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A bundle of writing to keep you awake: Jerusalem's Lot: The short story that spawned the vampire classic 'Salem's Lot. Graveyard Shift: The workers at a decrepit textile mill are ordered to clean out the basement...sometimes basements should be left alone...Night Surf: The short story that King later developed into the epic novel The Stand. I Am The Doorway: An astronaut finds he has been exposed to a terrible, malignant mutagen. The Mangler: In which an industrial laundry press takes on a very horrible life of its own. The Boogeyman: The perennial frightener of children is alive and well... Grey Matter: A young boy seeks help for his reclusive father, who drank a can of 'bad' beer. Battleground: A professional hitman receives a surprise gift of very special toy soldiers. Trucks: Technology is a good servant, but a bad master - a very bad master... Sometimes They Come Back: 1957 - and Jim's brother Wayne is murdered by three hoodlums. 1974...the hoodlums are back, looking just as they did in 1957...Strawberry Spring: Serial killer 'Springheel Jack' eluded the police in 1968...now it's 1976, and 'Springheel' is killing again. The Ledge: A wealthy criminal overlord finds the man who has been sleeping with his wife, and offers him a strange deal. The Lawnmower Man: There really are people who 'mow the lawn' in the nude. Quitter's Inc: It's hard to break bad habits - but Quitters, Inc has a sure-fire way...I Know What You Need: A pretty college student is attracted to Ed, a social outcast, who always knows just what she needs. Children of The Corn: The Children of Gatlin know who walks behind the corn...The Last Rung On The Ladder: When Larry's beautiful sister commits suicide, he remembers a fateful day of childhood play in the hayloft. The Man Who Loved Flowers: A tale of enduring, obsessive love. One For The Road: Those who live near the abandoned town of 'Salem's Lot know not to go out at night - not for anything...The Woman In The Room: A man contemplates the mercy-killing of his beloved, terminally ill mother. DVD: Trucks: Lunar is a small town near the infamous Area 51, renowned for its UFO sightings - and nothing much happens there apart from tourists in search of the odd alien. Until the day the residents and visitors are cut off from the world - and held hostage - when a horrific convoy of trucks goes on the rampage, wreaking havoc, destruction and death. The trucks have no drivers, but they have minds of their own...minds that can control the residents...minds that can use their metal tonnage to kill...and kill...and kill...Based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King As new; all regions; scarce title. Children of the Corn: Linda Hamilton; Peter Horton; Courtney Gains: preloved; all regions; very good condition -
The Survivor: James Herbert
$20.00It had been one of the worst crashes in airline history, with over 300 dead and only one survivor. Now the dead were buried and the town of Eton tried to forget. But Keller, the survivor, wanted to know what unseen forces had left him still alive. How had he walked from the flaming wreck, the only one to live? The tragedy left a lingering sense of evil and menace in the quiet countryside - and then strange events began to occur...A schoolboy is found decapitated on a railway track; a couple fall to their deaths from a bedroom window, but it seems the man has been dead for some time...Keller sets about retracing the events of the crash and the town is forced to face the dreadful truth about what was buried in the old graveyard... -
Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X. England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...Illustrated by David Hollinshead. N.B. While this was the first Gregory Sallust story published, it is No. X in the chronological order. -
A Place To Fear: G.M. Hague
$15.00In the small sugar cane town of Hickory, supernatural events are on the rise. There are odd, frightening lights hovering above the river and crop circles in the fields. The strange sightings aren't just limited to the night sky, however. Glimpses of ghostly apparitions are seen through the windows of shuttered houses – the tortured spirits of people only recently buried. The situation gets rapidly worse as the eerie lights are more brazen, the dead are seen walking the streets late at night and in the local cemetery the soil over the graves is starting to stir ...There is no escape for Michael Garrett and Kerry Wentworth, two newcomers to Hickory. The outside world is cut off and anyone attempting to enter or leave the town never finish the journey. Hickory has become a bad place to be... a place to fear. -
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's efforts to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. -
Tales of horror from the original masters...Spinechillers in this volume include: The Furnished Room, O. Henry; The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde; The Oval Portrait, Edgar Allan Poe; The Ghost Detective, Mark Lemon; The Horla and A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant; The Story of the Unknown Church, William Morris; The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell; The Devil's Wager, W.M. Thackery; Teigue Of The Lee, T. Crofton Coker; The Captain Of The PoleStar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Haunted Mill or The Ruined House, Jerome K. Jerome; The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman and The Bagman's Story, Charles Dickens; The Spectre of Tappington, Thomas Ingoldsby; The Hollow Of The Three Hills, Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Lady of Rosemount, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson; Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman, Wilkie Collins; The Ghost Ship, Richard Middleton; The Body Snatcher, Robert Louis Stevenson; Man-size in Marble, Edith Nesbit; The Last of Squire Ennismore, Mrs. J.H. Riddell; The Withered Arm, Thomas Hardy; The Moonlit Road, Ambrose Bierce; Ghosts That Have Haunted Me, John Kendrick Bangs; The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, Florence Marryat. -
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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Desperation: Stephen King
$15.00Headed down the highway are the Jacksons, on their way home to New York; the Carvers, a family on vacation and Johnny Marinville, a once-famous author. They all encounter the little town of Desperation, which should be a refuge in the middle of the Nevada desert. But the once thriving copper mining town is eerily empty. Almost abandoned - except for the local cop patrolling the wilderness, guarding Desperation's secrets, hidden in the landscape. When those secrets are unleashed, a terrifying transformation takes place and the travellers learn the true meaning of the word desperation...Cover art by Chris Moore.
