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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... -
Mysterious and bizarre people...who were they? Where did they go? There's mysterious geniuses - a French Rabbi who had electric light in the 13th century, to the man who was caught on video walking through a solid door; author Jonathan Swift, who described the Martian moons and their orbits 150 years before they were discovered to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. And more...Hannah Brade, the mysterious maid who wasn't what she seemed; William Harrison - the bizarre case of the Campden murder; Bruce Lee - was the martial arts superstar murdered? The Man in the Iron Mask - who was the legendary prisoner who could not show his face? The Men In Black - shadowy visitors who stalk UFO witnesses; Adolf Hitler - black magician? The Atlanteans - did the legendary island of Atlantis really exist? The Green Children - a strange tale from the Middle Ages; Robin Hood - who was the legendary outlaw? The Lunarians - is there intelligent life on our moon? Nostradamus - the man who saw tomorrow; Richard Bingham - the case of the vanishing peer...and many more. -
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. -
Shadows: Shaun Hutson
$15.00In Oxford and Paris psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York, writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathon Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box, and unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within every man...Cover art by Danny Flynn. -
Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. He likes everything in his life to be neat and clean from his immaculate condominium to his well-tailored clothes to his homicide case files, free of typing errors. The bane of his life is his partner, Connie Gulliver. He doesn't like the way she dresses for work, the messiness of her desk, her lack of manners or her sometimes casual attitude toward the law. She says its the Age of Chaos in a modern world and he ought to get with it - and he loathes that attitude. But when Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in a crowded restaurant, the chase and shootout degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connie's world view.On his way back to the office to write up his report, a hulking denizen of the streets dressed in filthy rags tells him, "Tick-tock, tick-tock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours." Until dawn the next day Harry struggles to regain his neat orderly life but is instead caught in an undertow of terror and violence. Someone's after him for reasons he doesn't understand and he must come to terms with the chaotic modern world if he is to save Connie, the people he loves and himself. Cover art by Graham Potts. -
The Dark: James Herbert
$8.00Bishop, a ghost hunter and writer on the paranormal, always seeks a scientific explanation for the things that go bump in the night. He begins an investigation of an old house in London, but finds bodies. Over 30 people apparently mass suicide...And so it came, like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night... a small girl smiled as her mother burned... Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants... in slimy tunnels, once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade, and humanity was attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil. -
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 Curse: John Tigges
$10.00Haunted by bizarre dreams, Sabra Narman thought she might lose her sanity, her marriage, even her life. Desperate for a cure, the Narmans leave their hectic city life to make a new start in a peaceful country town. But an insidious evil was trapped there, waiting for release, craving the souls of innocent victims. When Sabra's children accidentally free the evil, Sabra alone has the power to save them - if she can face the very visions that had threatened to destroy her. -
Dr Ezawa had discovered how to create the zombies of Louisiana Bayou legend - the injection of corpses with the soil of old slave graveyards. They eyes of the awakened dead blazed green with strange visions and superhuman abilities. But when one escapes, unwilling to be a guinea pig and begins to test his growing powers on the superstitious Cajun swamp dwellers, another terrifying world begins to unfold before his green eyes.... Cover art by Gino D'Achille. -
When Englishman Clive Bagnall arrives in Darwin in 1939 to begin a new life on the land of his inherited cattle station, he finds it to be a crocodile-infested, barren wasteland and not only that, he's not the sole owner. It's shared with his Australian cousin Val, a red-head with a temper. And then there is Doug, sometime oyster-opener and layabout who feels obliged to instruct him in the ways of the Territory. And haunting all three is the spirit world of the Aborigine and their sacred Remembering Stones that seem to hold the key to events past and present. Cover art by Tony Pyrzakowski. -
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… -
Stone Angels: Mike Jefferies
$10.00In ancient times it was a pagan altar, washed by the blood of human sacrifice. Then it was hidden for centuries until it was possessed by a spirit. Spirit and stone fused - to take on the shape of an angel. The Bishop of Norwich was awed. This twelve foot perfectly carved angel must surely be a miracle, and he duly installed it with pomp and ceremony in his new cathedral. Then the disappearances started. An angel, certainly, but not for the forces of good. Abaddon - the Angel of the Pit - has entered his effigy and he lies in the heart of Norwich Cathedral, his terrible power building day by day. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Alarums: Richard Laymon
$10.00Melanie Conway is a pale and lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. When she collapses during a concert her boyfriend Bodie is on hand to hear her fearful pronouncements of disaster. Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister but her looks get her into trouble. Although she takes herself seriously as a writer, men seem only impressed by her beauty. The last thing she needs is a series of obscene phone calls. Captivated by the two alluring sisters, Bodie is drawn deep into a mystery that's fired by sex and haunted by blood. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
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Out of the darkest pages of history comes a black shadow to threaten the present. On a remote uninhabited island an ancient stone monument to evil is mysteriously rebuilding itself. Creatures from your worst nightmares attack the small team investigating the island. It is as if the gates of hell have been opened. It is - an outbreak of darkness. Cover art by Philip Cornell.
