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Professor Constable's only daughter was dead of leukaemia at the age of ten. Constable, a world famous scientist, was convinced that she was in communication with him beyond the grave. Were the 'spirit manifestations' of Mary Constable a depraved and cunning confidence game? Or were they as they appeared to be - genuine? AS Constable was a key Government scientist working on a project of world-shaking importance, Washington sent Alexander Hero, chief investigator for the British Society for Psychical Research. Working against time, Hero sees the evidence that had convinced the Professor - a translucent, hollow, seamless wax hand, complete with identifiable finger prints - the hand of Mary Constable. With each passing hour, the spirit of Mary seemed to be literally sapping her father's will, driving him to abandon work on Operation Foxglove, vital to the defence of the West. Alone in New York, surrounded by officials who regarded him with suspicion, Hero had to expose the spirit-daughter as a diabolical hoax. Suddenly he found an ally - a beautiful girl as well-versed in professional magic as Hero was in psychic phenomena. Hero had only seconds to decide - and the wrong decision would cost him his life. -
Tom Auden tries to remember what he saw in the village shrine, just before his world exploded in Vietnam in 1972. The memory is so horrific and unspeakable that Auden buries it, deeper than nightmares can ever reach. He forgets the gruesome scene - and loses six hours of his life. In 1987, those missing hours become vitally important. The horrors of Vietnam are being recreated outside his window; the terrible ceremony he interrupted fifteen years earlier moves towards its inevitable conclusion. Unless he can remember the secret of the Harvest Bride...Cover art by Jill Bauman. -
Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even believes in ghosts, Cassie heads to the cemetery to test her ability to communicate with the Other World. She starts with the departed spirit of a harmless child: CHARLOTTE EMMA ELIZABETH WEBB, BORN 1840 DIED 1847. But when a mysterious man appears, Cassie finds a new companion. Is he a gravedigger? A bum? Or did Cassie's inexperience cause her to bring back Charlotte's frightening neighbor: DEVERILL 1720 - 1762? Teen horror in the genre of Robert Westhall and Christopher Pike. -
Apart from the title story, this volume also contains: Almost a Ghost Story; The Vacancy; The Night Out; The Creatures in the House; Sea-coal; The Dracula Tour; A Walk on the Wild Side. Cover art by Terry Oakes. -
The sequel to Gad's Hall. No one at Gad's Hall could admit what they knew about the room in the attic. The locked room that held the Thorley family's most shameful secret. The terrifying room that had once been the living tomb of a beautiful young woman possessed by the darkest evil. Years had passed but the relentless diabolic force abided - waiting until it could once again possess an innocent and inflict its horror upon the living. It was a force countless centuries old. It was simply a matter of time before it would strike again. And when the Spender family moved into Gad's Hall, that time had come... -
A disturbed presence may be sometimes sensed in the gracious Georgian Lamb House or its grounds. Author and diarist E.F. Benson actually saw the ghost. Henry James, novelist, felt it - not long after he moved in, he wrote The Turn Of The Screw. This is a story of what may have happened to cause the haunting; the first part being the imagined life of Toby Lamb, whose father built the house that stands at the top of Mermaid Street, Rye - an 18th century tragedy whose griefs and frustrations will reach far into the future. This is followed by what may have easily occurred during the occupancies of two famous literary tenants; Henry James, all hints and shades - and E.F. Benson, visited by a more robust and swinging spectre. The restless ghost pleads for a service to be performed - but what? Who was the dark stranger that E.F. Benson encountered in the gardens? And what agency set the fire that nearly destroyed Henry James' study? -
Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune - a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. At night, he is becoming increasingly disturbed by a strange presence - a mysterious shadow thrown by the moonlight through a gap in the blackout curtains. He is convinced the shadow is cast by a malevolent and unnatural entity trying to get into his room. Toby is unable to convince anyone of the reality of this entity, and slowly comes to believe that there is a ploy against him, a plot to send him mad, or to make it appear that he is already mad in order to usurp his fortune. Is this some form of hallucination? Is this unearthly creature real or a product of his imagination? Are the people caring for him actually plotting his destruction, or are they sincerely concerned for a young man whose grip on sanity is steadily weakening? Illustrated by David Hollinshead. -
Nora and her husband Davey Chancel, the neglected scion of a successful publishing house, live in Westerholme - a town that's recently made the news. Four murders - all of them successful divorced or widowed women. When the Chancels attend the police station to identify an acquaintance thought to be the fifth victim, Nora is implicated in the murder - but is then kidnapped by the killer. She survives by feeding the killer's ego - but how long can she stay alive? -
They came from the darkness of the bowels of the earth...a new species of beetle which needed to destroy in order to survive...the first creature other than Man with the ability to create fire. The beetles ate carbon - they lived on the charred remains of buildings and sometimes people. There is no insecticide or natural predator than can kill them and it seems a new species will inherit the earth. But then Professor James Parmiter discovers a method of destruction but for reasons of his own, refuses to use it... -
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. -
The Homing: John Saul
$15.00After years of living in Los Angeles, pretty young widow Karen Spellman and her two daughters are returning to the lush, verdant countryside of Karen's childhood, where she plans to marry her high-school sweetheart. But something sinister awaits the Spellmans. Something so hideous it seems not earthly, but spawned in Hell. Now Karen must protect her daughters from a malign, preternatural force that must satisfy its gruesome thirst for unsuspecting prey... -
Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men? As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare - one from which she may never escape. -
The survivors of Drago...He had no doubt that there were survivors. Many times h had heard the howling in the night, calling him. Though his body yearned to answer their call, he fought against it - he was not ready. All that remained of Drago was a burned out village deep in the forest and the ashes of things half human, and half something else. Then came a murder - two murders...and Malcolm the strange boy with feral green eyes - and the reawakening of an unearthly terror that no-one could forget. Cover art by Peter Elson. -
The Howling: Gary Brandner
$12.00Karyn and her husband Roy had come to the peaceful California village of Drago to escape the savagery of city life. On the surface Drago appeared to be like most small rural towns. Except - it isn't. The village had a most unsavory history. Unexplained disappearances, sudden deaths. People just vanished, never to be found... -
Isolated on the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends into the pit where the ancient being worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell - and what emerges is no longer Mann...and only the town's outcasts can see it for what it truly is... -
The Husband: Dean Koontz
$6.00What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting flower beds for one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. See that guy across the street? Rifle fire shatters the stillness as the man goes down, shot in the head. An object lesson. The caller has Mitch's wife and doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If you love your wife enough...Mitch does love her enough. He's got sixty hours to prove it. He'll pay anything...He'll pay a lot more than two million dollars... -
The Immaculate: Mark Morris
$18.00Jack Stone, outwardly shy and unremarkable, writes works of dark and tortured fantasy which have captured the public imagination. Despite his celebrity status, he's a lonely man whose smart London life is a form of exile. He has painful memories he refuses to examine, roots he refuses to revisit - until he meets Gail, a beautiful, enigmatic girl who seems to sense the shadows around him. When there is news of a death in is family, Jack is forced to return to the horror that has coloured his nightmares for years - his childhood home. There he finds the terror and humiliation he remembers from his upbringing - but he makes a startling discovery as well. Cover art by Ken Leeder.
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, a secret Government facility, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis, telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha and Nick, George and Iris, ten-year-old Avery Dixon. The director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help...but no one has ever escaped from the Institute... -
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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Roger Brook XI. As William Pitt the Younger's special agent, Roger Brook has faced untold dangers. But he is completely unprepared for the satanic practices of the Irish Witch, Abbess of the new Hell Fire Club and ringleader of the secret spy ring which passes information to the enemy. Then Roger learns that his young and beautiful daughter has been abducted in readiness for the sacrificial violation of a virgin at the Black Mass of Walpurgis Night... -
The Island: T.M. Wright
$10.00It's winter. The lake has frozen over and the island is covered with snow. Everything is still and white. Except for the people at the bottom of the lake, the dead people, with their bright blue eyes and strange pale skin. They have been waiting for the winter, and now they are stirring, shifting and awakening. Soon they'll be strong. Soon the island will send them to seek new victims. In winter, the island's dead cannot be stopped...Cover art by Danny Flynn. -
The Jonah: James Herbert
$5.00The shadow of the past was always with him, but he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next. Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles on a dangerous organization, and suddenly more than just his life is at stake—it's his past, his future, and his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the Jonah...and learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others. -
The Ka of Gifford Hillary is a story concerned with the greatest of all mysteries: what happens after death? With Sir Gifford Hillary and Wing Commander Johnny Norton involved in plans to counter the might of Soviet Russia, interest soon centres on the evil Lady Ankaret and the tragedy which occurred at Longshot Hall, South Hampshire, on the night of the 9th September. A victim is struck down, and from that moment onward, the events which follow seem - at first - fantastic and unbelievable...but are later realised to be entirely logical. What does happen after death? And why should Sir Gifford find himself in prison, on trial for his life?
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Black Magic V. Controversy rages at the Ministry of Defence and Sir Gifford Hillary, outspoken in his views on top-secret measures to counter the threat of Soviet aggression, is partly responsible for tempers fraying. But danger and betrayal are closer to home. On a warm autumn night at Longshot Hall, Sir Gifford gets a horrific and inexplicable shock when he witnesses his own murder... -
The greatest of all mysteries is...What happens after death? With Sir Gifford Hillary and Wing Commander Johnny Norton involved in plans to counter the might of Soviet Russia, interest soon centres on the evil Lady Ankaret and the tragedy which occurred at Longshot Hall, South Hampshire, on the night of the 9th September. A victim is struck down, and from that moment on, events seem - at first - fantastic and unbelievable...but are later realised to be entirely logical. What does happen after death? And why should Sir Gifford find himself in prison, on trial for his life? Cover art by H. Johns. -
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.
