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A Surprise for Christmas

Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas tree growing over a forgott...

330 Kč

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Who Killed Father Christmas?

The answer to any classic crime fiction fan's Christmas wish - and the only way for you to answer Who Killed Father Christmas? - this new anthology is...

363 Kč

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Murder After Christmas - Rupert Latimer

First published in 1944, Murder After Christmas is a lively riot of murder, mince pies and misdirection, cleverly twisting the tropes of Golden Age de...

297 Kč

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The Christmas Egg - Mary Kelly

Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Ta...

297 Kč

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The Philosophy of Christmas - Caroline Taggart

Take the Roman festival of Saturnalia, the gift-giving Norse god Odin and the Pagan habit of bringing evergreen plants into the house at Midwinter. Ad...

429 Kč

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Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

In the night the snow came. She awoke on Christmas morning in that unmistakable light, coming up from the earth and shining between her curtains.Celeb...

363 Kč

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Chill Tidings

''The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood.''The...

363 Kč

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Sunless Solstice

Another festive edition to the Tales of the Weird series, following on from Spirits of the Season and Chill Tidings.A unique selection ranging from th...

363 Kč

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The Santa Klaus Murder - Mavis Doriel Hay

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbu...

297 Kč

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Illusions of Presence

A beautiful collection of forgotten classic ghost stories to bring the eerie into Christmas, from the editor of the run-away Halloweird and ongoing be...

561 Kč

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Death in Ambush - Susan Gilruth

A classic country-house Christmas murder mystery light-hearted but with a clever mystery at its heart. A genuinely lost novel found in the British Li...

363 Kč

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Silent Nights

This book introduces readers to some of the finest Christmas detective stories of the past. Martin Edwards' selection blends festive pieces from much-...

297 Kč

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Mystery in White - J. Jefferson Farjeon

A new special edition of Sunday Times bestseller from British Library Publishing's genre defining Crime Classics series.Heavy snowfall brings a train ...

495 Kč

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Portrait of a Murderer - Anne Meredith, Anthony Gilbert

'Powerful and impressive ... there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. Sayers Adrian Gray w...

297 Kč

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The Philosophy of Board Games - Caroline Taggart

The author of The Philosophy of Christmas creates another 'stocking filler' for the festive season, telling the story of boardgames from ancient Egypt...

429 Kč

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Haunters at the Hearth

Â“But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wivesÂ’ tale, butÂ—well, these old house...

363 Kč

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The Philosophy of Puddings - Neil Buttery

Just what is a pudding? We all have our favourites, whether it is a school-dinner jam roly-poly with custard, or a Yorkshire pud with onion gravy, a B...

330 Kč

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Realms of Imagination

Featuring awe-inspiring illustrations and representing the gamut of fantastic creativity from Gilgamesh to Ursula K. Le Guin, from Beowulf to the Bron...

990 Kč

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Murder in the Basement - Anthony Berkeley

A novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 'whowasdunin?' mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author's most in...

330 Kč

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Julia Roseingrave - Marjorie Bowen, Robert Paye

This new edition of an overlooked classic, features a handful of Bowen short stories that chime with the dark themes of the main novella. A twentieth-...

330 Kč

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Sing Me Who You Are - Elizabeth Berridge

This is a timely reissue of a 1960s novel that deals with the lingering trauma of the Second World War and the dark secrets that families carry, as we...

330 Kč

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The Face in the Glass - Mary Elizabeth Braddonová

Fourteen dark tales from a popular novelist of the Victorian era A young girl whose love for her fiance continues even after her death; a sinister old...

330 Kč

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Doomed Romances

Indulging in the strangest eddies of literary love, this new anthology bids you enter a doom-laden yet irresistibly seductive corner of the Weird. Â“...

330 Kč

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Doorway to Dilemma

Tales from H. G. Wells, Frank R. Stockton, Lord Dunsany and moreÂ“The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am q...

363 Kč

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales - Edgar Allan Poe

A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the bea...

561 Kč

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The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson - William Hope Hodgson

A creepy collection of 10 unsettling horror stories from a master storyteller The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the ...

330 Kč

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The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu - Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjur...

561 Kč

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Weird Woods

Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic, and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you of...

363 Kč

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Halloweird - Mains Johnny

In the flickering candlelight of pitchy Autumn nights, malevolent spirits crowd the gloom and weird, terrible things come to pass. Ever since the days...

447 Kč

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Dead Drunk

Suddenly he tripped and fell his length over a prostrate body... he marvelled that so rough an impact should not have kicked a groan out of the drunka...

330 Kč

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The Outcast - E. Benson

The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare en...

330 Kč

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Circles of Stone

There was no sleep for him that night; he fancied he had seen the stone Â– which, as you know, was a couple of fields away Â– as large as life, as if ...

330 Kč

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Fear in the Blood

*Timothy followed, in his dream, and saw the ungainly, yet agile creature clamber in through the cat-flapÂ… He could hear the flip-flop as it went up ...

363 Kč

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The Uncanny Gastronomic

Â‘Well,Â’ he said, looking at the waiter and giving him a sly wink, Â‘all I can tell you is that I think it was pigÂ’s meat.Â’ Â‘You mean youÂ’re not ...

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Stories For Winter - British Library

Â‘This is, after all, the season of abandonment, of the suspension of vitality, a long cessation of vigour in which we must cultivate our stoicism. Ev...

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Into the London Fog - Edith Nesbitová, Sam Selvon, E.F. Benson, Bowen Elizabeth, Violet Hunt, Claude McKay, Charlotte Riddell, Rhoda Broughton, Lettic

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. A jilted lover returns as a demon to ...

363 Kč

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Playing with Fire - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of weird and supernatural suspense from Arthur Conan Doyle, the author best known for the creation of the illustrious detective Sherlock Holmes....

561 Kč

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Out of the Past

Â“Come inside, my bonny witch-finder. Here is shelter for theeÂ…Â” A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth century Ital...

330 Kč

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