Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they were nice children -- didn't hold an adult captive.
But what Bar...
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It was supposed to be a romantic weekend getaway. Lisa was looking forward to spending time alone with her husband-and telling him that they are going to have a baby. Inst...
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with their closest neighbours more than two miles in ...
Historian W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature.
The roots of modern horror are found in ...
The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Eliza...
This is a bad place. I don't think people are meant to live here. Longtime residents of Harper's Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow's Point Lighthouse. ...
An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master: a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World...
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America...
All his life, Richard Fountain has known only success. He is handsome, with an enviable record from school, army and university. A future career as a talented archaeologis...
Aickman lures us into eerie psychic realms where the commonplace becomes horrific, where fantasy and reality interweave, where the innocent are unwitting prey. And we too ...
Widely praised and admired for his short stories, Robert Aickman wrote many pieces not previously printed in the United States. In this, his finest book to date, a large s...
An NYRB Classics Original
Silvina Ocampo is undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the short story. Italo Calvino once said about her, “I don’t kno...
The decomposing ghost of a murdered wife; the spectre of a dog, which answers to the most terrifying of whistles; evil in the tradition of M.R. James's 'Casting the Runes'...
A collection in five parts, Susan Howe’s electrifying new book opens with a preface by the poet that lays out some of Debths’ inspirations: the art of Paul Thek, the Isabe...
In an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become ...
Bobby can feel changes gradually taking over his body. Can he be responsible for the reign of terror that's sweeping London? Can he be...a werewolf?
Oxrun station could be a spooky place, especially out by the Windsors', right next to the graveyard. At night Natalie heard eerie sounds out in the fog, among the tombston...
It was a freak accident. The man had suddenly stepped into the road, and the brakes had failed. Clare could only steer wildly, the car finally crashing into a tree and on ...
The Marquis de Sade is alive and well and living in Sweden--or perhaps author Nikanor Teratologen is the devil himself, sending the English-speaking world a Scandinavian s...
A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts "The Great Gatsby" and "The Bonfi...