Ann Radcliffe First published in 1797, The Italian is Ann Radcliffe's classic creation of Gothic romance. Set against the backdrop of the Holy Inquisition, the narrative revolves around the sinister...

F Paul Wilson “Something is murdering my men.”Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent,...

Washington IrvingIn The Sketch-Book (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating...

Sarah WatersOne postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is...

Andrew Michael HurleyTwo brothers. One mute, the other his life long protector.Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the...

Shirley Jackson This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic stories of the twentieth century, and an...

Jack Gantos There is nothing strange about being attached to your mum. But the elderly Rumbaugh twins have got a seriously bad case of mother love. When Ivy makes a...

Dean KoontzShe had appeared out of nowhere...in the middle of traffic, on a busy day, in front of Carol's car. A teenager with no past, no family - and no...

Franz Kafka"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were...

Karl Ove Knausgaard The breathtaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of My Struggle'Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.' New York TimesOne long night in August, Arne and Tove...

Edgar Allan Poe The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity...

Edgar Allen PoeA stowaway aboard the New England whaler Grampus, young Arthur Gordon Pym finds himself an unwilling passenger on an extraordinary voyage. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, first published...