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Desperation: Stephen King
$18.00Headed 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. -
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. -
The sequel to The Shining. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester and married to their RVs. But they are quasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Following a childhood haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.' Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival... -
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell but it's not the one the police expect to hear. Suspected of murdering Vera Donovan, the widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores admits the two women didn't always get on. Seemingly neglected by her children and full of bitterness despite her wealth, Vera Donovan hovered on the brink of madness for years. And when her demons became too strong, Dolores was there to take the punishment - and maybe, one day, Dolores had had enough. But Dolores Claibornes's story is different...darker...stranger - and a lot more horrifying. This is the Book Club Associates edition, dated 1992, the true first edition of this book, predating the 1993 'first' edition. Refer: https://www.stephenkingcollector.com/identifyingUK1st.html -
Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell - but it's not the one the police expect to hear. Suspected of murdering Vera Donovan, the widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores admits the two women didn't always get on. Seemingly neglected by her children and full of bitterness despite her wealth, Vera Donovan hovered on the brink of madness for years. And when her demons became too strong, Dolores was there to take the punishment - and maybe, one day, Dolores had had enough. But Dolores Claibornes's story is different...darker...stranger - and a lot more horrifying. -
Johnny Mays: imagine the moral conscience of a selfish child in the frame of a plain-clothes cop. The city is his playground; the rest of us his toys. And Johnny never had a toy he didn't break. But now Johnny's dead, isn't he? He started something and pushed it too far. Now they're fishing for his body at the foot of a dam and Nick Frazier has been left behind. They'd been friends once, a long time ago. Nick even hoped that he might save Johnny. But by Johnny's reckoning, Nick betrayed him. As Nick goes looking for answers, people start dying - dying in a sequence that leads back to Nick. And when they haul Johnny's car - his empty car - from the lake, the truth emerges. Honny Mays is back and he's howling at the moon...Cover art by Paul Davies as by Davies. -
From the dank crypt of his foreboding castle in the Transylvanian forests to the bustling foggy streets of London, Count Dracula comes to claim his victims to feed the lustful hunger that has damned him to a life of lonely immortality and to bind him to an innocent young woman - the miraculous double image of the love that he lost four centuries earlier. Contains colour photos from the film starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves.
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Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. He likes everything in his life to be neat and clean from his immaculate condominium to his well-tailored clothes to his homicide case files, free of typing errors. The bane of his life is his partner, Connie Gulliver. He doesn't like the way she dresses for work, the messiness of her desk, her lack of manners or her sometimes casual attitude toward the law. She says its the Age of Chaos in a modern world and he ought to get with it - and he loathes that attitude. But when Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in a crowded restaurant, the chase and shootout degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connie's world view.On his way back to the office to write up his report, a hulking denizen of the streets dressed in filthy rags tells him, "Tick-tock, tick-tock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours." Until dawn the next day Harry struggles to regain his neat orderly life but is instead caught in an undertow of terror and violence. Someone's after him for reasons he doesn't understand and he must come to terms with the chaotic modern world if he is to save Connie, the people he loves and himself. Cover art by Graham Potts. -
Dragon Tears: Dean Koontz
$15.00Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. He likes everything in his life to be neat and clean from his immaculate condominium to his well-tailored clothes to his homicide case files, free of typing errors. The bane of his life is his partner, Connie Gulliver. He doesn't like the way she dresses for work, the messiness of her desk, her lack of manners or her sometimes casual attitude toward the law. She says its the Age of Chaos in a modern world and he ought to get with it - and he loathes that attitude. But when Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in a crowded restaurant, the chase and shootout degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connie's world view.On his way back to the office to write up his report, a hulking denizen of the streets dressed in filthy rags tells him, "Tick-tock, tick-tock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours." Until dawn the next day Harry struggles to regain his neat orderly life but is instead caught in an undertow of terror and violence. Someone's after him for reasons he doesn't understand and he must come to terms with the chaotic modern world if he is to save Connie, the people he loves and himself. Cover art by Graham Potts.
