Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Classic ghost stories, weird tales, and gothic horror – AbeBooks has every book you need. Discover spine-chilling books from authors like Shirley Jackson, Peter Straub, M.R. James, H.R. Wakefield, Bram Stoker, James Herbert, Stephen King and many more.

From the White House to Downing Street, our book list has fictional intrigue, politics, and twists and turns. These novels include spies, explosions, big finales and award-winning high-end literary fiction set in political circles.

The first edition of Salem's Lot with its original dust jacket is the Holy Grail for collectors of Stephen King books.

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"Corpse." It's not the sweetest word in the dictionary but it is very functional. The word describes quite clearly that the living thing is no more. A human being is no longer human but a corpse. Corpse and cadaver have the same meaning but corpse is the more descriptive term. Stiff, cold, very dead.