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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Sookie Stackhouse 1. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business - except when it comes to her “disability.” Sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life...But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps - along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill - Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea… -
Vividly detailed and highly readable, this classic history of witchcraft and demonology provides a thorough exploration of sorcery, Satanism and every variety of the black arts. Reflecting popular folklore and theological opinions of the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, this survey of necromancy traces witchcraft from ancient times to the twentieth century, describing the link between heresy and the occult. Threaded with dramatic accounts of witch trials and devil's pacts, this time-tested reference offers a compelling look at The Worship of the Witch, Demons and Familiars, the Sabbat, and Diabolic Possession and Modern Spiritism. It also offers fascinating insight into the role of the Witch in Dramatic Literature. A prolific occult historian, Montague Summers wrote numerous books, and he edited and translated such important early demonology and witchcraft texts as the Malleus Maleficarum. An intriguing perspective on the development of the black arts and their heretical interpretations by society, church, and state. Illustrated. -
Click...click...click….click. Phillipsport, Maine is a quaint and peaceful seaside village. But when hundreds of creatures pour out of the ocean and attack, its residents must take up arms to drive the beasts back. They are the Clickers, giant venomous blood-thirsty crabs from the depths of the sea. The only warning to their rampage of dismemberment and death is the terrible clicking of their claws. But these monsters aren't merely here to ravage and pillage. They are being driven onto land by fear. Something is hunting the Clickers. Something ancient and without mercy… -
A selection of chillers, including the essay A Variety of Monsters by the Master himself… The Day Of The Dragon (1934): Guy Endore; The King Of The Cats (1929): Stephen Vincent Benét; Slime (1953): Joseph Payne Brennan; The Man Who Sold Rope To The Gnoles (1951): Margaret St. Clair [Writing As Idris Seabright ]; Henry Martindale, Great Dane (1954): Miriam Allen Deford; The Microscopic Giants (1936): Paul Ernst; The Young One (1954) : Jerome Bixby; Doomsday Deferred (1949): Murray Leinster [As By Will F. Jenkins ]; "Shadow, Shadow, On The Wall ..." (1951): Theodore Sturgeon; The Desrick On Yandro (1952): Manly Wade Wellman; The Wheelbarrow Boy (1950) : Richard Parker; Homecoming (1946): Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) . -
This book is NOT fiction! Count Dracula really existed. Donald F. Glut brings to life tales of historical vampires taken from numerous contemporary chronicles dating from the days of the Roman Empire up through the recorded exploits of vampire hunters of the Twentieth Century. From the cobblestone streets of European cities, through the vastness of Asia and the jungles of Africa, to the secret haunts of the New World, the author brings his researches to life in over fifty narratives of vampire case histories. Have you ever wondered whether or not vampires actually exist? Folklore or fact? Glut's classic survey of the historical record provides food for thought fascinating insights into sanguinary world of the vampire. -
Coddington, a leading expert on the paranormal and his wife, psychic Marianne, know first hand that ghosts are among us. It was during a ghost hunt in Richmond, Virginia , that Marianne’s body became the medium for the lost spirit of a teenager. The earthbound Angelica taught them how to listen, and forever changed their beliefs about life and death. In this fascinating trip to the other side, you cn meet the Coddingtons’ subjects in their own words – documented conversations of people who lived in distant centuries, taken from this world by war and murder, accident and sudden illness. And share in what may be the most incredible experience of all: how earthbound spirits, unaware of their mortal deathsand still trapped on this place of existence, can be guided to their home in the afterlife. -
The Fog: A strange, deadly yellow fog is drifting across the English countryside, leaving madness and murder in its trail. As villages, towns and London itself fall victim to its choking insanity, only one man can stop it…The Spear: The Spear of Destiny, that once pierced the side of Jesus on the Cross, has immense powers for good or evil. A fanatical neo-Nazi cult plans to use the Spear to reanimate their long dead leader...Hitler’s right-hand man, Heinrich Himmler. Sepulchre: There is a house hidden away in a small valley that holds a dark and dreadful secret. The psychic who lives in the house is a part of the secret. The house has a guardian - also the guardian of the psychic and the secret....The Keeper. Together they serve a force whose existence threatens mankind. And now a terrible danger is sensed and an outsider must protect them all. The outsider is Halloran, and he is unaware of the terrible evil he must face. He will learn of multinational corporation's strange method of detecting new mineral resources; he will combat men who thrive on the worst of physical corruption; he will find love of a most perverse nature; he will confront the darkness of his own soul - but most of all, he will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre. -
