Presents stories and poems that probe to the depths of the human psyche. This book includes the detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue ; the disturbing classic, The Fall of the House of Usher and the horrifyingly claustrophobic, The Pit and the Pendulum .

Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton's lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children - hopeful, yet hapless beings.

Gashlycrumb Tinies is available in hardback gift edition.

The second volume of Gorey's macabre and oddball verse, prose and black and white illustrations.

Everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies after they die. In this exploration into the macabre, Mary Roach tells a story that reaches from medieval pharmacies, stories of 19th century body snatching, to the present-day Body Farms, and conferences on human composting.

Contains stories including The Landlady , William and Mary , The Way up to Heaven , Parson's Pleasures , Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat , Royal Jelly , Gregory Progy , Genesis and Catastrophe , Edwards the Conqueror , Pig and The Champion of the World .

The finest works of H P Lovecraft, renowned as one of the great horror writers of all time.

Three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a palatial mansion perched precariously on a bluff.

Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born, he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves.

When a girl ventures through a hidden door she finds a secret world with shocking similarities to her own.

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead.

This story features a sickly boy named Donald, whose little pet white worm becomes a housefly. The anti-climatic ending to this story pokes gentle fun at the childhood encounter with butterfly metamorphosis.

Introducing Dexter Morgan, a serial killer to fall in love with...

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

Enter the world of Gormenghast, the crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. It is the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. This work is a sequel to Titus Groan .

Covers stories including Taste , Lamb to Slaughter , Man from the South , Dip in the Pool , Skin , Neck , Nunc Dimittis , The Landlady , William and Mary , The Way up to Heaven , Parsons Pleasures , Mrs Bixby and the Colonel Coat , Royal Jelly , Edward the Conqueror and Galloping Foxley .

* Newly re-covered reissue of the first volume of Anne Rice's celebrated Vampire Chronicles - a cult classic.

The eerie stories of Edgar Allan Poe remain amongst the most influential works of American fiction. The celebrated tales found in this collection include two of the finest detective stories - Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter - and others that will make your hair stand on end.