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When writer John Newton receives a mysterious note containing the bizarre request that he should leave a bar of chocolate on one of the gravestones in the local churchyard, he doesn't take much notice. But, as he is about to discover, the consequences of not complying with the anonymous demand can be truly appalling. A newcomer to the picturesque Yorkshire village of Skelbrooke, John comes to realize that its inhabitants harbour a terrifying secret. And as the demands escalate in intensity, so John must face his worst nightmare come true. -
After a run of failed movies, superstar Todd Pickett elects to have plastic surgery in a desperate bid to regain his lost beauty. The procedure goes horribly, grotesquely wrong. Hioding from his fans, and from the press he knows will tear him apart if they find out about the operation, Todd takes refuge in a place that no map of Hollywood has ever described: Coldheart Canyon. Here, nursing his wounds and his desperation, he discovers what the history of the Dream Factory has long concealed - a world somewhere between life and death, reality and illusion, where the great legends of a forgotten Hollywood are waiting to educate him in the bitter business of life after fame... -
Pretty little five-year-old Bonnie Jackson was the darling of all the stage world. Until the night she found herself wandering, terrified, through the darkness of the Winston Theatre - a night that would end with evil consuming the innocent little girl in a horibble, fiery death. Now - sixty years later - Bonnie has returned. And she wants the spotlight once again - because she is about to perform her show-stopping act of revenge... -
Good evening...Don't be fooled by the retro-ness of this book - those old psycho-thriller writers are the scariest of them all. In this volume of stories Hitchcock was not allowed to do on TV: Being A Murderer Myself, Arthur Williams; Lukundoo, Edward Lucas White; A Woman Seldom Found, William Sansom; The Perfectionist, Margaret St. Clair; The Price Of The Head, John Russell; Love Comes To Miss Lucy, Q. Patrick; Sredni Vashtar, Saki (H.H. Munro); Love Lies Bleeding, Philip MacDonald; The Dancing Partner, Jerome K. Jerome; Casting The Runes, M.R. James; The Voice In The Night, William Hope Hodgson; How Love Came to Professor Guildea, Robert S. Hichens; The Moment of Decision, Stanley Ellin; A Jungle Graduate, James Francis Dwyer; Recipe For Murder, C.P. Donnel; Nunc Dimittis, Roald Dahl; The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell; The Lady On The Grey, John Collier; The Waxwork, A.M. Burrage; The Dumb Wife, Thomas Burke; Couching At The Door, D.K. Broster; The October Game, Ray Bradbury; Water's Edge, Robert Bloch; The Jokester, Robert Arthur; The Abyss, Leonid Andreyev. Cover art by S.R. Boldero. -
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. -
Haunted: James Herbert
$12.00David Ash, psychic investigator is invited to Edbrook, a remote country house where there is an alleged haunting. He meets the Mariell family: brothers Robert and Simon, sister Christina and their aunt, Nanny Tess. Ash is renowned for his dismissal of all thing supernatural, having exposed fake mediums and finding natural causes for so-called psychic phenomena. He has his reasons for refuting such unearthly occurrences. But over three hideous nights of terror, Ash is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs and confront the enigma of hisown past. There are games to be played here; nightmarish pastimes of a deadly, maleficent nature and only when they are done will Edbrook's dreadful secret be revealed. Cover art by James Herbert.
