Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • A sensational story of murder and pie-making, Sweeney Todd is a classic of British horror writing, widely adapted in print and on stage. The original tale of Sweeney Todd, first published under the title The String Of Pearls (1846) combines the story of Todd's grisly method of robbing and dispatching his victims - by way of Mrs. Lovett's meat pies - with a romantic sub-plot involving deception, disguise and detective work, set against the backdrop of London's dark and unsavory streets. This edition offers the original story with all its atmospheric Victorian trimmings. The story of Todd's murderous partnership with pie-maker Margery Lovett - at once inconceivably unpalatable and undeniably compelling -  is not only about murder and meat-pies, but highlights how industrialisation removed many employment opportunities and the plight of the poor of Victorian London. Cover shows Johnny Depp in his iconic role as Sweeney Todd, the Demon  Barber... DVD:Johnny Depp; Helena Bonham Carter; Alan Rickman: preloved; excellent condition; region 1
  • Summoned 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/
  • A bundle of writing to keep you awake: Jerusalem's Lot:  The short story that spawned the vampire classic 'Salem's Lot. Graveyard Shift:  The workers at a decrepit textile mill are ordered to clean out the basement...sometimes basements should be left alone...Night Surf: The short story that King later developed into the epic novel The Stand. I Am The Doorway: An astronaut finds he has been exposed to a terrible, malignant mutagen. The Mangler: In which an industrial laundry press takes on a very horrible life of its own. The Boogeyman: The perennial frightener of children is alive and well...  Grey Matter: A young boy seeks help for his reclusive father, who drank a can of 'bad' beer.   Battleground: A professional hitman receives a surprise gift of very special toy soldiers. Trucks: Technology is a good servant, but a bad master - a very bad master... Sometimes They Come Back: 1957 - and Jim's brother Wayne is murdered by three hoodlums. 1974...the hoodlums are back, looking just as they did in 1957...Strawberry Spring: Serial killer 'Springheel Jack' eluded the police in 1968...now it's 1976, and 'Springheel' is killing again. The Ledge: A wealthy criminal overlord finds the man who has been sleeping with his wife, and offers him a strange deal. The Lawnmower Man: There really are people who 'mow the lawn' in the nude.  Quitter's Inc: It's hard to break bad habits - but Quitters, Inc has a sure-fire way...I Know What You Need: A pretty college student is attracted to Ed, a social outcast, who always knows just what she needs. Children of The Corn: The Children of Gatlin know who walks behind the corn...The Last Rung On The Ladder: When Larry's beautiful sister commits suicide, he remembers a fateful day of childhood play in the hayloft. The Man Who Loved Flowers: A tale of enduring, obsessive love. One For The Road: Those who live near the abandoned town of 'Salem's Lot know not to go out at night - not for anything...The Woman In The Room: A man contemplates the mercy-killing of his beloved, terminally ill mother. DVD: Trucks: Lunar is a small town near the infamous Area 51, renowned for its UFO sightings - and nothing much happens there apart from tourists in search of the odd alien. Until the day the residents and visitors are cut off from the world - and held hostage - when a horrific convoy of  trucks goes on the rampage, wreaking havoc, destruction and death.  The trucks have no drivers, but they have minds of their own...minds that can control the residents...minds that can use their metal tonnage to kill...and kill...and kill...Based on the short story Trucks by Stephen King As new; all regions; scarce title. Children of the Corn: Linda Hamilton; Peter Horton; Courtney Gains: preloved; all regions; very good condition
  • A feast of horror. Volume 1: The Book of Blood; The Midnight Meat Train: a grisly subway tale that surprises  with one twist after another; The Yattering and Jack: A hilarious demon possesses a Christmas turkey; Pig Blood Blues; Sex, Death and Starshine; In the Hills, The Cities. Volume 2: Dread: a harrowing tale of being forced to realise one's own worst nightmare; Hell's Event; Jacqualine Ess: Her Will and Testament: She can kill men with her mind; the Skins of the Fathers; New Murders in the Rue  Morgue. Volume 3: Son of Celluloid; Rawhead Rex; Confessions of a (Porongrapher's) Shroud; Scape-Goats; Human Remains.
  • Anne Case was an agoraphobic. A quiet lady, she was a willing prisoner in her own home, happily tending her plants, writing unpublished poetry and receiving the occasional visit from her psychic twin brother David. Then one day - she was brutally murdered. David believes that to dies is to simply cross a boundary from one reality to another. In that other reality, Anne is alive, waiting for him...Waiting for him, to avenge her murder...Cover art by Danny Flynn.
  • Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma - a thriving modern community high in the California hills. Until the horrific car accident that caused enormous brain damage. Until a brilliant doctor, a neurologist, rescued him from the brink of death. Now Alex seems to be the same. But in his eyes there is a terrible blankness. His heart is cold.  And the evil that has waited in the dark places of La Paloma, the evil of a terrible deed committed 100 years ago, now has Alex. And Alex has the memories of the dreadful injustice that cries out for revenge...

