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Alex Hunter hasn't come to Japan to fall in love - yet fall in love he did, with Joanna Rand, the most beautiful and exciting woman he'd ever met. But Joanna isn't who she thinks she is. Ten years before, and half way across the world, a brutally bizarre experiment had recreated her mind, a violation so hideous that her dreams are filled with horror and her memories are a lie. Alex and Joanna must re-open the door into the nightmare past and find the key to midnight. -
They went missing. One after another. Three children, without trace. Latchkey kids, all three, left alone after school until their parents came home. Only this time the parents got home first...Zuke and Dillon were Latchkey kids too. Maybe they knew where the others were. Zuke knows but he's not telling. Suffer, parents, suffer. The adult is the enemy. That's the Latchkids' motto. Gene wants to join the Latchkids but his dad stays home. Zuke says there's only one thing to do - Gene must get rid of his father... -
A witty, modern married couple who live in urban England, while on a weekend holiday in Wales, explore a seemingly deserted village and find an ancient stone cottage, where an old woman with long white hair lies motionless on a pallet. They at first think she's dead but she slowly awakens...and turns out to be a long-lost relative. She offers no explanation for why she lives alone in a nearly empty, crumbling cottage next to a deserted village. Lacking other family, David and Joelle embrace Gwendolen, take her back to England with them and before long, the independent old lady has set up housekeeping near them...keeping a watchful eye on the young couple...maybe too watchful. Then their lives, and the lives of everyone who knows them, begin slowly and inexorably to fall apart as a plague of revelations sweeps through the lives of all... -
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. -
A dwarf movie director with a passion for prehistoric monsters; a female giant who consults a psychiatrist about her pygmy husband's love of tattooing her; an old lady bargains with Death; a ventriloquist's doll begans to speak in its own voice...all this and more in this Bradbury collection of chillers. The Machineries Of Joy; The One Who Waits; Tyrannosaurus Rex; The Vacation; The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh; Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! Almost The End of the World; Perhaps We Are Going Away ; And The Sailor, Home From The Sea; El Dia de Muerte; The Illustrated Woman; Some Live Like Lazarus; A Miracle of Rare Device; And So Died Riabouchinska; The Beggar On O'Connell Bridge; Death And The Maiden; A Flight Of Ravens; The Best Of All Possible Worlds; The Lifework Of Juan Diaz; To The Chicago Abyss; The Anthem Sprinters. Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
We thought we’d found our haven, a cottage deep in the heart of the forest. Charming, maybe a little run down, but so peaceful. That was the first part of the Magic. Midge’s painting and my music soared to new heights of creativity. That was another part of the Magic. Our love for each other - well, that became the supreme Magic. But the cottage had an alternative side. The Bad Magic. What happened to us there was horrendous beyond belief. The miracles, healings, the crazy sect who wanted our home for themselves, the hideous creatures that crawled from the nether regions, and the bats – oh God, the bats! Even now those terrible things seem impossible to me. Yet they happened... -
The Magus: John Fowles
$85.00Nicholas Urfe - young, English, conventionally brought up and educated - leaves London for a job as a schoolmaster on a lonely Greek island. He thinks this will be an escape from the confines of society and from Alison, his latest victim in a long line of callous and casual seductions. Despite an obscure warning, Nicholas is totally unprepared for the ordeal that awaits him. At one end of the island is a colonnaded villa, where he meets the urbane Maurice Conchis, a remote yet compelling figure; rich, cosmopolitan and a self-styled psychic. Between Maurice and Nicholas begins a cat-and-mouse game that Nicholas finds puzzling, then patronising -then a direct challenge. He is led through a series of elaborately staged tableaux and although he senses an imposture, he is unwilling to withdraw from the promise of a momentous revelation. He is drawn on and on and into the Saturnalian labyrinth, where truth and illusion rest o the barest shift of perception...until Nicholas perceives the maelstrom centre of Conchis's plot... -
