Product Description: A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective genreCharles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination, his detectives have had a profound effect on the development of crime fiction, and Dickens is now seen as the first major publicist for the police detective...read more

Product Description: From the 1840s to the 1950s, every important element of crime fiction was invented, including such archetypal investigators as the police detective, the amateur sleuth, the hard-boiled private eye, and the secret agent. Featuring rare covers and classic illustrations, The Golden Age of Crime Fiction covers this crucial period, with sections on famous writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie...read more

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Product Description: This lavishly illustrated history features rare covers and classic illustrations, revealing how crucial artists were to establishing the identity and popularity of crime fiction. During its “classic era”—from 1850 to 1950—a variety of writers developed every important element of the genre: the police detective, the professional sleuth, the hard-boiled private eye, the secret agent, and of course, the criminal masterminds, crooks, and gangsters...read more

Product Description: A fabulously funny collection of literary blunders from classic—and not-so classic—works of literature A collection of side-splitting authors' errors, publishers' goofs, printers' blunders, terrible titles, and comical clangers, this anthology covers all manner of literary lunacy dating back since the invention of the printing press...read more

Product Description: A collection of stories that are not just campfire lore – these ghosts are real! In a fully up to date version, this collection provides over 100 genuine eyewitness accounts of hauntings, from all around the world and right up to the present day...read more

Product Description: Sweeney Todd, the notorious Demon Barber, has been called the greatest mass murderer in English history. With the aid of an ingenious revolving chair and a cut-throat razor, he is said to have robbed and butchered more than 160 victims in his barber shop in Fleet Street, before taking the remains to nearby Bell Yard where his accomplice, Margery Lovett, cooked their flesh for her meat pies...read more

Product Description: The phenomenon that is Sherlock Holmes is based on the series of novels and short stories written almost a century ago that have generated a world-wide network of enthusiasts who have spent the intervening years endlessly debating and investigating the life and cases of the most famous of all detectives...read more

The story of the 'Forgotten Army' - the British 14th, commanded by the brilliant but unorthodox General WJ 'Bill' Slim that took on the Japanese entrenched in Burma in 1944 - has been recorded. This title tells how Lieutenant-General Sakurai instituted his own missions in which his men were told to show no mercy and take no prisoners.

Product Description: Among his many accomplishments, Charles Dickens was also the author who initiated the tradition of writing ghost stories for Christmas. The magic of the seasonal tales he created for the readers of Household Words and All The Year Round has remained undiminished through the years and are now brought together in one volume...read more

In the summer of 1941 when the likelihood of an invasion was a daily threat to the people of England, one of the most intriguing and persistent legends of the Second World War was born—that German troops landed on the coast of East Anglia in a prelude to the invasion that was then only weeks, perhaps even days away. It is a legend that has inspired writers such as Graham Greene, the filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti, and of course, Jack Higgins, whose 1975 novel The Eagle Had Landed was an international bestseller and became a hugely popular film. But all of these stories are fiction. Using recently declassified documents, eyewitness accounts, contemporary reports, and newspaper and magazines features, Peter Haining's investigates the story and ultimately provides the solution to an enduring mystery, while at the same time illuminating a particularly fraught period of Britain's wartime history.

In 1941, the British people had their backs to the wall in their lone fight against the might of Hitler's Germany. This book relates the story of those men through the accounts of two survivors, as well as the log and memories of Captain David Bone and Glasgow police records and documents.

An anthology of twentieth and twenty-first-century tales by popular writers celebrates the tradition of the literary ghost story, in a volume of twenty-five works that includes pieces by such names as Martin Amis, John Steinbeck, and P. G. Wodehouse. Original.

The story of the 'Forgotten Army' - the British 14th, commanded by the brilliant but unorthodox General WJ 'Bill' Slim that took on the Japanese entrenched in Burma in 1944 - has been recorded. This thoroughly researched analysis, details the Japanese response to Forgotten Army's insidious assaults. This book is largely based on personal stories.

Product Description: Here are treasures! This is no ordinary anthology of Poe items but a unique collection of tales that in most cases have not appeared in print for well over a century and that will be completely new to all but a few Poe specialists...read more

Product Description: With the Phantom of the Opera Leroux reached the height of his literary powers, and although he developed other fascinating characters, nothing quite matched that one book. He also wrote a small number of really outstanding macabre and weird short stories which are even less well-known and more neglected than his novels-and it is a selection of the best of these which are collected together in this volume...read more

Product Description: "Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. With these words we are introduced to one of the most famous figures in literature, Count Dracula, as he greets the unsuspecting Jonathan Harker at the door to his eerie, mist-shrouded castle in Transylvania in one of the most enduring classics in the horror genre, Dracula, by Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847-1912)...read more

Product Description: Presenting an illustrated profile of the celebrated collie dog Lassie and his lesser-known creator, this chronicle features a comprehensive selection of rare film stills, cartoon strips, and book and magazine illustrations, making it a perfect gift book for collectors, dog-lovers, or anyone interested in the Lassie phenomenon...read more

Product Description: "Cannibal Killers" is a comprehensive study of the terrible phenomenon of the human flesh eater. Far from being the speciality of obscure tribes in the distant jungles, the cannibals are uncomfortably close to home. The cities of America and Europe, the provinces of revolutionary China, the 'Fatal Shore' of colonized Australia and the open lifeboats of a wrecked ship all yield up grisly tales of forbidden meat...read more

Product Description: In this account of the Battle of Britain, Peter Haining tells the story of Italian-led air raids on England, the fighter pilot with Mafia connections, eyewitness testimonies from civilians and RAF squadrons, as well as crashes, imprisonments, and escapes.

More than forty tales encompass such plots as vengeful spirits set on causing harm to innocent people, kindly specters reaching out to the world of the living, and erotic ghosts participating in sinister seductions, in an anthology that features pieces by such contributors as Stephen King, Bram Stoker, and Ruth Rendell.

Product Description: The canon of Sherlock Holmes adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle contains fifty-six stories and four novels. But there were yet other adventures and artifacts pertaining to Mr. Holmes not listen in the canon. Peter Haining has collected them here, complete with informative and entertaining introductions...read more

Product Description: Louis Wain drew cats: cats playing poker, boxing, playing cricket - doing almost any human activity, in fact. His pictures are widely available today as decorative motifs and popular prints, but in his day the man dubbed the Hogarth of cat life"" was a celebrity who sold thousands of drawings and paintings to an insatiable public...read more