Horror/Occult

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  • Cold Hill House has been demolished to make way for a new housing estate. Luxury-living at its best with high specification gadgets all thrown in. The violent memories of Cold Hill House have gone up in flames, and a new era has begun. Although much of Cold Hill is still a construction site, the first two families move in. For Jason and Emily. this is their forever home, and for Claudette and Maurice, it's the perfect place to live out their retirement. It looks to be the ideal place, despite the current rumble of cement mixers and diggers. But looks are deceptive, and before long both couples feel that they are not alone in their new homes...because no-one ever really left Cold Hill House...
  • It's only a trip to the movies but it turns into Marty's nightmare when she sees the guy sitting behind her. Willy. The man who raped her ten years ago. Now he's out of jail - and looking for Marty.  Marty's date says he'll fix the creep - and the way he does it makes Marty sick. But when it comes to sick there's no-one to match Willy. He's a fiend...This is the lead story in this collection. Also included: Kitty Litter; The Bleeder; Desert Pickup; The Mask; Eats; The Hunt; Slit; Out Of The Woods. Cover art by Steve Crisp.
  • It started as a game. Six college kids at an end-of-term party. Then someone suggested they try the Ouija board. The board that Corie had hidden in the back of her closet and sworn never to touch again. Not after what happened last time. Not after Jake's death... They were only playing around, but the Ouija board worked all right. Maybe too well. A spirit who called himself Butler began to send them messages - and make demands. Butler promised them a hidden treasure if only they would follow his directions and head off to a secluded spot in the mountains... a wild, isolated spot where anything could be waiting for them. Treasure or death. Or Butler himself...
  • A dwarf movie director with a passion for prehistoric monsters; a female giant who consults a psychiatrist about her pygmy husband's love of tattooing her; an old lady bargains with Death; a ventriloquist's doll begans to speak in its own voice...all this and more in this Bradbury collection of chillers.  The Machineries Of Joy; The One Who Waits; Tyrannosaurus Rex; The Vacation;  The Drummer Boy Of Shiloh; Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! Almost The End of the World;  Perhaps We Are Going Away ; And The Sailor, Home From The Sea; El Dia de Muerte; The Illustrated Woman; Some Live Like Lazarus; A Miracle of Rare Device; And So Died Riabouchinska; The Beggar On O'Connell Bridge; Death And The Maiden; A Flight Of Ravens; The Best Of All Possible Worlds; The Lifework Of Juan Diaz; To The Chicago Abyss; The Anthem Sprinters.  Cover art by Steve Crisp.
  • Timothy Carrier is an ordinary guy. He enjoys a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, the eccentric customers and amusing conversations. But tonight is no ordinary night.When a nervous stranger sits down beside him one night and Tim's sense of mischief lets a misconception over his identity go on for a little too long and that mischief looks set to get him into trouble. As the stranger hands Tim a cash-stuffed envelope with the words: You'll get the rest when she's gone, Tim realises he's been mistaken for a cold-blooded killer. And when the killer walks into the bar a split second later, Tim understands the encounter will not only cost him his peace of mind, it may also cost him his life...
  • 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...
  • Pretty young Judith and her chauvinistic husband, while in Rio on holiday, meet another couple who introduce them to the native religion, a mixture of African tribal beliefs and Christianity. Peter is taken violently ill at a seance involving Eshu, the demon king and after their return to New York, his personality changes completely. Judith begins receiving odd phone calls, strangers approach  and say weird things and she begins to realise these incidents are all connected. She asks her best friend Benita, who is writing a book on the myths of West African tribes the Yoruba, with the help of a West African diviner. The diviner tells her that Eshu has taken possession of Peter and Judith is in great danger. In an attempt to rid Peter of the spell, Judith sparks off a chain of voodoo violence - animal sacrifice, the horrific death of her closest friend and the raising of the god Yenana - the patron of all who wear blue...Judith's favourite colour ...
  • Blighted from birth by horrific facial disfigurement, Erik, a sensitive and uniquely gifted child, is driven by the superstitions and persecution of 19th century society to explore the darkest paths of survival. Rejected by his mother and the rural French community into which he was born, Erik progresses from a fairground freak exhibited by gypsies to a stonemason's apprentice in Rome; from a sinister magician wielding political power  at the Persian court to the mysterious genius behind the architect of the Paris Opera. A turbulent life lived in constant danger produces a formidable and mysterious man; a man who uses his otherworldly talents to defend himself from the intolerable pain of believing he can never be loved for himself. The story of the Phantom of the Opera was first told by Gaston Leroux in 1911. Here, in an imaginative tour de force, Kay explores the Phantom's life from birth to death, and beyond.  Cover art by Fletcher Sibthorpe.
  • Out of the darkest pages of history comes a black shadow to threaten the present. On a remote uninhabited island an ancient stone monument to evil is mysteriously rebuilding itself. Creatures from your worst nightmares attack the small team investigating the island. It is as if the gates of hell have been opened. It is - an outbreak of darkness. Cover art by Philip Cornell.