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Poland,1941. Sixteen-year-old Hertzko Haft is sent to Auschwitz. Separated from his family and his fiancée, he draws a will to survive from the tho...

In the British Comic Award-winning The Motherless Oven, Scarper Lee asked: Who the hell is Vera Pike? In the second part of Rob Davis trilogy, we ...

When the young Charles Dexter Ward becomes fascinated by the history of his wizard ancestor Joseph Curwen, who gained notoriety for haunting gravey...

Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the insane, his method of escape baffling the authorities...

The protagonist, known only as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle...

On the eve of the release of his latest movie, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles receives a gift: an admirer has sent him a box of cigars. Rich...

Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows mainly the lows of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, ...

Which kings couldnt speak English, or stammered when they could? Who were Softsword and Sailor Bill? Which king had 10 children with his mistress b...

Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelss Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a power...

More than 400 years ago, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) sent his irrepressible optimist of a hero out to tilt at windmills. Today D...

The epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian mystic and poet Attar of Nishapur, is here re-told by the acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sís i...

Hans Holbeins 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great...

Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it....

A book based on a soundtrack score that has not yet been composed for a feature film that does not yet exist. Pixies frontman Black Francis has ap...

I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. The supernatural stories that make up Robe...

A graphic anthology of tales from the renowned master of the eerie. Featuring collaborations between established writers and artists as well as de...

Victor Hugos scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britains political system tells a story of abduction, mutilation, loss and ...

Moomintroll (with a little help from his friends and family) shows us how to explore the world beyond our doorstep, inventing games, making toys, e...

You'll find all the secrets to the tasty dishes prepared by the unflappable Moominmamma. There are dishes for every occasion from potatoes au grat...