Penguin 1st edition, published 1962.

Young Philip Ashley was raised by his older cousin Ambrose to be his heir. They are extremely close, until Ambrose goes to Florence and meets and marries a woman named Rachel. In a short time, Ambrose is dead, and Philip receives a letter from his uncle of his suspicion that Rachel is poisoning him. Thus, Philip sets out to find out the circumstances around his cousin’s death, just as his cousin’s wife arrives.

Condition grading: Good. Two tears to bottom section of lightly creased spine. Minor wear to cover edges. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin 1st Edition, published 1959.

Contains 23 stories by W.W. Jacobs. He mainly wrote humorous fiction, primarily about dockworkers and seafaring men, but he also had a taste for the macabre, writing a number of spooky tales such as 'The Monkey's Paw' and ‘The Well’.

Condition grading: Very Good. Minor damage to spine ends. Small scuff to centre of spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin 1st edition, published 1948.

Willoughby Corbo is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, and is soon abandoned on the doorstep of his uncle, neglected and mostly unloved, to make his way in a somewhat distorted modern world for which he is utterly unprepared.

Condition grading: Good. Minor wear to tanned spine. Couple of marks to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin 1st edition, published 1946.

The discovery of a beautiful Stradivarius violin in a hidden cupboard at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, appears to be a stroke of good fortune for music student John Maltravers. But there is something sinister in the violin’s history – something corrupt which threatens to re-emerge as the bewitched Maltravers plays and replays a devilish tune he is powerless to resist.

First published in 1895, The Lost Stradivarius has garnered a revered status as a true classic of strange fiction, described by the famed critic E. F. Bleiler as the novel M. R. James might have written, had he written novels.

Condition grading: Fair. Creasing to front covers which carries through to inside pages. Some wear and damage to spine ends. Marks and creases to rear cover. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin 1st edition, published 1938.

For lovers of the thrilling and chilling, young and old, Poe's sensational stories cannot fail to hit the spot. This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction).

Condition grading: Good. Pen signature to title page. Light foxing to both covers. Some wear to cover edges. Bumping and creasing to right edge of rear cover. Wear to repaired spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin Illustrated Classics 1st edition, published 1938.

For lovers of the thrilling and chilling, young and old, Poe's sensational stories cannot fail to hit the spot. This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction).

Condition grading: Good. Pen annotations to title page. Light foxing to front cover. Minor wear to spine. Light crease to top left corner of rear cover. Light wear to rear cover edges in places. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.

Penguin 1st edition, published 1939.

A collection of eight marvellous stories of the supernatural. The stories are: The Beckoning Fair One, Phantas, Rooum, Benlian, Io, The Accident, The Cigarette Case, & Hic Jacket. Gahan Wilson ranked him as "one of the best, if not the best, ghost story writers working in the English language," declaring that "Mr. Onions did as much as anyone to move phantoms and other haunts from dark, Gothic dungeons to the very room in which you presently sit."

Condition grading: Good Minus. Foxing to left edge of front cover. Some marks and a light crease to right edge of front cover. Faded spine with some bumping to ends. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.