Results for: books tagged ‘Supernatural’
Darkness Visible: William Golding
Cold Hand in Mine: Robert Aickman
Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story ‘Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal’ won the Aickman World ... More
The Unsettled Dust: Robert Aickman
Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged ... More
Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories: Ivan Turgenev
Referred to by Henry James as ‘the first novelist of his time’ Ivan Turgenev’s works focus on class, love and suffering. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories with its themes ... More
Cat and Mouse: Christianna Brand
Tinka Jones needs to escape her London life and her job as a journalist. She decides to visit Amista, a friend that she has been writing to for some time. ... More
Hobberdy Dick: Katherine Briggs
Katherine Briggs’ story about the hobgoblin whose charge it is to protect and influence the unloving Puritan family who come to live at Widford Manor after the Civil War is a classic of English children’s writing. More
In a Glass Darkly: J. Sheridan Le Fanu, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
In a Glass Darkly is Sheridan Le Fanu's most famous collection of ghost and mystery stories. There are five, all recounted by Martin Hesselius: Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr Justice ... More
Element of Doubt: A. L. Barker
An academic is haunted by his dead colleague’s certainty; a tutor is confronted with an eight year old’s mortal secret and Aunt Selena’s dancing bear appears from beyond the grave. ... More
How to Paint a Dead Man: Sarah Hall
From Italy in the 1960s to Cumbria thirty years later, Sarah Hall's Booker-longlisted fourth novel, told through four narrators, is a fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives. More