Halloween Street, Steve Rasnic Tem: Laura is a strange little girl who prefers to watch the street from her window. When she wants to go trick-or treating, her parents are hopeful at this 'normal' behaviour...if only...Others, James Herbert: A P.I. searching for a missing baby follows the clues to a mysterious nursing home, where he discovers the dark secret of the Others... Growing Things, T. E. D. Klein: Herb is fascinated by the letters pages in a pile of of old home handyman magazines - especially 'Mr Fixit's' solution for a correspondent who has a strange lump growing under his bathroom floor. Unhasped, David J. Schow: Now married, Ethan looks for a hiding place for his safe key - he doesn't want his wife finding his box of bachelor-days memorabilia. He finds the ideal place - and there's already a key hanging there, a key to another box of memories...The Emperor’s Old Bones, Gemma Files: An abandoned boy and a streetwise young woman form an unlikely alliance in wartime Shanghai - which will be tested over a challenge to prepare the carp dish The Emperor's Old Bones. The Entertainment, Ramsey Campbell: A teacher searching for accommodation on a rainy night thinks he's found a suitable place to stay - even if the old lady there thinks he is the 'entertainment'... Harlequin Valentine, Neil Gaiman: It's Valentine's Day, and naughty, impish Harlequin pins his heart to the door of the girl he loves...but has he offered his heart too readily? The Stunted House, Terry Lamsley: A holidaying couple find the porch of an abandoned seafront house the ideal place to stop for lunch - at first...Just Like Eddy, Kim Newman: Edgar Allan Poe hates his middle name - he associates it with his successful father. Then as his work begins to be known, the regular misspelling of it gives him the belief that Edgar Allen Poe is a doppelganger out to destroy him...The Long Hall On The Top Floor, Caitlin R. Kiernan: Silvey is disturbed in his park bench reading and gin-nipping by a lad who wants to know if it's true that Silvey is psychic - because if he is, he's got something for Silvey to see...Lulu, Thomas Tessier: A man discovers his grandfather was friendly with writer Joseph Roth - a friendship which grew to include the mysterious Sonja. The Ballyhooly Boy, Graham Masterton: Jerry inherits a run-down, grubby house from a lady he certainly never knew - a house which, though empty, rings with screams...Welcome, Michael Marshall Smith: Paul finds a file on his PC - which was created in 1957. To add to the mystery, he finds an odd newspaper on his train trip home from work. Burden, Michael Marano: A gay man impulsively engages in unprotected sex - and finds that he can see the ghosts of friends who succumbed to the AIDS virus. Naming the Dead, Paul J. McAuley: Psychic detective Carlyle can see all the imps and beasties of doubt and anxieties that cling to us - but when he is hired to track down a killer recently released from prison, it seems something doesn't want the man to be found. Aftershock, F. Paul Wilson: A doctor is fascinated by the extraordinary claims of a patient who has been hit by lightning - and who wants to be hit again. A Fish Story, Gene Wolfe: Three friends on a fishing trip exchange ghost stories around the fire - and one has a very impressive story. Jimmy, David Case: A small sleepy town is terrorised by a violent attacker with long nails, a mask-like face with sulphuric eyes - and a rapacious passion for teenage girls. White, Tim Lebbon: A raging virus has destroyed most of the world's population and a fierce winter smothers most of the land under deep snow. If that weren't bad enough, a small group of survivors bunking in an abandoned mansion have to deal with a more immediate threat emerges from out of the wilds, an otherworldly threat that is as bloodthirsty and vicious as it is cunning and cruel. Pork Pie Hat, Peter Straub: A student secures a private interview with ailing jazz musician, Hat, hoping to sell the interview to a magazine with the hope of bringing Hat to the attention of a wider audience. But Hat passes away. The interview is published...leaving out a very interesting part of Hat's childhood. Tricks And Treats One Night on Halloween Street, Steve Rasnic Tem: A collection of Hallowe'en scenes including Ronald, a young lad who answers the door to a trick or treater who seems to be wearing a mask of Ronald's face...Cover art by Julek Heller. -
