Two friends are kidnapped by several masked men, who, to judge by their manners and their accent ...

The ghoulish misdeeds and conflicted psychology of the undead are memorably explored in this clas...

The Most Haunted House in the World

Blue Yarn

Headless in Kita

The Beloved and the Backward God

Some of Grabinski's best stories, including a watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks, a...

The first novel from Mauritania to be translated into English, in which Rayhana leaves her Bedoui...

''''The greatest book by Portugal''s greatest novelist.'' Jose Saramago. The Maias is part of Ded...

The imagined autobiography of a movie star who appeared in German films across the Weimar and Naz...

In The Perfume of the Lady in Black, Joseph Rouletabille, the young journalist turned detective, ...

George Sand's fictionalised account of her notorious affair with the poet Alfred de Musset caused...

'The first novel from, the renowned storyteller Hugh Lupton opens with a scene that could be stra...

This volume brings together six unique female voices: Magdalena Blazevic, Tatjana Gromaca, Vesna ...

Marie Grubbe is loosely based on the true story of a Danish noble woman of the same name. A wealt...

The Bells of Bruges

A broad selection of Estonian women's writing on a timeline of influence and context spanning fro...

The Black Cauldron is not a war novel as such, but a work of magic realism which traces a series ...

'First published in Portugal in 1880 1925'--T.p. verso.

First published in 1883, but never before translated into English, this collection of J.-K. Huysm...

First published in 1994 it is a welcome return for these classic stories in a 2-volume collection...

Celebrates the influence of occult thought and sensibility on some of the great poets and writers...

Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and D...

Mike Mitchell's new translation replaces S. Goodrich's 1912 version of the first German bestselli...

'A century after its first publication, this book is still capable of shocking. The opening satir...

The stories in The Angels of Perversity are key examples of early Symbolist prose shaped and insp...

This is the first new translation of En Route since C. Kegan Paul's expurgated original of 1895, ...

The Fire Within is the story of the surprising coming-of age of a Comorian servant girl who, from...

Toomas Nipernaadi is one of the more peculiar works in the Estonian literary canon, and its epony...

Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the a...

Cathedral

The ancient traditions of Sardinia feature heavily in this early collection. The stories collecte...

The latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories include...

First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas' 'The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet's solo s...

Writers have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Ce...

The identity of Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, is inseparable from the waters of the lagoon by wh...

One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doct...

The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and ...

At the center of Be As Children is an ailing Vladimir Lenin, infected not with syphilis, as some ...

The Dedalus Book of Estonian Literature offers a wide-ranging selection of fiction from the end o...

The Dedalus Book of Lithuanian Literature attempts to reflect the transition of Lithuanian litera...

One of the giants of popular fiction, with total sales of around fifty million books, Dennis Whea...

Pure Innocent Boy

Take Six: Six Spanish Women Writers is an anthology of short stories by six outstanding Spanish w...

When a filmmaker and a British civil servant get caught up in the endgame of the Irish Troubles i...

First published in 1964 The Good Hope won The Nordic Prize for Literature. It is the first Englis...

The Runes Have Been Cast is a black comedy of darkest hue about academic and literary life set in...

This is the final part of Huysmans' alter ego Durtal's spiritual journey. From the satanism of La...