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de Richeleau Adventure No. X. The Duke de Richeleau and his friends had faced many dangers in Russia, Spain and Nazi Germany. Now a new and unexpected menace confronts them: the fourth, Rex Van Ryn is missing and he has made off with more than a million dollars from the Buenos Aires branch of his family bank. Behind the conventional courtesy of Argentinian society lies a conspiracy of terror and silence - and a trail that leads straight to the Devil himself...Illustrated by Virginia Smith. -
Blood Mist: Robert James
$35.00Wrapped in noxious fog, it glided silently over the South Carolina countryside on a rampage of terror and death. Awakened by jack hammers and steam shovels, it could not be killed, for it was already dead; it could not be stopped, for it was invincible; it could not be satisfied, for its lust was boundless. It was ultimate terror that lurked within the blood mist. -
Disturbing tales - and disturbing authors! - in this volume: George and Alice and Isabel, William Trevor; Gone Is Gone, Joan Fleming; The Margenes, Miriam Allen deFord; Mummy To The Rescue, Angus Wilson; Miss Cornelius, William Fryer Harvey; The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot, Ambrose Bierce; The Phantom Of The Screen, Lawrie Wyman; The Book, Margaret Irwin; The Man Who Collected Poe, Robert Bloch; The Squaw, Bram Stoker; The Small World of Lewis Stillman, William F. Nolan; The Attic Express, Alex Hamilton; Mr George, August Derleth; I Used To Live Here Once, Jean Rhys. Disturbing cover art by Rus Anderson.
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Following the critically acclaimed Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction James Doig has returned from another expedition into the uncharted territory of Australia's grim and ghostly past with a second collection of chillers by Australian authors - long-forgotten relics from Australia's Gothic past. There's even one from Rosaleen Norton, the infamous witch of King's Cross. In this volume: The White Maniac: A Doctor’s Tale, Mary Fortune; The Silent Sepulchre, Charles Junor; What The Rats Brought, Ernest Favenc; On The Island Of Shadows, Ernest Favenc; The Odic Touch, Hume Nisbet; Told In The Corona’s Cabin On Three Evenings, J.A. Barry; The House Of Ill Omen, Rosa Praed; A Thing Of Wax, Morley Roberts; The Prophetic Horror Of The Great Experiment, James Edmund; The Precipitous Details Of The High Mountain And The Three Skeletons, James Edmund; The Strange Case Of Alan Heriot, Lionel Sparrow; The Blanket Fiend, Beatrice Grimshaw; The Phantom Ship Of Dirk Van Tromp, James Francis Dwyer; The Pledge, Helen Simpson; The Watch and The House That Took Revenge, Vernon Knowles; The Story Of The Waxworks, Rosaleen Norton; The Undying One, Roger Dard. Each story begins with a short author bio. -
One theory weaves like a constant thread of darkness through human history...the rumour of an ancient race, more powerful than we are: elusive, terrifying, offering sexual frenzy but bringing madness and death. These are the tales of the Weerde. They gather at the edges of our settlements; they appear nightly on TV. They are not werewolves...but they are the shape-shifting predators of which occult legend speaks. They are plausible, charming, different...and very very dangerous. In this volume, eleven chilling tales that expose the terrifying truth behind the conspiracy: The Lady And/Or The Tiger I, Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney; A Wolf To Man, Roz Kaveney; Sunflower Pump, Paul Cornell; Rain, Chris Amies (as by Christopher Amies); What God Abandoned, Mary Gentle; To The Bad, Brian Stableford; A Strange Sort Of Friend, Josephine Saxton; Railway Mania, Michael Fearn; Blind Fate, Liz Holliday; A Change Of Season, Storm Constantine; Going To The Black Bear, Colin Greenland; Ancient Of Days, Charles Stross; The Lady And/Or The Tiger II, Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney. -
In this volume of thrillers and chillers...Midnight House: A traveller, attracted to an inn by the name of Midnight House, has strange dreams of evil while staying under its roof. The Dabblers: A schoolteacher investigates rumours of strange midsummer rituals in the grounds of a boarding school... Unwinding: A simple parlour game in which one player mentions an item and everyone else says what it reminds them of...so why do 'first class railway carriages' remind a vicar of murder? Mrs Ormerod: A lazy housekeeper, in danger of being fired, creates a novel way to keep her job. Double Demon: A young man plots murder; he tells his sister Isobel the victim will be her nurse, Judith; and tells Judith the victim will be his sister, Isobel. Who IS the target? The Tool: A curate on a walking holiday is horrified by the discovery of the body of a foreign man with a tattoo of a green parrot - but is more horrified still when he realises he has 'lost' a day entirely. The Heart Of The Fire: Carved on the fireplace of the old coaching inn 'The Moorcock' is a prophecy that so