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Under The Dome: Stephen King
$12.00–$15.00On an entirely normal, beautiful autumn day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. A planes crashes into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage; a gardener’s hand is severed as The Dome comes down on it; those running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families; cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away. The Army needs a man on the 'inside' and finds Dale Barbara, former Iraq veteran, now a short-order cook. He finds support with a few intrepid citizens - but against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a local politician who will stop at nothing - even murder - to cling to power and who sees The Dome as the answer to his political prayers. With Big Jim is his son, who is keeping a dreadful secret; and a bunch of Big Jim's renegade bully-boys who designate themselves as the new law and order. They have to find what created The Dome, fast. Because the children begin having dreams of a horrific Hallowe'en...electricity and the internet begin to fail...food and water is running short...air is limited...and time is running out... -
The Rats: James Herbert
$30.00London is struck by an invasion. Women, children, old and young, none are safe from the deadly menace. The attacks are swift and sure, escape is impossible. A state of emergency is declared. Evacuation seems to be the only solution in the face of the growing panic and mounting death toll. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But this time, the enemy is a species of super rat - the mutant results of an atomic blast - and suddenly, shockingly, horribly... the balance of power had shifted and war is declared - the rats are public enemy number one... -
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America - and into another realm. Jack, on a desperate quest to save his mother’s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. -
An old man is possessed and tormented by an evil spirit...the ghost of a little girl returns to terrorise her isolated home...a house in the leafy suburbs becomes a place of worship for followers of the black arts..crew members begin to die on a space station when a cryogenics experiment goes horribly wrong...and a corpse is grotesquely brought back to life in the name of science. All these incidents are linked to Matthew Kindling: an ex-priest fighting for his sanity and his life, relentlessly pursued by Darkness and propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagination. Cover art by Gregory Bridges. -
The Dark Half: Stephen King
$15.00When writer Thad Beaumont hit a difficult period, he created 'George Stark' - at first, Stark was a bit of fun, a pseudonym, complete with a sinister author-biography. He wrote violent, commercial thrillers which became best sellers and soon, Stark was earning more money than Thad Beaumont. Now, Thad is feeling better and beginning to write for himself and as himself again. He doesn't need George Stark now so he announces that Stark will write no more, and even 'buries' him with a specially-made headstone for a magazine photo-feature. A happy ending to a lucrative but strange period in the life of Thad and Liz Beaumont. Except - George Stark doesn't want to die. Impossibly, he seems to have returned as a killing machine intent on destroying everything and anything that gets between him and his creator...Cover art by Paul Davies -
Duma Key: Stephen King
$18.00A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. But he remembers that sketching used to make him happy...Ed leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key and he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma has been waiting for him and he begins to paint. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and the elderly Elizabeth Eastlake. As he paints, his pictures take on a life of their own and the island's secrets begin to stir: secrets of children lost in the undertow, a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long fingers into the present. Cover art by Lisa Kimmell -
Fluke: James Herbert
$10.00He was a rangy mongrel, wandering the streets of the city, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a quarry he could not define. Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness was a memory clawing its way up, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory that he had once been a man... -
Chimera: Stephen Gallagher
$10.00NO SCHOOL UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... The village schoolhouse is in use as a morgue. There has been a tragedy at the remote Jenner Clinic. It has always been a place of secrets - and now, something terrible has happened. Meanwhile, high in the valley by Ravens'Crag Farm, the Gaskell children reach home. The farmyard is quiet. The gate stands open. The Gaskell boy tugs at his sister's sleeve.'Look, he says, and Sarah nods. In the middle of the yard, the Strange Boy is waiting for them...WAITING TO PLAY... -
Guardian: John Saul
$12.00MaryAnne Carpenter, newly separated and raising her two children, receives the news that her friends the Wilkersons have died suddenly and their only child - MaryAnne's god child - is orphaned. Was it a chance, tragic mishap that took their lives? Or was it murder? Joey Wilkerson is a sad, silent adolescent harbouring secrets that are nightmarish beyond MaryAnne's imaginings and as early winter closes in on the Wilkersons' beautiful, lonely ranch, Joey's sly secretiveness and volatile temper begin to fill MaryAnne with fear. Soon a series of horrific murders draw ever closer to the family, killings that defy solution by a desperate police force and MaryAnne begins to know the true meaning of terror. Cover art by Danilo Ducek.