A collection from the masters of the macabre that's good enough to sink your teeth into...In this volume: Human Remains, Clive Barker; Necros, Brian Lumley; The Man Who Loved The Vampire Lady, Brian Stableford; For The Blood Is The Life, F. Marion Crawford; The Brood, Ramsey Campbell; Hungarian Rhapsody, Robert Bloch; Ligeia, Edgar Allan Poe; Vampire, Richard Christian Matheson; Stragella, Hugh B. Cave; A Week In The Unlife, David J. Schow; The House At Evening, Frances Garfield; The Labyrinth, R. Chetwynd-Haynes; Beyond Any Measure, Karl Edward Wagner; Doctor Porthos, Basil Copper; Dracula's Guest, Bram Stoker; It Only Comes Out At Night, Dennis Etchison; Dracula's Chair, Peter Tremayne; The Better Half, Melanie Tem; An Episode Of Cathedral History, M.R. James; Chastel, Manly Wade Wellman; Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen, Howard Waldrop; The Room In The Tower, E.F. Benson; Laird of Dunain, Graham Masterton; Midnight Mass, F. Paul Wilson; Blood Gothic, Nancy Holder; Yellow Fog, Les Daniels; Vintage Domestic, Steve Rasnic Tem; Red Reign, Kim Newman; Vampire Sestina, Neil Gaiman. Cover art by Luis Rey. -
The Message: John Wilding
$20.00The ordered world of Tayo, famous pop star, is suddenly and alarmingly thrown into chaos as he finds himself inescapably bound up in the world of the occult; a world in which Tayo and his family are forced to live a nightmare. He is warned from Beyond by his unborn child who has fought her way past the Powers of Darkness to beware of his own son. But Tayo does not believe he has any children - and then he learns that his wife Ginnie is expecting a baby...Is this the child, the son who has evil in his heart, or the daughter that watches over him? The Darkness rules Tayo's life, engineers his every move and each step brings him close and closer to his fate...Wilding's first novel. Cover art by Marinella Bonini. -
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) -
Omnibus edition; Tithe: Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.Valiant: When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming...Ironside: In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie. Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth -- that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Silarial wants Roiben's throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie outplay a queen? This volume includes the short story The Lament of Lutie-Loo. -
Every hero has a story. Every story has a hero. We are all the hero of our own tale -as are the legions of monsters, from Lucifer to Mordred, from child-thieving fairies to Frankenstein’s monster and the Wicked Witch of the West. From the point of view of an outsider, they may very well be horrible, terrifying monstrosities, but of course they won’t see themselves in the same light. Demons and goblins, dark gods and aliens, creatures of myth and legend, lurkers in darkness and beasts in human clothing…In this volume: The Awkward Age, David Liss; a young ghoul seduces her playmate's father...Saint John, Jonathan Maberry: A serial killer becomes an angel of mercy for orphaned children during the Apocalypse. Rue, Lauren Groff: an old witch tricks a young woman into surrogate motherhood. Succumb, John McIlveen: A seductress - and a sinful preacher? Torn Stitches, Shattered Glass: A return to Frankenstein's ostracised creation. Rattler And The Mothman, Sharyn McCrumb: A hermit encounters an ancient, intelligent flying creature. Big Man, David Moody: How deeply we can misunderstand the monstrous...Rakshasi, Kelley Armstrong: A demon who has done penance for her crimes for 200 hundred years as a human is not given her freedom..so she takes matters into her own hands. Breeding The Demons, Nate Kenyon: The darkness in the heart of an artist causes him to be caught between two worlds. Siren Song, Dana Stabenow: The Akulurak sisters are accused of luring and murdering a pimp - but who is the real mosnter? Less Of A Girl: There are definitely scary things under the bed...The Cruel Thief Of Rosy Infants, Tom Piccirilli: A fae is charged with his family's ancient duty of stealing human babies and substituting them with one of his own race. The Screaming Room, Sarah Pinborough: A rejected gorgon enjoys the sound of her victim being turned to stone...Wicked Be, Heather Graham: A witch just wants to be - normal. Specimen 313: Giant, mutated gene-spliced carnivorous plants begin to feel human emotions. The Lake, Tananarive Due: A woman moves to Florida for a new start - a new home - a new everything...and gets it. The Other One, Michael Marshall Smith: A woman in her late 30s is bored with her life - but is there another one of her living the life she wants? And Still You Wonder Why Our First Impulse Is To Kill You, Gary A. Braunbeck: a highly original and humorous examination of the monstrous - and why monsters don't like Ken dolls...Jesus And Satan Go Jogging In The Desert, Simon R. Green: The tale of Satan's offer of temptations to Jesus - told from Satan's point of view. Cover art by Per Haagensen. -
