Second Coming Attractions, the third novel from David Prill, was a funny and offbeat look at the Christian cinema industry which forced both the characters and reader to question their faith. With a nod to M. R. James and other authors of the supernatural, Andrew Klavan’s The Uncanny involved a Hollywood producer who travelled to Britain to discover a real ghost story.

The Migration of Ghosts contained twelve original stories by Pauline Melville, while A. S. Byatt’s Elements: Stories of Fire and Ice collected six reprints, all touched with magic, with at least two tales that could be considered horror.

The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates contained twenty-seven stories, most of which were originally published over the past few years. Oates also edited Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers, which included 111 stories, poems and non-fiction pieces designed as a learning tool for writers. Among the authors represented were Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft, Harlan Ellison, Angela Carter and Oates herself.

The 1794 Gothic, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, was reprinted by Oxford University Press in a new edition edited by Bonamy Dobree with an introduction and notes by Terry Castle.

Published as part of Penguin/Viking Children’s Books “The Whole Story” series, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein reprinted the 1818 novel along with various pieces of art, including new illustrations by Philippe Munch.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Unearthed was yet another edition published by Desert Island Books, annotated and introduced by editor Clive Leatherdale, which included an introduction by Stoker to the 1901 Icelandic edition. From the same publisher, Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow edited by Elizabeth Miller contained twenty critical essays about Stoker’s novel.

The Dream-Woman and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins collected eleven stories and an introduction by editor Peter Miles, The Dedalus Book of French Horror: The 19th Century included twenty-four stories translated by editor Terry Hale and Liz Heron, and Dover published The Complete John Silence, containing six supernatural stories about the psychic detective by Algernon Blackwood, edited by S. T. Joshi.