Jack Stone, outwardly shy and unremarkable, writes works of dark and tortured fantasy which have captured the public imagination. Despite his celebrity status, he's a lonely man whose smart London life is a form of exile. He has painful memories he refuses to examine, roots he refuses to revisit - until he meets Gail, a beautiful, enigmatic girl who seems to sense the shadows around him. When there is news of a death in is family, Jack is forced to return to the horror that has coloured his nightmares for years - his childhood home. There he finds the terror and humiliation he remembers from his upbringing - but he makes a startling discovery as well. Cover art by Ken Leeder.
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The Immaculate: Mark Morris
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Bob Harlow is an academic; Vern Cugnet is an auto mechanic. Beside this difference, Bob has another distinction - his once-pleasant life in North Dakota is going to hell. Terrible things are befalling Bob, his family and friends: strange infections, nasty infestations, thefts and accidents - one of which is fatal. And Bob realises that the jinx is the result of a side trip he took into Tibet after a year-long sabbatical in China. There, in the Place of the Dead, Bob committed thoughtless sacrilege when he pocketed two mani stones - engraved funeral markers - as souvenirs. No matter what the obstacles, he must return the sacred objects. Vern - naive, crude and indomitable - volunteers to go along and the unlikely companions set out to undo the curse. The trek will take them through China, India and Nepal and involve them in border frays, encounters with holy hermits and bloodthirsty demons and finally, an audience with the Dalai Lama himself.
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A collection of Poe's best horror-chillers: In this volume: The Gold-bug; William Wilson; The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar; The Island Of The Fay; The Sphinx; MS. Found In A Bottle; Eleonara; A Descent Into The Maelstrom; The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion; The Murders In The Rue Morgue; They Mystery of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter; The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade;; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Domain Of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; The Premature Burial; The Assignation; Shadow - A Parable; The Black Cat; The Masque of the Red Death; The Spectacles; The Cask Of Amontillado; The Oval Portrait; The Tell-Tale Heart; Ligeia; The Oblong Box; Metzengerstein; Silence - A Fable; Hop-Frog; The Man Of The Crowd; A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains; The Imp Of The Perverse; Some Words With A Mummy; The Devil In The Belfry; The Balloon Hoax; "Thou Art The Man" Cover art: The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Harry Clarke -
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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Dorian is handsome, debonair and charming - and he wants to stay that way. In fact, he'll do anything to stay young and handsome - forever. So when he looks at his portrait and wishes that the portrait could age in his place...He gets his wish, but with awful consequences...The tale of Dorian Gray’s gradual moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” -
The Ka of Gifford Hillary is a story concerned with the greatest of all mysteries: what happens after death? With Sir Gifford Hillary and Wing Commander Johnny Norton involved in plans to counter the might of Soviet Russia, interest soon centres on the evil Lady Ankaret and the tragedy which occurred at Longshot Hall, South Hampshire, on the night of the 9th September. A victim is struck down, and from that moment onward, the events which follow seem - at first - fantastic and unbelievable...but are later realised to be entirely logical. What does happen after death? And why should Sir Gifford find himself in prison, on trial for his life?
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Fleshcreepers series. What ancient force connects strange happenings in a London home, a spitting cat and an Egyptian mummy's severed hand? Unsuitable for children under 10. -
According to statistics, only 10% of the world's population has seen a ghost or experienced something supernatural. What lends substance to this small number is that it is 10% of each generation. Thus, over the millennia, many millions of people have encountered haunts of one sort or another, and it is this rather formidable number that makes the phenomenon believable. What makes them unbelievable is the sceptical 90% and it is between these two disparate hordes - living and dead - that the debate has raged for thousands of years. In this volume there are well known cases - Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England, the Phantom Battle of Edgehill, the Drummer of Tedworth - but also lesser known occurrences, such as the late Nelly Butler and the Dark Lady of Bognor Regis. There are also chapters on poltergeists, non-human apparitions, spirit voices and demons. -
Bartholomew Lampion is blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regains his sight when he is thirteen. The sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the light has nothing to do with a holy healer, nor do celestial trumpets announce the miracle. A roller coaster has something to do with it, as does a seagull. Barty's profound desire is to make his mother proud of him before she dies. The first time she dies was the day Barty was born: January 6, 1965....
