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Superstition: David Ambrose
$15.00Having exposed a group of fraudulent spiritualists, investigative journalist Joanna Cross is intrigued by the claims of psychologist Dr. Sam Towne that paranormal phenomena do exist. Accepting his challenge to join an experiment to 'create' a ghost, Joanne, Sam and six volunteers bring to life 'Adam Wyatt', a young American living in France after the American War of Independence, He dies tragically in the French Revolution. The experiment is a great success, with poltergeist activity and disembodied messages, all scientifically recorded. Sam's theory seems to be conclusive - ghosts are created by the people who see them. But a series of inexplicable and ominous events force Joanna and Sam to realise that the ghost they have brought to life can also cause death. -
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... -
Six of them, three guys and three girls, are on a journey. An adventure beyond the imagination. They are transformed into powerful beings, able to change the world. But something goes wrong. One of them is evil - and stronger than the rest. And it will destroy the Star Group. There is no going back...Cover art by Nicholas Forder. -
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. -
Somehow it all began when old Gran D'Grou came from the West Indies to a small island off the Atlantic coast. When he dies, his grand-daughter Lilla is distraught. For the islanders always bury their dead at sea - and ignore the dead man's last wish to be buried on land. So one night Lilla dives down and brings his body to shore. Soon after, the mystery killing happens...followed by a growing stench of rotting death. When a violent sea-storm threatens the island, most of the inhabitants head for the mainland - leaving only a few people behind...trapped with something hideous that walks by night... -
The Immaculate: Mark Morris
$18.00Jack Stone, outwardly shy and unremarkable, writes works of dark and tortured fantasy which have captured the public imagination. Despite his celebrity status, he's a lonely man whose smart London life is a form of exile. He has painful memories he refuses to examine, roots he refuses to revisit - until he meets Gail, a beautiful, enigmatic girl who seems to sense the shadows around him. When there is news of a death in is family, Jack is forced to return to the horror that has coloured his nightmares for years - his childhood home. There he finds the terror and humiliation he remembers from his upbringing - but he makes a startling discovery as well. Cover art by Ken Leeder.
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Funland: Seedy resort Boleta Bay has seen better days, especially since the unexplained disappearances began. Now a group of teenagers have decided to fight back and clear the town of undesirables. As they grow more daring and vicious they are drawn to the abandoned Funhouse and the real source of the disappearances...The Stake: Horror writer Larry Dunbar makes a chilling discovery while staying in a ghost town in California: a coffin containing the corpse of a naked woman with a stake through her heart. Was she the victim of a gruesome murder or was she really a vampire? There's only one way to find out...
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A selection of chillers, including the essay A Variety of Monsters by the Master himself… The Day Of The Dragon (1934): Guy Endore; The King Of The Cats (1929): Stephen Vincent Benét; Slime (1953): Joseph Payne Brennan; The Man Who Sold Rope To The Gnoles (1951): Margaret St. Clair [Writing As Idris Seabright ]; Henry Martindale, Great Dane (1954): Miriam Allen Deford; The Microscopic Giants (1936): Paul Ernst; The Young One (1954) : Jerome Bixby; Doomsday Deferred (1949): Murray Leinster [As By Will F. Jenkins ]; "Shadow, Shadow, On The Wall ..." (1951): Theodore Sturgeon; The Desrick On Yandro (1952): Manly Wade Wellman; The Wheelbarrow Boy (1950) : Richard Parker; Homecoming (1946): Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) . -
Rune: Christopher Fowler
$10.00London is in the grip of an epidemic. Corpses with strips of paper bearing hieroglyphs are found across the capital. To his horror, advertising executive Harry Buckingham is linked with several of the victims. His father, his secretary, even the thief who steals his car - all die in grisly circumstances. Soon Harry is avoiding the police and following his own investigation. And what he uncovers is more frightening than anyone can imagine..A multinational company has combined sophisticated technology with ancient mythology. They call it confrontational marketing. Harry calls it pure evil. The Devil is loose in London. Who can stop the most hostile takeover of all time...? -
Some chillers, some thrillers, a few revenges and even a moral or two in this selection from the Master of Horror: Dolan's Cadillac: A staid schoolteacher swears to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of a big crime boss; The End of the Whole Mess: A rare mineral found in a town's water supply makes the population there gentle and non-violent...so what if that could be spread to the world...? Suffer the Little Children: Miss Sidley, an experienced teacher suspects one of her students, Robert, is not quite human...and he might not be the only one... The Night Flier: A reporter follows a hunch that a serial killer may be travelling from victim to victim in a light plane. Popsy: A gambling addict, in debt and fearful for his life, snatches a little boy to sell...but he hasn't bargained on the little lad's Popsy... It Grows on You: An infamous house in Castle Rock takes on a life of its own. Chattery Teeth: The joke teeth sat there on the shop counter on their comic oversize