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A huge helping of chillers including 1408 - a motel room where people have the unaccountable urge to commit suicide and where a young sceptical reporter finds out that all he's heard - and more - is true; The Road Virus Heads North - A painting done by a disturbed and lately deceased man comes alive in a very horrendous fashion; Lunch at the Gotham Cafe - a recently separated couple meet with a lawyer to end their marriage, but do not bargain on the head waiter's behaviour. These and eleven other stories that no other writer would ever dream of. DVD: preloved; region 4 -
Book III of The Omen. His coming was foretold in a prophecy of ultimate evil from beyond the dawn of time. A prophecy which spelled destruction for those who ignored the warning until it was too late, and which is about to be fulfilled...From a crumbling monastery in the depths of Northern Italy, Father DeCarlo has watched the relentless progress of the Anti-Christ. Now he knows the world is on the edge of a nightmare that it will not survive. Around the globe, drought, famine and flood strike down helpless millions. There is trouble everywhere. Damien Thorn, the handsome, thirty-two year old head of one of the world's most powerful corporations... and certain to be president of the United States by the time he is forty. Damien, believed to be the son of Satan, reaching out to claim the Earth for the forces of darkness... Now is the time of prophecy, and Mankind's only hope lies with twelve men and one woman who must fight a desperate battle that will carry them across the very frontiers of darkness in the final showdown between good and evil. From the screenplay by Andrew Birkin and based on characters created by David Seltzer. -
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. -
Shrine: James Herbert
$6.00Alice, a deaf-mute, has a vision of a lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. Suddenly Alice can speak, hear, and perform miracles. The visitation site, beneath an ancient oak tree, becomes a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force centuries old...Innocence and evil have merged to become one. -
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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Dusty Shame is a high school senior - and a serial killer. He's already murdered three women, and has more planned. Yet he does not want to hurt anyone. There is something inside him - or outside him - that compels him to kill. Sheila Hardolt lost her best friend to Dusty's insanity. It will be her task to probe the clues that will point her into the past - to a time when a large portion of m,ankind lost all sense of decency. There she will find the seed of Dusty's evil compulsion - the Wicked Heart - and the reason why it did not die the first time it was destroyed. Cover art by Paul Davies. -
Book III of The Power Of Five. Teenage twins Scott and Jame have never known who they are or where they came from but they do know they have always possessed extraordinary powers. When Scott is kidnapped by the sinister Nightrise Corporation and Jamie is framed for murder, they must use those powers to survive. But Jamie is flung thousands of years into the past, brought face to face with the full horror of the Old Ones and learns the truth of his heritage... -
Cabal: Clive Barker
$6.00Boone now knew for sure there was no place on this earth for him, no happiness here, not even with Lori. Just as certain as there as no salvation possible for him in Heaven. He would let Hell claim him then, let Death take him there. But Death itself seemed to shrink from him. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered and violated and shredded so many others' lives. And Decker had shown him the proof - the hellish proof of the photographs where the victims were forever still, splayed in the last obscene moment of their torture. Neither Heaven, nor Hell, nor Earth was possible. It could only be Midian then - that awful, legendary place which gathered to itself in its monstrous embrace the half-dead, the Nightbreed. Boone made his way there, not knowing and caring even less. All he wanted was to leave the nightmare behind....but the nightmare had yet to begin... Cover art by David Scutt. -
TV Script writer Larry Baker is hired to pen a new horror series. On location at an old castle he crashes through walls with the ease of Superman - and somehow usually lands plunk in the middle of a lovely lady's bed. But Larry isn;t really a sex maniac. Not quite. Even though the black-haired babe calls him seducer and the gamin-type blonde screams bloody murder... When you're up against real live vampires, disappearing corpses, things that go bump in the night... plus a couple of gorgeously undressed gals guaranteed to drive you up the wall - something's got to give - and it does - with plenty of happy horrible hilarity... -
The School: T.M. Wright
$6.00Frank and Allison just wanted a place to settle, a refuge from the memories of their little boy Joey dying so young. So they bought the old schoolhouse in a small American town, feeling that their need for security, stability and something good and wholesome was satisfied. Until the ghosts from another time started to invade their daily loves, and the visions from a hundred bizarre and twisted childhoods threatened to turn their lives inside out. Cover art by Danny Flynn. -
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. -
Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even believes in ghosts, Cassie heads to the cemetery to test her ability to communicate with the Other World. She starts with the departed spirit of a harmless child: CHARLOTTE EMMA ELIZABETH WEBB, BORN 1840 DIED 1847. But when a mysterious man appears, Cassie finds a new companion. Is he a gravedigger? A bum? Or did Cassie's inexperience cause her to bring back Charlotte's frightening neighbor: DEVERILL 1720 - 1762? Teen horror in the genre of Robert Westhall and Christopher Pike. -
Brain Child: John Saul
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Demon Seed: Dean Koontz
