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

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

Oda Takeo in Niigata, 1980.

[Japanese funeral customs], 1860.

Report of the Trial of Peter Heaman and… 1821.

Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El… 1897.

Accident, 1965.

I want to spend the rest of my… 1997.

The Conchologist's First Book: a System of Testaceous… 1840.

Poems, 1812.

Vathek, Conte Arabe, 1787.

Naked Lunch, 1962.

The Lair of the White Worm, 1911.

An Arabian Tale, From An Unpublished Manuscript: with… 1786.

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

Tales of Wonder, 1801.

Sheet Music and Lyrics for Frankenstein, or The… 1888.

Logan's Run, 1968.

Death of a Salesman, 1949.

A Maze of Death, 1972.

The Invincible, 1973.

The Cross of Frankenstein, 1975.

Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk, 1977.

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

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

Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962.

Tales of Terror, 1983.

The KA of Gifford Hillary, 1956.

Too Many Magicians, 1968.

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.

Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1913.

Horrors Unknown, 1972.

Vittorio the Vampire, 1999.

Mutant 59 the Plastic Eater, 1971.

A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1902.

The Mysteries of Udolpho, a Romance, 1794.

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

Death and the Maiden, 1950.

More Spook Stories, 1934.

More Ghost Stories, 1911.

Northanger Abbey. [and:] Persuasion, 1854.

A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost… 1925.

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