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disasters - war and invasion, riots and terrorism, fires and explosions, stampedes and shipwrecks, air and train crashes. 393pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


69959 PRIVATE LIFE OF SPIDERS by Paul Hillyard


Arachnophobia is one of the most common of irrational fears, and what a shame that is, because spiders are one of the most numerous, diverse and remarkable groups of animals on the planet. Arachnid expert Paul Hillyard here explores their fascinating world, taking in on the way species such as the solitary bird-eating spiders, which can have a body length of four inches and a leg span of almost a foot, the tiny sheet-web spiders, which live in colonies of over 1,500 individuals and create distinctive horizontal, fine-meshed webs, those that employ venom in their armoury, a few of which can harm man, and the lightning-quick trapdoor spiders with their fiendishly clever silk tripwires. The one thing that all spiders have in common is that they are predators, but the ways in which they catch their prey are extremely varied and frequently ingenious. The book has a chapter dedicated to each method, plus additional chapters on biology and ecology, silk-making and web construction and the often torrid relationship between spiders and humans. Along the way he thrill us with over 100 superb colour photos which highlight spiders’ diversity and beauty and travels around the globe in search of the most interesting. Put your fears to one side and enter the amazing world of the arachnids! 160pp. £14.99 NOW £5


70042 QI BOOK OF ANIMALS


by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson From the bestselling writers of the BBC show QI, and with a foreword by Stephen Fry and forepaw by Alan Davies, welcome to the QI Zoo. The original inspiration for this book was the medieval bestiaries. In them you will discover that weasels were conceived through their ears, bees were born from dead oxen and that a goat’s blood was hot enough to dissolve diamonds. In our book are 100 animals, some supposedly familiar, some definitely obscure, and their madly various strategies for feeding, reproducing or just getting about. 224 page illus paperback.


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70115 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES


by Mike and Peggy Briggs


Where do you find walnuts or the golden weeping willow, the Norway maple or the London plane, the white poplar, the song thrush, the nuthatch, the black bean aphid, the buff ermine moth, the slow worm, sweet violet, gatekeeper butterfly, bats, the redpoll, the gold crest, hazel dormouse, stoat, osprey, emperor dragonfly and over to the seashore the herring gull, shelduck, sandhopper or lumpsucker? The husband and wife team of authors live in the Outer Hebrides where they can watch otters in the sea from their front garden. Together they have created a stunningly beautiful album of the British Isles and our natural history and Mike’s superb colour photographs adorn every page. Each plant or creature is described and given a potted history with snippets of poetry, country recipes, cross references. 8½” x 11", 384pp. £20 NOW £7.50


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70971 MYSTERY OF THE


CRYSTAL SKULLS by Chris Morton and Ceri Louise Thomas


An old Native American legend tells of 13 crystal skulls the size of human skulls that were said to contain information about the origins and destiny of humankind. The legend said that one day, at a time of great need, all the crystal skulls would be rediscovered and brought together to reveal their information


vital to the future of humanity. Early last century, a real crystal skull was discovered by a British explorer deep in the jungles of Central America. Since then, several other crystals have also come to light. Causing a storm of archaeological controversy, here we can find out what were the incredible results of the tests carried out on the skulls by scientists at Hewlett Packard. Do the crystal skulls really possess telepathic qualities to allow us to see deep into the past and predict the future? Why do Native American elders claim the crystals are stores of great knowledge? The text has many Mayan and Aztec art and stone carving illustrations and colour photos. 439pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


68848 NIGHT TERRORS: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson by E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of


supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. A classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill. Paperback, 705pp. ONLY £3


23895 WORDSWORTH DICTIONARY OF


DREAMS by Gustavus Hindman Miller Miller’s Dictionary of Dreams first appeared in 1909, ten years after Sigmund Freud’s pioneering work The Interpretation of Dreams, and is therefore an historical work on dream analysis first published at the time of a quantum leap in human consciousness. 10,000 entries cover Bananas to Cauliflowers, Garbage to Gravy, Measles to Mustard, and Virgins to Zebras. The text is supplemented with a 40 page Preface and there is a 17 page Index. 617pp. Paperback. ONLY £4


23810 COLLECTED GHOST STORIES by M.R. James


M.R.James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced. These tales are not only classics of their genre, but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement, convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface, there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R.James, Stories I Have Tried to Write, which accompanies these 30 tales. Among them are ‘Casting the Runes’, ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you’, ‘My Lad’, ‘The Tractate Middoth’, ‘The Ash Tree’ and ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’. 352pp. Paperback. ONLY £3


53199 BISHOP OF HELL &


OTHER STORIES by Marjorie Bowen


Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality. In their use of dreams, ancient anecdote, and ruined or dilapidated buildings (‘Florence Flannery’, ‘The Fair Hair of


