I bring together the living and the departed. I am the go-between. When a young woman from Tokyo contacts the go-between to request a meeting with a deceased TV star who once...

Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her...

LIKE LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES? YOU'LL LOVE TOM MEAD'S JOSEPH SPECTOR SERIES! This gripping locked-room mystery sees Joseph Spector investigate his most sinister case yet: murderous machinations at a haunted manor house. A former First World War field hospital, the spooky old mansion at Devil's Neck attracts spirit-seekers from far and wide. Illusionist-turned-sleuth Joseph Spector knows the house of old. With stories...

Wales is a land with a vast wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night. Whether these tales are based on true events, or are the creations of active imaginations, is known only to those who have experienced them. What is certain is that their power to delight and...

Have you ever had the feeling that someone is pulling your strings, making you dance to their tune? Since the Smith case in Manhattan, Gavin Gregory, one of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit's best profilers, has had those feelings in spades. First it was Glacadairanam, the Wrath Child, who was the hidden hand manipulating his life, but in Miami, Gavin...

These six volumes of classic stories from the masters of the macabre are perfect for dark and spooky reading. This collection of dark and haunting stories is an essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone who enjoys classic literature and tales of horror. The six volumes in this boxed set include short stories from esteemed authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne,...

Ned works as a gravekeeper with his grandfather. Ned’s odd life is disrupted when graves are disturbed and an attractive young woman, Obedience Wellrest (Bede), starts visiting the cemetery. A mystery of science and magic unravels—and no-one is quite as they seem... The Undying of Obedience Wellrest by Nicholas Bowling invites readers into a world where the lines between reality...

When a young governess arrives at a remote and dreary country estate to take care of two charming little children, she is initially thrilled. However, the longer she stays, the more she realises that things aren't quite right. The children, while beautiful, are strangely distant, and she feels as if she is being constantly watched. When she witnesses the children...

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of...

For years, Dr. Victor Frankenstein labours to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scavenging body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature who, he believes, will worship him as a god. But when he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly brutishness of...

A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected supernatural mysteries by some of the masters of the Golden Age – thrills, spills and chills perfect for Halloween. It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we...

A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots and settings of Poe's dark, mysterious tales continue to haunt the popular imagination. This new selection introduces the greatest Gothic fiction from one of the...

A spine-tingling collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms-...

Aeons in the future, Earth's surface faces perpetual night after the failing of the Sun. Humanity is entrenched within the Last Redoubt, a colossal metal pyramid. Beyond the safety of its structure lurk countless unknowable threats.William Hope Hodgson's strange, visionary novel of humanity's struggle for survival in the eternal darkness of the future was first published in 1912, and is...

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...

I knew the site of the hut and the hill behind it up which I had rushed, and in the flickering glow the eyes of the rats still shone with a sort of phosphorescence.Beyond the genre-defining influence of Dracula, Bram Stoker was also a master of the short story form. This new collection of the author's tales represents his diverse...

Color the stuff of nightmares in Monsters of Myth and Legend Coloring Book.  Frankenstein, Dracula, and Medusa. Everyone knows the names of these terrifying figures from myth, legend, and media. In this spooky coloring book, you can make them vividly real! Fans of horror and mythology will love the unforgettable images of everyone's favorite monsters, waiting for an artistic, chilling...

What would you do if you found yourself in the world of the classic crime novel? How would you avoid being framed for murder or evade an untimely demise? Let classic crime expert Kate Jackson give you the tools to survive the golden age murder mystery.From dinner parties to detective interrogations, you'll need to know how to keep your wits...

The vampire is one of the great enemies of humanity, a nightmarish figure who feeds on the living in order to sustain themselves. Born from ancient folklore, writers in the nineteenth century gave form to the vampire as we know it today. Still haunting our subconscious in the twentieth century, a new wave of writers continued to develop the imagery...

Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock... and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura, now closely overhanging them, struck them with a new fear. Uncanny Ireland delves into Ireland's rich literary history, uncovering a vein of potent fantastic fiction. This collection...

A splash of something huge resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. This new selection offers the most chilling and unsettling of Hodgson's short fiction, from encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly forces from his inventive occult detective character Carnacki, the ghost finder. A master...

The fabric of Dorothy K. Haynes' weird fiction is truly the stuff of nightmares, where horrors cruel and mundane are interwoven with threads of dark fairy folklore and twisted witchcraft to deliver heady supernatural thrills. In this new collection, Haynes expert Craig Lamont presents the essential classics of her strange storytelling alongside rarities from obscure anthologies and magazines, and several...

"Where grow pines and firs amain, Under Stars, sans heat or rain, Chief of Hammand, 'ware thy Bane!" So goes the ancient rhyme of the Hammands, a family hounded for centuries by a ferocious beast whose visitations wreak death and disorder. Now, in the wake of the First World War, siblings Oliver and Swanhild are the last of the Hammands,...

The Platform Edge howls down the tunnels with a new collection showcasing the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which are republished here for the first time since their original departure. Waiting beyond the barrier are ghostly travelling companions bent on disturbing the commutes of the living. Experience a subway car disappearing into a different dimension...