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Book/ DVD: I Am Legend: Richard Matheson
$3.00–$12.00Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization, hoping to find other survivors. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires? Cover art by Jim Thiesen (variant) DVD: Will Smith; Alice Braga: preloved; very good condition region 4 -
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. -
Frank Pollard awakens in an alley knowing nothing but his name - and that he is in great danger. Over the next few days he develops a fear of going to sleep because he awakens with blood on his hands and bizarre and terrifying objects in his pockets. Distraught and despairing, he begs husband and wife detective team, Bobby and Julie Dakota, to get to the bottom of the amnesiac fugues but they are drawn into ever-darkening realms where they encounter the nightmare, hate-filled figure that's stalking Frank. Their lives are threatened, as is that of Julie's gentle, Down's Syndrome brother Thomas. To Thomas, death is the bad place from which there is no return, but as each of them ultimately learns there are equally bad places in the world of the living, places so steeped in evil that death seems almost to be a relief...Cover art by Graham Potts.
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Rachael's violent ex-husband's body, hideously mangled in a freak accident and pronounced dead, has disappeared from the city morgue. Now something - or someone - is watching her. Calling her. Stalking her. And no-one will believe her when she says she knows who it is. His walking corpse, a grotesque mockery of life. His brilliant, warped mind, once again alive and seething with jealous rage, seeking an unspeakable revenge beyond her worst nightmare. There is nowhere left to run. He has his own key.... -
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) -
It was every mother's worst nightmare. Her husband had abandoned her for a sinister, sensuous younger woman and the weird nomadic group she led - and had taken their two children with him. But now Patsy Havelin had snatched Peter and Judith back again and was bringing them home to safety. Or so she thought. As she left the old dark house with the with-woman's snarled curses following her, the real nightmare was just beginning. She drove into the night and the road sifted...changed...It was the road to Hell. Terrorised by doom-visions, hounded by the witch and the monsters she controlled, Patsy drove deeper into the circles of Hell on the road that seemed to have no end. The only signs of life were wild, savage life, ready to feed on anything that came by. She was alone, frantic and lost, then she saw the stranger by his fire at the roadside...Cover art by Nicholas Forder.
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Good Evening... The Master of Spine-Chills presents another selection: The Mugging, Edward L. Perry; Finger! Finger! Margaret Ronan; A Cry From the Penthouse, Henry Slesar; The People Next Door, Pauline C. Smith; D-Day, Robert Trout; The Man Who Liked Dickens, Evelyn Waugh; and a full length novel...The Iron Gates, Margaret Millar. -
Griffin, a brilliant chemistry student, discovers how to make himself invisible. The consequences are terrifying and his desperate attempts to make contact with his fellow human beings lead to mounting scenes of violence and horror as his insanity grows. In the end he can only survive by terrorising everyone who he does manage to come into contact with. Wells, known more for his futuristic visions, took an outing into horror with this book. Cover art by Tim Jacobus.