After the death of their infant son, Hal and Rowan Graham decide to leave the mad bustle of London and move to a quiet country refuge. And the rustic village of Moorstone seems perfect. Too perfect ...? Lying beneath a hill capped by an enormous stone, Moorstone hides mysterious secrets. Why does such a small town need such a large insane asylum? Why do the village's elderly residents leave everything they own to young newcomers they barely know? And why is everyone so friendly, so handsome, and so preoccupied with Hal and Rowan's health? Before the Grahams can piece the insidious puzzle together they are plunged into a spiralling terror of ancient mysteries reborn, people who are not quite what they seem, and a village that is quaint, charming - and deadly...Cover art by Peter Thorpe. -
Ten tales of horror, jeopardy and death by Poe. The Oval Portrait: A portrait painted by an artist robs his sitter of her life. Hop-Frog: A jester dwarf takes a terrible revenge on the king and the court. The Masque of the Red Death: The Red Death stalks the chambers of Prince Prospero. The Cask of Amontillado: Montresor takes Fortunato to a dark Roman cellarage, to taste an Amontillado... The Pit and the Pendulum: A razor-edged pendulum wings ever lower towards a prisoner of the Inquisition. Other tales included in this volume: Ligeia: A dark and gothic tale of a beautiful woman - with a surprising ending. Eleonora: An uncharacteristic celebration of love. Morella: Morella is his love, his teacher. But when she dies in childbirth she leaves an eerie legacy. Berenice: Berenice is beautiful and she is dying; and her husband develops a dreadful obsession... The Fall of the House of Usher: Roderick and Madelaine are the last of the House of Usher; and Roderick is convinced that the house is 'alive'... Plus: the four classic tales with which Poe created a new genre: the detective story - The Gold-Bug: William LeGrand is literally bitten by a gold-coloured bug and draws two friends into an adventurous hunt for buried treasure. The Murders In The Rue Morgue: A baffling double murder - and the killer leaves the clues of a bloody razor, tufts of gray hair and two bags of gold coins. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt: A perfume shop is murdered and her body dumped into the Seine - but why? The Purloined Letter: A letter from the queen's lover has been stolen from her boudoir by an unscrupulous Minister - but a search of his rooms reveals nothing. Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. -
A mysterious letter from Europe to Frank Cooper, professor of Archaeology in Omaha leads to a discovery with terrifying consequences for the future of Mankind. Deep in a secret vault beneath Notre Dame, Cooper discovers the true burial place of 16th seer Nostradamus and a cache of documents hidden in the tomb. A desperate race begins, with the help of Cooper's small team and a super computer to avert the nightmare Armageddon foreseen by Nostradamus - an ending full of horror. -
The Offering: Paul Huson
$65.00Pretty young Judith and her chauvinistic husband, while in Rio on holiday, meet another couple who introduce them to the native religion, a mixture of African tribal beliefs and Christianity. Peter is taken violently ill at a seance involving Eshu, the demon king and after their return to New York, his personality changes completely. Judith begins receiving odd phone calls, strangers approach and say weird things and she begins to realise these incidents are all connected. She asks her best friend Benita, who is writing a book on the myths of West African tribes the Yoruba, with the help of a West African diviner. The diviner tells her that Eshu has taken possession of Peter and Judith is in great danger. In an attempt to rid Peter of the spell, Judith sparks off a chain of voodoo violence - animal sacrifice, the horrific death of her closest friend and the raising of the god Yenana - the patron of all who wear blue...Judith's favourite colour ... -
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. -
Book II of Department of Unclassified Artefacts. George Archer, Liz Oldfield and Eddie Hopkins have made a rather unfortunate discovery: vampires really exist and they do feed on human blood. Using a labyrinth of tunnels beneath Victorian London, these sinister creatures are intent on destroying the human race and they'll start by taking over the most powerful place in London - the Houses of Parliament. Liz, George and Eddie come up with a plan to beat the vampires at their own game. And they'd better do it soon...
