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

Model of the Prison and Holy Office of… 1829.

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

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1929.

The Monk: A Romance, 1807.

A Vampire, 1900.

A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919.

Skeleton of the great Elk, 1825.

Report of the Trial of Peter Heaman and… 1821.

Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962.

[Japanese funeral customs], 1860.

An Arabian Tale, From An Unpublished Manuscript: with… 1786.

Kappa aijo-ki [Kappa love story], 1948.

The Demon Lover, 1927.

Vathek, Conte Arabe, 1787.

The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, 1794.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.

Explicatio Apocalypsis Iohannis Perspicua & brevis, 1575.

Night Fears and Other Stories, 1924.

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.

Gekko Zuihitsu [Gekko’s Miscellaneous Jottings], 1896.

A Full Account of the Proceedings in Relation… 1701.

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

Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion, 1818.

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