Arthur Machen

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. I will not read it; I should never sleep again A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow—sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird...

This luxurious hardback compendium showcases the very best of the cosmic horror genre through 10 classic tales, beautifully presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers, and cover embossing. The Necronomicon is a fictional book of dark magic that appears in several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories. With its ancient evils and long-forgotten secrets, it symbolises the essence of cosmic horror...

Beams were dancing on the waters of the Skirfare; the moonlight falling on the hills formed them into fantastic shapes… With a slight indescribable kind of fear I bent my steps homewards. Along with its great swathes of natural moorland beauty and cities steeped in folklore and history, Yorkshire has a rich literary heritage, populated by innumerable phantoms, faeries and...

I looked down and saw the pure white mist tracking the outline of the river like a shroud…I saw under a grey sky a country that was still all mystery.From the peaks of Eryri to hidden valleys and haunted mines, the storied landscapes of Wales have inspired centuries of myth and folklore. Over time, these tales of the unexplained and...