frightens the family that they do not dare let the fire go out. Ever... The Clock: A man is asked to retrieve a travelling clock for his aunt's guest from her home - but after two weeks, the clock is still ticking - when it should have run down... Peter Levisham; Miss Cornelius: When a scientist identifies Miss Cornelius as the source of poltergeist activity, Miss Cornelius is angry - very angry indeed... The Man Who Hated Aspidistras - A man believes his life, from boyhood, has been blighted by aspidistras, that sinister plant beloved by the Victorians, then his dislike of them becomes manic...Sambo - Little Jane is sent the gift of an unusual doll from her Uncle stationed in South Africa. She doesn't like it very much and her mother scolds her for being ungrateful - but before long, the new doll is ruling the roost. The Star: Astronomers, science - and scientific rivalry... Across The Moors: A servant is sent to walk four miles to fetch a doctor...across moors which are rumored to be haunted. The Follower; August Heat: An artist draws a large, despondent being sentenced by a judge and later that day, while walking, he meets his painting's subject - a tombstone engraver... Sarah Bennett's Possession; The Ankardyne Pew: a group of clergyman staying at a house with an attached chapel that is undergoing renovation have reason to investigate a possible haunting there. Miss Avenal: Miss Avenal has had a nervous breakdown and needs constant nursing. To combat the pathetic vacancy of Miss Avenal, the nurse begins to tell her all about herself... The Beast With Five Fingers; A blind man can 'see' the world around him with his hands; even colours...but at least one hand seems to have a will and mind of its own... -
Gregory Sallust Adventure No. VII. It is 1943, World War II, and secret agent Gregory Sallust is parachuted into Nazi Germany. Together with ex-Bolshevik General Stefan Kuporovitch, they join forces with the widow of a German diplomat who is in contact with Allied Intelligence. It is through her that Gregory becomes unwillingly involved with a Black Magician and when, 16 months later, they meet again, each decides to use occult forces in an attempt to destroy Hitler once and for all...Illustrated by Hugh Marshall. -
A bizarre and frightening use of psychic phenomena as a weapon in the Cold War. An ingenious story, complete with mountebanks and conmen - and the real thing. Professor Constable is convinced that he is in touch with his dead daughter through a medium. The evidence is a cast of a hand, with the fingerprints of the dead girl in it. Alexander Hero, top operative of the So You Think You’ve Seen a Ghost Society of Great Britain, is hired to investigate a medium and her husband who may be trying to sway the Professor to sell his secrets to the Russians. Hero's job is to find out and debunk how they created Mary's hand - after she had been cremated... -
In this volume by horrormeister Westall: In Camera: Film found in a 50-year-old camera leads to the scene of a long-ago crime. Beelzebub: A records clerk - a stickler for detail - is asked to register the birth of the baby of Beelzebub...Blind Bill: A sightless man solves a crime and prevents a death by use of his other facilities. Charlie Ferber: A mysterious cat insinuates itself into a young girl’s life and becomes loved and somehow...irreplaceable. Henry Marlborough: A beguiling presence from the past leads an intellectually stifled young woman to independence...but is Henry really as she imagines him? Cover art by Barry Jones. -
According to statistics, only 10% of the world's population has seen a ghost or experienced something supernatural. What lends substance to this small number is that it is 10% of each generation. Thus, over the millennia, many millions of people have encountered haunts of one sort or another, and it is this rather formidable number that makes the phenomenon believable. What makes them unbelievable is the sceptical 90% and it is between these two disparate hordes - living and dead - that the debate has raged for thousands of years. In this volume there are well known cases - Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England, the Phantom Battle of Edgehill, the Drummer of Tedworth - but also lesser known occurrences, such as the late Nelly Butler and the Dark Lady of Bognor Regis. There are also chapters on poltergeists, non-human apparitions, spirit voices and demons. -
Six of them, three guys and three girls, are on a journey. An adventure beyond the imagination. They are transformed into powerful beings, able to change the world. But something goes wrong. One of them is evil - and stronger than the rest. And it will destroy the Star Group. There is no going back...Cover art by Nicholas Forder. -
After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier - and is now ready to kill again... From the screenwriter of Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. -
Psycho House: Robert Bloch
