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This is a book of book lists. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from...

...Lee is as dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent, which is saying a great deal. -- Henry James During her lifetime, Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee, was referred to as :the greatest of...

Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology...

On Mercury: How do you outrun the dawn and its lethal sunrise? On Jupiter: When humans transfer their minds into the local fauna to explore the surface, why do they never return? On Pluto: How long...

Chill Tidings: Dark Tales Of The Christmas Season (Tales Of The Weird)Author: Tanya KirkPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Aug 01, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage:...

Cornish Horrors: Tales From The Land'S End (Tales Of The Weird)Author: Joan PasseyPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage:...

Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird (Tales of the Weird)Author: D. ButcherPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage:...

Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales Of The Mathematical Weird (Tales Of The Weird)Author: Henry BartholomewPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: May 01, 2021Number of Pages: 304...

Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable remains unsolved and the rational mind is assailed by impossible questions. Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where safe answers...

From atop the choppy waves to the choking darkness of the abyss, the seas are full of mystery and rife with tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown. In this anthology we see a...

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 fulfill his revenge in Kensington, and a seance...

A cradle rocking itself in a dusty chamber; an echoing giggle from somewhere upstairs; the feeling of a small hand in yours in the wilderness of a misty moor. . . . From the haunting children of The...

A strange figure foretells tragedy on the railway tracks. A plague threatens to encroach upon an isolated castle. The daughter of an eccentric scientist falls victim to a poisonous curse. The stories...

Our Haunted Shores: Tales From The Coasts Of The British Isles (Tales Of The Weird)Author: Emily Napier, Jimmy Packham, Joan PasseyPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Nov 01,...

Promethean Horrors: Classic Stories of Mad Science (Tales of the Weird)Author: Xavier Aldana ReyesPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 240...

Queens Of The Abyss: Lost Stories From The Women Of The Weird (Tales Of The Weird)Author: Mike AshleyPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Nov 01, 2020Number of Pages: 320...

Randalls Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott (Tales of the Weird)Author: Eleanor. ScottPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Sep 01, 2022Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

Roarings From Further Out: Four Weird Novellas By Algernon Blackwood (Tales Of The Weird)Author: Algernon BlackwoodPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Jul 01, 2020Number of Pages:...

Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1850s to the 1960s. The traditional trappings of the holiday...

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 the spooky haunted houses of Victorian...

How many crime writers does it take to change a light bulb? A. Two. One to screw it most of the way in, and the other to give it an astonishing twist at the end. I slipped over in the library this...

Illustrated with beautiful images from the British Library's collection, The British History Puzzle Book will provide hours of entertainment and delight readers with questions for history novices to...

The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales Of Occult Detection (Tales Of The Weird)Author: MIKE ED ASHLEY|Michael AshleyPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: Sep 01, 2022Number of Pages: 288...

The Ghost Stories of M.R. James collects the tales that best illustrate the author's quiet mastery of the ghost story form. Running through each of these stories is a slowly escalating sense of...

Many writers in the early twentieth century particularly were fascinated by Pan as a figure of unbridled vivacity and pagan ecstasy, but also associated the god and folk hero with a sense of danger...

A mysterious radio signal reports cosmic doom from an otherworldly location. Photography and X-ray evidence suggests there may be some truth to a sculptor's claim that he has created a god. A...

Have you ever wondered about the difference between a lager and an ale? Or marveled at how, with only four basic ingredients, there are around 150 different styles of beer? In The Philosophy of Beer,...

The Philosophy of Tea (British Library Philosophy of series)Author: Tony GebelyPublisher: British Library PublishingPublication Date: March 01, 2020Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad but Whiskey! - Mark Twain From illicit distillation to worldwide export, whisky has a powerful and multi-faceted...

The splash from something enormous resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. . . Abandon the safety of the familiar with 10...