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Dreamcatcher: Stephen King
$12.00Four young boys save a special little lad from the torment of the school bullies. "Duddits", as he calls himself, is now their friend for life. Twenty five years later, the boys have become men and still get together once a year to go hunting in the northern Maine woods. But this time a man comes stumbling through the snow into their camp, lost, disoriented, muttering about the lights in the sky. This is only the beginning of their struggle with something malevolent from another world and their only chance of survival is locked in Duddits...https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/dvd-dreamcatcher-morgan-freeman-thomas-jane-jason-lee/
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Duma Key: Stephen King
$18.00A 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. -
A group of medical students meet in an abandoned hospital. Their challenge: to rid themselves of phobias that have plagued their lives in order to become fully functioning doctors. But the methods practices by Dr Lee and Dr Gingrich are somewhat - unorthodox...and as each one copes with their personal terrors, a killer is stalking them and picking them off, one after another... -
Set in a city where people come to bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counsellor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure of merging two families while dealing with resentful children takes second place as society begins to break down - and as the necessary maxim survival of the fittest gains new meaning, they must either reinvent themselves or embrace their dark histories. The prequel to The Walking Dead. Also stars Alycia Debnam-Carey, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason. -
Beware the Low Men...Bobby Garfield couldn't possibly know what that means - but before the summer is over, he'll know...and he'll summon depths of courage and forgiveness he never imagined he had. It's 1960, in small-town Connecticut. Ted Brautigan is a mysterious, psychically gifted loner who becomes and mentor and father figure to Bobby when he enlists the boy's help in eluding the shadowy figures who seek control of Ted's powers. Based on the Stephen King book of the same name. -
When the Plague sweeps across Europe after the Thirty Years' War, Krabat, a young lad left oprhaned and alone is taken in by an old mill keeper. Krabat makes friends among the other boys who work there, only to learn that they are taught dark sorcery by the Master...and all the boys dread the coming of the New Year for that is when the worst of the rites will be performed... Also stars Paula Kalenberg, Daniel Steiner and Hanno Koffler. -
Molly Hartley hopes that with her mother locked away in a mental institution, she can forget the violent past of her family and start again. She has a new life, a new school, a new boyfriend...but when her secret past and haunting nightmares continue, she fears she has inherited her mother's psychosis. What she doesn't know is that she's inherited something else...a secret more horrific that any fate she can imagine and a destiny she cannot avoid. Also stars Shannon Woodward, Shanna Collins, Ron Canada and Jake Weber. -
When the U.S. military dumps toxic waste into Seoul's Han River, a monstrous creature evolves in its waters. Years later the creature emerges and Gang-du witnesses his only daughter taken away before his eyes. This ordinary man must become a hero, get himself and his family past the military cordon and do battle with the creature. Also stars Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung. -
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... -
Elsewhere: Dean Koontz
$12.00Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object — something he calls “the key to everything” — and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away? Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again. -
Endless Night: Jody is pretty tough for a sixteen-year-old girl. That's the only reason she's still alive - for now. She was sleeping over at her friend Evelyn's house when a group of killers broke in and tried to slaughter everyone. She saw Evelyn spitted on a spear, but Jody managed to escape, along with Evelyn's little brother, Andy. Simon Quirt doesn't seem like a crazed killer. But that's just what he and his friends are - and his friends have left it up to him to find the only living witnesses to their massacre. Or else they'll butcher his family next. But Simon has his own reasons for wanting to get his hands on Jody...Midnight's Lair: Mordock's Cave is one of the spectacular wonders of the world; a place where sightseers can take a ride deep beneath the earth's surface to marvel at Nature's handiwork. But the darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended - violent, bestial, and horrific things born of an old, nightmarish secret...Now a sudden power failure has trapped a group of tourists in the underground depths. Their only escape route is through a sealed-off wall. But what lurks on the other side is something terrifying beyond belief - an obscene, living evil that has been waiting all these years to be set free... -
Erebus: Shaun Hutson
$6.00There was something terribly wrong with the small farming community of Wakely - something wrong with the livestock, with the people. The mysterious Venderburg Chemicals Group, fiercely protecting its interest no matter what the cost to Wakely or even the rest of mankind, seem to be behind the wrongness. Who would've thought red meat could be this bad for you? Cover art by Mark Taylor. -
Books V and VI of The Last Vampire. Evil Thirst: Alisa has a heartbreaking dilemma - her daughter Kalika has disappeared, and poses a great danger to the human world. But can Alisa bring herself to destroy her own flesh and blood? Creatures Of Forever: SOmeone means to destroy Alisa and her only hope lies in reliving the evil of her monstrous past. Then she can eliminate it - forever... -
Eye: Frank Herbert
$50.00A selection of shorts including the fable Frogs And Scientists in print here for the first time. The other stories include: Rat Race; Dragon In The Sea; Cease Fire; A Matter Of Traces; Try To Remember; The Tactful Saboteur; The Road To Dune; By The Book; Seed Stock; Murder Will In; Passage For Piano; Death Of A City. With fabulous illustrations and cover art by Jim Burns. -
False Memory: Dean Koontz
$10.00Martie Rhodes, happily married, successful video game designer, is a compassionate friend to agoraphobic Susan, who she accompanies to therapy each week. The experience, though grim, has been a bond between the two women. Then Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own. She feels a brief, disquieting fear of - her shadow. There is something twisted in it, something not right. Other anxiety attacks ensure until Martie finds she is the victim of the rarest of all phobias known: autophobia, fear of oneself. Martie's life changes radically and her future looks dark. Her husband Dusty loves her and is desperate to understand the nature and cause of her autophobia. But as Dusty comes closer to the terrible truth, he begins to exhibit symptoms of a psychological disorder, even more unusual and terrible than that which afflicts Martie. -
Martie Rhodes, happily married, successful video game designer, is a compassionate friend to agoraphobic Susan, who she accompanies to therapy each week. The experience, though grim, has been a bond between the two women. Then Martie experiences an irrational fear of her own. She feels a brief, disquieting fear of - her shadow. There is something twisted in it, something not right. Other anxiety attacks ensure until Martie finds she is the victim of the rarest of all phobias known: autophobia, fear of oneself. Martie's life changes radically and her future looks dark. Her husband Dusty loves her and is desperate to understand the nature and cause of her autophobia. But as Dusty comes closer to the terrible truth, he begins to exhibit symptoms of a psychological disorder, even more unusual and terrible than that which afflicts Martie.
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Fear Nothing: Dean Koontz
$15.00Christopher Snow is athletic, witty, handsome enough, romantic and intelligent. But his whole life has been affected by xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic disorder which means his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight. So Chris lives at night and has never ventured beyond his hometown of Moonlight Bay, a place of picturesque beauty and haunting strangeness; he knows it as no-one else can possibly know it, intimate with its dark hours and shadows. He has always been determined to live the fullest life possible and with the help of family and friends, he has succeeded. But for Chris and everyone in Moonlight Bay, a terrible change is about to happen - a terrible change which will be potentially catastrophic. Cover photograph by Axel Hoedt.
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