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Cold Fire: Dean Koontz
$12.00In Portland, a stranger saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, the same man rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange quiet savior named Jim Ironheart. She was even falling in love with him. But what power compelled an ordinary man to save twelve lives in three months? What visions haunted his dreams? And why did he whisper in his sleep: There is an Enemy. It is coming. It’ll kill us all... ? Cover art by Graham Potts. -
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... -
A century ago... Amanda, a gentle blind girl, walked the cliffs of Paradise Point. Then the children came, taunting and teasing until she lost her footing and fell, shrieking her rage, into the sea. Today...Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point, excited about her new friends - until a hand reaches out from the swirling mists: the hand of a blind child. She is asking for friendship and seeking revenge... -
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. -
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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Creed: James Herbert
$8.00Joseph Creed is a paparazzo - he chases and harasses celebrities for candid shots, hopefully the seedier kind. Creed is a sleaze - but good at his job; he's unkempt and uncouth, a coward, a liar and a would-be blackmailer. He's also a womaniser and a divorcee. He looks a little like Mickey Rourke - and knows it. After the funeral ceremony of a major Hollywood actress, Creed photographs a man desecrating the grave. Creed himself is observed and there is a series of horrific events designed to frighten him into handing over the film. The man he has photographed bears a strong resemblance to a a man who was hanged in the 1930s for murder and mutilation of children. Creed eventually discovers that his antagonists are the Fallen Angels of Europe. Their powers are waning, the centuries of evil have taken their toll. Creed finds them - in an old folks' rest home...Cover art by James Herbert. -
A collection of chillers, thrillers and things that go bump in the night. In this volume: The Snow/ The Tarn/ A Little Ghost/ Mrs. Lunt, Horace Walpole; The Islington Mystery/The Cosy Room/Opening The Door/ Munitions Of War, Arthur Machen; The Red Turret, Christine Campbell Thomson; When Glister Walked/Si Urag Of The Tail/The Great White Fear/ Boomerang, Oscar Cook; Two Trifles/ The Smile Of Karen/ "John Gladwin Says ...", Oliver Onions; The Hanging Of Alfred Wadham, E. F. Benson; As In A Glass Dimly/ The Hospital Nurse/ The Lord-in-Waiting, Shane Leslie; A Considerable Murder, Barry Pain; The Lovely Voice/ The Playfellow, Cynthia Asquith; The Rocking-Horse Winner/The Lovely Lady, D. H. Lawrence; The Prince/ The Last Man In, W. B. Maxwell; Dispossession/Beauty And The Beast, C. H. B. Kitchin; Those Whom The Gods Love.../The Birthright, Hilda Hughes; The Villa Désirée, May Sinclair; The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal, Daniel Defoe; The Lost Tragedy, Denis Mackail; Spinster's Rest, Clemence Dane; Circumstantial Evidence, Edgar Wallace; A Descent Into the Maelström, Edgar Allan Poe; Twelve O'Clock, Charles Whibley; The Spectre Bridegroom, Washington Irving; Mr. Tallent's Ghost, Mary Webb; The Buick Saloon, Ann Bridge; The Horns Of The Bull, W. S. Morrison; Our Feathered Friends, Philip MacDonald; The Stranger, Ambrose Bierce; My Adventure In Norfolk, A. J. Alan; The Mysterious Mansion, Honoré de Balzac; The Stranger, Algernon Blackwood. -
Classic Tales of the Macabre and Fantastic...In this volume of 13 o'clock tales: The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe: The moral - always be kind to cats. Always...The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell: Who is the ghostly child who tries to lure a live little girl out into the snow to play? The Boarded Window, Ambrose Bierce: After the elderly Murlock dies in his Ohio cabin, the reason for the boarded-over window is revealed... The Open Window, 'Saki' (H.H. Munro): Framton Nuttel is new in town but provided with letters of introduction, calls on a lady who - apparently - keeps her window open so that her husband and his brothers, lost in a hunting accident, may return...The Door In The Wall, H.G. Wells: A lonely, love-starved little boy finds a door that leads to a children's paradise, yet he is not certain if it is a dream or real; until later, as a grown man, the door reappears to him... Was It A Dream? Guy de Maupassant: A man, crazed with grief at the death of his lover, sits at her graveside, until the stroke of midnight reveals to him the most awful secrets of the dead. The Monkey's Paw, W.W. Jacobs: It'll grant you three wishes - exactly what you wish for...The Haunted Station, Hume Nisbet (Australia): An escaped convict, lost in the bush, finds