Spooky Season

A haunting selection for this Halloween

With Halloween soon upon us, our specialists have compiled an autumnal list of spine-chilling items. The books in this list span nearly half a millennium, and among them you will find accounts of ghosts, ghouls and goblins, as well as items that evoke a more general sense of spookiness.

Spooky Season

Catalogue

The Dreamer's own Book; or a complete interpretation… 1850.

Explicatio Apocalypsis Iohannis Perspicua & brevis, 1575.

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion, 1818.

Northanger Abbey. [and:] Persuasion, 1854.

In Frankenstein's Shadow Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-century Writing, 1987.

An Arabian Tale, From An Unpublished Manuscript: with… 1786.

More Spook Stories, 1934.

English Legends, 1950.

Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962.

Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, 1873.

Naked Lunch, 1962.

American Ghosts & Old World Wonders, 1993.

Black Venus, 1985.

Libellus de morte et vita aeterna, editio postrema.… 1590.

The Tragedie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, 1930.

Mutant 59 the Plastic Eater, 1971.

A Maze of Death, 1972.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.

Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1913.

The Demon Lover, 1927.

Too Many Magicians, 1968.

"K" is for Killer, 1994.

"C" is for Corpse, 1986.

Magica de spectris et apparitionibus spiritum de vaticiniis,… 1632.

Oda Takeo in Niigata, 1980.

Night Fears and Other Stories, 1924.

I want to spend the rest of my… 1997.

Magic Lessons, 2020.

Practical Magic, 1995.

Asubesutokan Tsushin [Message from the Asbestos Hall], 1989.

Crow. From the Life and Songs of the… 1970.

A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904.

More Ghost Stories, 1911.

A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost… 1925.

Logan's Run, 1968.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1929.

The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, 1889.

Threshold, 1980.

The Invincible, 1973.

Poems, 1812.

Tales of Wonder, 1801.

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