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Tales of the weird, of the ghostly, of the haunting and shiversome, have fascinated, horrified and, at times, repelled readers the world over.

The ten books which make up Red Classics Gothic series are some of the most extraordinary tales of the sinister and macabre ever written. If these books do not haunt you or scare you or have you leaning closer to the fire then you are probably already dead.

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The Haunted Hotel

'Alchemy, premonitions, disappearances, madness, supernatural sightings and even a whiff of incest combine in an overheated stew that boils over in a Venetian hotel'
The Times

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The House on the Borderland

'This is where the screaming really starts'
Terry Pratchett

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The Lair of the White Worm

A terrifying quest to destroy an evil that feeds on the flesh of humans.

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The Dunwich Horror

'The best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced'
Stephen King

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The Haunted Dolls' House

'Stories that venture to the limits of the human capacity for terror and revulsion'
Michael Chabon

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The Virgin of the Seven Daggers

'A terrifying glimpse of Hell'
Daily Telegraph

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The Beetle

Six people's worlds are turned upside down by murder, mesmerism and human sacrifice as they struggle to save their sanity and above all, their lives.

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Lois the Witch

'A voice from the past speaking directly to our times'
The Times

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The Spook House

All hope is lost in Ambrose Bierce's chilling stories of death, delusion and the supernatural.

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The Masque of the Red Death

'The supreme original short-story writer of all time'
Arthur Conan Doyle

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