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One dark and rainy night, Sir James Monmouth returns to London after years spent travelling alone. Intent on uncovering the secrets of his childhood hero, the mysterious Conrad Vane, he begins to investigate Vane’s life, but he finds himself warned off at every turn. Before long he realises he is being followed. A pale, thin boy is haunting his every step but every time he tries to confront the boy he disappears. And what of the chilling scream and desperate sobbing only he can hear? His quest leads him eventually to the old lady of Kittiscar Hall, where he discovers something far more terrible at work than he could ever have imagined. From the author of The Woman in Black and Mrs. De Winter (sequel to Rebecca) -
England, 1321: Deep in the heart of the countryside lies the isolated village of Ulewic - governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters: men cloaked in masks and secrecy, ruling with violence, intimidation, and terrifying fiery rites. It is a pagan world of terror and blackmail, where neighbour denounces neighbour and sin is punishable by death. This dark status quo is disturbed by the arrival of a house of religious women who establish a community - a beguinage - outside the village. Why do their crops succeed when village crops fail, and their cattle survive despite the plague? But petty jealousy turns deadly when the women give refuge to a young martyr. For she dies a gruesome death after spitting the sacramental host into flames that can't burn it - what magic is this!? Or is the martyr now a Saint, and the host a holy relic? The battle lines are drawn: accusations of witchcraft and heresy run rife while the Owl Masters rain down hellfire and torment on the women, who must look to their faith to save them; as innocents are swept into the drama; as Ulewic is ravaged by flood and disease; and with villagers driven by fear, a secret inside the beguinage will draw the desperate and the depraved - until masks are dropped, faith is tested…and every lie is exposed. -
Legion: William Peter Blatty
$25.00Book III of The Exorcist. A young boy is found dead by the side of a river, horribly crucified. Detective Bill Kinderman is baffled by the brutality but is more shaken by the mutilation that links this case to the 'Gemini' killings of the late 60s. Three days later, Kinderman is recording another death at Georgetown General Hospital - this one as bizarre as any he's ever encountered. He begins to piece together a solution to the new killings and the unsolved earlier deaths. The 'Gemini' killer is believed to be dead, shot down in a hail of bullets on the Golden Gate Bridge - or is he? -
The Witch Mark: S.F. Roland
$15.00Life in Tudor England was very hard for all but the landed gentry. The fear of witchcraft was prominent in people's minds. When Mary True's parents are taken to London and burned as witches, she knows that they-as well as so many others-are innocent. She follows them to the big city. Penniless, barefoot, lost, and knowing no one, she is determined to know the truth. Why were her parents so wrongfully punished? -
A century ago... Amanda, a gentle blind girl, walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came, taunting and teasing until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage, into the sea. Today...Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point, excited about her new friends - until a hand reaches out from the swirling mists: the hand of a blind child. She is asking for friendship and seeking revenge... -
The Calling: Bob Randall
$9.00There was no-one at the other end of the phone when she answered - just blankness, a dead line. When it rang again later, she felt scared. Her old dog was disturbed and whimpered in its sleep. Again, nothing. Then on the street, pay phones started ringing as she passed, eerily, insistently. And that was just the beginning... -
Book I of The Vampire Chronicles. In a darkened room a young man tells the macabre story of his life. It is Louis' story, told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the way of the vampire, gifted with eternal life and cursed with the craving for human blood. DVD: Region 4; preloved. -
Book Of Dead Days 1. The days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. Valerian, a magician, must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. But alchemy and sorcery are no match against the demonic power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name and no past. A quick-witted orphan girl, Willow, is with them as they dig in death fields at midnight, and as they are swept into the sprawling blackness of a subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. Young adult horror. -
Dusty Shame is a high school senior - and a serial killer. He's already murdered three women, and has more planned. Yet he does not want to hurt anyone. There is something inside him - or outside him - that compels him to kill. Sheila Hardolt lost her best friend to Dusty's insanity. It will be her task to probe the clues that will point her into the past - to a time when a large portion of m,ankind lost all sense of decency. There she will find the seed of Dusty's evil compulsion - the Wicked Heart - and the reason why it did not die the first time it was destroyed. Cover art by Paul Davies. -
Martie Rhodes, happily married, successful video game designer, is a compassionate friend to agoraphobic Susan, who she accompanies to therapy each week. The experience, though grim, has been a bond between the two women. Then Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own. She feels a brief, disquieting fear of - her shadow. There is something twisted in it, something not right. Other anxiety attacks ensure until Martie finds she is the victim of the rarest of all phobias known: autophobia, fear of oneself. Martie's life changes radically and her future looks dark. Her husband Dusty loves her and is desperate to understand the nature and cause of her autophobia. But as Dusty comes closer to the terrible truth, he begins to exhibit symptoms of a psychological disorder, even more unusual and terrible than that which afflicts Martie.
