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.
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Stone Angels: Mike Jefferies
$10.00In ancient times it was a pagan altar, washed in the blood of human sacrifice. Then it lay hidden for centuries, its perfect whiteness darkened by age until it was possessed by a spirit. Stone and spirit fused, to take on the shape of an angel. The Bishop of Norwich was awed. This twelve foot carved angel must surely be a miracle in its mesmerising perfection. He installed it with due pomp and ceremony in his new cathedral. Then the disappearances started. An angel - but not for the forces of good. Abaddon - the Angel of the Pit - has arisen in his effigy and his power is building, day by terrible day. Cover art by Geoff Taylor. -
Griffin, a brilliant chemistry student, discovers how to make himself invisible. The consequences are terrifying and his desperate attempts to make contact with his fellow human beings lead to mounting scenes of violence and horror as his insanity grows. In the end he can only survive by terrorising everyone who he does manage to come into contact with. Wells, known more for his futuristic visions, took an outing into horror with this book. Cover art by Tim Jacobus.
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Sole Survivor: Dean Koontz
$10.00A catastrophic, inexplicable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead - no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away. Driven now by rage - have the authorities withheld information? and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief - if there is one survivor, are there others? - Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash. Joe is led to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death--a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity. Cover art by Jake Pegg. -
Demon Seed: Dean Koontz
$6.00Created 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. -
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?
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Pilot Russell Cross gets a near-fatal shock when his dead Gulf War comrade appears in the cock-pit...a haunted submarine plunges into oblivion...a computer expert meets a bizarre and grisly death...A witness to these seemingly random events is the ghost of Matthew; a young boy who in another lifetime opened the door to an unspeakable horror. Now Matthew is preparing to weak havoc on a cruise liner bound for the bottom of the sea - and he's taking Russell Cross down with him. Cover at by Gregory Bridges.
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Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. He likes everything in his life to be neat and clean from his immaculate condominium to his well-tailored clothes to his homicide case files, free of typing errors. The bane of his life is his partner, Connie Gulliver. He doesn't like the way she dresses for work, the messiness of her desk, her lack of manners or her sometimes casual attitude toward the law. She says its the Age of Chaos in a modern world and he ought to get with it - and he loathes that attitude. But when Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in a crowded restaurant, the chase and shootout degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connie's world view.On his way back to the office to write up his report, a hulking denizen of the streets dressed in filthy rags tells him, "Tick-tock, tick-tock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours." Until dawn the next day Harry struggles to regain his neat orderly life but is instead caught in an undertow of terror and violence. Someone's after him for reasons he doesn't understand and he must come to terms with the chaotic modern world if he is to save Connie, the people he loves and himself. Cover art by Graham Potts. -
Every small town has a place like the mound. Lovers go there to woo, families picnic on it summer, children sled in winter. For the community of Oscala, New York, the mound has never been dangerous - until now. Something beyond cunning or imagining, something undeniably evil is hiding beneath the mound. The terror comes from out of time, space and the depths of the human mind with its alien needs and desires. It spreads its roots secretively, changing and reshaping reality. It intends to sweep aside all that the good townsfolk love and cherish: their past, their hopes, the promise of their souls. How can ordinary people protect themselves from this evil? Brian Kelly, a physicist still grieving for the hideous death of his first wife and child, suspects that the shell of reality has been torn to allow this monstrosity in. His pregnant second wife, Loi, is ready to dare anything to protect her unborn son. The tough yet vulnerable Ellen Maas, a reporter, must commit to destroying the beast - or die. Bob West, a cop, will turn to the law of the jungle if it will save his family. They must band together to defeat the evil beneath the mound. Cover art by Melvyn Grant.