Ambrosine’) they are at times in the finest tradition of The Castle of Otranto and the Gothic revival which had chilled the blood of the British public 150 years earlier. But her stories are more subtle in their construction, and often use simple materials (‘The Crown Derby Plate’, Elsie’s Lonely Afternoon’), interweaving their terror and mystery with the commonplace of everyday life. Full of sinister force. 189 page paperback. ONLY £3


36909 GHOST STORIES OF HENRY JAMES by Henry James


Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. This edition includes all ten of his ‘apparitional’ stories, or ghost stories in the strict sense of the term, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone and type. They include The Jolly Corner, a compelling story of psychological doubling; Owen Wingrave, which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; The Friends of the Friends, a strange story of uncanny love; and The Private Life, which finds a shrewd, high comedy in its ghostly theme. The volume also includes James’s great novella The Turn of the Screw. 368pp, paperback. ONLY £3


53190 STRANGE TALES by Rudyard Kipling


Rudyard Kipling, celebrated author of ‘The Jungle Book’, the ‘Just So Stories’ and other entertaining fictions, was also a master of the short story. This collection presents the best of his dark imaginings in which ghosts, monsters and inexplicable happenings abound. From the exotic and magical locale of India, to the leafy suburbs of


England and then to the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War. They will linger long in the memory. 284 page paperback. ONLY £3


46365 RETURN FROM THE DEAD: A Collection of Mummy Stories


selected by David Stuart Davies The main feature on this mummy bill is ‘The Jewel of the Seven Stars’ by Bram Stoker, generally regarded as his best work after ‘Dracula’. A strange mixture of adventure, the supernatural and sci-fi is found in Jane Webb’s ‘The Mummy’, written in 1827 but set in 2126. ‘Some Words with a Mummy’ is a great horror from Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Ring of Thoth’ is the classic mummy tale and the basis of the 1932 movie ‘The Mummy’ starring Boris Karloff. ‘Lot 249’, another Doyle chiller, completes this collection. 288pp in Wordsworth paperback. ONLY £2


58186 TALES OF UNEASE by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Doyle’s vivid imagination for the strange, the grotesque and the frightening is given full rein. We move from the mysteries of Egypt and the strange powers granted by ‘The Ring of Thoth’ to the isolated ghostlands of the Arctic in ‘The Captain of the Polestar’, we encounter a monstrous creature in ‘The Terror of Blue John Cap’ and the beings that live above our heads in ‘The Brazilian Cat’ and ‘The Leather Funnel’; and we shudder at the thing in the next room in ‘Lot 249’. Sit down in your uneasy chair and enjoy this unique collection of chillers. 208 page paperback. ONLY £3


58196 THE BLACK VEIL AND OTHER TALES


OF SUPERNATURAL SLEUTHS edited by David Stuart Davies


‘The Gateway of the Monster’, ‘The Red Hand’, ‘The Ghost Hunter’. This volume brings together 16 chilling cases of these supernatural sleuths, pitting themselves against the peril of ultimate evil. Here are encounters from the casebooks of the Victorian haunted house investigators John Bell and Flaxman Low, from Carnacki, the Edwardian battler against the abyss and from horror master Arthur Machen’s Mr Dyson, a man-about-town and meddler in strange things. Connoisseurs will find rare cases such as those of Allen Upward’s The Ghost Hunter, Robert Barr’s Eugene Valmont and Donald Campbell’s young explorer Leslie Vane, the James Bond of the jazz age, who battles against occult enemies of the British Empire. Some of the best tales from the pens of modern psychic sleuth authors. 256pp in paperback. ONLY £3


58197 NIGHT SHIVERS: The Ghost Stories of J. H. Riddell by J. H. Riddell


‘Night Shivers’ presents a treasure trove of the stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell, one of the greatest Victorian writers of ghost stories. These tales, many of which have been out of print for years, take the reader on fearful journeys into the gloomy haunts of old neglected houses, into a world of prophetic dreams, out onto the wild terrain of Ireland to encounter a frightful banshee and even down into Hell itself. In these 14 short stories and one novella, ‘The Uninhabited House’, there is the distillation of the best and most effective of Riddell’s spine-tingling supernatural fiction. 449pp. Paperback. ONLY £3


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59991 BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS by W. F. Harvey


Along with such classics as ‘August Heat’ which concerns two strangers whose individual fates become inextricably entwined in a nightmare scenario and the gruesome school yarn and ‘The Dabblers’, you will find such minor masterpieces as the uncanny ‘The Man Who Hated Aspidistras’, ‘Sarah Bennet’s Possession’, ‘The Habeas Corpus Club’ and many more stories which refreshingly avoid the cliché and create an eerie sense of fear. 418pp in Wordsworth Classic paperback. Selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. ONLY £3