In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British aeroplane, carrying evacuated schoolboys, crashes on an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. At first the boys are enchanted with their freedom from supervision and authority, but Ralph and a few of his friends recognise the need to learn and implement survival skills, such as fishing, hunting, shelter and maintaining a smoke signal for rescue. But it's not long before even this basic law and order deteriorates as the boys are more concerned with fun, lazing and the formation of a group of hunters and their rituals. And now the horror really begins....Labelled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps the most memorable novel about the end of innocence...the darkness of man’s heart. -
No Sanctuary: Richard Laymon
$15.00–$20.00Rick would do anything for his girlfriend, Bert. He'd even spend his vacation in the wilderness with her, hiking the trails around Fern Lake, even though it's the last place on Earth he wants to be. But Rick would follow Bert to hell and back - which is just what he's about to do. Gillian is on vacation too, but her pastimes are decidedly weirder than Rick and Bert's. She likes to break into people's homes and live there while they're away. Too bad for her she picked the home of a serial killer - a particularly nasty one who likes to take his victims out to the wilds of Fern Lake so he can have his fun without being interrupted. Rick and Bert have no idea how wild the wilderness can be. But they're about to find out...Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
Beware the Low Men...Bobby Garfield couldn't possibly know what that means - but before the summer is over, he'll know...and he'll summon depths of courage and forgiveness he never imagined he had. It's 1960, in small-town Connecticut. Ted Brautigan is a mysterious, psychically gifted loner who becomes and mentor and father figure to Bobby when he enlists the boy's help in eluding the shadowy figures who seek control of Ted's powers. Based on the Stephen King book of the same name. -
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. -
Rose Madder: Stephen King
$22.00Rosie Daniels, trapped in a fourteen year nightmare marriage is suddenly roused by a single drop of blood and she realises that her husband Norman is going to kill her. Or maybe - worse still - he won't. And she takes flight – with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an old junk shop painting, "Rose Madder," which is perfect for her new apartment and strangely, the painting seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog’s instinct for tracking people. And he’s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he is getting… Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Elsewhere: Dean Koontz
$12.00Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object — something he calls “the key to everything” — and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again. -
Mr. X: Peter Straub
$9.00Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralysing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom he calls Mr X. Now, with his birthday fast approaching, Ned has been drawn back to his home town of Edgerton, Illinois, by a premonition that his mother is dying. On her deathbed, she imparts to him the name of his long-absent father and warns him that he is in grave danger. Despite her foreboding, he embarks on a search through Edgerton’s past for the truth behind his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family. But when Ned becomes the lead suspect in three violent deaths, he begins to realize that he is not the only one who has come home… -
While known for his chidlren's stories Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, Dahl also wrote some dark twisters for adults. He has been described as in the style of Ray Bradbury. Some of these tales are quirky and fun; some are chillers and some are dark...Poison; The Sound Machine; Georgy Porgy; Genesis And Catastrophe; The Hitch-hiker; The Umbrella Man; Mr. Botibol; Vengeance is Mine Inc.; The Butler. -
It is a hot, August morning in the summer of 1963. All over the rural town of Grandville, tacked to power poles and trees, taped to store windows, blowing along the sidewalks, fliers have appeared announcing the mysterious one-night-only performance of The Traveling Vampire Show, featuring Valeria, the only known vampire in captivity. According to the fliers, she is a gorgeous, stunning beauty. In the course of the performance, she will stalk volunteers from the audience, sink her teeth into their necks and drink their blood! Teenagers Dwight, Rusty and Slim know it won't be easy getting in to see these wonders - the show is only for over 18s and they can't pass for that. And the performance starts at midnight - way past their curfew - and then there's the ten bucks admission fee. But what's to stop them hiking out to Janks' Field and watch the set-up? Maybe they'll catch a glimpse of the gorgeous Valeria - there can't be any harm in that, surely...? Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
Spectre: Stephen Laws
$20.00–$25.00They'd called themselves the Byker Chapter - inseparable, six boys and a girl who'd grown up together on the back streets of Newcastle. Now the terraces are long gone but Richard Eden has his memories - and one special photograph. All that is left of their joy - and betrayal. Suddenly, the images begin to fade, one by one, as if his friends had never existed. Something is stalking the Chapter - closing in and killing them hideously. With each death, another image fades from the photograph. A spectre from the past, a horror they have released is out there on the darkened streets, hunting them down...They can run, but this time, there's nowhere they can hide...
