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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.

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories book

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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Complete Tales of the Unexpected book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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 book

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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