$40.00Psycho III . The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a recreation of the murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. And there's a new exhibit, one nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death. Among the avalanche of press and publicity is reporter Amelia Haines, true-crime book writer. She's studying the original Psycho killings and to Amy, the new murders are a golden opportunity - if she can be part of the investigation, perhaps track down the killer herself, then her fame, and her fortune, will be assured. But catching the madman won't be easy: the town is full of suspects, and Amy's best informants keep turning up murdered. If she isn't careful, Amelia Haines may be the next permanent guest at the Bates Motel...Cover art by Michael Thomas. -
A feast of horror. Volume 1: The Book of Blood; The Midnight Meat Train: a grisly subway tale that surprises with one twist after another; The Yattering and Jack: A hilarious demon possesses a Christmas turkey; Pig Blood Blues; Sex, Death and Starshine; In the Hills, The Cities. Volume 2: Dread: a harrowing tale of being forced to realise one's own worst nightmare; Hell's Event; Jacqualine Ess: Her Will and Testament: She can kill men with her mind; the Skins of the Fathers; New Murders in the Rue Morgue. Volume 3: Son of Celluloid; Rawhead Rex; Confessions of a (Porongrapher's) Shroud; Scape-Goats; Human Remains. -
In a child's bedroom in a suburban Philadelphia home, Edward Benson is listening for footsteps on the stairs. The footfall Edward is waiting for will not be human. It could be someone's pet cat, or a stuffed teddy bear, or a smiling marionette doll. But whatever it is that comes creeping up the stairs will have two qualities: it will be animated by a terrifying, diabolical force, and it will have only one intention - murder. If Edward Benson wants his daughter back, he will have to fight a battle no human has ever fought before. And he must win, for only the victor will return with his life - and his soul from the realms of dark, unspeakable evil. -
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. -
In this volume of the best of the original Horror-meister: MS. Found In A Bottle; Berenice; Morella; Some Passages In The Life Of A Lion; The Assignation: Bon-Bon; King Pest; Metzengerstein; Silence; A Descent Into The Maelstrom; Ligeia; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; William Wilson; The Man Of The Crowd; The Murders in The Rue Morgue; The Mystery Of Marie Roget; The Colloquies Of Monos And Una; The Masque Of The Red Death; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold Bug; The Black Cat; The Spectacles; The Premature Burial; The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar; The Oblong Box; The Cask Of Amontillado; Landor's Cottage. With fantastical colour and line illustrations by Harry Clarke (1889 - 1931) -
Accursed: Guy N. Smith
$45.00The Reverend Mason, an elderly English priest on his last trip to Egypt, uncovers the tomb of Dalukah - she who had been put to death with her lover, Aba-aner, a commoner. Mason brings back the two mummies, but he also brings back the amulet of Set which had been left to imprison them. As the mummies began to decompose in the damp English atmosphere, he reburies them with due reverence. Years later, in the heat of a blistering summer, George Brownlow decides to build a shelter. He finds the amulet of Set and it possesses him to follow its purposes - to re-enact the saga of Dalukah and Aba-aner. -
Amy Harper and her friends are spending the night in the Funhouse, a place for gondola rides, gory delights and midnight terror. But there is something unspeakably Evil waiting for Amy in the dark depths of the Funhouse, a secret evil born 25 years ago..when a lonely woman destroyed her monstrous offspring, and a deranged man vowed to exact his terrible revenge... -
Tread Softly: Richard Laymon
$45.00For two families, it was supposed to be a relaxing camping trip in the California mountains. They thought it would be fun to get away from everything for a while. But they're not alone. The woods are also home to two terrifying residents who don't take kindly to strangers - an old hag with unholy powers, and her hulking son, a half-wild brute with uncontrollable, violent urges. The campers still need to get away - but now their lives depend on it...Cover art by Jill Bauman -
The Twelve: Justin Cronin
$45.00Book I of The Passage. It seemed like a good idea at the time...infecting twelve death-row prisoners with an ancient virus in order to create human weapons. Instead the virus turned them into ravening unstoppable monsters - and when the Twelve broke out of the underground facility where they had been born, all hell broke loose. In a world now ravaged by a viral plague, humanity is reduced to stubborn pockets of resistance. But if the human race is to have a future, survival is not enough. Against terrifying odds, they must hunt down and destroy the Twelve in their lairs. But the virals' behaviour is inexplicably changing - and all the clues point towards the Homeland, a sinister dictatorship where an unlikely trio are re-imagining humanity's destiny : Horace Guilder, a veteran of the original experiment with a blood-curdling vision of immortality; a mysterious woman whose tragic past has driven her into a world of fantasy; and Lawrence Grey, a man whose hunger for intimacy has been fulfilled in the most gruesome ways imaginable. And then there is Amy - the Girl from Nowhere. Once the thirteenth test subject and now the only human who can fathom the Homeland's secret and truly enter the hive-mind of the Twelve. But what she finds there may spell the end of everything... -
