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Crime Bundle
Books included in this bundle can be purchased individually here: Chilling Crime Short Stories Cosy Crime Short Stories Detective Mysteries Vintage Crime Music of the Night The Hound of the Baskervilles Tamara de Lempicka: Young Lady with Gloves, 1930 Flame Tree...
The Cosy Crime Bundle
Special 5 book bundle brings together the best of our cosy crime short story anthologies containing a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from around the world. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic Tales collections bring...
Chilling Crime Short Stories
A powerful collection of new, modern stories and classic tales reaching back into ancient, medieval and Victorian fiction: from Oedipus Rex and Thomas More's story of the Princes in the Tower to Scheherazade's "The Three Apples" to the crime fiction of Dickens, Poe, Henry James, Baroness Orczy, Wilkie Collins and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Series: Gothic Fantasy
£20.00
Cosy Crime Short Stories
Cosy crime fiction is a popular phenomenon, with its safe but intriguing boundaries. This latest addition to the Gothic Fantasy series is packed with armchair detectives, murders in the vicarage, family secrets unravelling in gossipy ears and the ingredients of a genteel bloodbath in an otherwise delightful village.
Series: Gothic Fantasy
£20.00
Crime & Mystery Short Stories
Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting title is packed with detectives, mystery and murder, from classic authors and exciting budding contemporary writers.
Series: Gothic Fantasy
£20.00
Urban Crime Short Stories
Our latest collection features gritty murders on the streets of London and Paris, horrors in dark alleys, as well as many more scenes from urban crime that elicit a dark curiosity. Classic authors such as Edgar Wallace and E.W. Hornung are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting budding contemporary crime writers.
Series: Gothic Fantasy
£20.00
Vintage Crime
Vintage Crime will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers.
£9.95
Vintage Crime
Vintage Crime will be a CWA anthology with a difference, celebrating members’ work over the years. The book will gather stories from the mid-1950s until the twenty-first century by great names of the past, great names of the present together with a few hidden treasures by less familiar writers.
£4.99
The Bad Neighbour
When part-time teacher Ollie Clay panic-buys a rundown house in the outskirts of Leeds, he soon recognises his mistake. His new neighbour is an antisocial thug, with links to a local hate group. Or does he?
£14.95
Chop Shop
Amber and Jolene, business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home are drowning in debt and start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive. When the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease they need to find a way to make up for lost profits, even if it costs them an arm and a leg.
£9.99
The Gemini Experiment
Meet Tom Nolan. And meet Tom Nolan. One is a devoted family man recruited for an experiment to unlock the secrets of immortality. The other is a robot replica creating death and destruction. When Russian spies discover the technological breakthrough to turn man into machine, the stakes are raised and Tom (or is it Tom?) must save the day.
£9.99
Ghost Mine
Nat Blackburn is given an offer he can't refuse by President Roosevelt. Tales of gold in the abandoned mining town of Hecla abound. The only problem-those who go seeking their fortune never return. Black-eyed children, strange lights and ferocious wild men venture from the deep, dark ghost mine...as well as a sinister force hungry for fresh souls.
£9.99
The Haunting of Henderson Close
Hannah and her colleagues are tour guides who lead their visitors along the spooky, derelict Close, thrilling them with tales of spectres and murder. For Hannah it is her dream job, but not for long. The legends of Henderson Close are becoming all too real. The Auld De’il is out – and even the spirits are afraid.
£9.99
The Hungry Moon
In the town of Moonwell, old rituals are still alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, so he descends into the pit where the being who’s been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann’s shape, and only the town’s outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong.
£9.99
Kosmos
Rookie barrister George Winsome defends a man who thinks he’s Merlin on a manslaughter charge. The trial turns Merlin into a celebrity; money and ambition take hold of George and his partner Heather until the secret of Merlin’s past is revealed as the spirit of Saint Yves intervenes to ensure George and Heather follow their true paths.
£9.99
Night Shift
Antarctica. A mining base at the edge of the world. Anders Nordvelt, last-minute replacement as head of security, has no time to integrate himself into the crew before an act of sabotage threatens the project. Then a body is found in the ice. Now Anders must do more than find a murderer: he must find a way to survive.
£9.99
A Savage Generation
Sickness is ravaging America, driving the infected to savagery. Ben Silensky risks everything to get those he loves to a safe haven that unbeknownst to him has become a survivalist colony called Funland which may prove to be salvation or the start of something even worse.
£14.95
Think Yourself Lucky
The blog that uses a title David Botham once thought up has nothing to do with him. He has no idea who is writing it or where they get their information about a series of violent deaths in Liverpool. Perhaps David won’t know until they come too close to him—until he can’t ignore the figure from his past that is catching up with him…
£9.99
Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach
It’s Ray and Sandra’s first holiday on a Greek island. Why do islanders follow them wherever they go? Why do Sandra and the grandchildren have strangely similar dreams? Has Sandra been granted a wish she didn’t know she made? Before their holiday is over, some of the family may learn too much about the secret that keeps the island alive.
£9.99
Those Who Came Before
An idyllic weekend camping trip is cut short when Reese Wallace’s friends are brutally murdered. As the group’s only survivor, Reese is the prime suspect, and his story doesn’t make much sense. Detective Greyeyes isn’t having any of it—until she hears the voice herself. People are dying at Strong Lake, and the worst is yet to come.