what he believes is a deserted house - but it's not quite deserted...The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar, Edgar Allan Poe: Valdemar consents to a horrific experiment - to be put in a state of suspended animation at the moment of his death. The Thing On Outer Shoal, P. Schuyler Miller : A strange fantasy of the sea, a realm as mysterious today as the furthest deeps of space...The Distortion Out Of Space, Francis Flagg: A meteor falling in a remote area of Arizona opens a doorway into another dimension. Self Portrait, Gary Crew: A corrupt cop never fulfilled his youthful dream of becoming an artist - until he became a sketch artist...Antonio's Tale, Anonymous: Gary Crew winds up his collection with a very good joke. Cover art and illustrations by Shaun Tan. -
Cristobel: Diane Guest
$6.00J.C., deserted by his mother, spends the holidays at her old family home, the lush tropical estate known as Christobel. There's also his brother August, his stepfather Marcus and Marcus' new wife Justine. But something's wrong. The Cane Cave where the rum kegs are kept feels strangely terrifying - but it was once J.C.'s favourite place. Justine is distressed and attempt suicide. Marcus fears for her sanity but realises her anguish and J.C.'s fears are similar. Is someone trying to hurt them? There's Remus, a local boy with a long-standing grudge; Amalie, reputedly a Haitian witch - and the presence of the ghostly woman in white... -
Book II of Atta Olivia Clemens. In the year 1189 AD, battle rages on the islands of Crete and Cyprus; Saladin sits in Jerusalem, threatening Antioch and Tyre alike; Richard Couer de Lion rules England and France; and the Pope talks of preaching a new Crusade. Olivia lives in Tyre, but dares not face its occupation by Islamic forces. She is determined to return to the city of her birth..and death: Rome, the Eternal. Accompanied only by young Valence Rainaut, a Knight Hospitaler who much against his will has fallen in love with her, she makes her desperate way by land and sea through a world ruled by Death..and by men whose bloodlust runs stronger than her own. Cover art by San Julian.
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Clarke's Harbour was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. A small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that has gripped him since birth. His sister is haunted by visions. One by one, in violent, mysterious ways, the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Does a dark bargain exist between the locals of Clarke's Harbour and a supernatural force? -
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... -
Little by little, one of the world's most powerful families is being destroyed. And no one seems to know why. Those who suspect the truth do not live to reveal it. Only thirteen-year-old Damien Thorn seems immune from the bizarre accidents claiming the lives of those around him. Damien, whose own father tried to kill him seven years ago... Damien, whose loving foster family is learning the meaning of hellish fear... Damien, who is leaving behind the seeming innocence of youth to fulfill the terrifying prophecy foretold long ages ago - and who is discovering that it is not, after all, the meek who shall inherit the earth - but the Master of Evil. Film novelisation. -
Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one - including the U.S. government - and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago - inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first. -
Dark Terrors, Volume 1 features: More Tomorrow, Michael Marshall Smith; The Puppets, Ramsey Campbell; Sampled, Steve Rasnic Tem; The Hungry Moon, Graham Masterton; Love Eats, Lisa Morton; Uzzi, Brian Lumley; Splatter of Black, Charles A. Gramlich; The Laundry Imp, Christopher Fowler; Food For Thought, Mandy Slater; Screens, Terry Lamsley; All My Friends Are Here, Charles Wagner; Eternity Limited, Mark Morris; The Lagoon, Nicholas Royle; At The Crossroads, Burying the Dog, Jeff VanderMeer; The Travelling Salesman's Christmas Special, C. Bruce Hunter; A Feast At Grief's Table, Roberta Lannes; Bleed, Richard Christian Matheson; Where The Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White and Red All Over, Kim Newman; I've Come To Talk With You Again, Karl Edward Wagner; Fee, Peter Straub. Cover art by Bob Eggleton. -
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. -
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. -
It started as a game. Six college kids at an end-of-term party. Then someone suggested they try the Ouija board. The board that Corie had hidden in the back of her closet and sworn never to touch again. Not after what happened last time. Not after Jake's death... They were only playing around, but the Ouija board worked all right. Maybe too well. A spirit who called himself Butler began to send them messages - and make demands. Butler promised them a hidden treasure if only they would follow his directions and head off to a secluded spot in the mountains... a wild, isolated spot where anything could be waiting for them. Treasure or death. Or Butler himself... -