shoes and even though they no longer worked, Hogan knew his son would love them - but the funny little teeth still had a trick or two...Dedication: A coloured maid working in a hotel takes an unusual route to fall pregnant. The Moving Finger: A disembodied finger seems to have moved into a bathroom pipe - but only one man can see it. Sneakers: There are plenty of haunted houses - but a haunted mens' bathroom? You Know They've Got Hell of A Band: A quarrelsome husband and wife get lost on a road trip, and find themselves in the quaint little town of Rock and Roll Heaven. Home Delivery: On a small island off the coast of Maine, a small community prepares to defend themselves from an attack of reanimated corpses. Rainy Season: A young couple, new in town, believe the locals are playing a joke on them about the dangerous 'rainy season...' My Pretty Pony: An elderly man gives his young grandson a pocket watch and warns him against the dangers of letting time slip away. Sorry, Right Number: A woman gets a mysterious call late in the night and she is sure it isn't a wrong number. The Ten O'Clock People: Nicotine withdrawal can be scary - very scary... Crouch End: A couple become lost in London streets - and one is lost for ever... The House On Maple Street: The Bradbury children don't like their step-father very much - so should they tell him when the find their house is gradually turning into something else entirely? The Fifth Quarter: A map leading to treasure from a heist is divided into pieces - who will get them all? The Doctor's Case: A Holmes and Watson case - solved by Doctor Watson. Umney's Last Case - Umney, the ultimate 30s private eye lives in the ultimate 30s world of newsstand boys and diners - until the day his perfect world unravels, with no warning at all...Head Down; Brooklyn August. Cover art by Paul Davies. -
Book/ DVD: I Am Legend: Richard Matheson
$3.00–$12.00Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization, hoping to find other survivors. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires? Cover art by Jim Thiesen (variant) DVD: Will Smith; Alice Braga: preloved; very good condition region 4 -
Apart from the title story, this volume also contains: Almost a Ghost Story; The Vacancy; The Night Out; The Creatures in the House; Sea-coal; The Dracula Tour; A Walk on the Wild Side. Cover art by Terry Oakes. -
On a cold lonely night in New York, Lonnie Blake, widower and jazz musician, takes refuge in the arms of Carol, a beautiful woman who has flung herself into his doorway to hide from an unknown pursuer. She gives him everything he needs for that one night - and in the morning she is gone, leaving no trace. Lonnie can't forget her - he must see her again. Carol has an incredible secret that centres on her daughter Amanda and extraordinary events after a massive plane crash. There are men who want answers and they will stop at nothing to get those answers. Lonnie's search for lost love becomes a life-or-death effort to discover Carol's secret. -
Psycho 2: Robert Bloch
$15.00For the last twenty years, Norman Bates has been in a state hospital for the criminally insane. With the help of his psychiatrist, Norman appears to have been cured of his mother fixation and now decides that he wants OUT. His opportunity comes when he is visited by a nun - he kills her, dons her habit and escapes. The murders are about to start again... -
It was every mother's worst nightmare. Her husband had abandoned her for a sinister, sensuous younger woman and the weird nomadic group she led - and had taken their two children with him. But now Patsy Havelin had snatched Peter and Judith back again and was bringing them home to safety. Or so she thought. As she left the old dark house with the with-woman's snarled curses following her, the real nightmare was just beginning. She drove into the night and the road sifted...changed...It was the road to Hell. Terrorised by doom-visions, hounded by the witch and the monsters she controlled, Patsy drove deeper into the circles of Hell on the road that seemed to have no end. The only signs of life were wild, savage life, ready to feed on anything that came by. She was alone, frantic and lost, then she saw the stranger by his fire at the roadside...Cover art by Nicholas Forder.
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The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry... Betsy Taylor has just woken up in a morgue to discover she's a vampire. On the plus side, being undead does beat the alternative - she now has superhuman strength and an unnatural effect on the opposite sex. What Betsy can't handle is her new liquid diet. And whilst her mother is relieved to find out that being dead doesn't mean that Betsy can't visit, her new night-time friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen. The scrumptious Sinclair and his cohorts want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious, power-hungry vampire for five centuries. Frankly, Betsy couldn't care less about vamp politics. But Sinclair and his friends have powerful methods of persuasion. Not the least of which is unlimited access to Manolo Blahnik's Spring Collection... -
Brainchild: Andrew Neiderman
$10.00Everyone 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... -
The Green Mile: Stephen King
$10.00At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton, Arlen Bitterbuck and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey - a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? In this place of ultimate retribution, prison guard Paul Edgecombe is about to discover that there are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them...Cover shows Tom Hanks in the role of Paul Edgecombe in the film The Green Mile.
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