Category: Book
The Fortunes of Olivia Richmond
Like the very best gothics, this story keeps you reading fervently to the very end, with plot twists to keep you up late into the night.
The Watkins Book of Urban Legends
Engaging and insightful, rekindling the joyousness in the contemplation of the “it’s true, I swear!” secondhand stories we all tell.
The Baykok
Frightful Folklore of North America: Illustrated Folk Horror from Greenland to the Panama Canal is available from Watkins Publishing.
Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India
This trek through the dark corners of India’s cultural imagination gives a layered, textured view of the supernatural world.
Lunacy
As a carefully cultivated horror story that resonates in the fear-laden recesses of modern life, Lunacy is a book to savour.
Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years
A charming visual guide offers the convincing case that the vampire genre tells us more about who we are than we may think.
Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences
With sleek production and sheer enthusiasm peppered throughout, this is an excellent companion to King’s own words on his craft.
The Watkins Book of English Folktales
This reissue, one of the most comprehensive on English folklore ever published, is a gift to the whole world, not just England.
Sick & Beautiful
A surreal psychodrama charged with urban decay and all the hopeless decadence a 21st Century audience could ever want.
Lingering
A psychological depth that pushes the meaning of ‘haunting’, urging readers to question the origins and nature of evil.
England On Fire
A enchanted wonderland to change the way you see England, not for showing anything new, but what has been there all along.
Kissing the Lizard
Justin David tells a touchingly twisted tale, a story with a spinning compass that won’t let you figure out where home is.
Soaking in Strange Hours
Teeming with macabre delights, Erik Hofstatter’s story is one that you don’t so much read as ravish.
The Unnatural History Museum
This window into Viktor Wynd's unknown world is an invitation to be disarmed and seduced by the strange, the forbidden, and the inexplicable.
Cromwell Stone
A spellbinding tale of forbidden knowledge, ancient otherworldly entities, strange cults, and alien worlds that lurk unseen on the periphery of our own.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol. II
While the tales are condensed, key dialogue and memorably nerve-jangling passages are retained. All are hauntingly effective.
Penny Dreadful: The Awakening #1
A huge deviation in tone from the derelict moodiness captured by director J. A. Bayona, despite some wonderful artwork.
Rare Breeds
A dark, terse and keenly paced little chiller that brims with unsettling ideas and nightmarish detail, subverting expectations.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Cuts to the core of the horror without ever diluting or compromising M. R. James’ carefully woven plots. Recommended for die-hard enthusiasts.
Prime Cuts: Vol. 2
A sardonic and entertaining chapter in an ambitious and bizarre adaptation, but disappointingly lacks allegorical meat.
Limbo
Ambitious and bizarre, Limbo is a hallucinogenic rollercoaster that takes giddy pride in disintegrating reality and reliability.
The X-Files FAQ
The X-Files FAQ is an enriching and accessible exploration of one of television’s most imaginative and popular shows.
Prime Cuts: Vol. 1
Rawly sketched artwork complements the abstract plot line, which will please the exploitation and pulp fiction aficionado.
The Art of Stephen Jones’ Horror
Horror relies on image to promote terror and bring hideous ideas to life.
The Blair Witch Project (Devil’s Advocates)
Successfully posits the film as one of the most influential titles in horror cinema history.
The Curse of Frankenstein (Devil’s Advocates)
A close analysis of Jimmy Sangster’s script and the differences between film and book.
Black Sunday (Devil’s Advocates)
Fascinating reading, further highlighting how groundbreaking Mario Bava’s film was.
Wake Up, Maggie
An audacious effort that should be given praise for its unrepentant Maggie, portrayed with fearless honesty and confidence.
Dead Funny
Dead Funny as a collective emphasises the quality, depth and audacity of British comedy, with an enormous amount of surprises.
The Motherless Oven
A cleverly-layered effort packed with satirical humour, with a universe so outlandishly odd it is frighteningly similar to our own.
Subversive Horror Cinema
An exhaustively researched, largely successful attempt to analyse the subversive qualities inherent in the horror cinema.
Halloween (Devil’s Advocates)
A joy to read; insightful and well researched, it serves as encouragement to return to Halloween once again.
Sheer Filth!
Sheer Filth was one of the more eclectic fanzines, covering not only cutting-edge exploitation but strange music and literature.
The Best British Horror 2014
Not all of the tales are memorable but overall The Best British Horror 2014 is an agreeable, worthwhile anthology.
Blackout
An incredible amount of humour, and the weird-for-the-sake-of-weird mentality is not just ballsy, but also highly entertaining.
All Roads Lead to Hell
Buchan excels at short and twisted love stories, but it’s Simmonds’ graphic artwork that makes the author's prose shine.
The Thing (Devil’s Advocates)
An excellent study in its own right, well researched, informative and intelligently written in a clear, presentable style.
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A read with huge amounts of intrigue; there are enough unanswered questions to leave the reader looking forward to part two.
London Falling
An interesting slab of urban fantasy, but while Cornell is incredibly talented at setting the scene, he isn’t as gifted in capturing dialect.
Deadbeats
An incredible amount of humour, some memorable characters, and contextualisation that adds extra depth.
Devil Bat Diary
As an independent piece of literature, it’s fun, original, and can stand on its own two legs aside from the movie.
Zombies At Tiffany’s
Fun, quirky and dark; this is a brilliantly authored piece of steampunk literature, and then some.
Brain Damage
A delightful piece of fan faction that packs some extra surprises; you can tell Martin enjoyed every second of writing.
The Graveyard Poet
Writer Steve Santini possesses no talent whatsoever, prompting the begging of life's most simple, yet profound question: why?
Knuckle Supper
An interesting and refreshing take on your standard toothy yarn, but the author lacks the ability to drive his purpose home.
How to Speak Zombie: A Guide for the Living
There are many zombie survival guides out there. But do any of them teach you how to speak zombie?