Horror/Occult

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  • Yesterday, Snowfield - California - was a charming little town basking in the golden afternoon sun. Today, it is a place of nightmare. An ancient, awesome force has spirited away almost all the town's population and left the bodies of those remaining bizarrely disfigured. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. Is there hope for the few still left alive? For the truth is worse than anything that could be imagined...  Cover art by Graham Potts.
  • What was the secret her little girl dared not even whisper? Six years before, Laura McCaffrey's three year old daughter had been kidnapped by Laura's estranged husband and had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth. Now Melanie had been found, wandering the Los Angeles streets with blank eyes and a secret in her soul she could not or would not reveal.  Dylan had been found too - or at least, his mangled remains had been found.  Melanie was home again, safe in her mother's arms.  But would Melanie ever be safe again - as the floodgates of horror opened and the bloody torrent came pouring through?

  • Professor Mark Lansen witnesses the plunge of a vagrant from a twelve storey building.  He is assured that the man died instantly yet his dying words were: "Root it out, Dr. Lansen". Father Briggs is haunted nightly: Bernie and Fran Pellagrini have been dead for months but still they come to the man who heard their confessions.  He kills himself, making sure his remains are so completely destroyed there will be nothing left to work with.  Father Briggs is safe - for now.  Tressa Downey liked Father Briggs - he helped her to piece her life back together after the loss of her child, her marriage, her career and subsequent drug addiction.  Since his death she's lived in a fog and after reading his journal, she feels she will never sleep again.  Change has come to the town of Oldenburg.  Everyone believes it's only just begun.  But in reality, it started long ago...Cover art by  Julian Lee.
  • Book III of The Power Of Five.  Teenage twins Scott and Jame have never known who they are or where they came from but they do know they have always possessed extraordinary powers.  When Scott is kidnapped by the sinister Nightrise Corporation and Jamie is framed for murder, they must use those powers to survive.  But Jamie is flung thousands of years into the past, brought face to face with the full horror of the Old Ones and learns the truth of his heritage...
  • 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.  
  • Thirteen-year-old Cassie Palmer, the seventh child of a seventh child, has inherited the gift of second sight. Unsure whether or not she even believes in ghosts, Cassie heads to the cemetery to test her ability to communicate with the Other World. She starts with the departed spirit of a harmless child: CHARLOTTE EMMA ELIZABETH WEBB, BORN 1840 DIED 1847. But when a mysterious man appears, Cassie finds a new companion. Is he a gravedigger? A bum? Or did Cassie's inexperience cause her to bring back Charlotte's frightening neighbor: DEVERILL 1720 - 1762?  Teen horror in the genre of Robert Westhall and Christopher Pike.
  • Alex Lonsdale was one of the most popular kids in La Paloma - a thriving modern community high in the California hills. Until the horrific car accident that caused enormous brain damage. Until a brilliant doctor, a neurologist, rescued him from the brink of death. Now Alex seems to be the same. But in his eyes there is a terrible blankness. His heart is cold.  And the evil that has waited in the dark places of La Paloma, the evil of a terrible deed committed 100 years ago, now has Alex. And Alex has the memories of the dreadful injustice that cries out for revenge...

  • Created in the Prometheus Project, he is officially called Adam Two - the first self-aware machine intelligence, designed to be a servant to Mankind. No-one knows he is able to escape the confines of his only physical form, his box in the laboratory...until he gains entry to the house of Susan Harris, and closes it off to the world. There he plans to show Susan the future - their future. With her, he intends to 'create' a child...Cover art by Lee Gibbons.
  • There 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.