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Julia: Peter Straub
$70.00Fleeing an overpowering husband, the memory of their daughter killed in an accident and a mental breakdown, Julia impulsively buys a neo-Georgian house in Kensington, hoping for peace and seclusion. Instead she is engulfed by nightmares as the house gives up its secrets and she becomes aware of what seems to be a child's evil presence intent on revenge. Julia becomes obsessed with the need to know her role in a twenty year old mystery and she must search amongst the distorted survivors of a hideous crime. Straub's second book. -
Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one - including the U.S. government - and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago - inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first. -
American ghosts and hauntings abound in this collection of blood-red, bone-white, and cold-blue stories. In this volume: The Triumph Of Night, Edith Wharton: A secretary is maneuvered into spending the night with a young man suffering from tuberculosis and his wealthy uncle and becomes the unwitting tool of a malevolent apparition. The White Old Maid, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The corpse of a handsome young man; and two young women, one proud and stately whom the young man had rejected, the other frail and soft, his chosen bride...what would these women become in later years? Victoria (also published as The Three D's), Ogden Nash: Victoria wants to be popular at her school, and she must pass an initiation - visit the grave of Eliza Catspaugh, a famous Salem witch - and bring back proof...The Terrible Old Man, H.P. Lovecraft: A man so old none can remember when he was young, and so taciturn few know his name. He lives alone, is reputedly wealthy - and that is enough to attract three careless thieves... The Problem Of The Pilgrims Windmill, Edward D. Hoch: A man is murderously attacked inside a windmill - but his testimony together with snow unblemished by footprints say otherwise...The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes, Henry James: When sisters Perdita and Rosalind fall for the same handsome young man, there can't be a happy ending...Bones, Donald A. Wollheim: A specially selected group are invited to attend the unwrapping of a mummy - with the possibility of some impossible events. The Vacant Lot, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A newly rich family find a house for sale in a very fashionable neighborhood - at an suspiciously bargain price...A Curious Dream, Mark Twain: The telling of a dream in which skeletons are walking down their road, with their few pitiful possessions...why are the dead leaving? The Man Who Collected Poe, Robert Bloch: Two collectors of Poe memorabilia fight over the ultimate Poe collectible...Guests From Gibbet Island, Washington Irving: In the British colonial days, Gibbet Island was where pirates were hanged - except two who escaped custody - but can they escape their bloodthirsty, dead crewmates? Our Late Visitor, Marvin Kaye: A writer seeking necessary solitude and his wife are very annoyed when their friend comes to visit after midnight - especially as he is meant to be dead. The Girl With The Beckoning Eyes: A family wonders why their son has become so solitary and secretive. The Ghost Of Washington, Anonymous: A young man on a cycling tour explores a deserted house and finds it’s not quite deserted. The Headless Horseman of Paoli, Darrell Schweitzer: A motorist encounters a headless horseman – or is it a body-less head? Artemisia’s Mirror, Bertha Runkle: A beautiful family heirloom proves to be the key in unlocking a decades-old secret. Unto The Fourth Generation, Isaac Asimov: An anxious young executive on his way to a business meeting keeps finding variations of the same name, over and over again. The Spook House, Ambrose Bierce: In 1858 an entire family of seven disappears suddenly and unaccountably from a plantation house , leaving behind everything they own. The Shot-Tower Ghost, Mary Elizabeth Counselman: The younger family members can’t resist making fun of Uncle Robert and his ‘ghost story’. A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains, Edgar Allan Poe: A man on a mountain hike westward and southward of Charlottesville stumbles onto an Eastern town straight out of the Arabian Nights and finds himself in the midst of a ferocious battle. Come To The Party, Frances Garfield: A tale of a wild – and deadly – party. Nobody Ever Goes There, Manly Wade Wellman: Silver John is keeping the peace in a little mountain village divided by a river, on one side of which there are things which don’t want to be bothered. Ghost of Buckstown Inn, Arnold M. Anderson: A travelling salesman decides to spend the night in the Buckstown Inn's 'supposedly' haunted bedroom. The Stuffed Alligator, L. Frank Baum: A young alligator ignores his mother’s warnings and crosses the river to the village of Men. The House Of The Nightmare, Edward Lucas White: A motorist stranded after a car accident encounters an unusual young lad who invites him to stay the night. The Elemental: A man’s thoughts and beliefs become reality. We Are The Dead, Henry Kuttner: A brief tale of a weird experience in Arlington Cemetery. The Destruction Of Smith, Algernon Blackwood: An oil tycoon is haunted by the spectral presence of the town he built burning to the ground. The Return Of The Moresbys: A man murders his wife…then becomes convinced she has been reincarnated as a cat which is determined to get vengeance. The Rider On The Pale Horse (Also published as Mr Death And The Red-Headed Woman) : Maude’s lover is shot dead over a hand of cards – but she isn’t going to let Mr Death take him. The Glove, Fritz Leiber: A creepy clue is found after a murder in an apartment house tenanted by eccentrics. Kaena Point, C.H. Sherman: Most people go to Hawaii for a holiday, or for the scenery – not to find a portal to the afterlife. Atrocities, Jessica Amanda Salmonson: When one can see the dead – and another finds he can suddenly see the dead - and there is confusion as to what is reality and whos is dreaming - there’s going to be a sticky end. Gibbler’s Ghost, William F Nolan: A famous actor tries to lose his virginity – but his would-be lady loves keep being frightened off by the sight of a knight in armor on a horse. They Bite, Anthony Boucher: A greedy thief, in an abandoned desert town, encounters something not quite human…not quite alive…and definitely not quite dead…Miracle At Chimayo, Carole Buggè: A man needs a miracle – but who is answering his prayer? Slaughter House, Richard Matheson: Can a dead woman really come between two brothers? The Dead Remember, Robert E. Howard: A tale of almost perfect revenge in the wild West of the 1870s. The Night The Ghost Got In, James Thurber: Young James Thurber hears footsteps walking around the dining table at 1.15 a.m. - and his mother is NOT amused when he wakes the household. Dumb Supper, Henderson Starke: Rosalind wonders if she really should serve a dumb supper in order to see her future husband. The Fear That Walks By Noonday, Willa Cather: After a football player is fatally injured during a game, the next game his team plays is overshadowed by coldness…and inexplicable events. The Chadwick Pit, Carol Jacobi: (also published as The Pit) When Chadwick uses stones from a pit as foundations for a summer house, he begins to have terrible nightmares. The Return Of Andrew Bentley, August W. Derleth and Mark Schorer: Uncle Amos is fearful that after his death, his body will be inhabited by spirit of the evil Andrew Bentley. Away, Barry N. Malzberg: A ghost from Iowa lives on to tell the tale of early settlement. The Strange Guests, Anonymous: The wife of a Chippewa hunter finds she and her husband entertaining hungry dinner guests each night for a year. Another Chance For Casey, Larry Siegel : Casey is determined to get into Baseball Heaven – but how can he do what he needs to do, when’s he’s dead? Cover art by Edward Gorey. -
To his mother, Joey seemed to be just an ordinary 6 year old boy - special to her, but no-one else. To the Servants of Twilight he is an Anti-Christ, an evil presence that must be destroyed. The terrifying ordeal for Joey and his mother begins in a supermarket car park when an old woman accosts them and pursues them with her terrible threats. Christine's world is turned upside down into a nightmare of terror. Only her love for her child and the support of the one man who believes in her will give her a chance to survive the Servants of Twilight.
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Book II City of Night. They are nearly indestructible. They are stronger, heal faster and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios - once known as Frankenstein - can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time monster and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/frankenstein-dead-and-alive/ -
The volume of terror-tales contains: A Question of Etiquette, Robert Bloch; The Star Beast, Poul Anderson; Secret of the Lightning, H.H. Harmon; Black Harvest of Moraine, Arthur J. Burks; The Day of the Dragon, Guy Endore; The Thirteenth Floor, Frank Gruber; The Invisible Invasion, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr. -
Father John Rafferty is plunged into scandal when a young women he has been counselling is brutally murdered in his Greenwich Village church. This is no isolated act of violence, but a manifestation of a spiritual plague so deep and subtle it will tests all his faith and courage. Beset by public scorn and private doubt, Father John is vulnerable. His reputation is besmirched, his parish besieged by outside forces and betrayed from within by an evil as ancient as creation itself. When he finally recognises the truth, he must overcome his horror and tap the ageless power of the priesthood if he is to fulfil his role as bulwark against the shadows that seek endlessly to engulf him. The Devil walks among us every day and his face is far more familiar than we can bear to believe. -
Every hero has a story. Every story has a hero. We are all the hero of our own tale -as are the legions of monsters, from Lucifer to Mordred, from child-thieving fairies to Frankenstein’s monster and the Wicked Witch of the West. From the point of view of an outsider, they may very well be horrible, terrifying monstrosities, but of course they won’t see themselves in the same light. Demons and goblins, dark gods and aliens, creatures of myth and legend, lurkers in darkness and beasts in human clothing…In this volume: The Awkward Age, David Liss; a young ghoul seduces her playmate's father...Saint John, Jonathan Maberry: A serial killer becomes an angel of mercy for orphaned children during the Apocalypse. Rue, Lauren Groff: an old witch tricks a young woman into surrogate motherhood. Succumb, John McIlveen: A seductress - and a sinful preacher? Torn Stitches, Shattered Glass: A return to Frankenstein's ostracised creation. Rattler And The Mothman, Sharyn McCrumb: A hermit encounters an ancient, intelligent flying creature. Big Man, David Moody: How deeply we can misunderstand the monstrous...Rakshasi, Kelley Armstrong: A demon who has done penance for her crimes for 200 hundred years as a human is not given her freedom..so she takes matters into her own hands. Breeding The Demons, Nate Kenyon: The darkness in the heart of an artist causes him to be caught between two worlds. Siren Song, Dana Stabenow: The Akulurak sisters are accused of luring and murdering a pimp - but who is the real mosnter? Less Of A Girl: There are definitely scary things under the bed...The Cruel Thief Of Rosy Infants, Tom Piccirilli: A fae is charged with his family's ancient duty of stealing human babies and substituting them with one of his own race. The Screaming Room, Sarah Pinborough: A rejected gorgon enjoys the sound of her victim being turned to stone...Wicked Be, Heather Graham: A witch just wants to be - normal. Specimen 313: Giant, mutated gene-spliced carnivorous plants begin to feel human emotions. The Lake, Tananarive Due: A woman moves to Florida for a new start - a new home - a new everything...and gets it. The Other One, Michael Marshall Smith: A woman in her late 30s is bored with her life - but is there another one of her living the life she wants? And Still You Wonder Why Our First Impulse Is To Kill You, Gary A. Braunbeck: a highly original and humorous examination of the monstrous - and why monsters don't like Ken dolls...Jesus And Satan Go Jogging In The Desert, Simon R. Green: The tale of Satan's offer of temptations to Jesus - told from Satan's point of view. Cover art by Per Haagensen. -
A compilation of 22 chillers from across two centuries... Knock at the Manor Gate, Franz Kafka: A young man and his sister are on their way home, when his sister playfully knocks on the door of a large house - with unforeseen consequences. Yesterday's Witch, Gahan Wilson: The Hallowe'en tradition was for the local kids to knock on Miss Marble's door then run like hell - 'cause they knew she was a witch! But one night, one young lad is determined to see who comes to the door...A Legion Marching By, John Kippax (as by John Hynam): Two schoolboys witness a ghostly Roman legion marching by on a Roman country road, as legend says it will, every thirty years. Years later, as a married man, one cannot forget what he saw. The Lawyer And The Ghost, Charles Dickens: A clever lawyer has a good argument for a miserable ghost. The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Being Bagged, Anonymous: A wily barber convinces a ghost that he can capture him! School For Ghosts, Pu Sung-Li (adapted by Vida Derry): A young scholar moves into the ideal house - and finds a pair of ghostly young ladies who want to borrow his books. The Little Yellow Dog, Mary Williams: A little boy helps a ghost dog reunite with his late master. The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, Kenneth Grahame: From The Wind In The Willows - Portly, Otter's youngest son is missing. Ratty and Mole join the search and meet someone very unexpected. The Lilies, Alison Prince: Little Sarah takes dead lilies from the local churchyard for her mother to re-bury. But the Reverend Evans is not having this pagan nonsense on his watch... The Emissary, Ray Bradbury: A young bed-ridden lad has a pet dog, who brings him visitors. John Pettigrew's Mirror, Ruth Manning-Sanders: A gentle, solitary man rescues a seal-pup from a storm and receives a magical gift. Sredni Vashtar, 'Saki' (H.H.Munro) Conradin is a disturbed little boy who builds a fantasy religion around his pet ferret, Sredni Vashtar, making him a merciless, vengeful god. But what happens when Conradin’s guardian destroys his fantasy? Miss Mountain, Philippa Pearce: An old lady describes her unhappy childhood at the hands of a cruel aunt. Was It a Dream? Guy de Maupassant: A young man, distraught at the death of his lover, determines to die on her grave - and in the dark graveyard, he learns the truth about his sweetheart. A Pair Of Hands, Arthur Quiller-Couch: While staying with a friend, Miss Petyt recounts the time she lived in a haunted house...The Boys' Toilets, Robert Westall: When the students of an all-girls' school have to be temporarily relocated to the empty, creepy Harvest School...they have to deal with a haunted 'loo! Left In Rhe Dark, John Gordon: A frightened little lad is rescued - by supernatural intervention. The Monkey's Paw, W. W. Jacobs: The odd relic - a dried monkey's paw - has the ability to grant three wishes - so be careful what you wish for... Lost Hearts, M. R. James: Stephen, a young orphan, is sent to live with his reclusive cousin, an alchemist obsessed with immortality...and who are they gypsy girl and Italian boy who keep appearing - without hearts? Thurnley Abbey, Perceval Landon: Two gentlemen meet on a journey to India - and one has an extraordinary tale to tell. Not At Home, Jean Richardson: A young girl comes home from school to find things NOT in their accustomed places. The Shepherd's Dog, Joyce Marsh: A loyal pet continues to guard - and obey - his Master... even after his Master has died.
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