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Voices Of Evil: G.M. Hague
$15.00A deranged Gallipoli veteren locked in a padded cell. The grisly deaths of two beautiful young women. An ancient charm in a old metal tin. When journalist Brendan Craft discovers the mysterious Egyptian charm, a series of terrifying events is unleashed. Confronted with evil beyond imagining, Brendan becomes locked in a battle for his sanity. Where does a dream end and reality begin? Death may be the only escape from the voices of evil...Cover art by Gregory Bridges. -
Nancy Kincaid was sure of one thing as she stepped onto the crowded New York subway - it was going to be a lousy day. Commuters were packed tightly in the aislses, jostling against her as she made her way to her dreary job. But when she reached the office...an unfamiliar woman tells her to leave: This is Nancy Kincaid’s office, but you are not Nancy Kincaid... Her memory grows fuzzy and her reason seems to slip away. None of her workmates recognise her. Ejected from her office, she is harassed by a homeless man, who insists that there is someone she has to kill, at 8 o'clock...the animal hour...and then she finds the pistol in her purse...Cover art by George Smith. -
Freddy Travis had just found his first full-time job at the vast Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse. He didn't expect the racks of skeletons...the pickled brains...the freezers full of fresh corpses. But there was a much larger horror there, concealed in a store of huge metal drums. Now one of them is accidentally opened...it would spread through the warehouse... then drift over the the cemetery next door...Dear Reader, a special note: This is a novel based on the film of the same name and is markedly different from the earlier novel of the same title by John Russo. -
The last thing newly-widowed Maggie O'Connor wants is the responsibility of a baby. But when her heroin-addict daughter Jenna abandons new-born Cody, Maggie's maternal instincts and love prevail. Three years later, an impeccably groomed Jenna complete with her new wealthy husband Eric Vannier returns to claim her daughter. On Maggie's first visit to Cody in the new home, the child is vacant-eyed, subdued and fearful. The police cannot act - until an anonymous caller reveals the Vannier's link to a Satanic cult. Then an acnient prophecy begins to turn to reality, and suddenly there is more at stake than little Cody's sanity and safety. -
Gideon: Stephen Laws
$7.00Gideon loved women - to death. Until the day three women disobeyed him...the day they came to him with vengeance in their hearts for the depravity they had endured. They left him shot to death in a pool of blood - and they were free. But Gideon returns to seek his vengeance. Their own deaths will not be enough - Gideon is out to destroy everything and everyone they love. -
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. -
Every small town has a place like the mound. Lovers go there to woo, families picnic on it summer, children sled in winter. For the community of Oscala, New York, the mound has never been dangerous - until now. Something beyond cunning or imagining, something undeniably evil is hiding beneath the mound. The terror comes from out of time, space and the depths of the human mind with its alien needs and desires. It spreads its roots secretively, changing and reshaping reality. It intends to sweep aside all that the good townsfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, the promise of their souls. How can ordinary people protect themselves from this evil? Brian Kelly, a physicist still grieving for the hideous death of his first wife and child, suspects that the shell of reality has been torn to allow this monstrosity in. His pregnant second wife, Loi, is ready to dare anything to protect her unborn son. The tough yet vulnerable Ellen Maas, a reporter, must commit to destroying the beast - or die. Bob West, a cop, will turn to the law of the jungle if it will save his family. They must band together to defeat the evil beneath the mound. Cover art by Melvyn Grant. -
Moon: James Herbert
$8.00He had fled from the terrors of his past, finding refuge in the quietness of the island. And for a time he lived in peace. Until the "sightings" began, visions of horror seeping into his mind like poisonous tendrils, violent acts that were hideously macabre, the thoughts becoming intense. He witnessed the grotesque acts of another thing, a thing that glorified in murder and mutilation, a monster that soon became aware of the observer within its own mind. And relished contact. A creature that would eventually come to the island to seek him out... -
Once… James Herbert
$9.00For Thom Kindred, a stroke victim, life is nothing spectacular. He is partially incapacitated and battling daily to regain control of his life. Moved by haunting dreams of his youth, he travels back to the wooded land where he grew up to recuperate. Surrounded by the comforts of Castle Bracken, Thom plans to relive old, forgotten memories. But his return has stirred an ancient evil at Castle Bracken, one cloaked in the guise of a friend. His only chance for survival lies in a world that he no longer believes in. A door is opened into a place of wonder and terrible danger; where the unexpected becomes the norm, where the separation of dreams and nightmares is thin, and where "Once upon a time . . ." doesn't always lead to a happy ending. -