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The truly gruesome tales included in this volume: Manuscript Found in a Bottle; Ligeia; The Man That Was Used Up; The Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; The Man of the Crowd; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; A Descent into the Maelstrom; Eleanora; The Oval Portrait;The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold-bug; The Black Cat; The Purloined Letter; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillado; Hop-Frog. Also included are poems and essays not often included in other Poe anthologies. Cover art: detail from Oiseau by Odilon Redon. -
When the storm rages and the avalanche cuts off power and phone lines, no one in the chalet is particularly bothered. There are kerosene lamps, a well-stocked bar and food supplies more than adequate to last them till the road to Nidenhaut can be opened up. They’re on holiday after all, and once the weather clears they can carry on skiing. They do not know, then, that deep within the Swiss Alps, something alien has stirred: an invasion so sly it can only be detected by principled reasoning...The Possessors had a long memory… For aeons, which were now uncountable, their life had been bound up with the evanescent lives of the Possessed. Without them, they could not act or think, but through them they were the masters of this cold world... -
Book II City of Night. They are nearly indestructible. They are stronger, heal faster and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios - once known as Frankenstein - can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time monster and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/frankenstein-dead-and-alive/ -
Every small town has a place like the mound. Lovers go there to woo, families picnic on it summer, children sled in winter. For the community of Oscala, New York, the mound has never been dangerous - until now. Something beyond cunning or imagining, something undeniably evil is hiding beneath the mound. The terror comes from out of time, space and the depths of the human mind with its alien needs and desires. It spreads its roots secretively, changing and reshaping reality. It intends to sweep aside all that the good townsfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, the promise of their souls. How can ordinary people protect themselves from this evil? Brian Kelly, a physicist still grieving for the hideous death of his first wife and child, suspects that the shell of reality has been torn to allow this monstrosity in. His pregnant second wife, Loi, is ready to dare anything to protect her unborn son. The tough yet vulnerable Ellen Maas, a reporter, must commit to destroying the beast - or die. Bob West, a cop, will turn to the law of the jungle if it will save his family. They must band together to defeat the evil beneath the mound. Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
This volume contains three of Russell's best-known horror tales: Sanguinarius: Count Ferencz Nadasdy - Charming, handsome, irresistible...and depraved beyond redemption as he indulges in fiendish rites. Sardonicus: The hideously afflicted master of a remote, dungeon-dark castle. Sagittarius: Laval - a monstrous actor in plays of torture and death, plays that become terrifyingly real... -
Yellow Fog: Les Daniels
$5.00Book IV of The Don Sebastian Vampire Chronicles. In Victorian London, a thick blanket of fog covers the city. As the sickly vapours enshroud the night, Felicia Lamb seeks the world beyond life - willingly accepting the embrace of the Undead to find it. Her fiance, Reginald Callender, stalks the dark streets, pursuing his bride-to-be and the immortal creature who stole her away. And blood-drinker Don Sebastian de Villaneuva searches for sanctuary amongst the hansom cabs and gaslights. But in a society where spirituality masks morbidity and respectability conceals rapacious cruelty, can even a vampire's kiss ensure eternal love? Cover art by Les Edwards. -
Book IV in The Vampire Chronicles. Vampire hero, rock star and seducer of millions, Lestat is an immortal extraordinaire. But he yearns to be reborn as a mortal. Tormented, he wanders aimlessly across the world until he meets the one being who can grant him his wish - the Body Thief, more sinister and evil than any demon. But when Lestat surrenders his vampire body he discovers he forgot so long ago - the awkwardness and anguish of being human. -
The Reverend David James discovers that a coven of witches have been using his church for worshipping Satan and calling up the dead. Meanwhile, alone in his mansion, Harry Royce is employing electronic devices to reach the outer limits of the universe. But when the invasion began it was not known whether the invaders were aliens from a contaminated star, or lost souls erupting out of Limbo. Two things are clear: It cannot be stopped and once it ends, there will be no one sane left on earth. Cover art by Jack Faragasso. -
Book/DVD: IT: Stephen King
$5.00–$9.00Derry, Maine is an ordinary town; familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live. But seven children - who call themselves the Losers - can see and feel what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks...the IT that takes the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appears as an evil clown, Pennywise, and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing...Time passes, the Losers grow up, move away and forget...Until they are called back, to confront IT once more, as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging to make their past nightmares a horrible, present reality...DVD (1990):Tim Curry;Richard Thomas; Annette O'Toole: preloved; very good condition; region 4 -
Intensity: Dean Koontz
$5.00Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, had a dark childhood which taught her to fear strange houses, and she cannot sleep on this first night in the home of her college friend Laura. A muffled scream from another room alarms her. A homicidal sociopath, Edgler Vess, is intent on killing everyone in the house. Life has taught Chyna to be a survivor but this will be her greatest test. A series of strange developments find her in Vess's motorhome - a dungeon and morgue on wheels - without him being aware of her presence. Vess lives only to satisfy his every appetite, to seek ever more outrageous experience, to immerse himself in sensation - to live with intensity. At first Chyna's only goal is to get out alive. But when she learns the identity of Vess's next victim and realises that only she can save that precious life, she must face the fact that a moral life requires acceptance of unwanted responsibilities. She must find courage and take risks beyond any she imagined she could endure.