Darkness: John Saul
$45.00The Andersons left the town at the edge of the swamp long ago, meaning never to return. There was something not quite right about Villejeune - something menacing and hostile, too malevolent to be natural. But their dream of a new life in Atlanta faded with Ted's lost job and sixteen year-old Kelly's emotional problems. Hoping that a change of scenery might help their troubled daughter, Mary and Ted Anderson have come back home to Villejeune. But something is there, waiting for them. Something evil. Cover art by Tom Hallman. -
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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Dead Souls: Michael Laimo
$15.00For eighteen-year-old Johnny Petrie, the run-down farmhouse in Maine means a way out. When the letter arrived saying he had inherited an estate from a man he'd never heard of, Johnny knew he could finally escape from his religious zealot father and drunken father. He didn't know the hell he was moving to was far, far worse...The previous owner of the estate was Benjamin Conroy, a man obsessed with securing eternal life for himself and his family - even if he had to kill them to do it. Conroy's ultimate ritual, a perverse horror of blood and butchery, went hideously wrong, denying him the immortality he sought and ending with him and his family dead. But now Johnny has moved in, Conroy's spirit will have a second chance... -
Sookie Stackhouse 1. Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business - except when it comes to her “disability.” Sookie can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He’s tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life...But Bill has a disability of his own: he’s a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps - along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill - Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea… -
Omnibus. Death Day: Four hundred years ago, a women died in agony to keep the secret of a golden disk and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake... Wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil, hideous, powerful and vile - is once again reborn... Renegades: Immortality - the ultimate secret. David Callahan needs to find the answers and he's being tracked down by hired killers. In a race against time, a trail of violence and terror leads from a desecrated church in France, to London and then to Ireland where modern terrorism battles against ancient powers and a terrible secret is revealed. Cover art by Mark Taylor. -
A young man awakes from a recurring nightmare to find that, once again, his apartment has been destroyed: the TV is on fire, the mirrors shattered, the aquarium exploded with such force that shards of glass are embedded in the opposite wall; and once again a voice is saying, Come home... And so he does. Home is the small Maine town where his parents were both killed in a grotesque car wreck years before. The kind of town Stephen King has described as, 'mostly indifference, spiced with an occasional vapid evil - or worse, a conscious one.' A small town caught in a centuries-old war between supernatural forces...Cover art by Matthew Quayle. -
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. -
Disturbing tales - and disturbing authors! - in this volume: George and Alice and Isabel, William Trevor; Gone Is Gone, Joan Fleming; The Margenes, Miriam Allen deFord; Mummy To The Rescue, Angus Wilson; Miss Cornelius, William Fryer Harvey; The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot, Ambrose Bierce; The Phantom Of The Screen, Lawrie Wyman; The Book, Margaret Irwin; The Man Who Collected Poe, Robert Bloch; The Squaw, Bram Stoker; The Small World of Lewis Stillman, William F. Nolan; The Attic Express, Alex Hamilton; Mr George, August Derleth; I Used To Live Here Once, Jean Rhys. Disturbing cover art by Rus Anderson.
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Desperation: Stephen King
$15.00Headed down the highway are the Jacksons, on their way home to New York; the Carvers, a family on vacation and Johnny Marinville, a once-famous author. They all encounter the little town of Desperation, which should be a refuge in the middle of the Nevada desert. But the once thriving copper mining town is eerily empty. Almost abandoned - except for the local cop patrolling the wilderness, guarding Desperation's secrets, hidden in the landscape. When those secrets are unleashed, a terrifying transformation takes place and the travellers learn the true meaning of the word desperation...Cover art by Chris Moore.
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