Yes we believe there will be, details are still be finalised but you may be able to guess which weekend it will be 🎃. Watch this space!

Thank you!

Pride and Prejudice facsimile out of Box. Blue box features darker blue wallpaper. Pride and Prejudice is in three hardback volumes with a small booklet about Jane Austen featured beside them.

And there’s more! Our Pride and Prejudice first edition facsimile was also Highly Commended in the Best Book Finishing category 👏

Art of the Scribe Book next to award

Art of the Scribe book next to clear award. Bookshelves visible in the background.

Copy from the award givers on why the book has won. White copy on grey background.

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news ✨📚

Last night, British Library Publishing won at the 2026 British Book Design & Production Awards for The Art of the Scribe by @patricialovett.bsky.social taking home the prize in the Scholarly, Academic & Reference category.

Possessed Wyrd Britain reviews 'Possessed' by Rosalie & Edward Synton published as part of the British Library Tales of the Weird imprint.

Thank you @wyrdbritain.bsky.social for reviewing Possessed! @johnnymains.co.uk 👀

wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/04/poss...

When the skeleton of a woman, found bearing a cryptic message is discovered beneath the old town hall, the vengeful grip of a long-buried curse pushes the town towards a night of flames and carnage.

The Luck of the Town is out now. #BritishLibraryPublishing #GothicHorror

Happy Birthday to our friend, colleague & the king of the weird! @johnnymains.co.uk

The lure of Atlantis edited by Michael Wheatley

3am finish!!: The Lure of Atlantis

Another fun entry in the Tales of the Weird series, with a nice variation of pulp styles

From REH’s Kull, to Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft and Verne; there’s also utopias and pseudo-science. All of which I enjoyed

@blpublishing.bsky.social

#wyrdwednesday 🪐📚💙

Elusive, rare, and steeped in myth… 🦄✨
The ‘animal that never was’ continues to inspire…and The little book of unicorns is a celebration of its magic. Available online and in store today.

#Unicorns #Fantasy #BritishLibraryPublishing

Have reviewed 'Bird of Ill Omen-The Gothic Tales of Catherine Crowe', part of The British Library Weird Tales series #Victorian, #Gothicnovels, #19thcenturynovels. bleakchesneywold.blogspot.com/2026/04/bird...

Thank you to @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social glesworth for sending the latest @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird Series, The Luck of the Town

Oh, wonderful that his books are still being reprinted. I’m especially fond of the Carolus Deene books, and Rupert’s autobiographies.

Carolus Deene has a troubling hobby as a criminologist and sometime sleuth. Before long Buddington is rocked by a twisted double-murder.

Our latest Crime Classic, Jack on the Gallows Tree is out now, online and in store.

#crimeclassics #mystery #britishlibrary #britishlibrarypublishing

Thank you!

Just picked this up from my local bookshop and went straight to the last story. @johnnymains.co.uk thanks for freaking me out and making me cry all before 11 am because it's such a hauntingly beautiful story you wrote. @blpublishing.bsky.social you have done it again

I've heard the name Robert Aickman, because of @johnnymains.co.uk and so I was pleased to see a story by him in @blpublishing.bsky.social and holy moly I now *need* to find more stories by him. His style is so .... unsettling. As a reader you feel off kilter reading, it totally draws you in

Possessed Wyrd Britain reviews 'Possessed' by Rosalie & Edward Synton published as part of the British Library Tales of the Weird imprint.

A short but sweet review of POSSESSED up on Wyrd Britain

wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/04/poss...

The cover for Evil Roots: Killer Tales Of The Botanical Gothic Features a black background, with a green illustration of many leaves and a single hand, outstretched, as if consumed by them.

Oops, I've been doing a bad job with the reading, but I've been ill, and finally finished @blpublishing.bsky.social's Evil Roots 🥀🌿

Another short story collection, this time focusing on botanical horror. If gothic tales of killer plants sound up your street, then this is an excellent collection!

With the arrival of the latest Tales of the Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social (Marion Fox’s eerie novella The Luck Of The Town) I thought I should rearrange my shelves to display the collection. Not quite every book in the series but almost!

"The New Flesh – Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformations" edited by Mark Morris, from the British Library's "Tales of the Weird" series.

Excellent book post today, "The New Flesh – Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformations" from @blpublishing.bsky.social's "Tales of the Weird" series. Complete with a story from @johnnymains.co.uk, and what I hadn't realised, Roald Dahl's "Royal Jelly".

🧚‍♀️Not just wings and wonder. Think tricksters, lovers and ancient spirits of shadow and shimmer.
The Little Book of Fairies, available from the British Library Shop today!

#fairytales #fairystories #britishlibrary #britishlibrarypublishing

Author Alex Johnson stood outside bookshop Books on the Hill in St Albans. He is holding a copy his next book ‘The Philosophy of Sheds’.

Author Alex Johnson stood inside bookshop Books on the Hill in St Albans. He is holding a copy his next book ‘The Philosophy of Sheds’.

Here is @shedworking.bsky.social at the beautiful Books on the Hill in St Albans today. We popped in to present them with a copy of his new book ‘The Philosophy of Sheds’ (out in May). The perfect gift for Father’s Day!

A hand holds a copy of the book in a bookshop. On the cover is an image of a fractured glass or mirror, a different animal-headed reflection in each fragment

As a mask-maker in my spare time, I've been especially looking forward to the latest @blpublishing.bsky.social The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation!

Out today 🎉 and packed with strange and spooky tales of metamorphosis.

#Horrorsky
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My story 'The Girl on the Suicide Bridge' closes the anthology!

Three seconds is all it takes to become something else.

From werewolves to stranger transformations, The New Flesh explores the horror of losing yourself, body and soul. Edited by Mark Morris with @johnnymains.co.uk Available online today.

#weirdfiction #horrorfiction #britishlibrarypublishing

Castle skull paperback with a moody sky over a bridge and castle

Finished: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr

Another great reissue for the @blpublishing.bsky.social Crime Classics. The investigation itself is largely secondary here; what drives it along are the wonderful gothic descriptions and the fascinating play offs between two detective rivals

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Book, bookmark, info card and art card of a were-bunny

March Tales of the Weird subscription drop from @blpublishing.bsky.social has arrived

The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformations

Authors incl, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Brian Lumley, Roald Dahl, Lucius Shephard and @johnnymains.co.uk

#weirdfiction 🩸📚💙

Arrived today - "The New Flesh - Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation", edited by Mark Morris. Lates in the British Library @blpublishing.bsky.social "Tales of the Weird" subscription. Stories by Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Aiken, Mary Danby and many more. Good stuff!

A copy of The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformations being side-eyed by a comfortably plump black and white cat.

My new @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird subscription book has arrived & Dilys Margaret Cat is intrigued.

It’s a possibility!