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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. -
Book IV of Twilight. To be in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen and in another by a profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, it has been a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. The choice: join the dark but seductive world of the immortals or pursue a fully human life. Cover art by Roger Hagadone. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/breaking-dawn-stephenie-meyer/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/midnight-sun-stephenie-meyer/ -
Dreamcatcher: Stephen King
$12.00Four young boys save a special little lad from the torment of the school bullies. "Duddits", as he calls himself, is now their friend for life. Twenty five years later, the boys have become men and still get together once a year to go hunting in the northern Maine woods. But this time a man comes stumbling through the snow into their camp, lost, disoriented, muttering about the lights in the sky. This is only the beginning of their struggle with something malevolent from another world and their only chance of survival is locked in Duddits...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-dreamcatcher-morgan-freeman-thomas-jane-jason-lee/
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Or: Things that go bump on the screen... In this volume: Haunted, James Herbert; The Old Dark House, J.B. Priestley; The Ghost Goes West, Eric Keown; Topper, Thorne Smith; The Uninvited, Dorothy Macardle; The Dead Of Night, Gerald Hersch; The Night Of The Demon, M.R. James; The Haunting, Shirley Jackson; The Stone Tape, Nigel Kneale; Asylum, Robert Bloch; Don't Look Now, Daphne Du Maurier; Hallowe'en, John Carpenter; Beetlejuice, Michael McDowell -
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Hannibal Rising: Thomas Harris
$15.00$10.00Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front: a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck. He is not alone - he has brought his demons with him. Rescued from an orphanage by his Uncle and taken to live in France, his uncle's wife, the beautiful Lady Murasaki helps him to heal. But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment him. And when he is old enough, he visits them in turn...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-hannibal-rising-gaspard-ulliel-gong-li-dominic-west/ -
The Sineater...according to legend, a dark and mysterious figure of the night who devours food from the chests of the dead to allow them to ascend to heaven. In the small American town, children have to lock themselves away on the rare occasions the Sineater calls at their home. Now the order has been broken - the Sineater has children of his own. But when Joel, the last born, begins to lead a normal life, strange and disturbing events begin to affect the peaceful life of the community. Before long no-one is safe from the dark forces that have been set loose. But does the evil come from the Sineater? His family? Or some other mysterious force? -
Tom Auden tries to remember what he saw in the village shrine, just before his world exploded in Vietnam in 1972. The memory is so horrific and unspeakable that Auden buries it, deeper than nightmares can ever reach. He forgets the gruesome scene - and loses six hours of his life. In 1987, those missing hours become vitally important. The horrors of Vietnam are being recreated outside his window; the terrible ceremony he interrupted fifteen years earlier moves towards its inevitable conclusion. Unless he can remember the secret of the Harvest Bride...Cover art by Jill Bauman. -
The Reverend David James discovers that a coven of witches have been using his church for worshipping Satan and calling up the dead. Meanwhile, alone in his mansion, Harry Royce is employing electronic devices to reach the outer limits of the universe. But when the invasion began it was not known whether the invaders were aliens from a contaminated star, or lost souls erupting out of Limbo. Two things are clear: It cannot be stopped and once it ends, there will be no one sane left on earth. Cover art by Jack Faragasso. -
Ten tales, all with twists worthy of The Twilight Zone and Tales of the Unexpected. The author was involved in creating, writing and starring in ground-breaking children's shows The Magic Circle Club and Adventure Island and for ten years was the roving world entertainment reporter and celebrity interviewer for The Mike Walsh Show. A fan of Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King, he turns his attention to terror in this volume of the ordinary turned into the bizarre. In this unique volume: The Great Pretender; Dancing Queen; Mac The Knife; I Love You So, Sonny Boy; With A Song In My Heart; If I Had A Talking Picture Of You; There's No Place Like Home; Some Day My Prince Will Come; Windmills Of Your Mind; Baby Face. And yes, they are all song titles... -
In this volume: The Langoliers: A handful of passengers on a packed red-eye flight awake to find all the other passengers and crew vanished, the plane still in the air...they manage to land the plane at a dead, silent terminal and 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. -
Wentworth, Ohio: a small, idyllic friendly little town, where the Carver children bicker over sweets and Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street, it's a normal summer's day, with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats tinking, Frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But young Cary Ripton, on his paper round notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside her glass door - and he's always thought there was something creepy about her nephew, Poplar Street's best kept secret. What Cary doesn't notice is the chrome-red van idling up the hill...soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin and the Regulators will arrive in force. And by night-fall on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and despair...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Storm House: Florence Hurd
$55.00A missive of death called young Laura back to Storm House after eight years in Paris. Her proud, beautiful mother had committed suicide by leaping off Cliff's Edge. Laura had been sent away to school when her mother discovered her love for Armand, her stepfather's poor nephew. Now Armand also returned to Storm House, but he had changed into a brooding, secretive person. Her home had become a deadly trap - boulders hurtled out of nowhere, the vicious mastiffs got loose and attacked her and a ghostly vision of evil appeared in her room. Laura knew someone in this strange, decaying mansion wanted her dead and would stop at nothing until her lifeless body was flung from the treacherous cliffs! Gothic horror/romance at its highest.