59997 THE MONK by Matthew Lewis Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence. Remarkably modern in style, it tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than- thou monk who was seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey and heads for the utter corruption of the soul. Meanwhile, two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin- ridden and skeleton-crowded vaults. Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis’s daring, while Coleridge warned parents against the suitability of the novel for their sons and daughters, describing it as ‘poison for youth’. 324pp in paperback with a new introduction. ONLY £3


67838 HAUNTED PUBS OF THE SOUTH WEST by Ian Addicoat


The Bucket of Blood pub, Hayle, Cornwall, Cannard’s Well Inn, Shepton Mallet which originally had a gibbet as an inn sign, changed only in the 1990s, The Dolphin Tavern, The Finnygook Inn at Crafthole, the First and Last Inn at Sennen, home to both smugglers and ship wreckers since the 17th century, the beautiful village pub the Fleur de Lys near Bath, the Highwayman Inn at Okehampton, a real Aladdin’s cave of gothic artefacts and peculiar maritime furnishings originally built in 1282. There is a salty old seadog who disappears through a wall and a benevolent monk who appears to assist people when they are ill. A chilling picture. 128pp in large paperback, b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £3.50


68842 THE SIMON IFF STORIES AND OTHER WORKS by Aleister Crowley


This volume brings together two series of short fiction by the poet, writer and religious philosopher Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). It includes the first complete publication of Simple Simon, the detective series featuring Crowley’s most memorable fictional creation, the mystic-magician-philosopher-psychoanalyst-detective Simon Iff. His three Simon Iff Abroad stories take the reader to tribal North Africa, inaccessible Central Africa and to the high seas. The two Simon Iff Psychoanalyst stories were among the earliest tales to use the new science of psychoanalysis to solve mysteries. Also included is Crowley’s other major short fiction series, the eight stories of his legendary Golden Twigs and The Golden Bough. 551pp, paperback. ONLY £3


53193 BELL IN THE FOG AND OTHER STORIES by Gertrude Atherton


Gertrude Atherton was born in San Francisco in 1857, and died in 1948. She eloped at the age of 19, took up writing against her husband’s wishes, and after his death became a protegee of Ambrose Bierce, whose influence can be seen here in those stories, ‘The Dead and the Countess’, ‘Death and the Woman’ and ‘The Striding Place’, which have


an overtly supernatural element. Elsewhere, ‘The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number’, ‘The Tragedy of a Snob’ and ‘A Monarch of a Small Survey’ the psychological takes precedence over the supernatural. And in ‘The Bell in the Fog’ (reminiscent of ‘The Turn of the Screw’, and dedicated to Henry James) the supernatural and psychological combine to brilliant effect: an angelic child bears a striking resemblance to an old portrait. 173 page paperback. ONLY £3


54977 THE DEVIL RIDES


OUT by Dennis Wheatley A master storyteller, a classic of weird fiction a genuinely frightening tale of devil-worship and sorcery in modern Britain. A group of old friends discover that one of them has been lured into a coven of Satanists. They determine to rescue him - and a beautiful girl employed as a medium. The head of the coven proves to be no charlatan but


an Adept of the Dark Arts, able to infiltrate dreams and conjure up fearsome entities. De Richleau fights back with his own knowledge of occultism and ancient lore. A duel ensues between White and Black Magic, Good and Evil used as weapons. 320pp, paperback. ONLY £3


68965 THE ETERNAL ONE edited by Dorothy Boux


This beautifully designed and illustrated calligraphic book is based on a mystery-text which H. P. Blavatsky brought back from her travels in India and Tibet in the 1850s and which Blavatsky herself, the most famous Theosophist and occultist of her day, translated from Sanskrit. Dorothy Boux has taken extracts from this work and created a beautiful version in which calligraphy is interwoven with illustration. Organised into seven stanzas, it starts with “the profound stillness from which all sentient life arises”, going on to meditation on the Ultimate One and the Trinity held together in unity and harmony. 53pp, illustrated in colour. £12.95 NOW £3.50


69038 FAERY GARDEN by Beatrice Phillpotts Our spellbinding book traces the historical origins of the faery garden, with the help of ‘eyewitness’ accounts, from folk tales and the pens of poets and writers. A seasonal gallery of flower faeries offers spells for both good and evil based on the potent magic of individual flowers and trees as well as explaining their meanings and myths. Colour illus, original paintings and ephemera. 96 pages in paperback. £6.99 NOW £2


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69203 GHOSTHUNTER: A Journey Through Haunted France by Simon Marsden


In Britain we are rightly proud of our haunted history, and Sir Simon Marsden has spent over 40 years pursuing the elusive trace of ghosts and associated otherworldly manifestations all over Europe. For this stunningly atmospheric volume he visited the chateaux, cemeteries, abandoned ruins and forests around which famous ghost stories have circulated for centuries, armed with his camera and a sense of excitement. Starting in Paris, he travels north to Normandy then west to Brittany. Next he travels eastwards through Vendée and the Loire Valley to Burgundy and Lyon, before heading south to Auvergne and the Dordogne. In all he visited 56 sites, and for each there is one or more b/w photos of outstanding and often unsettling supernatural beauty. 192pp, 10"×11¼” with site index.


