The fourth Michael Gilbert novel to join the series, after the perennial success of Smallbone Dec...

A classic country-house Christmas murder mysterylight-hearted but with a clever mystery at its he...

Another of the series' popular anthologies celebrating forgotten classics and material not printe...

On a foggy night in London, a party has gathered in an artist's studio during the wartime blackou...

A forgotten book revived for the Crime Classics series for a new readership to enjoy. Described b...

One of two crime novels written by famous children's author Nina Bawden showcasing her excellent ...

Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Chris...

The answer to any classic crime fiction fan's Christmas wish - and the only way for you to answer...

Tales from H. G. Wells, Frank R. Stockton, Lord Dunsany and more

Fearsome Fairies taps into the enormous fascination with fairies in the nineteenth and early twen...

Stories for Winter is a collection of short stories that take their inspiration from this cold, s...

Following in the tradition of the British Library Philosophy of ... series, this full-colour book...

What would you do if you found yourself in the world of the classic crime novel? How would you av...

Brooding in the borderlands where strange folklore, bizarre mythology and twentieth-century haunt...

The vampire is one of the great enemies of humanity, a nightmarish figure who feeds on the living...

In this specially commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors offer candid reflections on ...

A new special edition of Sunday Times bestseller from British Library Publishing's genre defining...

First published in 1945, Loft's masterful storytelling manages to weave lighter comedic moments i...

He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers,...

A glittering hardback edition of the Christmas bestseller. With classic tales from Algernon Black...

Dark tales of creepy cats by literary giants including Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker and Joseph Sh...

A compendium of well-known and esoteric Irish mythology, retold and contextualized in an accessib...

A new collection of crime and mystery short stories based around food and drink by Golden Age gre...

The second volume in the new strand of Philosophy titles on music, The Philosophy of Vinyl celebr...

A time-slip story of identical crimes and punishments which take place across two different centu...

A British murder mystery with an American accent: all the elements of 1930s British detective fic...

Building on the established success of the British Library's map books, two outstanding experts i...

Sharing your home with an unwanted guest can be murder. Elderly Mrs. Rampage lives alone in a lar...

A new anthology of undeservedly neglected, previously unpublished or never republished short stor...

A glittering hardback edition of the classic country-house mystery, published to celebrate over t...

This gripping story draws on superstition and the supernatural, hideously dysfunctional families ...

In 2018, the British Library staged a landmark exhibition, the largest ever to deal exclusively w...

Spurned lovers return from the grave to haunt theirpartners, ghost ships materialise on the sea, ...

The major form of travel throughout history has been roadways. And while humanity has traversed t...

Set in the Sologne region of central France, this evocative, atmospheric tale of the evil unleash...

In The Philosophy of Perfume, fragrance writer and journalist Alice du Parcq takes us on an opule...

From the peaks of Eryri to dramatic coastlines, misty valleys and haunted mines, Wales is a land ...

This new collection brings together several of Robert Westall's most chilling stories from long-f...

A fiendish, twisty-turny serving of 'impossible crime' that sees the return of characters Kenwood...

A wry, light-hearted Golden Age murder mystery set in a Cornish fishing village, this is the firs...

Most people think of fairy tales as stories intended for children, but this is a relatively recen...

British Library Publishing is teaming up with the London-based Punchdrunk theatre company - famou...

A bumper book of 300 classic-crime-inspired puzzles, trivia and conniving conundrums ranging from...

Have you ever lent a bedpresser (a heavy lazy fellow) a muckender (handkerchief)? Or felt your mi...

Tales of the Weird takes a trip to the southern hemisphere for the first time to experience age-o...

The discovery of a beautiful Stradivarius violin in a hidden cupboard at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, a...

Agatha Christie is the undisputed Queen of Crime; her popularity has remained undiminished since ...

Dearnley uses her expertise in folklore and ballads to tie together the weird short story heritag...