Duke de Richleau Adventure VI. What Dennis Wheatley did not know about both black and white magic wasn't worth knowing. the Duke de Richeleau and Rex Van Ryn know something bizarre has happened to their friend Simon Aron. Why else would he fail his most trusted friends? The Duke has a suspicion, but nothing can prepare him or Van Ryn for the terrible confirmation of his fears. Their oldest friend has fallen prey to the Forces of Darkness - through a powerful emissary of Satan against whom all earthly faculties are useless. Cover art by Herb Schmitz.
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Sookie Stackhouse 1. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business - except when it comes to her “disability.” Sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life...But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps - along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill - Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea… -
Vividly detailed and highly readable, this classic history of witchcraft and demonology provides a thorough exploration of sorcery, Satanism and every variety of the black arts. Reflecting popular folklore and theological opinions of the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, this survey of necromancy traces witchcraft from ancient times to the twentieth century, describing the link between heresy and the occult. Threaded with dramatic accounts of witch trials and devil's pacts, this time-tested reference offers a compelling look at The Worship of the Witch, Demons and Familiars, the Sabbat, and Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism. It also offers fascinating insight into the role of the Witch in Dramatic Literature. A prolific occult historian, Montague Summers wrote numerous books, and he edited and translated such important early demonology and witchcraft texts as the Malleus Maleficarum. An intriguing perspective on the development of the black arts and their heretical interpretations by society, church, and state. Illustrated. -
Click...click...click….click. Phillipsport, Maine is a quaint and peaceful seaside village. But when hundreds of creatures pour out of the ocean and attack, its residents must take up arms to drive the beasts back. They are the Clickers, giant venomous blood-thirsty crabs from the depths of the sea. The only warning to their rampage of dismemberment and death is the terrible clicking of their claws. But these monsters aren't merely here to ravage and pillage. They are being driven onto land by fear. Something is hunting the Clickers. Something ancient and without mercy… -
A selection of chillers, including the essay A Variety of Monsters by the Master himself… The Day Of The Dragon (1934): Guy Endore; The King Of The Cats (1929): Stephen Vincent Benét; Slime (1953): Joseph Payne Brennan; The Man Who Sold Rope To The Gnoles (1951): Margaret St. Clair [Writing As Idris Seabright ]; Henry Martindale, Great Dane (1954): Miriam Allen Deford; The Microscopic Giants (1936): Paul Ernst; The Young One (1954) : Jerome Bixby; Doomsday Deferred (1949): Murray Leinster [As By Will F. Jenkins ]; "Shadow, Shadow, On The Wall ..." (1951): Theodore Sturgeon; The Desrick On Yandro (1952): Manly Wade Wellman; The Wheelbarrow Boy (1950) : Richard Parker; Homecoming (1946): Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) . -
This book is NOT fiction! Count Dracula really existed. Donald F. Glut brings to life tales of historical vampires taken from numerous contemporary chronicles dating from the days of the Roman Empire up through the recorded exploits of vampire hunters of the Twentieth Century. From the cobblestone streets of European cities, through the vastness of Asia and the jungles of Africa, to the secret haunts of the New World, the author brings his researches to life in over fifty narratives of vampire case histories. Have you ever wondered whether or not vampires actually exist? Folklore or fact? Glut's classic survey of the historical record provides food for thought fascinating insights into sanguinary world of the vampire. -
Coddington, a leading expert on the paranormal and his wife, psychic Marianne, know first hand that ghosts are among us. It was during a ghost hunt in Richmond, Virginia , that Marianne’s body became the medium for the lost spirit of a teenager. The earthbound Angelica taught them how to listen, and forever changed their beliefs about life and death. In this fascinating trip to the other side, you cn meet the Coddingtons’ subjects in their own words – documented conversations of people who lived in distant centuries, taken from this world by war and murder, accident and sudden illness. And share in what may be the most incredible experience of all: how earthbound spirits, unaware of their mortal deathsand still trapped on this place of existence, can be guided to their home in the afterlife. -
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. -
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.
