Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • 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....
  • 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/
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • de Richeleau Adventure No. X. The Duke de Richeleau and his friends had faced many dangers in Russia, Spain and Nazi Germany. Now a new and unexpected menace confronts them: the fourth, Rex Van Ryn is missing and he has made off with more than a million dollars from the Buenos Aires branch of his family bank. Behind the conventional courtesy of Argentinian society lies a conspiracy of terror and silence - and a trail that leads straight to the Devil himself...Illustrated by Virginia Smith.
  • A Gregory Sallust adventure, No. 11. The war is long over, but danger and excitement still cling to ex-agent Gregory Sallust. Boredom leads him to Rio de Janeiro, where he is soon drawn into an adventure that takes him to the South Pacific.  Circumstance leads to him becoming the friend of a young South Seas Rajah, Ratu James Omboluku, there to secure finance to recover treasure from a sunken ship lying off the island he rules; and he intends to use this treasure for the betterment of his people. But others, led by the unscrupulous Pierre Lacost, are also planning to recover the treasure, and it is not long before Gregory, having an affair with the passionate Manon de Bois-Tracy, finds himself surrounded by blackmail, kidnapping, the most ruthless thugs he has ever encountered - and murder and black magic that turn the paradise of the islands into a place of horror and death.  Illustrated by Stephen Bennett.
  • With a sweet smile and be-ribboned braids, eight-year old Rhoda Penmark is the new darling at the exclusive Fern Grammar in small-town Alabama. Always in beautiful dresses, never getting dirty, always polite to adults...she is a model pupil in every way - and perhaps...a serial killer. Rhoda has no sense of fair play or empathy. When little Rhoda wants something, she'll make sure she gets it and she doesn't care how - she only cares that she doesn't get caught. Her mother becomes suspicious and then certain - and wonders if her own mysterious past has created this monster-child. First published in 1954, this book was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, became a Broadway play that ran for 334 performances and made into an Oscar nominated film in 1956, with a rewritten ending, starring Nancy Kelly and Patty McCormack.  Cover of this edition shows Patty McCormack as Rhoda in the original 1956 film.