A collection of sinister short stories including 'The Birds' which was famously adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock.

The last gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. Their names are Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry and Sneezewort, and their home is under an oak tree. When Cloudberry goes to explore and doesn't return, it's up to his brothers to find him.

A werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs. His mum decides that the answer to his problem is to get Micky a puppy of his own. To everyone's surprise - including Micky's - he chooses a werepuppy. But Wolfie turns out to be a very special pet.

The last of Kavan's books to be published in her lifetime, 'Ice' is a dreamy novel set in an imaginary world padded by ice and snow, run by a secret government, invaded by aggressors, and threatened with nuclear destruction.

A talented, eccentric London family tries to find their place in the world in this semiautobiographical novel by a New York Times–bestselling author.
Papa Aubrey's wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys...

Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. Contains illustrations and...

Introduction by Anne Perry Includes newly commissioned endnotes In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes. In this very first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. John H. Watson with the puzzling line ?You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive,? and so begins Watson?s, and the world?s, fascination with this enigmatic character....

One of the greatest post-apocalyptic novels ever written, 'The Death of Grass' shows the disintegration of the familiar world - and the terrible price of survival.

The legendary unpublished collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation.