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| A Ghostly Little Book published by Viking Books is a very classy-looking clothbound-hardback featuring five highly accomplished writers, Olga Ravn, Eliza Clark, Roddy Doyle, Helen Oyeyemi, and Tom Crewe. These are new, specially commissioned ghost stories with a modern edge, and we’re in good (creepy and skeletal) hands with these exceptional writers. |
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| Unhallowed Gifts published by Dead Ink Books and edited by Dan Coxon brings together twelve writers on the theme of cursed gifts. Drawing on the tradition of W.W. Jacob’s 1902 horror story The Monkey’s Paw, these stories reckon with the devastating bad luck brought on by the posession of haunted objects and curios. The writers featured in the collection are Paul Tremblay, Charlie Higson, Evelyn Hollow, Eric LaRocca, Daisy Johnson, Laura Purcell, Jeremy Dyson, Muriel Gray, Robert Shearman, Lucie McKnight Hardy, John Langan, and Matt Hill. |
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| The latest collection from the British Library Tales of the Weird series has been put together by Dr. Janette Leaf and takes the elusive figure of the domestic cat as its theme. Balancing lesser-known names with household ones, this collection of stories includes Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, L. Ron Hubbard and Dorothy L. Sayers, amongst many more. |
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| Another beautifully-produced hardback from Dead Ink Books, Beasts of England is a collection of new folk-horror stories by contemporary writers including Lucy Rose, Naomi Booth, and Jessie Elland. With a special emphasis on place and local knowledge this collection edited by Nathan Connolly seeks to haunt the peculiarities and specificities of the hyperlocal. |
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| If there is such a thing as a celebrity mortician, Carla Valentine fits that bill. Having spent her gap year working as an embalmers assistant, and now working as a pathology museum curator, I can think of no-one more qualified to guide us through a variety of bone houses. The Language of Bones takes readers on a journey through different ossuaries and catacombs in the UK and central Europe through a mixture of scientific fact, historical knowledge, and human interest stories. |
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| In Worlds of Fear and Wonder, literature’s resident witchcraft expert presents a deep dive into the history of the supernatural in the Western world, from Medieval times to the present day. Gaskill’s keen historian’s eye encompasses Spiritualist mediums, Catholic saints, and modern megachurches, ghosts, charms, seances, curses, and of course, witches. |
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| I am a huge fan of Oliver Jeffers picture books- they are always so beautiful to look at whether you’re an adult or a child. There’s a Ghost in this House combines his illustrative style with a haunted house story that makes for the perfect October read, in my humble opinion. |
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| A second installment of (not so) spooky tales from Jeff Kinney. Aimed at 9-12 readers, Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2 is a collection of silly stories in the same vein and style as Diary of the Wimky Kid. In the collection, you’ll be met with monstrous insects, a tale about the Grim Reaper as a child, and a lost pinkie finger desperately searching for it’s owner. |
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| The Haunted Playground is a place for ghosts, not children. There are even signs to say so. And yet, along come Jo and Lulu who are not afraid in the slightest of ghosts, it seems. This is a really fun picture book that makes ghostsly figures seem a lot less scary after all. |
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