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Icebound: Dean Koontz
$25.00A widespread drought is causing murderous famine. There is one possible solution: giant masses of Arctic ice, split from the polar pack by high explosives, could be moved south to parched coastlines and melted for water. In an Arctic ice field, a special team of eight scientists has planted sixty powerful bombs that will detonate automatically at midnight. But before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp - Edgeway Station - a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which they are working, leaving them hopelessly marooned on an iceberg during the worst winter storm in a decade. The bombs, buried irretrievably deep beneath them in the ice, are ticking...And in the midst of a desperate struggle for survival, the scientists discover that one of them is a ruthless killer on a strange mission of his own...Cover art by Chris Moore. Originally published under the pseudonym David Axton. -
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. -
Mystery: Peter Straub
$7.00High society and the desires of the rich are usually satisfied on the tiny Caribbean island of Mill Walk. But Tom Pasmore has a boyish yen to play detective, and he befriends his neighbour Lamont, who was once a renowned amateur sleuth. But Tom's passion for murder cases is making waves - for Mill Walk is a place where murders are tidied up like so much litter, and some very powerful people prefer it that way. The 1925 murder of Jeanine Thielman at Eagle Lake is Tom's pet fascination and when Tom gets a chance to have a holiday there, he succeeds in annoying a lot of people very rapidly. His love affair with Sarah, who is already earmarked for marriage to a son of Mill Walk's most powerful family is bad enough. But when Tom starts his investigation into the Thielman murder, he is in real danger of uncovering the dark secrets of those who own and run Mill Walk. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
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Bob Harlow is an academic; Vern Cugnet is an auto mechanic. Beside this difference, Bob has another distinction - his once-pleasant life in North Dakota is going to hell. Terrible things are befalling Bob, his family and friends: strange infections, nasty infestations, thefts and accidents - one of which is fatal. And Bob realises that the jinx is the result of a side trip he took into Tibet after a year-long sabbatical in China. There, in the Place of the Dead, Bob committed thoughtless sacrilege when he pocketed two mani stones - engraved funeral markers - as souvenirs. No matter what the obstacles, he must return the sacred objects. Vern - naive, crude and indomitable - volunteers to go along and the unlikely companions set out to undo the curse. The trek will take them through China, India and Nepal and involve them in border frays, encounters with holy hermits and bloodthirsty demons and finally, an audience with the Dalai Lama himself.
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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. -
Bartholomew Lampion is blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regains his sight when he is thirteen. The sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the light has nothing to do with a holy healer, nor do celestial trumpets announce the miracle. A roller coaster has something to do with it, as does a seagull. Barty's profound desire is to make his mother proud of him before she dies. The first time she dies was the day Barty was born: January 6, 1965....
