Gothic Tales & Ghost Stories Bargain Book Box

Gothic Tales & Ghost Stories Bargain Book Box

A Dutch town where a seventeenth-century witch walks the streets with her eyes and mouth sewn shut, and everyone has learned to live around her. That’s HEX, and it’s one of the genuinely frightening books of the last decade.

The rest holds the line. Rosemary’s Baby, still the most unnerving pregnancy ever written, with an introduction by Chuck Palahniuk. Joe Hill’s story collection, including the one that became The Black Phone. Classic Japanese ghost stories in a beautiful edition. Silvia Moreno-Garcia doing sun-drenched Mexican noir. A gothic novel of old Shanghai, a haunted Milwaukee neighbourhood, and a Victorian governess who should probably have asked more questions before accepting the position.

Plus Monika Kim’s Sunday Times bestselling K-thriller, which is considerably nastier than its premise suggests and all the better for it.

Dread, atmosphere, and houses nobody should have moved into.

1. The Eyes Are the Best Part — Monika Kim | ISBN: 9781914240874 | RRP: $24.99
   The Sunday Times bestselling K-thriller — a Korean-American daughter, a family falling apart, and an appetite that becomes impossible to ignore. Body horror with genuine rage behind it, and a great deal to say about race, fetishisation, and family.
2. Rosemary’s Baby — Ira Levin | ISBN: 9781849015882 | RRP: $22.99
   With an introduction by Chuck Palahniuk. Levin’s masterpiece of domestic dread — a young wife, a Manhattan apartment building, and neighbours who take an unusual interest in her pregnancy. Still perfectly constructed, still deeply unpleasant.
3. Delicate Condition — Danielle Valentine | ISBN: 9781800818323 | RRP: $39.99
   A deeply unsettling thriller about a pregnant woman convinced someone is sabotaging her pregnancy — and that no one around her believes her. Taps into visceral fear with real precision and craft.
4. Verge — Nadia Attia | ISBN: 9781800810150 | RRP: $32.99
   A striking and atmospheric novel with a persistent undertow of unease. Nadia Attia writes landscape and dread as though they were the same thing.
5. The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories — Various | ISBN: 9781784878726 | RRP: $42.99
   A beautifully produced collection of traditional Japanese ghost stories — yūrei, vengeful spirits, and the particular quiet horror of the Japanese tradition. Elegant, eerie, and quite unlike Western ghost fiction.
6. Untamed Shore — Silvia Moreno-Garcia | ISBN: 9781529425802 | RRP: $24.99
   The sultry, sun-drenched noir from the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. A girl in a small Baja town falls in with wealthy foreigners and a corpse they’d rather not explain. Atmospheric and quietly vicious.
7. The Deception of Harriet Fleet — Helen Scarlett | ISBN: 9781529407549 | RRP: $45.00
   A Victorian governess arrives at a remote country house where the family guards a terrible secret and the previous occupant’s fate is never discussed. Classic gothic, expertly executed.
8. HEX — Thomas Olde Heuvelt | ISBN: 9781444793239 | RRP: $22.99
   A Dutch town haunted by a seventeenth-century witch whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut — and the townspeople who have built an entire surveillance system around her. Terrifying, original, and genuinely unputdownable.
9. The Black Phone and Other Stories — Joe Hill | ISBN: 9781399600033 | RRP: $24.99
   Previously published as 20th Century Ghosts. An outstanding collection from one of the best horror writers working, including the title story that became the film. Varied, inventive, and consistently excellent.
10. Masters of Death — Olivie Blake | ISBN: 9781035011537 | RRP: $22.99
    From the author of The Atlas Six — a vampire estate agent, a ghost who won’t leave, and a cast of immortals playing a very long game. Witty, strange, and considerably more emotional than it first lets on.
11. Love Is a Curse — Keith Stuart | ISBN: 9780751572995 | RRP: $55.00
    A spellbinding gothic love story from the Richard and Judy bestselling author of A Boy Made of Blocks. Haunted, romantic, and written with real emotional intelligence.
12. A Warm Heart in Winter — J R Ward | ISBN: 9780349427812 | RRP: $59.99
    From the author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a paranormal romance with vampires, winter, and the fierce loyalty her readers turn up for. Lush and completely absorbing.
13. Hampton Heights — Dan Kois | ISBN: 9780063358751 | RRP: $36.99
    One harrowing night in the most haunted neighbourhood in Milwaukee, following six teenagers selling newspaper subscriptions door to door in 1987. Funny, nostalgic, and then abruptly very frightening.
14. The Fourth Princess: A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai — Janie Chang | ISBN: 9780063308121 | RRP: $32.99
    Gothic atmosphere transplanted to 1930s Shanghai — family secrets, ghosts, and a city on the edge of catastrophe. Janie Chang writes historical China with real authority.
15. He’s the Devil — Tobi Coventry | ISBN: 9780008732875 | RRP: $34.99
    A dark and seductive novel about desire, danger, and the man you absolutely should not be alone with. Atmospheric and compulsively readable.
16. Bad Graces — Kyrie McCauley | ISBN: 9780008612344 | RRP: $22.99
    Survivors of a shipwreck stranded on an island that is not what it appears — and the thing moving between them. A tense, eerie survival horror with real emotional depth.
17. The Girl with a Thousand Faces — Sunyi Dean | ISBN: 9780008479503 | RRP: $34.99
    From the author of The Book Eaters comes another strange, dark, brilliantly conceived novel about identity and transformation. Sunyi Dean writes unsettling premises better than almost anyone.