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In this collection of ghostly chillers...The Haunted Haven, A.E. Ellis: A summer tourist learns why the fishermen of Ticklas Haven do not use the southern cove, although it appears more sheltered and suitable in every way for use as a harbour...The Red Lodge, H.R. Wakefield: A family rents a summer house by a river and find that it is already inhabited by something that leaves patches of green slime on the floor...Meeting Mr. Millar, Robert Aickman: A London writer is almost forced to give up his attic apartment when a noisy firm of chartered accountants moves onto one of the lower floors. The noises at night are especially disturbing...Midnight Express, Alfred Noyes: An illustration in a battered old book is so disturbing that a young lad pins two pages together to avoid the sight of '...an empty railway platform - at night - lit by a single dreary lamp...' But years later, he finds himself on that platform at night - but not alone...The Gorgon's Head, Gertrude Bacon: A ship's captain tells the story of a Greek island he once visited, where he found a valley filled with tall, black stones. The Tree, Joyce Marsh: An Indian woman wishes her dying husband could gain the strength and life of an old oak outside her bedroom window. Her husband regains his health and the oak dies...but what is the cost? The Haunted and the Haunters, Lord Lytton: A man, his servant and his dog attempt to spend the night in a haunted house. Bezhin Lea, Ivan Sergeivitch Turgenev: A grouse hunter gets lost on the steppes and is drawn to the camp fire of a group of horse drovers, who have some very strange tales to tell. The Last Séance, Agatha Christie: A man persuades his mediumistic fiancée to perform just one more séance for a woman who has lost her only child...with a disastrous end. N.B. This is the last collection by Robert Aickman. -
Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X. England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...Illustrated by David Hollinshead. N.B. While this was the first Gregory Sallust story published, it is No. X in the chronological order. -
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 ... -
Julia: Peter Straub
$70.00Fleeing an overpowering husband, the memory of their daughter killed in an accident and a mental breakdown, Julia impulsively buys a neo-Georgian house in Kensington, hoping for peace and seclusion. Instead she is engulfed by nightmares as the house gives up its secrets and she becomes aware of what seems to be a child's evil presence intent on revenge. Julia becomes obsessed with the need to know her role in a twenty year old mystery and she must search amongst the distorted survivors of a hideous crime. Straub's second book. -
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 old man's story was too crazy to be believed - it had to be a hoax, or the ramblings of a madman. Even the amazing photographs he claimed as proof could be fakes. But before they could be verified, the photos were stolen and the old man brutally murdered, his hand hacked off at the wrist. Investigative reporter Jason Van Cleve was onto the story of a lifetime, hotter than any in recorded history: the truth about the man called Jesus and the woman called Lael. But there were powerful men who had already killed to keep the secret from being revealed - and Van Cleve knew they would kill again...and again... -
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. -
The Wood: Guy N. Smith
$80.00The sudden mist seeped and coiled through the wood, cold as death. The naked, terrified girl floundered deeper into the undergrowth and black mud, desperate to escape her pursuer. But there was a worse horror...for with the mist came the figures of the past - from many pasts - lurching through the blinding whiteness, reaching out to choke and smother....Cover art by Les Edwards. -
Lovedeath: Dan Simmons
$80.00Five tales of love and death; Entropy's Bed at Midnight - Accidents are like death. Waiting for us everywhere. Plan as we might, the defy our planning. Dying in Bangkok - Mara and her child are monsters, but even monsters get careless. Even monsters can be killed. Sleeping With Teeth Women - a celebration of the richness of North American lore in the epic ale of Hoka Ushte, a seventeen year old Sioux warrior given the awesome responsibility of being the saviour of his people. Flashback - the point wherein the ability to recapture the past - and those lost to us in the past - becomes a sickness rather than a solace. If a simple drug allowed you to relive segments of your life, would you take it? The Great Lover - a trip into the terrible crucible of World War I in an attempt to understand how the mind and heart of a sensitive poet could have survived such horrors. Cover art by Chris Moore. -
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... -
Ghostland: Elliot O’Donnell
$90.00Britain's most famous ghost hunter tells of his childhood experiences and encounters with ghosts , as well as touching on a wealth of other paranormal events: corpse candles, elementals, curses, doubles or 'doppelgangers', the hauntings of the Thames Embankment and much more from his vast store of personal experience. -
If you must have a séance, then you need to know how to do it properly. This is not a party game, or something to do for laughs when there's nothing on the telly; a séance is a ritual with a purpose and like any ritual, needs to be done with respect. This simple book tells, step by step, how to conduct a séance; what you will need; the ideal number of sitters; there's even a glossary of terms. -
Phantom: Susan Kay
$110.00Blighted from birth by horrific facial disfigurement, Erik, a sensitive and uniquely gifted child, is driven by the superstitions and persecution of 19th century society to explore the darkest paths of survival. Rejected by his mother and the rural French community into which he was born, Erik progresses from a fairground freak exhibited by gypsies to a stonemason's apprentice in Rome; from a sinister magician wielding political power at the Persian court to the mysterious genius behind the architect of the Paris Opera. A turbulent life lived in constant danger produces a formidable and mysterious man; a man who uses his otherworldly talents to defend himself from the intolerable pain of believing he can never be loved for himself. The story of the Phantom of the Opera was first told by Gaston Leroux in 1911. Here, in an imaginative tour de force, Kay explores the Phantom's life from birth to death, and beyond. Cover art by Fletcher Sibthorpe. -
The Devil’s Mirror: Ray Russell
$120.00A chilling collection of tales: A Russian composer makes a Faustian pact at his friend's expense; a lecherous old man exacts a very hideous revenge on his nubile young wife and her lover; a sinister musical time machine reveals a ghastly atrocity from the dark abyss of time...just a few of the horrors that await the reader. -
Funland: Seedy resort Boleta Bay has seen better days, especially since the unexplained disappearances began. Now a group of teenagers have decided to fight back and clear the town of undesirables. As they grow more daring and vicious they are drawn to the abandoned Funhouse and the real source of the disappearances...The Stake: Horror writer Larry Dunbar makes a chilling discovery while staying in a ghost town in California: a coffin containing the corpse of a naked woman with a stake through her heart. Was she the victim of a gruesome murder or was she really a vampire? There's only one way to find out...
