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A selection of short stories. Blue Rose; The Juniper Tree; A Short Guide to the City; The Buffalo Hunter; Something About A Death, Something About A Fire; Mrs God. Jacket art by Peter Goodfellow. -
From the dank crypt of his foreboding castle in the Transylvanian forests to the bustling foggy streets of London, Count Dracula comes to claim his victims to feed the lustful hunger that has damned him to a life of lonely immortality and to bind him to an innocent young woman - the miraculous double image of the love that he lost four centuries earlier. Contains colour photos from the film starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves.
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Book II of Dead Beautiful. Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the truth: she died last May and was brought back to life by the kiss of her Undead soul mate, Dante Berlin. Now, her separation from Dante becomes almost unbearable. His second life is close to an end, and each passing day means one less that she will spend with the boy who shares her soul. Just when Renée has almost given up hope, she learns of the Nine Sisters - brilliant scholars who, according to legend, found a way to cheat death. She can’t shake the feeling that they are somehow connected to her dreams, strange visions that hint at a discovery so powerful, and so dangerous, that some will stop at nothing to protect it. Renée thought she knew the truth about life and death. But there is a secret woven through history that holds the only hope for Dante and Renée. Unless they find answers soon, their time together is doomed to be cut short.... -
The Fog: A strange, deadly yellow fog is drifting across the English countryside, leaving madness and murder in its trail. As villages, towns and London itself fall victim to its choking insanity, only one man can stop it…The Spear: The Spear of Destiny, that once pierced the side of Jesus on the Cross, has immense powers for good or evil. A fanatical neo-Nazi cult plans to use the Spear to reanimate their long dead leader...Hitler’s right-hand man, Heinrich Himmler. Sepulchre: There is a house hidden away in a small valley that holds a dark and dreadful secret. The psychic who lives in the house is a part of the secret. The house has a guardian - also the guardian of the psychic and the secret....The Keeper. Together they serve a force whose existence threatens mankind. And now a terrible danger is sensed and an outsider must protect them all. The outsider is Halloran, and he is unaware of the terrible evil he must face. He will learn of multinational corporation's strange method of detecting new mineral resources; he will combat men who thrive on the worst of physical corruption; he will find love of a most perverse nature; he will confront the darkness of his own soul - but most of all, he will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre. -
Wentworth, Ohio: a small, idyllic friendly little town, where the Carver children bicker over sweets and Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street, it's a normal summer's day, with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats tinking, Frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But young Cary Ripton, on his paper round notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside her glass door - and he's always thought there was something creepy about her nephew, Poplar Street's best kept secret. What Cary doesn't notice is the chrome-red van idling up the hill...soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin and the Regulators will arrive in force. And by night-fall on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and despair...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
The Throat: Peter Straub
$7.00Tim Underhill (Koko) has been summoned by John, a childhood friend, to his home town of Millhaven. After decades of silence it seems that the Blue Rose Killer has struck again - murdering John's wife. Assisted by amateur detective Tom Pasmore, Underhill is drawn into a morass of lies, deceit and shocking revelations that lead to the terrors of his own past - the mysterious events in the Vietnamese jungles; the killing of his young sister and the murders that rocked the city. Cover art by Rob Wood. -
