Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • A fearsome foursome: Moon: He had fled to the island to escape those chilling glimpses of grotesque, brutal murders, but the monster that lurked inside his mind followed, eager to seek him out... Shrine: Alice was a little girl - small, thin and a deaf-mute. Then came the vision. Suddenly, she could hear, speak and perform miracles. But with the wondrous change, she became an agent of evil; of corruption and hate that was centuries old. The Dark: It invaded men's minds, drove them to frenzies of destruction, orgies of murder and mutilation.  It was strong enough to take over an entire city, too powerful to be destroyed. It was The Dark... Fluke: He was a puppy; different from other dogs, different from other animals. The men called him Fluke and that was apt, for Fluke was a man, with a man's feelings and intelligence trapped inside the body of a dog.  Cover art by Kevin Jones.
  • Book III of The Omen. His coming was foretold in a prophecy of ultimate evil from beyond the dawn of time. A prophecy which spelled destruction for those who ignored the warning until it was too late, and which is about to be fulfilled...From a crumbling monastery in the depths of Northern Italy, Father DeCarlo has watched the relentless progress of the Anti-Christ. Now he knows the world is on the edge of a nightmare that it will not survive. Around the globe, drought, famine and flood strike down helpless millions. There is trouble everywhere. Damien Thorn, the handsome, thirty-two year old head of one of the world's most powerful corporations... and certain to be president of the United States by the time he is forty. Damien, believed to be the son of Satan, reaching out to claim the Earth for the forces of darkness... Now is the time of prophecy, and Mankind's only hope lies with twelve men and one woman who must fight a desperate battle that will carry them across the very frontiers of darkness in the final showdown between good and evil. From the screenplay by Andrew Birkin and based on characters created by David Seltzer.
  • Born almost 2500 years ago in Babylon of a wealthy Jewish family in exile, Azriel is forced to take the role of a god for three days, paying for his people's freedom with an eternity of half-death, half-life, caught forever between heaven and earth. His restless spirit may be called forth by whoever holds the casket of golden bones and understands its mystery.  From the household of an ancient Greek philosopher to the deathbed of Alexander the Great, from the Mongolian steppes to a pogrom in  14th century Strasbourg, where the Jews were made the scapegoats for the Black Death... Azriel bears witness to it all. In the present he is summoned to witness and avenge a brutal murder on Fifth Avenue.  The dead women is Esther, step-daughter of the fanatical Gregory Belkin, messianic leader of a worldwide cult, The Temple of the Mind. The world knows that Belkin is a Holocaust survivor, but he has a secret history that binds Azriel's fate to his. Swayed by instincts almost forgotten, Azriel is caught up in a malevolent plot which could destabilise the world. Cover photo by Colin Thomas.
  • Around the world, something strange is happening to the women. They are falling victim to a sleeping virus which shrouds them in a cocoon-like gauze. If woken, if the gauze is disturbed, the women become rabidly and spectacularly violent. In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all inmates - except one. The enigmatic Evie. The abandoned men are beginning to fight one another, while the town sheriff, Lila Norcross. is just fighting to stay awake and solve the mystery. But the clock is ticking and the women of Dooling are about to open their eyes to a new world, somewhere else altogether - and what of the enigmatic Evie? Is she a medical anomaly to be studied or a demon to be slain?
  • Derry, Maine is an ordinary town; familiar, well-ordered for the most part, a good place to live.  But seven children - who call themselves the Losers - can see and feel what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks...the IT that takes the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT appears as an evil clown, Pennywise, and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing...Time passes, the Losers grow up, move away and forget...Until they are called back, to confront IT once more, as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging to make their past nightmares a horrible, present reality...
  • When Danny moved to Blackbriar, he thought the house would be quiet and peaceful, a change from the big city. But there's something sinister about the house, something...strange. Danny begins to dream of fires and witches. Night after night he is awakened by a peal of laughter that seems to belong to a different place and time. Then Danny and his friend Lark discover an ancient doll abandoned in a corner of the house. They know it has something to do with the mysteries of Blackbriar - but they don;t realise it will lead them to a secret more awful than they can imagine and a mystery that could take their lives to solve..
  • In this volume of splatterpunk, black humor, no-holds-barred Goth and literally psychotic psycho, guaranteed to keep you awake... The Last Illusion, Clive Barker; Bunny Didn't Tell Us, David J. Schow; Murgunstrumm, Hugh B. Cave; The Late Shift, Dennis Etchison; The Horse Lord, Lisa Tuttle; The Jumpity-Jim, R. Chetwynd-Hayes;   Out Of Copyright, Ramsey Campbell; The River Of Night's Dreaming, Karl Edward Wagner; Amber Print, Basil Copper; The House of the Temple, Brian Lumley; The Yougoslaves, Robert Bloch; Firstborn, David Campton; The Black Drama, Manly Wade Wellman; Crystal, Charles L. Grant; Buckets, F. Paul Wilson; The Satyr's Head, David A. Riley; Junk, Stephen Laws; Pig's Dinner, Graham Masterton.  Previously published as The Mammoth Book Of Terror and The Anthology Of Horror Stories.
  • Journalist Peter Jacobs is dragged into the police investigation of two strings of gruesome deaths when he receives an anonymous phone call from someone who knows more than he should about the murders.  And when Julie Moore, a grad student researching Near Death Experiences, falls in love with Peter, she doesn't know she's placed herself in the deadly sights of the Cold One, who needs Peter to complete Its mysterious designs. Cover art by Paul Davies.
  • Rick would do anything for his girlfriend, Bert. He'd even spend his vacation in the wilderness with her, hiking the trails around Fern Lake, even though it's the last place on Earth he wants to be. But Rick would follow Bert to hell and back - which is just what he's about to do. Gillian is on vacation too, but her pastimes are decidedly weirder than Rick and Bert's. She likes to break into people's homes and live there while they're away. Too bad for her she picked the home of a serial killer - a particularly nasty one who likes to take his victims out to the wilds of Fern Lake so he can have his fun without being interrupted. Rick and Bert have no idea how wild the wilderness can be. But they're about to find out...Cover art by Steve Crisp.