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Night Howl: Andrew Neiderman
$25.00Bobby loves his dog King, a playful German Shepherd - until the day King turns and attacks him, snarling and vicious. The dog is put to sleep but Bobby still sees him everywhere - in the garden, on the stairs...crouching...waiting...Then the horrific deaths begin - brutal savage maulings. Terror grips the sleepy town of Fallsburg and doors are locked at night. For through the woods runs a dark shadow with dripping jaws, eluding pursuit with uncanny skill. Now, more than ever, the scientists down the road most guard the deadly secret of the monster they've let loose. -
Oktober: Stephen Gallagher
$10.00Beyond the experimental labs, the three operating theatres were used mainly for post mortem dissection. Security was tight. High in Swiss Mountains, the research station was only a small part of the giant Risinger-Genoud drug company. A small, but very important and secret part. The clinical results were fascinating - and terrifying. But there had been a security breach. An outsider, skiing on the edge of the glacier, had had an accident and was lying unconscious near the animal pens. When James Harper came to, he knew only that something had happened to him that was destroying his sanity...Cover art by Paul Davies (as by Davies) -
Count Dracula: Gerald Savory
$25.00A dramatic re-telling of Bram Stoker's immortal classic, this chronicles the momentous conflict between the forces of good and evil as Professor Van Helsing, Dr Seward, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Holmwood confront the Count and hs undead disciples. Cover shows Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula in the BBC TV production. -
Rose Madder: Stephen King
$15.00Rosie Daniels, trapped in a fourteen year nightmare marriage is suddenly roused by a single drop of blood and she realises that her husband Norman is going to kill her. Or maybe - worse still - he won't. And she takes flight – with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an old junk shop painting, "Rose Madder," which is perfect for her new apartment and strangely, the painting seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog’s instinct for tracking people. And he’s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he is getting… Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Haunted: James Herbert
$6.00David 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 his own 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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In this volume: The Black Cat/ The Tell-Tale Heart/ The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe; The Torture Of Hope, Villiers de l’Isle Adam; An Episode Of The Terror, Honoré de Balzac; The Hand, Guy de Maupassant; The Withered Arm; Thomas Hardy; The Idiots, Joseph Conrad; The Bird, Thomas Burke; The Terror, Arthur Machen; Lot No. 249, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Apprentice, Hilaire Belloc; The Sentence, J. Kaden-Bandrowski; The Killers, Ernest Hemingway; Arabesque: the Mouse, A. E. Coppard; Treasure Trove, F. Tennyson Jesse; Cinci, Luigi Pirandello; Suspicion, Dorothy L. Sayers; The Last Chukka, Alec Waugh; Dead on Her Feet, Cornell Woolrich; Taboo, Geoffrey Household; A Little Place Off The Edgware Road; Graham Greene; The Words Of Guru/ The Little Black Bag, CM Kornbluth; Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper, Robert Bloch; The Glass Eye, John Keir Cross; The Web, D’Arcy Niland; The Physiology Of Fear/ The Head And The Feet, C.S. Forrester; The Veld / Skeleton, Ray Bradbury; Evening Primrose, John Collier; Back From The Grave, Robert Silverberg; A Rose For Emily, William Faulkner; The Island Of Bright Birds, John Christopher; The Comforts Of Home; Flannery O’Connor; The Skylight; Penelope Mortimer; Pig, Roald Dahl; The Question, Stanley Ellin; In The Steam Room, Frank Baker; The Pencil, Edmund Crispin; The Dark Of The Moon, Olaf Ruhen; Falling Object, William Brittain; The Terrapin, Patricia Highsmith; The Taste Of Your Love, Eddy C. Bertin; Aunt Jennie’s Tonic, Leonard Tushnet, Not After Midnight, Daphne du Maurier; The Game, Thomasina Weber; The Fanatic, Arthur Porges; The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs, Harlan Ellison; Judas Story, Brian M. Stableford; You’re Putting Me On - Aren’t You? Joe Gores; Wake Up Dead, Tim Stout; Corabella, David Fletcher. -
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...
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