Dead Souls: Michael Laimo
$15.00For eighteen-year-old Johnny Petrie, the run-down farmhouse in Maine means a way out. When the letter arrived saying he had inherited an estate from a man he'd never heard of, Johnny knew he could finally escape from his religious zealot father and drunken father. He didn't know the hell he was moving to was far, far worse...The previous owner of the estate was Benjamin Conroy, a man obsessed with securing eternal life for himself and his family - even if he had to kill them to do it. Conroy's ultimate ritual, a perverse horror of blood and butchery, went hideously wrong, denying him the immortality he sought and ending with him and his family dead. But now Johnny has moved in, Conroy's spirit will have a second chance... -
It is a hot, August morning in the summer of 1963. All over the rural town of Grandville, tacked to power poles and trees, taped to store windows, blowing along the sidewalks, fliers have appeared announcing the mysterious one-night-only performance of The Traveling Vampire Show, featuring Valeria, the only known vampire in captivity. According to the fliers, she is a gorgeous, stunning beauty. In the course of the performance, she will stalk volunteers from the audience, sink her teeth into their necks and drink their blood! Teenagers Dwight, Rusty and Slim know it won't be easy getting in to see these wonders - the show is only for over 18s and they can't pass for that. And the performance starts at midnight - way past their curfew - and then there's the ten bucks admission fee. But what's to stop them hiking out to Janks' Field and watch the set-up? Maybe they'll catch a glimpse of the gorgeous Valeria - there can't be any harm in that, surely...? Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
Hideaway: Dean Koontz
$8.00Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to hospital, a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. With this second chance, Hatch and his wife Lindsey have a new appreciation of life - until a serious of frightening and mysterious events bring them face to face with the unknown. Although Hatch had no glimpse of the Afterlife during the time his heart was stopped, he has reason to fear that he may have brought back a terrible Presence from the Land of the Dead. Cover art by Graham Potts. -
Shadow Hill: Diane Guest
$6.00Eveline is dead. The doctor says so. So how can she hear the sound of her mother's grief and as the coffin lid closes, feel terror at the endless horror that Adrien Ravel has in store for her? Ravel, cool and devilishly handsome, is the new owner of the once-beautiful Shadow Hill. He is Haitian, an expert at traditional voodoo. So when beautiful Sylvie returns to her home town to find her cousin Eveline and disappears, her employers are worried. Drs David and Galen Wickliffe arrive to find that the trail leads to Shadow Hill and it' s growing ever more sinister. When David meets with a horrible accident, Galen realises that only she, with her expertise in mind control, can challenge Ravel at his own ghastly game... -
Night Child: Jes Battis
$15.00OSI, Book 1: My boss dragged me out of bed at two in the morning to see a dead vampire? I might be an Occult Special Investigator for Vancouver's Mystical Crime Lab, but a dead vamp is routine and no reason to disturb a person's sleep. Then I took a closer look... Tess Corday soon realises there is not going to be anything ordinary about this case: not the lab results on the cause of death; not Mia Polanski, the teenage girl living at the address found in the dead vamp's pocket, who may well be in thrall to a demon; and certainly not Lucian Agrado, the necromancer liaison to the vampire community. He's supposed to be part of the solution but Tess suspects he might be part of the problem. Under pressure from her boss, Tess is trying to go by the book on this one. But Mia needs help and Tess risks her career - and finds herself in the midst of a paranormal conspiracy that will change her life forever - or end it....