A young man awakes from a recurring nightmare to find that, once again, his apartment has been destroyed: the TV is on fire, the mirrors shattered, the aquarium exploded with such force that shards of glass are embedded in the opposite wall; and once again a voice is saying, Come home... And so he does. Home is the small Maine town where his parents were both killed in a grotesque car wreck years before. The kind of town Stephen King has described as, 'mostly indifference, spiced with an occasional vapid evil - or worse, a conscious one.' A small town caught in a centuries-old war between supernatural forces...Cover art by Matthew Quayle. -
Darkness: John Saul
$45.00The Andersons left the town at the edge of the swamp long ago, meaning never to return. There was something not quite right about Villejeune - something menacing and hostile, too malevolent to be natural. But their dream of a new life in Atlanta faded with Ted's lost job and sixteen year-old Kelly's emotional problems. Hoping that a change of scenery might help their troubled daughter, Mary and Ted Anderson have come back home to Villejeune. But something is there, waiting for them. Something evil. Cover art by Tom Hallman. -
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. -
Eye: Frank Herbert
$50.00A selection of shorts including the fable Frogs And Scientists in print here for the first time. The other stories include: Rat Race; Dragon In The Sea; Cease Fire; A Matter Of Traces; Try To Remember; The Tactful Saboteur; The Road To Dune; By The Book; Seed Stock; Murder Will In; Passage For Piano; Death Of A City. With fabulous illustrations and cover art by Jim Burns. -
American ghosts and hauntings abound in this collection of blood-red, bone-white, and cold-blue stories. In this volume: The Triumph Of Night, Edith Wharton: A secretary is maneuvered into spending the night with a young man suffering from tuberculosis and his wealthy uncle and becomes the unwitting tool of a malevolent apparition. The White Old Maid, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The corpse of a handsome young man; and two young women, one proud and stately whom the young man had rejected, the other frail and soft, his chosen bride...what would these women become in later years? Victoria (also published as The Three D's), Ogden Nash: Victoria wants to be popular at her school, and she must pass an initiation - visit the grave of Eliza Catspaugh, a famous Salem witch - and bring back proof...The Terrible Old Man, H.P. Lovecraft: A man so old none can remember when he was young, and so taciturn few know his name. He lives alone, is reputedly wealthy - and that is enough to attract three careless thieves... The Problem Of The Pilgrims Windmill, Edward D. Hoch: A man is murderously attacked inside a windmill - but his testimony together with snow unblemished by footprints say otherwise...The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes, Henry James: When sisters Perdita and Rosalind fall for the same handsome young man, there can't be a happy ending...Bones, Donald A. Wollheim: A specially selected group are invited to attend the unwrapping of a mummy - with the possibility of some impossible events. The Vacant Lot, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A newly rich family find a house for sale in a very fashionable neighborhood - at an suspiciously bargain price...A Curious Dream, Mark Twain: The telling of a dream in which skeletons are walking down their road, with their few pitiful possessions...why are the dead leaving? The Man Who Collected Poe, Robert Bloch: Two collectors of Poe memorabilia fight over the ultimate Poe collectible...Guests From Gibbet Island, Washington Irving: In the British colonial days, Gibbet Island was where pirates were hanged - except two who escaped custody - but can they escape their bloodthirsty, dead crewmates? Our Late Visitor, Marvin Kaye: A writer seeking necessary solitude and his wife are very annoyed when their friend comes to visit after midnight - especially as he is meant to be dead. The Girl With The Beckoning Eyes: A family wonders why their son has become so solitary and secretive. The Ghost Of Washington, Anonymous: A young man on a cycling tour explores a deserted house and finds it’s not quite deserted. The Headless Horseman of Paoli, Darrell Schweitzer: A motorist encounters a headless horseman – or is it a body-less head? Artemisia’s Mirror, Bertha Runkle: A beautiful family