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Rodney Stone: A. Conan Doyle
$150.00A Gothic coming-of-age story that takes place in Sussex County and follows a young boy with an interest in mischief, exploration, and boxing. Rodney Stone and his best friend, Jim Harrison have always been drawn to dark and dangerous places. When they wander into Cliffe Royale, an old, deserted mansion that was the scene of a gruesome murder fifteen years earlier, they’re both frightened and strangely excited to cross paths with a ghostly figure. Before they can identify who the ghost is and what it wants, Rodney’s wealthy uncle, Sir Charles Tregellis, arrives in Brighton and takes Rodney away. Rodney soon learns that Tregellis, a typical dandy, is connected to just about everyone in London and has focused his attention on an upcoming boxing match to be witnessed by thirty thousand spectators. If Tregellis’s unnamed challenger wins the fight, it could mean grave trouble for Tregellis and everyone he’s associated with - including Rodney. Distracted by the upcoming fight, Rodney almost forgets about the chilling discovery he made at Cliffe Royale with Jim - until the past comes back to haunt them all. A story with twists, turns and the famous and infamous from history - an unforgettable portrait of what life was like for both the common man and the social elite in the early 19th Century. -
Baal: Robert R. McCammon
$150.00A woman is ravished - and unto her a child is born, unleashing an unspeakable evil upon the world. He is named Baal and he will lead the reader through the uttermost depths of evil, into a nightmare world of bloodlust and violence that would freeze the heart. -
The Book Of Hell: Ray Russell
$170.00Five satanic tales from the Grand Master of Macabre. In this volume: Meaningful Dialogue: A husband murders his wife - only to discover the hideous truth about her past. Evil Star: Written in the form of a letter, a man is determined to get his manuscript published. Rational Moments: A music connoisseur's unearthly passion leads him to the brink of primeval chaos; The Wine Of Life: A lawyer, fed up with corruption, plaintiffs, telephones and all the rest of his world, drives away and into an adventure when he picks up a pretty young hitchhiker... Dorian Black: A promising student pays a demonic price for success (written as a screenplay.) -
Adrienne was the beautiful beloved bride of Vincent, Lord Satan, eager to begin her new life as mistress of Castle Caudill. From the moment she enters Castle Caudill, Adrienne is drawn into a world of demonic terror. Does she participate in satanic rituals and black masses or are they only horrifying dreams? Is her husband a devil with great powers at his command? And why does the ghost of Lord Satan's mother mournfully roam the halls of the castle? Desperately Adrienne sought the fearful truth, through shadows that concealed nightmarish terrors, in a world that cloaked dark unseen forces she was powerless to control...Cover art by Enrich Torres-Prat. Roberts, daughter of an Ohio missionary, was a hardworking librarian by day, devil-romancer...most likely also by day. Somewhat maligned by later romance historians for her undeniably violent sex scenes, Roberts was something of a pioneer in her context and milieu in bringing a hefty amount of explicitly disreputable sexuality to the gothic genre of the 1970s. The Louisa Bronte heroine would follow her libido to hell and beyond and the consequences be damned! -
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… -
During the 1930s Depression years, the Virginia Writers project sent authors, editors and reporters out into the coves and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains and record the beliefs, traditions and superstitions of the mountain folk. Although the stories were duly collected, transcribed and sent to Richmond with the idea of publishing a book on American folklore the ultimate goal was never accomplished and the stories were archived in the University of Virginia. The stories in this volume have drawn heavily on the Virginia Project and goes beyond that - proceeding from the assumption that the tales of the mountain folk were heavily influenced by the experiences of their ancestors, many of whom were of Scottish, Irish or German origin and who settled in Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. As a result, tales about Cajuns, Indians and Spaniards are incorporated. Through the 75 + stories in this volume, there emerges a comprehensive overview of the beliefs and practices of a segment of the population to whom witches and witchcraft were a part of daily life.
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