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69269 THE ANCIENT SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE OF WESSEX by David Ride


Through careful and reasoned argument and aided by a wealth of photos, diagrams and other illustrations, Dr Ride shows the region of Wessex to contain a series of related man-made structures. He interprets other notable features of the Wessex landscape, including huge representations of the constellation of Orion and the Milky Way, the notable alignment of six churches along the 48 mile long Alfred Line, which follows precisely the line of the midsummer’s sunrise, long before such accuracy was thought possible. 160pp softback. £16.99 NOW £4.50


69497 SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD by Jonathan Black


The Illuminati and the Battles for Soul of Freemasonry, Occult Roots of the French Revolution, Napoleon’s Star, Occultism and the Rise of the Novel, Freud, Jung, Wagner and the Opening of the Seven Seals are just some of the fascinating topics in only the very last of the 28 gripping chapters in the history of the beliefs and writings of secret societies. Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx, Rama’s conquest of India, Imhotep and the age of the Pyramids, Moses and the Cabala, King Arthur and the Crown Chakra are other tantalising topics. Woodcuts. Paperback, 603pp. New updated edition. £9.99 NOW £3.75


69867 TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD translated by Robert Thurman


An authoritative English translation which preserves the form and spirit of the original. The Tibetan Book of the Dead has been renowned for centuries as a classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently it has become highly influential in the Western world for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying, and what they can teach us about the ways in which we live our lives. Composed in the 8th century, it is intended as an aid to preparing for the trials and transformations of the afterworld. It shows us the workings of the mind in its various manifestations - terrifying and comforting, wrathful and beautiful - which appear more clearly after death in the consciousness of the deceased. 278pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £4


70030 GHOST PETS AND SPIRIT ANIMALS by Jill Armitage


Animals are extremely good at sensing ghosts or spirit presences. They are much more likely to detect a ghost than humans, and since they cannot speak, it is lucky we can read their body language. One evening, Jacqui Cooke was alone in the sitting room of her Sheffield home when the door began to open slowly. Thinking it was one of her three dogs, she waited for it to bound in, but when nothing appeared and there was no sound, she went to investigate. She peered into the hall just as a ghostly white shape like a puff of smoke floated along the hall and up the stairs. Rooted to the spot in terror, she realised that her three dogs all stood transfixed in the kitchen doorway. They too had been watching the apparition. Could a guardian angel return in canine form? Study some of these 1950s photographs where phantom pets like the tiny white kitten and the dog appears in the places where they were once much loved. Cats regularly return to say goodbye to their grieving owners and birds are believed to be able to foretell death. Is there life after death for our pets? Does the bond that we have transcend the grave? Here is a fascinating collection of phantom protectors, ghostly hounds, spectral horses and other intriguing supernatural stories. 96 page large softback, photos. £9.99 NOW £3.50


70031 I CAN SEE ANGELS by Jacky Newcomb Subtitled ‘True Tales of Real Life Angelic Encounters’, read about the mysterious ‘Angel on a plane’, the grandma who attended her granddaughter’s wedding even after she had passed away, the angel who saved three people from drowning before mysteriously disappearing, and the teenager who was dramatically rescued from a soon-to-be-demolished building. There are several tales about feathers, healing creatures, near- death experiences, ignoring dream warnings and glad tidings. Hundreds of anecdotes and space for your own notes. 188pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


70158 KUAN YIN ORACLE: The Voice of the


Goddess of Compassion by Stephen Karcher The ancient goddess of Compassion, Kuan Yin is the principal goddess in the Eastern Firmament. The ritual of consulting her has brought solace, hope and insight to countless people. Here Karcher presents ‘The 100 Poems of the Goddess’ in an extremely easy-to-use and insightful form that enables you to enter into dialogue with Kuan Yin. Simply ask the oracle a question and by opening your heart to the answer, you allow yourself to be ‘re-arranged’ by the symbol or figure Kuan Yin gives you. Then turn to the relevant page for that symbol in the book, where you will find directions to help you focus your energy and choose the right path to find an


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