With an introduction by the great Vincent Price (House of Wax, The Mad Magician, The House of Usher, The Ten Commandments and more) and an afterword by the fabulous Christopher Lee (Dracula, The Wicker Man, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and more). Whether it be a classic such as The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney or a modern like the remake of IT...whether we saw them at the cinema or on DVD, we never forget our first horror movie. This volume is a classic horror buff's dream - it features the stories behind the vintage horror films, with a brief introduction to the storyline and some interesting tidbits about the making of the film. Stories include: The Devil In A Convent; The Lunatics; Puritan Passions; Phantom Of The Opera; The Magician; Freaks; Most Dangerous Game; Dracula's Daughter; All That Money Can Buy; The Body Snatcher; The Beast With Five Fingers; Beast From 20,000 Fathoms; The Fly; Black Sunday; Incident At Owl Creek; Die, Monster, Die! The Skull; The Oblong Box. Illustrated with black and white photos. -
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. -
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. -
Creed: James Herbert
$8.00Joseph Creed is a paparazzo - he chases and harasses celebrities for candid shots, hopefully the seedier kind. Creed is a sleaze - but good at his job; he's unkempt and uncouth, a coward, a liar and a would-be blackmailer. He's also a womaniser and a divorcee. He looks a little like Mickey Rourke - and knows it. After the funeral ceremony of a major Hollywood actress, Creed photographs a man desecrating the grave. Creed himself is observed and there is a series of horrific events designed to frighten him into handing over the film. The man he has photographed bears a strong resemblance to a a man who was hanged in the 1930s for murder and mutilation of children. Creed eventually discovers that his antagonists are the Fallen Angels of Europe. Their powers are waning, the centuries of evil have taken their toll. Creed finds them - in an old folks' rest home...Cover art by James Herbert. -
Little by little, one of the world's most powerful families is being destroyed. And no one seems to know why. Those who suspect the truth do not live to reveal it. Only thirteen-year-old Damien Thorn seems immune from the bizarre accidents claiming the lives of those around him. Damien, whose own father tried to kill him seven years ago... Damien, whose loving foster family is learning the meaning of hellish fear... Damien, who is leaving behind the seeming innocence of youth to fulfill the terrifying prophecy foretold long ages ago - and who is discovering that it is not, after all, the meek who shall inherit the earth - but the Master of Evil. Film novelisation. -
Cul-de-Sac: David Martin
$10.00Paul and Annie Milton plan to renovate and resell the dilapidated building they have just bought in the back country of Virginia. But when Annie joins her husband she finds the dwelling's walls hold secrets and lies....one secret is worth millions; one lie has created a live-in monster. Fourteen years ago, ex-cop Teddy Camel told Annie he'd do anything for her - even rescue her from hell. And that's exactly where she is - in hell at Cul-De-Sac... -
Julian Day adventure No. III. The opening of the story is macabre: a Japanese father regarding the severed head of his son which had been sent to him in a box. But of that, the lovely half-English, half-Chinese Merri Sang knew nothing, neither did Julian Day nor Bill Urata, both of whom were in love with her; but the father's thirst for revenge brought all three of them into deadly peril. The story moves swiftly from Hong Kong in 1942 to Hong Kong in 1964, but first, there are the terrible days when the beautiful island was invaded by the Japanese – who, in many cases, treated their prisoners with appalling barbarity... -
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. -
At an archeological dig in Israel, the restless spirit of the witch Tamar escapes the urn in which it has been imprisoned for 400 years - a practitioner of Kabbalist black magic. She has found the one vessel through which she can regain her malign powers - the virgin child-woman Leah who has accompanied her father on the dig. But there is one force Tamar must destroy - a modern day warlock armed with the one weapon that can stop her. -
In this volume of splatterpunk, black humor, no-holds-barred Goth and literally psychotic psycho, guaranteed to keep you awake... The Last Illusion, Clive Barker; Bunny Didn't Tell Us, David J. Schow; Murgunstrumm, Hugh B. Cave; The Late Shift, Dennis Etchison; The Horse Lord, Lisa Tuttle; The Jumpity-Jim, R. Chetwynd-Hayes; Out Of Copyright, Ramsey Campbell; The River Of Night's Dreaming, Karl Edward Wagner; Amber Print, Basil Copper; The House of the Temple, Brian Lumley; The Yougoslaves, Robert Bloch; Firstborn, David Campton; The Black Drama, Manly Wade Wellman; Crystal, Charles L. Grant; Buckets, F. Paul Wilson; The Satyr's Head, David A. Riley; Junk, Stephen Laws; Pig's Dinner, Graham Masterton. Previously published as The Mammoth Book Of Terror and The Anthology Of Horror Stories. -
Journalist Peter Jacobs is dragged into the police investigation of two strings of gruesome deaths when he receives an anonymous phone call from someone who knows more than he should about the murders. And when Julie Moore, a grad student researching Near Death Experiences, falls in love with Peter, she doesn't know she's placed herself in the deadly sights of the Cold One, who needs Peter to complete Its mysterious designs. Cover art by Paul Davies. -
A witnessing of an age-old murder, a trip to the Other Side, a mysterious friendship and a preview of the Life Beyond are just some of the happenings in this spine-chilling collection of thirteen short stories. In this volume: Christmas Cheer, Withershins; Sleep Well! Who Is Emma? A Mistake Has Been Made; Boy On The Beach; The Other World; Invisible; The Disco; The Disappearance Of Samantha; The Everlasting Day; The Ghost Of Harry; The Door In The Wall.
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