Peter Haining

• Feb-2013
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From the 1840s to the 1950s, every important element of crime fiction was invented, including such archetypal investigators as the police detective, the amateur sleuth, the hard-boiled private eye, and the secret agent. Featuring rare covers and clas...

• Sep-2011
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This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Ti...

• Oct-2007
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The phenomenon that is Sherlock Holmes is based on the series of novels and short stories written almost a century ago that have generated a world-wide network of enthusiasts who have spent the intervening years endlessly debating and investigating t...

• Oct-2007
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Over 25 short story masterpieces from writers such as Louis de Bernières and Ian Rankin - modern literary tales to chill the blood.This spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of lite...

• Sep-2007
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Among his many accomplishments, Charles Dickens was also the author who initiated the tradition of writing ghost stories for Christmas. The magic of the seasonal tales he created for the readers of Household Words and All The Year Round has remained ...

• Apr-2007
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The Gothic "Bluebooks" were the hugely popular paperbacks of their time, eagerly sought by uncounted numbers of readers in the Nineteenth Century who could not afford the more decorous three-volume novels favoured by the gentry. Containing sensationa...

• Mar-2007
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The world knows W. S. Gilbert as half of the enduringly popular duo of Gilbert and Sullivan whose comic operas with their ingenious plots and witty songs have delighted audiences all over the world for well over a century. But long before this great ...

• Sep-2006
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Here are treasures! This is no ordinary anthology of Poe items but a unique collection of tales that in most cases have not appeared in print for well over a century and that will be completely new to all but a few Poe specialists. Then there's a ...

• Jul-2006
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With the Phantom of the Opera Leroux reached the height of his literary powers, and although he developed other fascinating characters, nothing quite matched that one book. He also wrote a small number of really outstanding macabre and weird short st...

• Jul-2006
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"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!" He made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. With these words we are introduced to one of the most famous figur...

• Sep-2005
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Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to ...

• Jan-2004
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• Apr-2003
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This is a spellbinding collection of tales from the 20th century, featuring a story from E. Nesbit, whose writings inspired a young girl to pen her own tales of magic and sign them with only initials -- J. K. Rowling. Also included are wizard stories...

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• 2000
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1st edition Barnes and Noble 2000 1st printing hardcover, fine book in fine dw Brendan Behan, brian Moore etc - We have traded for 20+ yearsIn stock shipped from our UK warehouse Each Book is in a protective clear bag, well packaged and normally s...

• Jun-1999
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From the cerebral 2001 to the B-grade It Came From Outer Space -- both of which are from stories by Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury, respectively, and are collected here -- sci-fi films have always drawn from the printed word. In addition to tales ...

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• Nov-1998
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"Read and loved by millions worldwide, these masters of wit have entertained us with intelligence and humor. Now in this hilarious collection they explore one of our oldest fantasies - the ability to fly. Contains: Turntables of the Night byTerry...

• Oct-1998
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• Sep-1998
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Features a collection of two dozen classic crime stories that inspired equally classic films and television shows, and includes intriguing facts about productions of the works of Ruth Rendell, Antonia Fraser, Evan Hunter, Dick Francis, and others. Or...

• Nov-1997
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• Nov-1997
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Featuring the masters of science fiction and fantasy at their whimsical, humorous best, a treasury of delightful tales includes unexpected offerings from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. LeGuin, Terry Pratchett, H. G. Wells, C. S. Lewis...

• Dec-1996
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Collected here are short stories which were either the basis or inspiration for several classic TV productions, such as Ghost Stories for Christmas, Tales from the Darkside, and the recent success, Ghosts....

• Jul-1996
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In this celebration of man's darker side, Peter Haining presents collection of short stories guaranteed to chill and intrigue. All in human life is here - an ominous vision of Hell on earth; a convincing argument that some terrors are simply unnamabl...

• Jun-1996
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A vintage collection of crime and mystery stories. (BYLINE) A wine connoisseur goads his hated rival with a mystifying claret... a collector sets up his wife's lover with the last priceless bottle of a rare vintage... a clerk meets a startling fate o...

• Jun-1996
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• Nov-1994
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In this entertaining and enlightening collection of quotations, Peter Haining has distilled the writings of generations about the erotic power struggle in which men and women have served as tempter or tempted. Seduction is the key to this art, and th...

• Nov-1992
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Fatal food and drink served with an insidious smile to unsuspecting husbands, dinner guests, and gourmands feature in a banquet of stories from the golden age of crime fiction by P. D. James, Georges Simenon, Michael Gilbert, and others....

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• Nov-1983
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Tells how the popular British science fiction television series got its start, offers plot summaries for each serial in the show's twenty seasons, and offers comments by the five actors who have played Dr. Who...

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• Jan-1979
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This volume is not only an important one in the history of the evolution of the modern horror story, but it contains many stories which have considerable significance in the general development of macabre literature and will appeal greatly to all afi...

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• May-1969
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The Hashish Club, an anthology in two volumes, represents one of the most controversial branches of literature. This volume focusses on the originators of drug literature, beginning with Samuel Coleridge, progressing through De Quincey, Baudelaire, a...