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

A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919.

Mutant 59 the Plastic Eater, 1971.

Vittorio the Vampire, 1999.

Horrors Unknown, 1972.

Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.

Too Many Magicians, 1968.

The KA of Gifford Hillary, 1956.

Tales of Terror, 1983.

Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962.

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

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

Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk, 1977.

The Cross of Frankenstein, 1975.

The Invincible, 1973.

A Maze of Death, 1972.

Death of a Salesman, 1949.

Logan's Run, 1968.

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

Tales of Wonder, 1801.

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

An Arabian Tale, From An Unpublished Manuscript: with… 1786.

The Lair of the White Worm, 1911.

Naked Lunch, 1962.

Vathek, Conte Arabe, 1787.

Poems, 1812.

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

I want to spend the rest of my… 1997.

Accident, 1965.

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

Report of the Trial of Peter Heaman and… 1821.

[Japanese funeral customs], 1860.

Oda Takeo in Niigata, 1980.

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

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