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Yorkshire: a land entwined with a distinctive tradition of uncanny literature and folklore, home to twilit towns thronging with restless ghosts, woods alive with the whispers of fairies and vast moorlands stalked by boggarts and barghests after dark.

Exploring Yorkshire’s position as a heartland of British supernatural fiction, the stories and poems gathered here trace its weird literary heritage from medieval tales of shapeshifting spirits to the Gothic worlds of the Brontë sisters, and from wartime hauntings to modern folk horror. Including local legends from rare sources and unsettling stories, this collection, edited by , offers glimpses of a stranger England hidden among the shadows of the dales.

Haunted Yorkshire: Ghostly Tales from God's Own County is available online and in store today.

Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad!' But how great, when that form is an exquisite version of Wuthering Heights? 📕

Presenting our two-volume first edition facsimile of Wuthering Heights (1847), with covers typical of the era. It also includes a first edition facsimile of Emily Brontë’s own copy of Poems (1846), the ground-breaking poetry collection she published alongside her sisters Charlotte and Anne, faithfully reproduced with handwritten notes.

Available for pre-order now.

A pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treasury. A beloved vicar contemplates a perfect crime when a blackmailer comes knocking. Poisoned pen letters lead to a fall from grace for a rector’s wife, and a suspicious fall from the second storey for the rector.

Gathered here in this new collection are some of the greatest mystery tales in which the tendrils of crime steal into the churchyard, featuring clergymen and nuns as victims, amateur sleuths and villainous perpetrators of the devil’s work. This anthology delivers cosy brainteasers and fiendishly-fashioned stories with a sting in the tail, from a congregation of writers including Joyce Porter, H. C. Bailey, Cyril Hare and Edmund Crispin.

Puzzles of the Parish is out now. Available online today.

I looked down and saw the pure white mist tracking the outline of the river like a shroud… I saw under a grey sky a country that was still all mystery.

From the peaks of Eryri to hidden valleys and haunted mines, the storied landscapes of Wales have inspired centuries of myth and folklore. Over time, these tales of the unexplained and the Otherworld have formed a unique strain of weird fiction.
Delving into this rich vein of uncanny literature, Aaron Worth returns with twenty tales telling of eerie encounters with ghosts, dragons, fairies, sin-eaters, Mabinogion-inspired sorcerers and primeval gods.

With classics by Dylan Thomas and Arthur Machen alongside rarities from Margiad Evans, Christianna Brand and many more, this volume invites you to tread the paths of a Cymru overcast by the shadow of the strange.

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“He looked up at the picture rail… and there was the hand.” ✋📖

Tales of the ghostly, possessed and disembodied hands creeping through the history of weird fiction. Prepare to enter a world of nightmares with Beasts with Five Fingers. Gothic dread, uncanny horror and the slow tightening grip of terror in every story: perfect for readers who like their fiction strange, sinister and impossible to shake.

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Celebrating our 150th Crime Classic today, The Unicorn Murders.

Sir George Ramsden returns to Britain from France with the mysterious “unicorn,” but legendary thief Flamande has vowed to steal it, disguised on the very same flight. His rival, Gasquet of the Sûreté Nationale, promises to stop him.

Meanwhile in Paris, ex-spy Kenwood Blake is pulled into a dangerous chase with Evelyn Cheyne that leads to a stormy night at Château de l’Ile, where Ramsden’s plane makes an emergency landing. Trapped by rising floodwaters, a deadly game of disguise and deception unfolds, until an impossible murder turns everyone into a suspect and the truth of the unicorn finally comes to light.

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What exactly can a shed be? 🤔

A throwback to our earliest shelters, sheds are part hideaway, part workshop, part thinking spot. Whether they’re tucked at the end of a garden, perched on wheels or quietly unconventional, they become whatever their owners need them to be, filled with tools, passions and ideas.

Uncover how these small spaces have sparked big thinking, from inventions and literature to art and philosophy. The Philosophy of Sheds is available online and in store today.

Where once a Romano-British settlement sprawled across the hills in the north of England, there lies a modern town. Its fate veers towards the uncanny when a discovery is made beneath the old town hall.

When the skeleton of a woman, found buried along with a mysterious tablet bearing a cryptic message comes into the possession of the university, the vengeful grip of a long-buried curse pushes the town towards a night of flames and carnage.

Our latest Tales of The Weird, The Luck of the Town is out now. Available online and in-store today.

Elusive, rare, and steeped in myth… 🦄✨

The Little Book of Unicorns has arrived, tracing the story of this most enchanting creature, from classical texts and travellers’ tales to its place in medieval symbolism and beyond.

A symbol of purity, love, and healing, the unicorn has captured imaginations across centuries, and across cultures, from the Chinese qilin to the unicorns of twenty-first century fantasy novels.

The ‘animal that never was’ continues to inspire…and this little book is a celebration of its magic. Available online and in store today.

Senior History Master Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as a criminologist and sometime sleuth. But with the papers shouting of the crimewave sweeping the seaside resorts of England, sending him to the coast to recover is too risky for the Headmaster – he will be much further from trouble in the inland spa resort of Buddington.

But before long Buddington is rocked by a twisted double-murder. Perhaps things are looking up for the curious Deene?

Our latest Crime Classic, Jack on the Gallows Tree is out now, online and in store.