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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. -
IT: Stephen King
$12.00Derry, 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... -
The Shee: Joe Donnelly
$6.00In Kilgallan on Ireland's coast, the fights in Donovan's Bar are happy, the songs are sad and the days are as rich as slow-poured peaty beer. But then things happen - first to the children...Mikey Boyle's auntie strips off all her clothes, removes his and persuades him into the river. Then Mike O'Hara ties a cord around sixteen year old Marie Lally's neck and raises her nightgown...Isolated village tragedies. Short eruptions of horror. But in the heart of nearby hill, something turns in its sleep. It breathes and it wakes... -
Yellow Fog: Les Daniels
$5.00Book IV of The Don Sebastian Vampire Chronicles. In Victorian London, a thick blanket of fog covers the city. As the sickly vapours enshroud the night, Felicia Lamb seeks the world beyond life - willingly accepting the embrace of the Undead to find it. Her fiance, Reginald Callender, stalks the dark streets, pursuing his bride-to-be and the immortal creature who stole her away. And blood-drinker Don Sebastian de Villaneuva searches for sanctuary amongst the hansom cabs and gaslights. But in a society where spirituality masks morbidity and respectability conceals rapacious cruelty, can even a vampire's kiss ensure eternal love? Cover art by Les Edwards. -
The Wood: Guy N. Smith
$80.00The sudden mist seeped and coiled through the wood, cold as death. The naked, terrified girl floundered deeper into the undergrowth and black mud, desperate to escape her pursuer. But there was a worse horror...for with the mist came the figures of the past - from many pasts - lurching through the blinding whiteness, reaching out to choke and smother....Cover art by Les Edwards. -
Insomnia: Stephen King
$7.00At first, Ralph found it hard to drop off to sleep. Then he was waking up earlier and earlier. Then the hallucinations start - colours, shapes and strange auras around his friends. Not to mention the bald doctors who always seem to materialise at the scene of a death. Then Ralph begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend Ed is getting dangerously out of control and why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon. An evil of unimaginable proportions has found its way in - and Ralph has one chance to beat it - in a card game. The stakes are high - they always are when you're playing for human souls. This was a new phase of writing for King: his heroes in this outing are the elderly retired Ralph and his middle-aged girlfriend. Cover art by Steven Crisp.
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Aug 1794 - Apr 1796...Roger Brook – Prime Minister Pitt's most daring and resourceful secret agent – had sailed for the West Indies with a party that included three beautiful women. His purpose: pleasure. But the Caribbean, blue seas, lush tropical islands and palm-shaded beaches, was infested with pirates. The slaves of the 'Sugar islands' were in revolt. All this Roger Brook encountered. But also he uncovered a mysterious episode in the early life of the Empress Josephine – a mystery that had its effect on the Parisian intrigues that led to Napoleon receiving his first great command: the Army of Italy. A mystery that tied together many strange scenes and unlikely events. -
Wentworth, Ohio: a small, idyllic friendly little town, where the Carver children bicker over sweets and Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street, it's a normal summer's day, with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats tinking, Frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But young Cary Ripton, on his paper round notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside her glass door - and he's always thought there was something creepy about her nephew, Poplar Street's best kept secret. What Cary doesn't notice is the chrome-red van idling up the hill...soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin and the Regulators will arrive in force. And by night-fall on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and despair...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries. Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now nine-year-old Christine Lyons has come to live in the house on the hill -- the house where no children have lived for fifty years. Now little Christie will sleep in the old-fashioned nursery on the third floor. Now Christie's terror will begin...Cover art by John Melo.
