Horror/Occult

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  • Omnibus edition; Tithe: Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.Valiant: When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming...Ironside: In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie. Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth -- that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Silarial wants Roiben's throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie outplay a queen? This volume includes the short story The Lament of Lutie-Loo.
  • Living With The Dead III. Sarah and David have survived the zombie apocalypse.  They stood side by side and fought the undead, made scientists and even bionic monsters. Until the unthinkable happened - a zombie bite. But not even that could stop them. Now, with a possible cure in hand, they're headed east, looking for a safe zone behind the rumoured 'Wall'. They're feeling pretty optimistic...until Dave stops sleeping - and starts lifting huge objects...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Book III of Otherworld. Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations - the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new charge- an orphan who is all too willing to use her budding powers for evil... and evil is all too willing to claim her. For this girl is being pursued by a dark faction of the supernatural underworld. They are a vicious group who will do anything to woo the young, malleable, and extremely powerful neophyte, including commit murder - and frame Paige for the crime. It's an initiation into adulthood, womanhood, and the brutal side of magic that Paige will have to do everything within her power to make sure they both survive.
  • Headed 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.

  • 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.
  • A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. But he remembers that sketching used to make him happy...Ed leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key and he doesn't expect to find much there.  But Duma has been waiting for him and he begins to paint. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and the elderly Elizabeth Eastlake. As he paints, his pictures take on a life of their own and the island's secrets begin to stir: secrets of children lost in the undertow, a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long fingers into the present. Cover art by Lisa Kimmell
  • When a powerful signal - a Pulse - is broadcast across mobile network worldwide, everyone using a cell phone is instantly - and dangerously - rewired. Heading north in search of his wife Sharon and son, Johnny, Clay Riddell is joined by a group of survivors and as they travel, they meet up with others, and begin to hear rumours of the Raggedy Man and that Kashwak, a state park in Maine, is free of cell phone reception.  Is it a trap - or can they make their way through the murderous, mindless gangs of 'phoners' to destroy the origin of the Pulse?  Based on Stephen King's novel Cell.