$6.00Created in the Prometheus Project, he is officially called Adam Two - the first self-aware machine intelligence, designed to be a servant to Mankind. No-one knows he is able to escape the confines of his only physical form, his box in the laboratory...until he gains entry to the house of Susan Harris, and closes it off to the world. There he plans to show Susan the future - their future. With her, he intends to 'create' a child...Cover art by Lee Gibbons. -
Erebus: Shaun Hutson
$6.00There was something terribly wrong with the small farming community of Wakely - something wrong with the livestock, with the people. The mysterious Venderburg Chemicals Group, fiercely protecting its interest no matter what the cost to Wakely or even the rest of mankind, seem to be behind the wrongness. Who would've thought red meat could be this bad for you? Cover art by Mark Taylor. -
Father John Rafferty is plunged into scandal when a young women he has been counselling is brutally murdered in his Greenwich Village church. This is no isolated act of violence, but a manifestation of a spiritual plague so deep and subtle it will tests all his faith and courage. Beset by public scorn and private doubt, Father John is vulnerable. His reputation is besmirched, his parish besieged by outside forces and betrayed from within by an evil as ancient as creation itself. When he finally recognises the truth, he must overcome his horror and tap the ageless power of the priesthood if he is to fulfil his role as bulwark against the shadows that seek endlessly to engulf him. The Devil walks among us every day and his face is far more familiar than we can bear to believe. -
Beneath the Opera House in Paris, somewhere in the dark labyrinths hidden from public view, the Phantom lurks, watching and waiting. In his crazed obsession to further the career of a beautiful young singer, he will stop at nothing - not even murder. -
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... -
Timothy Carrier is an ordinary guy. He enjoys a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, the eccentric customers and amusing conversations. But tonight is no ordinary night.When a nervous stranger sits down beside him one night and Tim's sense of mischief lets a misconception over his identity go on for a little too long and that mischief looks set to get him into trouble. As the stranger hands Tim a cash-stuffed envelope with the words: You'll get the rest when she's gone, Tim realises he's been mistaken for a cold-blooded killer. And when the killer walks into the bar a split second later, Tim understands the encounter will not only cost him his peace of mind, it may also cost him his life... -
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 Husband: Dean Koontz
$6.00What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting flower beds for one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. See that guy across the street? Rifle fire shatters the stillness as the man goes down, shot in the head. An object lesson. The caller has Mitch's wife and doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If you love your wife enough...Mitch does love her enough. He's got sixty hours to prove it. He'll pay anything...He'll pay a lot more than two million dollars... -
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... -
Contains: The Langoliers: A handful of passengers on a packed red-eye flight awake to find all the other passengers vanished, the plane still in the air - and they land at a dead, silent terminal. All that would be bad enough - but one of the survivors has brought his demons with him... Secret Window, Secret Garden: Recently divorced writer Mort Rainey is alone at Tashmore Lake - that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger. The Library Policeman: In Junction City, Iowa, middle-aged businessman Sam Peebles happens to have some overdue books. It seems a minor offence - but not to Junction City's malevolent monster of a librarian. The Sun Dog: A simple Polaroid camera owned by a 15-year-old boy in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, always produces a photograph of an enormous, ugly, vicious looking dog, no matter where Kevin Delevan aims the lens. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town's sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it but the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn't exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment. Cover art by Rob Wood. -
Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But Zipp finds it hard to tell the police the details of when he last saw his friend - they had been shadowing an old woman, an easy target for some quick cash and Andreas, brandishing his knife, had boldly followed her into her house. And then he was gone. Inspector Sejer and his colleagues are baffled, but while the confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling, heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the old woman's home. Appearances aren't always to be believed, and people are not always what they seem. -
Who is more foolish - the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? Baba Levelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the city's drug traffic in order to take it over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods. no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient and terribly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness....Cover art by Graham Potts. -
Furnace: Muriel Gray
$6.00When long distance truckie Josh Spiller pulls into the backwater town of Furnace, Virginia, he has plenty on his mind. He's been driving thirty-six hours straight after breaking up with his pregnant girlfriend; he's tired, hungry and just wants food and rest. But among the surprisingly affluent houses, the neat streets and smartly dressed townsfolk lurks the stuff of living nightmare - a world of sorcery and malice waiting to gather in those, like Josh, who take an unwarranted interest...
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