The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter
Igor Karash won the second House of Illustration/Folio Society Illustration Award for his work on Angela Carter's seminal retellings of fairy tales.
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Science Fiction and Horror
Chilling tales of ghosts and vampires, visions of the future in classic sci-fi and weird unexplained mysteries in the macabre – the Folio Society publishes a fantastic range of science fiction and horror books. Containing striking original illustrations as well as specially designed hardback bindings. See below for the full list of Folio Science Fiction and Horror books.
Complete Tales of the Unexpected
Roald Dahl
Utterly compelling, fantastically ingenious, disconcertingly plausible, Roald Dahl’s Complete Tales of the Unexpected is an unmissable treat for fans of the macabre.
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
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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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s classic envisages a dystopian future in which the job of firemen is to seek out books and burn them. In this edition, introduced by Michael Moorcock, Sam Weber’s astonishing illustrations perfectly capture the novel’s haunting atmosphere.
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The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov
Introduced by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. Drawing on contemporary politics, ancient history and mathematics Asimov's extraordinary science-fiction epic of the decline and fall of a Galactic Empire is as gripping as it is utterly unique.
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The Golem
Gustav Meyrink
First published in 1913-4, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina, the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum, puppeteers, street musicians and a deafmute silhouette artist.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
An award-winning edition of an award-winning novel, with artists Elena and Anna Balbusso receiving a Gold Award from The American Society of Illustrators for their depiction of the handmaids. The novel launched Margaret Atwood onto the international stage, winning her the inaugural Arthur C. Clarke award for science fiction.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams brilliantly combines science fiction with the finest tradition of English humour. In this, the first of his ‘trilogy of five’, he introduces Earthbound readers to Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, the Babel fish and the stolen Heart of Gold starship.
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In a Glass Darkly
Sheridan Le Fanu
In a Glass Darkly presents a series of five stories from the casebook of Dr Martin Hesselius, a physician interested in ‘metaphysical’ maladies. The acknowledged master of the supernatural genre, writer Sheridan Le Fanu's short stories blend elements of Gothic horror, Irish folklore and psychological realism with uniquely unsettling and convincing results.
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The Last Man
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley's apocalyptic story about a mysterious disease that devastates humankind is illustrated with paintings by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich.
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
One of our members’ most requested titles, The Master and Margarita is a work of dark humour and lyrical force that became a beacon of optimism and freedom in Russia and the rest of the world. Peter Suart’s dramatic illustrations provide a fitting accompaniment to this luminous satire.
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2005, this is an unforgettable, poignant story by the author of The Remains of the Day.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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 Realm of the Unreal and Other Stories
Ambrose Bierce
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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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams’s work has been compared to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Stoppard and even Jonathan Swift. In his introduction, science-fiction writer Adam Roberts describes this novel as ‘that rare thing: a sequel that surpasses its original’.
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