heirloom proves to be the key in unlocking a decades-old secret. Unto The Fourth Generation, Isaac Asimov: An anxious young executive on his way to a business meeting keeps finding variations of the same name, over and over again. The Spook House, Ambrose Bierce: In 1858 an entire family of seven disappears suddenly and unaccountably from a plantation house , leaving behind everything they own. The Shot-Tower Ghost, Mary Elizabeth Counselman: The younger family members can’t resist making fun of Uncle Robert and his ‘ghost story’. A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains, Edgar Allan Poe: A man on a mountain hike westward and southward of Charlottesville stumbles onto an Eastern town straight out of the Arabian Nights and finds himself in the midst of a ferocious battle. Come To The Party, Frances Garfield: A tale of a wild – and deadly – party. Nobody Ever Goes There, Manly Wade Wellman: Silver John is keeping the peace in a little mountain village divided by a river, on one side of which there are things which don’t want to be bothered. Ghost of Buckstown Inn, Arnold M. Anderson: A travelling salesman decides to spend the night in the Buckstown Inn's 'supposedly' haunted bedroom. The Stuffed Alligator, L. Frank Baum: A young alligator ignores his mother’s warnings and crosses the river to the village of Men. The House Of The Nightmare, Edward Lucas White: A motorist stranded after a car accident encounters an unusual young lad who invites him to stay the night. The Elemental: A man’s thoughts and beliefs become reality. We Are The Dead, Henry Kuttner: A brief tale of a weird experience in Arlington Cemetery. The Destruction Of Smith, Algernon Blackwood: An oil tycoon is haunted by the spectral presence of the town he built burning to the ground. The Return Of The Moresbys: A man murders his wife…then becomes convinced she has been reincarnated as a cat which is determined to get vengeance. The Rider On The Pale Horse (Also published as Mr Death And The Red-Headed Woman) : Maude’s lover is shot dead over a hand of cards – but she isn’t going to let Mr Death take him. The Glove, Fritz Leiber: A creepy clue is found after a murder in an apartment house tenanted by eccentrics. Kaena Point, C.H. Sherman: Most people go to Hawaii for a holiday, or for the scenery – not to find a portal to the afterlife. Atrocities, Jessica Amanda Salmonson: When one can see the dead – and another finds he can suddenly see the dead - and there is confusion as to what is reality and whos is dreaming - there’s going to be a sticky end. Gibbler’s Ghost, William F Nolan: A famous actor tries to lose his virginity – but his would-be lady loves keep being frightened off by the sight of a knight in armor on a horse. They Bite, Anthony Boucher: A greedy thief, in an abandoned desert town, encounters something not quite human…not quite alive…and definitely not quite dead…Miracle At Chimayo, Carole Buggè: A man needs a miracle – but who is answering his prayer? Slaughter House, Richard Matheson: Can a dead woman really come between two brothers? The Dead Remember, Robert E. Howard: A tale of almost perfect revenge in the wild West of the 1870s. The Night The Ghost Got In, James Thurber: Young James Thurber hears footsteps walking around the dining table at 1.15 a.m. - and his mother is NOT amused when he wakes the household. Dumb Supper, Henderson Starke: Rosalind wonders if she really should serve a dumb supper in order to see her future husband. The Fear That Walks By Noonday, Willa Cather: After a football player is fatally injured during a game, the next game his team plays is overshadowed by coldness…and inexplicable events. The Chadwick Pit, Carol Jacobi: (also published as The Pit) When Chadwick uses stones from a pit as foundations for a summer house, he begins to have terrible nightmares. The Return Of Andrew Bentley, August W. Derleth and Mark Schorer: Uncle Amos is fearful that after his death, his body will be inhabited by spirit of the evil Andrew Bentley. Away, Barry N. Malzberg: A ghost from Iowa lives on to tell the tale of early settlement. The Strange Guests, Anonymous: The wife of a Chippewa hunter finds she and her husband entertaining hungry dinner guests each night for a year. Another Chance For Casey, Larry Siegel : Casey is determined to get into Baseball Heaven – but how can he do what he needs to do, when’s he’s dead? Cover art by Edward Gorey. -
The Vampire movie came first -the girl died in a welter of blood as the vampire bit clean through her jugular...The inquisition came next - the victim confessed as spiders crawled all over her naked body - then came the story of the Axeman...This was the horror movies eries to end them all. Cinema buffs particularly admired the grainy, amateurish camera work -it suggested the action was the real thing.But it couldn't be - could it? This new edition of Out Are The Lights contains five rare short stories by Laymon: Mess Hall; Dinker's Pool; Madman Stan; Bad News; The Tub.
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