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by Lucy Jane Wood (£20, HB, Pan Macmillan) Annie Wildwood works tirelessly to be the perfect witch. As well as running the Celestial Bakehouse, she goes above and beyond to please everyone around her,

FROM SUPERNATURAL TO STRANGE TALES AND JUDGE DEATH, THIS YEAR’S SPOOKY SEASON COMICS ARE SCARIER THAN EVER

LEGENDARY AUTHOR AND CRITIC KIM NEWMAN BRINGS US HIS UNIQUE TAKES ON CULT CINEMA

“Every time I go into some Midsomer Village it’s always the same thing. Blackmail, sexual-deviancy, suicide and murder. How could you possibly expect me to go live in one of them” – DCI Tom Barnaby We

by Patricia Cornwell (£22, HB, Little, Brown Book Club) The Phantom Slasher is wreaking havoc in Northern Virginia. The killer’s signature is to invade his victims’ homes and watch their every move us