  • Everyone in town knew there was something different about Lois Wilson. But Lois didn't care. She wasn't interested in parties, or clothes, or boys. Lois cared only about Science. Behavioral Science. Even when the kids at school taunted her, Lois didn't care.And now her father is sick, her mother is drinking and her little brother depends entirely on her. Lois is in complete command. She can already control the behaviour of laboratory animals...just think what she will soon be able to do with people...
  • This volume contains five chillers and thrillers: Hitch-hiker; Blackham's Wimpey; Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou; St. Austin Friars; Sergeant Nice. Cover art by Alun Hood.
  • 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/
  • Book III of Odd Thomas. Odd Thomas, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly is in self-imposed exile.  The tragic events that took the love of his life have led him from his sun-drowned desert home to the remote monastery in the icy High Sierra. And where Odd Thomas goes, so does strangeness.  He is befriended by a white dog named Boo - and the ghost of Elvis. And a world famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey.  Is this why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence?  They prowl the halls, suggesting terror to come.  But what form will it take, and how can Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?
  • Boone 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.
  • Jude - perfect body, perfect mind.  The first time she came back she killed a man right after he touched her and vanished, just vanished into the hills.  Now she's back for Dan. This time she wants his wife, his son, his past he's so carefully concealed from the FBI and she wants him. And what Jude doesn't get, she kills. In the eternal summer of the Californian dream, a shadow is moving down from the hills, bringing hot winds that blow to burning. But Dan knows Jude is not a dream - she can love a man to death...Cover art by J.K. Potter.
  •  Carrie: Carrie's a gawky, shy fifteen year old - always the odd one out. All she wants is to be normal. After a traumatic bullying incident, she finds that she is telekinetic and when the ultimate degradation is heaped on her by school bullies, her powers give her the ideal revenge.

    The Shining: Danny is just five years old but to old Mr. Hallorann, he is a 'shiner' - a vessel of psychic voltage. When Danny's father becomes the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions run riot. As winter blizzards close them in, the hotel begins to develop a life of its own.  It should be empty.  But who is the lady in Room 21? And who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator?  And why do the hedges, all shaped like animals, seem to come alive?  There is an evil force in the Overlook Hotel...and it too is beginning to shine.

    'Salem's Lot: Many years ago, Hubert Marsten - wealthy eccentric of 'Salem's Lot - blasted his wife with a shotgun then hanged himself. For decades, the local kids dared and double-dared each other to go into the abandoned house. But now the old Marsten house is coming alive again...in the most awful of ways.  Its infection begins to spread through the little town, to manifest in the most unspeakable of ways until practically no-one is human any longer.  Ben Mears, writer, and his eleven year old charge Mark, escape the horror, only to have to return and put a stop to it once and for all - if they can.

    All titles contained herein are complete and unabridged.
  • NO SCHOOL UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE... The village schoolhouse is in use as a morgue. There has been a tragedy at the remote Jenner Clinic. It has always been a place of secrets - and now, something terrible has happened. Meanwhile, high in the valley by Ravens'Crag Farm, the Gaskell children reach home. The farmyard is quiet. The gate stands open. The Gaskell boy tugs at his sister's sleeve.'Look, he says, and Sarah nods. In the middle of the yard, the Strange Boy is waiting for them...WAITING TO PLAY...
  • A lovely sampler of mystery from the great writers of the last two centuries. In this volume: The Signalman, Charles Dickens: (1866): In the days when the railroad is still a wonder, a practical-minded man meets a railway worker who experiences supernatural visions. The Bottle Imp, Robert Louis Stevenson (1891): An imp, a little demon, lives in a bottle and grants the bottle's owner every wish - but there are steep conditions to the ownership of the bottle, and wishes are granted at an awful price... The Silver Mirror, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1908): An accountant is on the trail of an outwardly respectable fraudster and must wade through twenty ledgers to prove his case. As he works, tiredness begins to take its toll and the large antique silver mirror nearby no longer shows his reflection...  The Waxwork, A.M. Burrage (1931) : Hewson, a freelance journalist, volunteers to stay overnight in the wax museum's “Murderer’s Den”.  It's all rather routine for the jaded newspaperman, but in the small hours and the silence, he believes that there might be something else, something sinister, in the building with him… Puddle, Arthur Porges (1972): A man recollects how he was bullied as a child and then he overcomes his fear of puddles - or so he thinks... The Night Wire, H.F. Arnold (1926): A telegraph operator's transcriptions of the commonplace talk from across the globe become a nightmare when a story comes in - of a heavy mist in a graveyard, the vanishing of the villagers and then the arrival of lights... Finney's Wonder Tonic, Alan Austin: A hedonistic, Bohemian artist finds love across a century when he discovers he can mail things to the past - and receive replies. Man From The South, Roald Dahl (1948): An older South American gent and a young American naval cadet engage in a strange and macabre gambling game.
  • Tales of horror from the original masters...Spinechillers in this volume include: The Furnished Room, O. Henry; The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde; The Oval Portrait, Edgar Allan Poe; The Ghost Detective, Mark Lemon; The Horla and A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant; The Story of the Unknown Church, William Morris; The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell; The Devil's Wager, W.M. Thackery; Teigue Of The Lee, T. Crofton Coker; The Captain Of The PoleStar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Haunted Mill or The Ruined House, Jerome K. Jerome; The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman and The Bagman's Story, Charles Dickens; The Spectre of Tappington, Thomas Ingoldsby; The Hollow Of The Three Hills, Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Lady of Rosemount, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson; Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman, Wilkie Collins; The Ghost Ship, Richard Middleton; The Body Snatcher, Robert Louis Stevenson; Man-size in Marble, Edith Nesbit; The Last of Squire Ennismore, Mrs. J.H. Riddell; The Withered Arm, Thomas Hardy; The Moonlit Road, Ambrose  Bierce; Ghosts That Have Haunted Me, John Kendrick Bangs; The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, Florence Marryat.
  • 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  
  • In 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.