 | Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.95 Ray Bradburys masterpiece is a work of dark fantasy that perfectly captures the innocence of childhood and its gradual loss.
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 | The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History by Angela Carter
Buy used from: £1.06 A spirited defence of De Sade by modern writings most inventive and unorthodox feminist writer
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 | Blowing Hot and Cold by Peter Campbell
Buy new: £16.10 / Used from: £26.41 A modern gothic novel set against the background of a neverending war.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £14.97 / Used from: £13.86 Alan Moores uses a familiar figure (jack the Ripper) to dissect the birth of the 20th century. Forget the film version this is a thousand times better.
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 | Clara Reeve by Leonie Hargrave
Buy used from: £0.50 A parody of the traditional gothic romance by Leonie Hargrave (in reality a pen name for Thomas Disch.
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 | David Lynch: The Air is on Fire (Art) by David Lynch
A collection of David lynchs artwork that reveals that that his paintings are just as original and disturbing as his films.
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.43 Steven King never has bettered this modern take on the classic haunted house novel. Its raw, vivid and bloody scary.
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| Garden of Earthly Delights: Hieronymus Bosch and the Legends and Heresies of His Time (Picador Books) by Peter S. Beagle
Buy used from: £3.22 Boschs Garden of Earthly delights has been endlessly dissected, but this is a writers and opposed to an art critics take on the painting, and its fascinating
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 | Black Hole by Charles Burns
Buy new: £10.15 / Used from: £8.99 Charles Burn graphic novel mixes teenage angst with 50s B-movie sensibilities and post AIDS parnoia.
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 | The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £1.40 Ian Mcewan's tale of death and incest remains as vivid and shocking as ever.
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