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Wolf Springs Chronicles I. Katelyn McBride’s life changed in an instant when her mother died. Uprooted from her California home, Katelyn was shipped to the middle of nowhere, Arkansas, to her only living relative, her grandfather. And now she has to start over in Wolf Springs, a tiny village in the Ozark Mountains. Like any small town, Wolf Springs has secrets. But the secrets hidden here are more sinister than Katelyn could ever imagine. It’s a town with a history that reaches back centuries, spans continents, and conceals terrifying truths. And Katelyn McBride is about to change everything. Broken families, ageless grudges, forced alliances, and love that blooms in the darkest night...welcome to Wolf Springs. -
In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British aeroplane, carrying evacuated schoolboys, crashes on an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. At first the boys are enchanted with their freedom from supervision and authority, but Ralph and a few of his friends recognise the need to learn and implement survival skills, such as fishing, hunting, shelter and maintaining a smoke signal for rescue. But it's not long before even this basic law and order deteriorates as the boys are more concerned with fun, lazing and the formation of a group of hunters and their rituals. And now the horror really begins....Labelled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most memorable novel about the end of innocence...the darkness of man’s heart. -
The Book Of Hell: Ray Russell
$170.00Five satanic tales from the Grand Master of Macabre. In this volume: Meaningful Dialogue: A husband murders his wife - only to discover the hideous truth about her past. Evil Star: Written in the form of a letter, a man is determined to get his manuscript published. Rational Moments: A music connoisseur's unearthly passion leads him to the brink of primeval chaos; The Wine Of Life: A lawyer, fed up with corruption, plaintiffs, telephones and all the rest of his world, drives away and into an adventure when he picks up a pretty young hitchhiker... Dorian Black: A promising student pays a demonic price for success (written as a screenplay.) -
Jude - perfect body, perfect mind. The first time she came back she killed a man right after he touched her and vanished, just vanished into the hills. Now she's back for Dan. This time she wants his wife, his son, his past he's so carefully concealed from the FBI and she wants him. And what Jude doesn't get, she kills. In the eternal summer of the Californian dream, a shadow is moving down from the hills, bringing hot winds that blow to burning. But Dan knows Jude is not a dream - she can love a man to death...Cover art by J.K. Potter. -
Book III of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. A devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans and Victor Helios, once known as Frankenstein, has unleashed his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos his engineered killers spin out of control and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor's first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have conceived: an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose beyond imagining. -
Pandora: Anne Rice
$12.00In a cafe in modern day Paris, in the aftermath of a fresh Kill, the fearless, beautiful Pandora begins her tale of treachery, vengeance and love that crosses two millennia. As a young mortal in Imperial Rome in the time of Augustus, Pandora was introduced to the blood-cult of Isis. Later, in exile in Antioch, she was drawn further into the ancient dark rites. Now, Pandora decides to return once more to New Orleans to find the love of her early life, Marius, and to see the Vampire Lestat. Cover art by Holly Warbuton. -
Lovedeath: Dan Simmons
$80.00Five tales of love and death; Entropy's Bed at Midnight - Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Plan as we might, the defy our planning. Dying in Bangkok - Mara and her child are monsters, but even monsters get careless. Even monsters can be killed. Sleeping With Teeth Women - a celebration of the richness of North American lore in the epic ale of Hoka Ushte, a seventeen year old Sioux warrior given the awesome responsibility of being the saviour of his people. Flashback - the point wherein the ability to recapture the past - and those lost to us in the past - becomes a sickness rather than a solace. If a simple drug allowed you to relive segments of your life, would you take it? The Great Lover - a trip into the terrible crucible of World War I in an attempt to understand how the mind and heart of a sensitive poet could have survived such horrors. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Cold Hill House has been demolished to make way for a new housing estate. Luxury-living at its best with high specification gadgets all thrown in. The violent memories of Cold Hill House have gone up in flames, and a new era has begun. Although much of Cold Hill is still a construction site, the first two families move in. For Jason and Emily. this is their forever home, and for Claudette and Maurice, it's the perfect place to live out their retirement. It looks to be the ideal place, despite the current rumble of cement mixers and diggers. But looks are deceptive, and before long both couples feel that they are not alone in their new homes...because no-one ever really left Cold Hill House... -
Sepulchre: James Herbert
