Horror/Occult

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  • On 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...
  • London 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.
  • When 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
  • A 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
  • He 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...
  • It 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...
  • 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