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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert L. Stevenson
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Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personality and thus free the good side to work for the benefit of mankind without the distraction of his baser instincts. Unfortunately, he undertakes the experiment while the depraved side of his nature is in the ascendancy and t ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Mysterious and Macabre
by Various Authors
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Open a Pandora's box of scary tales guaranteed to give you a shiver down the spine. Remember, if you listen late at night, check under the bed before retiring! From the pens of various authors, the stories in this collection are: 'THE MEZZOTINT' by M.R. James 'THE ALUMINIUM DAGGER' by ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells
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H.G. Wells’ premise has been the source for many screenplays, scripts and a springboard for many fantastical ideas. However, the importance of the Invisible Man is not in its central conceit, it lies within its theme - the effect on mankind of the pursuit of science. Griffin’s paranoia and the murder of his fellow beings to ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Uncle Silas
by J.S. Le Fanu
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When rich recluse Austin Ruthyn dies from a heart attack, Maud, his daughter is made a ward to the sinister Uncle Silas. Silas is already suspected of the grisly murder of a creditor several years earlier but has never been tried for the crime. Should Maud die before she reaches her majority, Silas will inherit the family f ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Hole In the Wall
by Arthur Morrison
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Arthur Morrison grew up in the East End of London and was familiar with life on the dockside. He tells the story of ‘The Hole in the Wall’ through the eyes of young Stephen Kemp, taken to live with his grandfather after the death of his mother. Nat Kemp is determined to keep his grandson apart from the seamier side of the D ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Power House
by John Buchan
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John Buchan's hero Edward Leithen chances upon a worldwide plan for domination. With his own life and those of his friends depending on the outcome of his struggle he engages in combat the anarchic brain behind "The Power-House". The Author, despite being very busy in Public Service, wrote over fifty ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Big Foot
by Edgar Wallace
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The brutal murder of a woman in a lonely beach cottage, huge footprints found nearby, a meandering tramp singing snatches of opera in the night! Superintendent Minter - "Sooper", rattles around the countryside on his noisy motorbike and tries to find a connection. Hampered by amateur detective Gordon Cardew, ai ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
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Puddn’head Wilson is Mark Twain’s novel of satirical wit aimed at the injustices in the southern states of America in the mid 19th century. It tells the story of two children, one born free, the other a slave. When the slaves mother, Roxana, switches the infants in their cradles she is not the only one who lives to regret t ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Rodney Stone
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. ‘Rodney Stone’ is a combination of both, featuring some of the greatest figures in English history, set against a backdrop of two boys' journey to manhood and the sport of boxing - when it was seen as a noble a ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
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'Visions have always been my pasture. I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging the realities of life for dreams. Old castles, old pictures, old histories take one back into centuries that cannot disappoint. I waked one morning from a dream of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Four Faultless Felons
by G. K. Chesterton
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In pursuit of the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, journalist Asa Lee Pinion encounters four of the Count's friends calling themselves "The Club of Men Misunderstood". The men tell of their black and revolting crimes and how these deeds gained them the dubious honour of being made to appear worse than they are. Unusual and ... more on this title.
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