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Book/DVD: The Woman In Black: Susan Hill
$7.00–$8.00Summoned to attend Mrs Drablow's funeral in Crythin Gifford, Arthur Kipps - a young solicitor - journeys untroubled to her tall, lonely house situated on the bleached salt marsh beyond Nine Lives Causeway. He did not suspect that Eel Marsh House guarded a pitiful secret, nor did he understand - until it was too late - that the mysterious black-clad woman who inhabited its shuttered rooms would exact a terrible revenge. DVD: Daniel Radcliffe; Liz White: pre-loved; region 1; excellent condition https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/woman-black-angel-death-martyn-waites/ -
Following the critically acclaimed Australian Gothic: An Anthology of Australian Supernatural Fiction James Doig has returned from another expedition into the uncharted territory of Australia's grim and ghostly past with a second collection of chillers by Australian authors - long-forgotten relics from Australia's Gothic past. There's even one from Rosaleen Norton, the infamous witch of King's Cross. In this volume: The White Maniac: A Doctor’s Tale, Mary Fortune; The Silent Sepulchre, Charles Junor; What The Rats Brought, Ernest Favenc; On The Island Of Shadows, Ernest Favenc; The Odic Touch, Hume Nisbet; Told In The Corona’s Cabin On Three Evenings, J.A. Barry; The House Of Ill Omen, Rosa Praed; A Thing Of Wax, Morley Roberts; The Prophetic Horror Of The Great Experiment, James Edmund; The Precipitous Details Of The High Mountain And The Three Skeletons, James Edmund; The Strange Case Of Alan Heriot, Lionel Sparrow; The Blanket Fiend, Beatrice Grimshaw; The Phantom Ship Of Dirk Van Tromp, James Francis Dwyer; The Pledge, Helen Simpson; The Watch and The House That Took Revenge, Vernon Knowles; The Story Of The Waxworks, Rosaleen Norton; The Undying One, Roger Dard. Each story begins with a short author bio. -
The Wyrm: Stephen Laws
$7.00Something hideous is about to happen in the village of Shillingham. Why does crazy Frank Warwick shoot at the workmen taking the old gibbet from the crossroads? Why should the villagers feel a sudden shiver of terror? Why are the local children draw, as if by a silent command, to play around the gibbet? The unearthly fog surrounding the village is thickening, killing the wildlife and cutting the villagers off from the outside world. Beneath the earth, something is stirring...and as the bulldozers roll on unchecked, a dark and terrible evil imprisoned below the gibbet for centuries slowly awakes 0 burning for revenge against mankind. Shillingham is about to become Hell on Earth. -
Frank Pollard awakens in an alley knowing nothing but his name - and that he is in great danger. Over the next few days he develops a fear of going to sleep because he awakens with blood on his hands and bizarre and terrifying objects in his pockets. Distraught and despairing, he begs husband and wife detective team, Bobby and Julie Dakota, to get to the bottom of the amnesiac fugues but they are drawn into ever-darkening realms where they encounter the nightmare, hate-filled figure that's stalking Frank. Their lives are threatened, as is that of Julie's gentle, Down's Syndrome brother Thomas. To Thomas, death is the bad place from which there is no return, but as each of them ultimately learns there are equally bad places in the world of the living, places so steeped in evil that death seems almost to be a relief...Cover art by Graham Potts.
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From the first time Sarah Chenowith sees Madelaine loitering in the neighborhood, she is convinced the mysterious woman is evil. Then her next=door neighbor hires the darkly beautiful woman to give his wife art lessons. Soon Madelaine moves into the spare bedroom - and the 'accidental' deaths begin. Now Sarah is in danger - a danger that begins the day she discovers the magic paintings that foretell the next gruesome death. Only Sarah, who is part Hopi Indian, can stop the supernatural killer. But first she must learn to use the long-lost powers of her ancestors in a magical showdown with a very unexpected source of evil...Cover art by Rallé. -
Fleshcreepers series. What ancient force connects strange happenings in a London home, a spitting cat and an Egyptian mummy's severed hand? Unsuitable for children under 10.
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