£14.95
The Widening Gyre
Once a war hero of the Zhen Empire, Tajen Hunt has become a freelance starship pilot. When his estranged brother is murdered, Tajen discovers that Imperial agents killed him. Betrayed by the Empire he used to serve, Tajen gathers a crew and sets out to finish his brother’s quest—to find the long-lost human homeworld, Earth.
Series: The Remembrance War
£9.99
The Wise Friend
Patrick’s aunt Thelma was an artist whose work turned towards the occult. As an adult he discovers a journal of her explorations, and his son Roy becomes fascinated. His experiences at the sites scare Patrick away, but not Roy. Can he convince his son that his suspicions are real, or will what they’ve helped to rouse take a new hold on the world?
£9.99
The Avenger
Edgar Wallace, the original writer of King Kong and hundreds of vintage crime, science fiction and adventure novels, created The Avenger as a page-turning thriller about the mysterious death of Francis Elmer, a dark secret and a movie set. A classic crime thriller from a master storyteller who was a multi-million copy selling author in his time.
£7.99
Egyptian Myths
This new book of classic tales brings the stories of the ancients to life, from the birth of creation by the sun god Ra, the murder of Osiris, and the revenge of Horus, to the underworld and afterlife. The Egyptians explained the effects of famine, harvest, floods and death by creating a pantheon of gods that still holds our fascination today.
£6.99
Greek & Roman Myths
The dark forces of the ancient world were held at bay by the resourceful and emerging civilisations of Greece and Rome that formed the basis of Western culture, providing a tradition of fabulous tales that are retold in this new book.
£6.99
The House of the Seven Gables
A mysterious tale of crime, witchcraft and the supernatural. The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England Mansion, reeking of past sins and malevolent threats. The Pyncheon family that lives there has inherited the curse of centuries-old accusations of witchcraft, and is haunted by the ghosts of the sinful dead.
£6.99
The Last Man
A brilliant, early dystopian tale, 'The Last Man' is a powerful, post-apocalyptic tale and precursor to the later science fiction of H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison amongst others. Overshadowed by the titanic success of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s neglected masterpiece tells of a future laid waste by plague.
£7.99
The Moonstone
A thrilling tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. Transported from the temples of India to Victorian England, this is a tale that twists between death, drugs, mystery and, most of all, misdirection. Collins spins a tale of intrigue with many a wrong-turn as the moonstone leaves a path of destruction in its wake.
£8.99
Myths of Babylon
Here we find humankind battling with the elements in the flood myth, a grim creation story and the great Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest recorded literary treasures. Babylon, a powerful city state in 1800 BC was a centre of spiritual, economic and military power, each represented in the fragments and myths of this book of classic tales.
£6.99
Norse Myths
The Viking gods fought a constant battle with nature. Odin, Thor and Loki are just some of the familiar characters that maintain an influence over us today through movies, TV series and comics to great fiction and epic poetry. This fabulous new book offers all the main tales with an introduction to the characters and the land that inspired them.
£6.99
The Scarlet Letter
Against the backdrop of 17th New England, Hester Prynne is branded with an 'A' to mark her adultery and the strict condemnation of the Puritan community. As Hester's crimes define her public life and the sinister Roger Chillingworth vows revenge, this devastating tale follows the characters as they grapple with shame, remorse and repentance.
£6.99
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The quintessential man-on-the-run tale starring Richard Hannay as the resourceful engineer, exploiting the complacency of his enemies and using every tool of espionage and charm in the defence of King and country.
£6.99
The Apocalypse Strain
A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called "Molli" by the research team, it is a force too dangerous to escape their compound. But the virus has a mind of its own, and it wants out.
£20.00
The Apocalypse Strain
A multi-national research team, led by a medical genomics expert suffering from MS, study an ancient pandoravirus at a remote Siberian research facility. Called "Molli" by the research team, it is a force too dangerous to escape their compound. But the virus has a mind of its own, and it wants out.
£9.95
Blood Country
Since the world ended, Dez McClane has survived in a world of monsters despite having no special powers. Now Dez and Iris must face an even greater evil: the ruling species in this terrible post-apocalyptic world, a horde of monsters whose bloodlust makes them unstoppable.
Series: The Raven
£12.95
Blood Country
Since the world ended, Dez McClane has survived in a world of monsters despite having no special powers. Now Dez and Iris must face an even greater evil: the ruling species in this terrible post-apocalyptic world, a horde of monsters whose bloodlust makes them unstoppable.
Series: The Raven
£20.00
The Blood-Dimmed Tide
Tajen’s mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When Tajen learns the Zhen plan to destroy a human fleet amassing in preparation to help Earth, he and his crew must escape the planet once more and warn them.
Series: The Remembrance War
£9.95
The Blood-Dimmed Tide
Tajen’s mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When Tajen learns the Zhen plan to destroy a human fleet amassing in preparation to help Earth, he and his crew must escape the planet once more and warn them.
Series: The Remembrance War
£20.00
Born to the Dark
1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever...
Series: The Three Births of Daoloth
£9.95
Born to the Dark
1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever...
Series: The Three Births of Daoloth
£20.00
Chop Shop
Amber and Jolene, business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home are drowning in debt and start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive. When the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease they need to find a way to make up for lost profits, even if it costs them an arm and a leg.
£9.95
City of Angels
It's 1924. Sam Lacy, tough as nails robbery/homicide detective follows his own unique code of conduct within the racist and corrupt Los Angeles Police Department. Together with a group of allies, he must solve the murder of his old flame and deal with a ruthless and powerful predator who victimizes vulnerable young Chinese immigrants.
£9.95