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Books in this collection

• Dracula: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) is a novel of letters, diaries and newspaper cuttings, and its most frightening pages are set not in Transylvania but on the Yorkshire coast.
• Coraline: Neil Gaiman's Coraline (2002) is a children's book that frightens adults more than children.
• Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) has been reprinted, re-illustrated and reimagined ever since.
• Dune: Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) is the great desert novel of science fiction, and Arrakis is a world that asks to be seen.
• The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954 to 1955) is full of moments that readers carry for life.
• Narnia: C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) begins with the most famous step in children's books: through the coats at the back of a wardrobe and out into the snow.
• The Hound of the Baskervilles: Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) is the most famous Sherlock Holmes story of all: a family curse, a lonely house and a moor full of fog.
• A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks in 1843, and it has belonged to Christmas ever since.