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Toby Jugg, a fighter pilot shot down in combat, is now confined to his bed with little hope of walking again. He is also the heir to a considerable fortune - a fortune that is being administered by a board of trustees until he comes of age. At night, he is becoming increasingly disturbed by a strange presence - a mysterious shadow thrown by the moonlight through a gap in the blackout curtains. He is convinced the shadow is cast by a malevolent and unnatural entity trying to get into his room. Toby is unable to convince anyone of the reality of this entity, and slowly comes to believe that there is a ploy against him, a plot to send him mad, or to make it appear that he is already mad in order to usurp his fortune. Is this some form of hallucination? Is this unearthly creature real or a product of his imagination? Are the people caring for him actually plotting his destruction, or are they sincerely concerned for a young man whose grip on sanity is steadily weakening? Illustrated by David Hollinshead. -
Ten tales of horror, jeopardy and death by Poe. The Oval Portrait: A portrait painted by an artist robs his sitter of her life. Hop-Frog: A jester dwarf takes a terrible revenge on the king and the court. The Masque of the Red Death: The Red Death stalks the chambers of Prince Prospero. The Cask of Amontillado: Montresor takes Fortunato to a dark Roman cellarage, to taste an Amontillado... The Pit and the Pendulum: A razor-edged pendulum wings ever lower towards a prisoner of the Inquisition. Other tales included in this volume: Ligeia: A dark and gothic tale of a beautiful woman - with a surprising ending. Eleonora: An uncharacteristic celebration of love. Morella: Morella is his love, his teacher. But when she dies in childbirth she leaves an eerie legacy. Berenice: Berenice is beautiful and she is dying; and her husband develops a dreadful obsession... The Fall of the House of Usher: Roderick and Madelaine are the last of the House of Usher; and Roderick is convinced that the house is 'alive'... Plus: the four classic tales with which Poe created a new genre: the detective story - The Gold-Bug: William LeGrand is literally bitten by a gold-coloured bug and draws two friends into an adventurous hunt for buried treasure. The Murders In The Rue Morgue: A baffling double murder - and the killer leaves the clues of a bloody razor, tufts of gray hair and two bags of gold coins. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt: A perfume shop is murdered and her body dumped into the Seine - but why? The Purloined Letter: A letter from the queen's lover has been stolen from her boudoir by an unscrupulous Minister - but a search of his rooms reveals nothing. Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. -
Professor Constable's only daughter was dead of leukaemia at the age of ten. Constable, a world famous scientist, was convinced that she was in communication with him beyond the grave. Were the 'spirit manifestations' of Mary Constable a depraved and cunning confidence game? Or were they as they appeared to be - genuine? AS Constable was a key Government scientist working on a project of world-shaking importance, Washington sent Alexander Hero, chief investigator for the British Society for Psychical Research. Working against time, Hero sees the evidence that had convinced the Professor - a translucent, hollow, seamless wax hand, complete with identifiable finger prints - the hand of Mary Constable. With each passing hour, the spirit of Mary seemed to be literally sapping her father's will, driving him to abandon work on Operation Foxglove, vital to the defence of the West. Alone in New York, surrounded by officials who regarded him with suspicion, Hero had to expose the spirit-daughter as a diabolical hoax. Suddenly he found an ally - a beautiful girl as well-versed in professional magic as Hero was in psychic phenomena. Hero had only seconds to decide - and the wrong decision would cost him his life. -
Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men? As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare - one from which she may never escape. -
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/ -
Rachael's violent ex-husband's body, hideously mangled in a freak accident and pronounced dead, has disappeared from the city morgue. Now something - or someone - is watching her. Calling her. Stalking her. And no-one will believe her when she says she knows who it is. His walking corpse, a grotesque mockery of life. His brilliant, warped mind, once again alive and seething with jealous rage, seeking an unspeakable revenge beyond her worst nightmare. There is nowhere left to run. He has his own key.... -
Sacrifice: Dakota Banks
$7.00Book II of Mortal Path,. A demon's enslaved executioner - a ravager of lives and souls - Maliha Crane has been reborn, willing to sacrifice her immortality for a chance at freedom and salvation. Now she has the opportunity to prevent the death of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, to make up for the countless lives she obliterated over the centuries. She must locate and destroy an evil cabal of madmen in possession of a weapon of unspeakable power and survive the immortal assassins after her blood. But it means reverting to the old ways and surrendering to the darkness. And if Maliha dies before the mission is accomplished, the hell she once knew will seem like a picnic compared to the eternal torments that await her.
