Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • A Gregory Sallust adventure, No. 11. The war is long over, but danger and excitement still cling to ex-agent Gregory Sallust. Boredom leads him to Rio de Janeiro, where he is soon drawn into an adventure that takes him to the South Pacific.  Circumstance leads to him becoming the friend of a young South Seas Rajah, Ratu James Omboluku, there to secure finance to recover treasure from a sunken ship lying off the island he rules; and he intends to use this treasure for the betterment of his people. But others, led by the unscrupulous Pierre Lacost, are also planning to recover the treasure, and it is not long before Gregory, having an affair with the passionate Manon de Bois-Tracy, finds himself surrounded by blackmail, kidnapping, the most ruthless thugs he has ever encountered - and murder and black magic that turn the paradise of the islands into a place of horror and death.  Illustrated by Stephen Bennett.
  • Mysterious and bizarre people...who were they?  Where did they go? There's mysterious geniuses - a French Rabbi who had electric light in the 13th century, to the man who was caught on video walking through a solid door; author Jonathan Swift, who described the Martian moons and their orbits 150 years before they were discovered to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. And more...Hannah Brade, the mysterious maid who wasn't what she seemed; William  Harrison - the bizarre case of the Campden murder; Bruce Lee - was the martial arts superstar murdered? The Man in the Iron Mask -  who was the legendary prisoner who could not show his face? The Men In Black - shadowy visitors who stalk UFO witnesses; Adolf Hitler - black magician? The Atlanteans - did the legendary island of Atlantis really exist? The Green Children - a strange tale from the Middle Ages; Robin Hood - who was the legendary outlaw? The Lunarians - is there intelligent life on our  moon? Nostradamus - the man who saw tomorrow; Richard Bingham - the case of the vanishing peer...and many more.
  • Who is Joanna Rand? Alex Hunter hasn't come to Japan to fall in love. But Joanna Reed is the most beautiful, exciting woman he's ever met. Yet, Joanna is not who she thinks she is. Ten years earlier and halfway across the world, a brutally bizarre experiment recreated her mind; a violation so hideous that her dreams are filled with terror and her memories are a lie. If they are ever to be free, Alex and Joanna have to re-open the door into the nightmare past - they have to find the key to midnight. This is the fist British Commonwealth publication of this book under the author's real name. It was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. Cover art  by Graham Potts.
  • In Oxford and Paris psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York, writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathon Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box, and unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within every man...Cover art by Danny Flynn.
  • Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. He likes everything in his life to be neat and clean from his immaculate condominium to his well-tailored clothes to his homicide case files, free of typing errors. The bane of his life is his partner, Connie Gulliver.  He doesn't like the way she dresses for work, the messiness of her desk, her lack of manners or her sometimes casual attitude toward the law. She says its the Age of Chaos in a modern world and he ought to get with it - and he loathes that attitude. But when Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in a crowded restaurant, the chase and shootout degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connie's world view.On his way back to the office to write up his report, a hulking denizen of the streets dressed in filthy rags tells him, "Tick-tock, tick-tock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours." Until dawn the next day Harry struggles to regain his neat orderly life but is instead caught in an undertow of terror and violence. Someone's after him for reasons he doesn't understand and he must come to terms with the chaotic modern world if he is to save Connie, the people he loves and himself. Cover art  by Graham Potts.
  • Bishop, a ghost hunter and writer on the paranormal, always seeks a scientific explanation for the things that go bump in the night.  He begins an investigation of an old house in London, but finds bodies. Over 30 people apparently mass suicide...And so it came, like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night... a small girl smiled as her mother burned... Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants... in slimy tunnels, once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade, and humanity was attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil.
  • The 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.
  • Haunted by bizarre dreams, Sabra Narman thought she might lose her sanity, her marriage, even her life.  Desperate for a cure, the Narmans leave their hectic city life to make a new start in a peaceful country town.  But an insidious evil was trapped there, waiting for release, craving the souls of innocent victims.  When Sabra's children accidentally free the evil, Sabra alone has the power to save them - if she can face the very visions that had threatened to destroy her.
  • Dr Ezawa had discovered how to create the zombies of Louisiana Bayou legend - the injection of corpses with the soil of old slave graveyards.  They eyes of the awakened dead blazed green with strange visions and superhuman abilities.  But when one escapes, unwilling to be a guinea pig and begins to test his growing powers on the superstitious Cajun swamp dwellers, another terrifying world begins to unfold before his green eyes.... Cover art by Gino D'Achille.