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Inspired by the eighteenth-century legend of the Beast of Gévaudan, The Red Winter is a lusty, dark, queer fantasy – perfect for fans of The Witcher and Susanna Clarke. ‘Charming, haunting, ambitious’ – T. KINGFISHER, author of Nettle & Bone A devastating love story. A bewitching twist...

Brought to you by Penguin. You let them back in. You shouldn't have... Young couple Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they got on an old house deep in the mountains. One day, a man knocks on the door. He says he lived there years before and asks if he can show his family around. As...

'FULL OF SUPERB, AND SUSTAINED, TENSION AND HEAVY DOSES OF FOLKLORE AND EERIE HISTORY' New York Times *A Library Reads Pick!* *Most Anticipated by Goodreads, E! News, BookRiot, and more!* Unbearably tense and utterly propulsive, Daisy Pearce's critically acclaimed horror debut is perfect for...

Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2017 County Kerry, Ireland, 1825. Nóra, bereft after the sudden death of her beloved husband, finds herself alone and caring for her young grandson Micheál. Micheál cannot speak and cannot walk and Nóra is desperate to know what is wrong with him. What...

Brought to you by Penguin. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble. They stop and pick her up. It's only once she's in the car that they see the blood. And then they see the headlights, and at last...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY LOCUS AWARD FINALIST A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?”...

*Lucy Foley’s new thriller – Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, the brand new Miss Marple novel – is available to pre-order now* ________ For starters, everyone here is lying… In the shadow of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor hotel – and a luxurious...

April 1990, Guadeloupe: The body white female French tourist has been discovered on a nudist beach. The victim's remains offer no clues about her final hours. What turned this woman's vacation in paradise into a final nightmare? French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveau is assigned the high-profile case as a top priority. As always, the story of a murdered white woman has attracted the attention of international media.

After her brush with death on a frozen mountain and an upsetting conversation with her boyfriend Eamon Stone, Detective Isobel "Bel" Emerson is desperate for her life to return to some semblance of normalcy. So when Aesop's Files, Hollywood's most popular paranormal crime drama, announces it'll be filming its upcoming episodes on location in Bajka, she hopes the excitement, the famous actors, and the overtime pay will be a welcome reprieve from the madness.

Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt...

Il podcast che racconta storie di vite e di tragedie inghiottite dal Folklore.I fatti dietro le ballate.Il true crime misto alla leggenda.Perché c’è sempre un fondo di verità.Ideato e prodotto da Alessio Briguglio e Michel Buraggi.

Brought to you by Penguin. When the darker days fall, the debt must be paid, . . . get ready for the chilling new folk horror from the Hugo Award-winning, bestselling author of HEX - from the publisher of The Exorcist and perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. In Lock Haven, a...

“For all intents and purposes, we are still blissfully separated from the mortals, but there have been…complications.” When a rise in London’s supernatural crime puts Fey society at risk of discovery, the Winter Council turns to an unlikely solution: Avery Hemlock, the changeling they...

Folklore Forensics is a solo, narrative-driven podcast where myth meets true crime. Each episode reinvestigates mythology and folklore from around the world as unresolved cases—reconstructing timelines, examining motive, and analyzing the evidence hidden within the myth.From familiar gods to lesser-known folktales, these stories are put under the same scrutiny as modern crimes. What details were exaggerated? What facts were lost to time? And what truths might still be buried beneath centuries of storytelling?You’ve heard the story. Now hear the case.Folklore Forensics presents narrative ...

Brought to you by Penguin. As the aftermath of their first discovery pulls Effy and Preston on a final adventure and brings their haunting love story to its end in this stunning sequel and final book in the duology. RETURN TO THE DREAMLIKE WORLD OF THE INSTANTLY BESTSELLING DARK ACADEMIA FANTASY...

Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby. Heather needs to find her boyfriend who, like so many, went and never came back. Rachel has a mysterious package to deliver, and her life depends on it. And Antonia — poor, lovestruck Antonia just wants the chance to spend the day with Heather. So off they set through the idyllic yet perilous English countryside, in which nature thrives in abundance and summer lasts forever, and as they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave radio, the harder it becomes to tell friend from foe.

Over a hundred years ago, the citizens of F - did something rather bad. And local school teacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life's work. The town's people may not want their past raked up, but Catherine is determined to shine a light upon that shameful event. For Ilsbeth was an innocent, after all. She was shunned and ostracised by rumour-mongers and ill-wishers and someone has to speak up for her. And who better than Catherine, who has herself felt the sting and hurt of such whisperings?

Brought to you by Penguin. Who will cast the first stone? 1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY LIBRARY JOURNAL AND REACTOR "Anderson writes a curmudgeonly immortal protagonist and a (literally) haunting story full of heart; a delightful novel." —Library Journal starred review "This heartwarming, thrilling book cleverly uses horror tropes to achieve a...

A ravishing first novel, set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all. New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an...