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You're travelling through another dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind: a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of the imagination...The Twilight Zone: where demonic tyrants of the past live again to terrorise a man who carries the seeds of their hate into the present; where evil perches on the wing of a plane taunting a psychic who dare not believe his eyes and hold onto his mind; where the power to control the world rests in the fantasy-fraught imagination of a lonely child; where the joys of eternal youth are offered to those who remember childhood and who are not too old to dream. With fabulous black and white photos from all four segments.
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The Menagerie are being marshalled by the enigmatic, brilliant Mr. Doyle. They are from all planes of existence and born from an array of supernatural and otherwordly backgrounds...Ceridwen, fey princess; Dr, Graves, ghost; Danny Ferrick, teenage demon; Clay, immortal shapeshifter; Eve, repentant for her sins and Squire, a surly hobgoblin. They may be humanity's last defence against the Legion of Doom, which is hell-bent on breaking into Eden (hidden in another dimension). They have the perfect captive to help them: Eve, mother of all humanity - and all vampires. But Doyle and the Menagerie may be too late. The gates to Eden have been breached and the forces of evil are out for all they can get from the Tree of Knowledge. Will Eden truly become Paradise Lost?
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Darkness: John Saul
$8.00Villejuene, Florida - a secluded little town at the edge of a vast, eerie swamp. Far from prying eyes and far from the laws of civilisation. Her folks live by their own rules - dark rite of altars and infants, candles and blood. Years ago the Andersons left town with a dream. Now they are back to live out a nightmare. Something has been waiting for them, something unbearably evil. It feeds on the young and innocent. And soon it will draw their teenage daughter into its unholy embrace. Cover art by Tom Hallman.
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Martie Rhodes, happily married, successful video game designer, is a compassionate friend to agoraphobic Susan, who she accompanies to therapy each week. The experience, though grim, has been a bond between the two women. Then Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own. She feels a brief, disquieting fear of - her shadow. There is something twisted in it, something not right. Other anxiety attacks ensure until Martie finds she is the victim of the rarest of all phobias known: autophobia, fear of oneself. Martie's life changes radically and her future looks dark. Her husband Dusty loves her and is desperate to understand the nature and cause of her autophobia. But as Dusty comes closer to the terrible truth, he begins to exhibit symptoms of a psychological disorder, even more unusual and terrible than that which afflicts Martie.
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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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When Avril Bamborough left London with a Hollywood contract, she little thought that she would fall in love with another woman's fiance, become the head of a great film empire and face a murder charge. A group of cut-throat financiers were determined to gain control of the entire film industry. All opposition was ruthlessly destroyed. Strikes, arson, hired gunmen were the weapons used. Yet there were those prepared to fight the combine and this was the struggle in which Avril would become involved.
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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... -
The Cult: Max Ehrlich
$25.00Jeff was a loving son to Mr and Mrs Reed. But when he went to Ashtaroth, they lost him. He took a new name, cursed his parents and spurned their love forever. He has become a member of the Cult, The Souls for Jesus, the brainchild of the Master, Buford Hodges - a tax deductible multi-million dollar industry feeding on the young and vulnerable. Only one man can redeem these lost souls, who will dare to take on the sinister forces of the Master. Only one man can help the Reeds - the man they call The Devil. -
Pig Island: Mo Hayder
$8.00When journalist Joe Oakes visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he'd learned as in expert in exposing supernatural hoaxes is overturned. Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? And why will no-one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of the island? The confrontation and bloody aftermath is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil and whether he might not be responsible for the terrible crime about to unfold. -
An old man is possessed and tormented by an evil spirit...the ghost of a little girl returns to terrorise her isolated home...a house in the leafy suburbs becomes a place of worship for followers of the black arts..crew members begin to die on a space station when a cryogenics experiment goes horribly wrong...and a corpse is grotesquely brought back to life in the name of science. All these incidents are linked to Matthew Kindling: an ex-priest fighting for his sanity and his life, relentlessly pursued by Darkness and propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagination. Cover art by Gregory Bridges. -
No-one lived there; no-one dared - none but the dead. A house haunted by grotesque apparitions, victims of the unspeakable evils that had transpired there. But to the great inventor Edison it was the ideal place to test his new advice - a machine to speak to the dead. What he saw there left him shaken, determined to neutralise the strange and dangerous instrument and keep its terrible secret hidden. When Ben and Laura unearth the long buried apparatus and attempt to recreate Edison's experiment, the unwittingly unleash a malevolent force more powerful than anything ever known to Mankind. Too late, they realise they've played straight into the hands of the Master of Evil...A story allegedly based on real events.
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