Search here for the macabre, the strange and down-right spine-tingling.
The 13 stories collected here are as varied as the characters that inhabit them, but all share a liveliness and strangeness that is unmistakably Gogolian. Illustrator Peter Suart brilliantly captures their characteristic blend of pathos and dark humour.
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It was in her shorter prose that Daphne du Maurier allowed a free rein to her remarkable imagination and no reader could fail to be caught by du Maurier’s sense of atmosphere and suspense.
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Mingling 19th-century anxieties with the oldest terrors of European myth, Dracula is one of the greatest of all gothic novels, and still has the power to chill the blood.
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One of the most influential novels of the 20th century, it is both a gripping thriller and an ingenious parable about the nature of civilisation.
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Oscar Wilde’s tale of the young man who sells his soul for eternal youth is one of the best-loved classics of the 19th century; its central image of the ageing portrait one of the most famous in all literature.
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The author of the mordantly comic Devil's Dictionary is also revealed as a superb short story writer in this new collection of 90 gripping gothic tales, introduced by Will Self.
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Kurt Vonnegut's black satiric voice exposes the cruelties and aberrations of the human condition in a book that takes its place alongside All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch-22 as one of the greatest anti-war novels ever written.
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Stevenson was a ruthless refiner of his stories - 'I am always cutting the flesh off their bones' - and his mastery of the form lies not only in his page-turning plots and immediacy of style, but in the vivid pictures he creates in the reader's mind.
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