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Beneath the Opera House in Paris, somewhere in the dark labyrinths hidden from public view, the Phantom lurks, watching and waiting. In his crazed obsession to further the career of a beautiful young singer, he will stop at nothing - not even murder. -
Beneath the Opera House in Paris, somewhere in the dark labyrinths hidden from public view, the Phantom lurks, watching and waiting. In his crazed obsession to further the career of a beautiful young singer, he will stop at nothing - not even murder. This 75th anniversary edition contains a foreword by Peter Haining, which introduces the larger-than-life character of author Gaston Leroux and traces the history of the Phantom - its basis in fact, the novel's poor reception yet its astonishing success in the cinema and theatre. There is also a special appendix in which a speculation links the Phantom to Sherlock Holmes. Cover art by Mark Teague.
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Dorian is handsome, debonair and charming - and he wants to stay that way. In fact, he'll do anything to stay young and handsome - forever. So when he looks at his portrait and wishes that the portrait could age in his place...He gets his wish, but with awful consequences...The tale of Dorian Gray’s gradual moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” -
The portrait which Basil Hallward painted of Dorian Gray revealed the face of an Adonis, and when he saw the finished picture of himself, the beautiful young aesthete exclaimed: 'Why should it keep what I must love. Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could always be what I am now!' His perverse aspiration was strangely fulfilled. Abandoning himself to every sin his profligate mind could devise, the wealthy and exquisite young man brought misery and disgrace upon all who accepted his companionship, but Dorian Gray still wore the outward appearance of serene beauty. It was upon the portrait, locked away in his attic, that the marks of degeneration mysteriously appeared, for the painting of Adonis slowly transformed into the likeness of a satyr. This was Wilde's only novel; slightly edited when it first appeared in print in 1891 but due to public outrage at the remaining hints of homosexuality and deviancy, was further edited. This edition is the version in which only 500 words had been cut from Wilde's original manuscript. Wilde himself said, of Dorian Gray: 'All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.' Many believe that Wilde not only intend to point a moral but to highlight the fact that Dorian. himself and many others in the Victorian age were forced to live a double life of hypocrisy, but that to lead such a double life is, in the end, destructive to oneself and to those about one. Cover art from an engraving by Ceil Keeling. -
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... -
Julian Day 1. It was for the lovely Sylvia Shane that Julian decided to set out on his quest, but it was the fascinating, dangerous Princess Oonas Shahamalek who delayed his departure. The quest was for the treasure of Cambyses, buried for more than two thousand years. It led Julian to a night in the Tomb of the Sacred Bulls in Alexandria; to an encounter with white slavers and dope runners outside of Cairo; to a voyage up the Nile where death waited for them. It ended in the Libyan desert, five hundred miles from civilisation.
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A Roger Brooks Adventure, No. VI. Roger Brook – 'wanted' for illegal duelling – sailed for Calcutta in the summer of 1796. With him went his lovely Clarissa. And in Calcutta Clarissa was abducted. Abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced. Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon. -
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...
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