$9.00There is a house called Neath that holds a dark and terrible secret. In that house, there is a psychic called Kline who is part of its secret. The Keeper is guardian of the house, of the psychic, and of the secret. But now an outsider must protect them from a terrible danger. Halloran will combat men who thrive on physical corruptions; he will find love of a perverse nature; he will confront his soul's own darkness. And eventually he will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre. -
Accursed: Guy N. Smith
$45.00The Reverend Mason, an elderly English priest on his last trip to Egypt, uncovers the tomb of Dalukah - she who had been put to death with her lover, Aba-aner, a commoner. Mason brings back the two mummies, but he also brings back the amulet of Set which had been left to imprison them. As the mummies began to decompose in the damp English atmosphere, he reburies them with due reverence. Years later, in the heat of a blistering summer, George Brownlow decides to build a shelter. He finds the amulet of Set and it possesses him to follow its purposes - to re-enact the saga of Dalukah and Aba-aner. -
The Island: T.M. Wright
$10.00It's winter. The lake has frozen over and the island is covered with snow. Everything is still and white. Except for the people at the bottom of the lake, the dead people, with their bright blue eyes and strange pale skin. They have been waiting for the winter, and now they are stirring, shifting and awakening. Soon they'll be strong. Soon the island will send them to seek new victims. In winter, the island's dead cannot be stopped...Cover art by Danny Flynn. -
They came from the darkness of the bowels of the earth...a new species of beetle which needed to destroy in order to survive...the first creature other than Man with the ability to create fire. The beetles ate carbon - they lived on the charred remains of buildings and sometimes people. There is no insecticide or natural predator than can kill them and it seems a new species will inherit the earth. But then Professor James Parmiter discovers a method of destruction but for reasons of his own, refuses to use it... -
A huge helping of chillers including 1408 - a motel room where people have the unaccountable urge to commit suicide and where a young sceptical reporter finds out that all he's heard - and more - is true; The Road Virus Heads North - A painting done by a disturbed and lately deceased man comes alive in a very horrendous fashion; Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - a recently separated couple meet with a lawyer to end their marriage, but do not bargain on the head waiter's behaviour. These and eleven other stories that no other writer would ever dream of. DVD: preloved; region 4 -
Book III of The Omen. His coming was foretold in a prophecy of ultimate evil from beyond the dawn of time. A prophecy which spelled destruction for those who ignored the warning until it was too late, and which is about to be fulfilled...From a crumbling monastery in the depths of Northern Italy, Father DeCarlo has watched the relentless progress of the Anti-Christ. Now he knows the world is on the edge of a nightmare that it will not survive. Around the globe, drought, famine and flood strike down helpless millions. There is trouble everywhere. Damien Thorn, the handsome, thirty-two year old head of one of the world's most powerful corporations... and certain to be president of the United States by the time he is forty. Damien, believed to be the son of Satan, reaching out to claim the Earth for the forces of darkness... Now is the time of prophecy, and Mankind's only hope lies with twelve men and one woman who must fight a desperate battle that will carry them across the very frontiers of darkness in the final showdown between good and evil. From the screenplay by Andrew Birkin and based on characters created by David Seltzer. -
Includes: The Willows; Secret Worship; Ancient Sorceries; The Glamour of Snow; The Wendigo; The Other Wing; The Transfer; Ancient Lights; The Listener; The Empty House; Accessory Before the Fact; Keeping His Promise; Max Hensig. -
The portrait which Basil Hallward painted of Dorian Gray revealed the face of an Adonis, and when he saw the finished picture of himself, the beautiful young aesthete exclaimed: 'Why should it keep what I must love. Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could always be what I am now!' His perverse aspiration was strangely fulfilled. Abandoning himself to every sin his profligate mind could devise, the wealthy and exquisite young man brought misery and disgrace upon all who accepted his companionship, but Dorian Gray still wore the outward appearance of serene beauty. It was upon the portrait, locked away in his attic, that the marks of degeneration mysteriously appeared, for the painting of Adonis slowly transformed into the likeness of a satyr. This was Wilde's only novel; slightly edited when it first appeared in print in 1891 but due to public outrage at the remaining hints of homosexuality and deviancy, was further edited. This edition is the version in which only 500 words had been cut from Wilde's original manuscript. Wilde himself said, of Dorian Gray: 'All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.' Many believe that Wilde not only intend to point a moral but to highlight the fact that Dorian. himself and many others in the Victorian age were forced to live a double life of hypocrisy, but that to lead such a double life is, in the end, destructive to oneself and to those about one. Cover art from an engraving by Ceil Keeling.
