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The Monk Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781551112275
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £16.04The Monk is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau H.G. Wells 9781551113272
SciFier: £19.08A classic of science fiction and a dark meditation on Darwinian thought in the late Victorian period, The Island of Doctor Moreau explores the possibility of civilization as a constraint imposed on... -
Nightmare Abbey Thomas Love Peacock 9781551114163
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £19.73This 1818 novel is set in a former abbey whose owner, Christopher Glowry, is host to visitors who enjoy his hospitality and engage in endless debate. Among these guests are figures recognizable to... -
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888) by James De Mille
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £21.43Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The... -
Peter Pan J. M. Barrie 9781551117935
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £16.19For twenty-six years after his first mention of the character, J.M. Barrie worked on the story of Peter Pan as he appeared through different incarnations: the three-act play Peter Pan, or the Boy who... -
The Time Machine: An Invention H.G. Wells 9781551113050
RRP: £15.95SciFier: £14.66Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on... -
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales (19th Century) Edgar Allan Poe 9781554810468
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.16Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an anomaly, or even an anachronism. His works,... -
The Romance of the Forest Ann Radcliffe 9781554815388
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £16.19Adeline, the protagonist of Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, became a model for later Gothic heroines. Passionate, imaginative, and sensitive, in the course of the novel she travels rapidly... -
Flatland Edwin Abbott 9781551116907
RRP: £17.95SciFier: £14.66Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and... -
Dracula Bram Stoker 9781551111360
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £14.47To borrow a phrase used by one of the characters in the novel, Dracula is "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance." In her introduction to this edition Glennis Byron first discusses the... -
The Man in the Moone Francis Godwin 9781551118963
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.05Arguably the first work of science fiction in English, Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone was published in 1638, pseudonymously and posthumously. The novel, which tells the story of Domingo... -
The Wood Beyond the World William Morris 9781551119823
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £21.43A groundbreaking fantasy novel, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and... -
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.16First published in 1666>>>, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle's Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing... -
The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold by John William Polidori
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £19.05In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Lord Byron's personal physician. There they met Mary Godwin (later Shelley) and her lover Percy Shelley and decided to while away a wet summer by... -
Tales of Wonder Matthew Gregory Lewis 9781551118352
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £23.92In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and... -
The Coming Race Edward Bulwer-Lytton 9781551118369
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £17.16The Coming Race is the crowning achievement of the genre of hollow earth fiction, in which a hero makes a perilous journey underground and discovers a superior race. The customs and political systems... -
The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations Arthur Machen 9781554815043
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £16.01First published in the height of the yellow nineties and in the shadow of the Oscar Wilde trials, Arthur Machen's The Three Impostors (1895) remains a relatively obscure text even as Machen receives...