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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. -
Duma Key: Stephen King
$18.00A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. But he remembers that sketching used to make him happy...Ed leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key and he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma has been waiting for him and he begins to paint. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and the elderly Elizabeth Eastlake. As he paints, his pictures take on a life of their own and the island's secrets begin to stir: secrets of children lost in the undertow, a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long fingers into the present. Cover art by Lisa Kimmell -
When a powerful signal - a Pulse - is broadcast across mobile network worldwide, everyone using a cell phone is instantly - and dangerously - rewired. Heading north in search of his wife Sharon and son, Johnny, Clay Riddell is joined by a group of survivors and as they travel, they meet up with others, and begin to hear rumours of the Raggedy Man and that Kashwak, a state park in Maine, is free of cell phone reception. Is it a trap - or can they make their way through the murderous, mindless gangs of 'phoners' to destroy the origin of the Pulse? Based on Stephen King's novel Cell. -
Roger Brook XI. As William Pitt the Younger's special agent, Roger Brook has faced untold dangers. But he is completely unprepared for the satanic practices of the Irish Witch, Abbess of the new Hell Fire Club and ringleader of the secret spy ring which passes information to the enemy. Then Roger learns that his young and beautiful daughter has been abducted in readiness for the sacrificial violation of a virgin at the Black Mass of Walpurgis Night... -
A Gregory Sallust adventure, No. 11. The war is long over, but danger and excitement still cling to ex-agent Gregory Sallust. Boredom leads him to Rio de Janeiro, where he is soon drawn into an adventure that takes him to the South Pacific. Circumstance leads to him becoming the friend of a young South Seas Rajah, Ratu James Omboluku, there to secure finance to recover treasure from a sunken ship lying off the island he rules; and he intends to use this treasure for the betterment of his people. But others, led by the unscrupulous Pierre Lacost, are also planning to recover the treasure, and it is not long before Gregory, having an affair with the passionate Manon de Bois-Tracy, finds himself surrounded by blackmail, kidnapping, the most ruthless thugs he has ever encountered - and murder and black magic that turn the paradise of the islands into a place of horror and death. -
Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn't know. Molly Fountain, the no-nonsense neighbour, was determined to find the answer. She sent for a wartime secret service colleague to come and help. What they discovered was horrifying beyond anything they could have imagined...the young, beautiful girl is being groomed to be the sacrificial virgin at a ceremony... her death will give life to a hideous creature that lurks beneath the ancient stones of Bentford Priory. Writer Molly Fontaine and her son John battle time, ruthless gangsters and the forces of evil to try to save Christina. -
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 -
Book/ DVD: I Am Legend: Richard Matheson
$3.00–$12.00Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization, hoping to find other survivors. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires? Cover art by Jim Thiesen (variant) DVD: Will Smith; Alice Braga: preloved; very good condition region 4 -
Portent: James Herbert
$12.00Something incredible is about to happen... Around the world, from San Francisco to the Indian city of Varanasi, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Taklimakan Desert, forces of unimaginable violence are being unleashed - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, deadly hailstorms. Each disaster preceded by the mysterious appearance of strange, dazzling lights. Portents. Signs of a coming titanic struggle between the forces of darkness and light. A struggle involving a hermit in the remote Scottish Highlands with an extraordinary secret. Two very special children who unknowingly hold the future of the planet in their hands. And the grotesque matriarch of a bizarre New Orleans cult who is determined to destroy them... -
Book I of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. Two hundred years old, the monster Deucalion is a monster no more. Literate and intelligent, he arrives in modern-day New Orleans, where he will join forces with a street-smart police detective and her partner on the trail of a macabre serial killer...a serial killer spawned, Deucalion will discover, by his own creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, now Victor Helios. Now Deucalion will find that there are many others like him, that they live among us at every strata of society, and that his nemesis, Victor Frankenstein, has survived the centuries as well, and dreams of seeding the earth with his creations. -
Firestarter: Stephen King
$15.00Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them - manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen - pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...Cover shows a young Drew Barrymore as Charlie in the film of the same name. -
Book III of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. A devastating hurricane approaches New Orleans and Victor Helios, once known as Frankenstein, has unleashed his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos his engineered killers spin out of control and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor's first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have conceived: an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose beyond imagining. -
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all…One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He’s getting back everything he nearly lost forever - his business, his life, and with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles do happen. Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive - a box of candy hearts, a heart-shaped pendant. A large sum of money vanishes from his bank account, donated to the cardiology department of the local hospital. Ryan is being stalked by someone who feels entitled to everything he has. He is promised a nightmare death. In grave danger, along with his beating heart and its secrets, can Ryan unlock the mystery of the enemy who threatens his existence? -
