A Midnight Treasury of Frightening Words: The secret history of over 300 macabre and haunting words

Discover the dark side of language with this beautifully unsettling collection of macabre, mysterious, and hauntingly evocative words.

This captivating collection explores more than 300 chilling terms, from "abysmal" and "cadaverous" to "wraith", "zombie", and beyond. Each entry uncovers the origins and meanings behind words that have crept through folklore, literature, cinema, and popular imagination.

Readers will encounter grisly English expressions alongside sinister words from other langu...