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... -
Reborn: F. Paul Wilson
$12.00Book IV of The Adversary. The last will and testament of Doctor Roderick Hanley - Nobel Prize-winning geneticist - had left Jim Stevens a fortune and a Long Island mansion. Adopted as a baby, and more importantly, the will also revealed the identity of his natural father. But that was when his wife Carol began to dream terrible dreams...While in the city, a wandering band Charismatics, led by the wandering monk Brother Robert, became possessed of the knowledge of the coming of a great Evil...The true, awful nature of the inheritance was about to be made manifest... -
Psycho 2: Robert Bloch
$15.00For the last twenty years, Norman Bates has been in a state hospital for the criminally insane. With the help of his psychiatrist, Norman appears to have been cured of his mother fixation and now decides that he wants OUT. His opportunity comes when he is visited by a nun - he kills her, dons her habit and escapes. The murders are about to start again... -
Necessary Evil: Shaun Hutson
$12.00It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of them are shot dead and another fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but their families too? How are the Government and the British army implicated? What lurks within a secret research establishment in the English countryside? Franklin has to find out. Finally the only one left alive, he tires of being the prey and decides to become the hunter. His quest will bring him into conflict with forces he cannot begin to imagine or understand but he is driven by a need for revenge that overrides his fear. Aided by a desperate detective, Franklin becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a terrifying climax in the London Underground where he comes face to face with the answers he has sought. Like all of us, Franklin was told monsters don't exist. He's about to find out someone was lying... -
Book VI of The Vampire Chronicles. Eternally young and angelic in looks, the Vampire Armand returns to New Orleans where the Vampire Lestat sleeps. Armand tells his tale and recalls the brutality, magnificent decadence and devil worship of his past, from a half forgotten childhood in Russia to slavery in Constantinople: from Renaissance Venice where he is saved from death by the dark gift of Marius, the greatest Vampire of them all, to nineteenth century Paris, where he is the leader of the Theatre des Vampires. Now, in New Orleans, Armand is forced to make a decision - he must choose between the existence of twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul. -
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... -
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. -
In this volume: The Dream Woman, Wilkie Collins: A man dreams of a woman who attempts to stab him - and later begins to find people and scenes from his dream in real life... The Compensation House, Charles Collins: A man is literally unable to look into mirrors - why? The House And The Brain, Lord Lytton: A rational, logical man sets out to proven that an undeniably haunted house is not haunted. The Dead Man's Story, Hain Friswell: A gathering of friends at a fireside on a stormy night hear a tale of romantic obsession that leads to a deal with the Devil himself. Horror: A True Tale, John Berwick Harwood: A Gothic melee of a manor house Christmas party, locked rooms, towers, godmothers, prophetic warnings, dismembered cattle, ghosts clanking chains...there's even a few heaving bosoms. The Cold Embrace, Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A hard-hearted rake-hell breaks the heart of his naive young lady, but even their suicide cannot part her from him. The Merchant Of Rotterdam, H.G. Bell: A master craftsman of prosthetic limbs creates a cork leg for a wealthy man - a leg that seems to have a life of its own... The Child Stealer, Erckmann-Chatrian: In a city plagued by child disappearances, the odd pairing of a crazed beggar woman and a man of action may yet solve the mystery. -
Set in a city where people come to bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counsellor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure of merging two families while dealing with resentful children takes second place as society begins to break down - and as the necessary maxim survival of the fittest gains new meaning, they must either reinvent themselves or embrace their dark histories. The prequel to The Walking Dead. Also stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason. -
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... -
Night Show: Richard Laymon
$12.00High school prankster Tony Johnson has a weird idea of fun. He likes frightening the life out of people. When he kidnaps school beauty Linda Allison and locks her in a haunted house for the night, that's his idea of a joke. But Linda doesn't see the funny side. Now Tony has moved to Hollywood, determined to break into horror movies. His target is special effects queen, Dani Larson - he's willing to go to any lengths to impress her. He's forgotten all about Linda. But she's a girl with vengeance in her heart - and she certainly hasn't forgotten him...Cover art by Steve Crisp. -
Lost World adventure No. II. In the face of an Atlantic hurricane, two girls and a boatload of men from various nations pit their strength against the appalling rigours of the open sea. Tension mounts. The desirable Synolda is forced into the arms of a man who knows her past and uses that knowledge. A man with hatred in his eyes – a hatred that can only be satisfied with blood. There is mutiny and murder before the unrelenting Sargasso weed entombs them all. But suddenly land is sighted – land unmarked on the chart, concealing unimaginable horrors. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/found-atlantis-dennis-wheatley/ -
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... -
Isolated on the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends into the pit where the ancient being worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell - and what emerges is no longer Mann...and only the town's outcasts can see it for what it truly is...
