Horror/Occult

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  • Volume X of The Vampire Chronicles. Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. The worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches  collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.
  • Book II of Atta Olivia Clemens.  In the year 1189 AD, battle rages on the islands of Crete and Cyprus; Saladin sits in Jerusalem, threatening Antioch and Tyre alike; Richard Couer de Lion rules England and France; and the Pope talks of preaching a new Crusade. Olivia lives in Tyre, but dares not face its occupation by Islamic forces. She is determined to return to the city of her birth..and death: Rome, the Eternal. Accompanied only by young Valence Rainaut, a Knight Hospitaler who much against his will has fallen in love with her, she makes her desperate way by land and sea through a world ruled by Death..and by men whose bloodlust runs stronger than her own. Cover art by San Julian.

  • From the first time Sarah Chenowith sees Madelaine loitering in the neighborhood, she is convinced the mysterious woman is evil. Then her next=door neighbor hires the darkly beautiful woman to give his wife art lessons. Soon Madelaine moves into the spare bedroom - and the 'accidental' deaths begin. Now Sarah is in danger - a danger that begins the day she discovers the magic paintings that foretell the next gruesome death. Only Sarah, who is part Hopi Indian, can stop the supernatural killer. But first she must learn to use the long-lost powers of her ancestors in a magical showdown with a very unexpected source of evil...Cover art by Rallé.
  • The ordered world of Tayo, famous pop star, is suddenly and alarmingly thrown into chaos as he finds himself inescapably bound up in the world of the occult; a world in which Tayo and his family are forced to live a nightmare. He is warned from Beyond by his unborn child who has fought her way past the Powers of Darkness to beware of his own son.  But Tayo does not believe he has any children - and then he learns that his wife Ginnie is expecting a baby...Is this the child, the son who has evil in his heart, or the daughter that watches over him? The Darkness rules Tayo's life, engineers his every move and each step brings him close and closer to his fate...Wilding's first novel. Cover art by Marinella Bonini.
  • Halloween Street, Steve Rasnic Tem: Laura is a strange little girl who prefers to watch the street from her window. When she wants to go trick-or treating, her parents  are hopeful at this 'normal' behaviour...if only...Others, James Herbert: A P.I. searching for a missing baby follows the clues to a mysterious nursing home, where he discovers the dark secret of the Others... Growing Things, T. E. D. Klein: Herb is fascinated by the letters pages in a pile of of old home handyman magazines - especially 'Mr Fixit's' solution for a correspondent who has a strange lump growing under his bathroom floor. Unhasped, David J. Schow: Now married, Ethan looks for a hiding place for his safe key - he doesn't want his wife finding his box of bachelor-days memorabilia. He finds the ideal place -  and there's already a key hanging there, a key to another box of memories...The Emperor’s Old Bones, Gemma Files: An abandoned boy and a streetwise young woman form an unlikely alliance in wartime Shanghai - which will be tested over a challenge to prepare the carp dish The Emperor's Old Bones. The Entertainment, Ramsey Campbell: A teacher  searching for accommodation on a rainy night thinks he's found a suitable place to stay - even if the old lady there thinks he is the 'entertainment'... Harlequin Valentine, Neil Gaiman: It's Valentine's Day, and naughty, impish Harlequin pins his heart to the door of the girl he loves...but has he offered his heart too readily? The Stunted House, Terry Lamsley: A holidaying couple find the porch of an abandoned seafront house the ideal place to stop for lunch - at first...Just Like Eddy, Kim Newman: Edgar Allan Poe hates his middle name - he associates it with his successful father. Then as his work begins to be known, the regular misspelling of it gives him the belief that Edgar Allen Poe is a doppelganger out to destroy him...The Long Hall On The Top Floor, Caitlin R. Kiernan: Silvey is disturbed in his park bench reading and gin-nipping by a lad who wants to know if it's true that Silvey is psychic - because if he is, he's got something for Silvey to see...Lulu, Thomas Tessier: A man discovers his grandfather was friendly with writer Joseph Roth - a friendship which grew to include the mysterious Sonja.  The Ballyhooly Boy, Graham Masterton: Jerry inherits a run-down, grubby house from a lady he certainly never knew - a house which, though empty, rings with screams...Welcome, Michael Marshall Smith:  Paul finds a file on his PC - which was created in 1957. To add to the mystery, he finds an odd newspaper on his train trip home from work. Burden, Michael Marano: A gay man impulsively engages in unprotected sex - and finds that he can see the ghosts of friends who succumbed to the AIDS virus. Naming the Dead, Paul J. McAuley: Psychic detective Carlyle can see all the imps and beasties of doubt and anxieties that cling to us - but when he is hired to track down a killer recently released from prison, it seems something doesn't want the man to be found. Aftershock, F. Paul Wilson: A doctor is fascinated by the extraordinary claims of a patient who has been hit by lightning - and who wants to be hit again. A Fish Story, Gene Wolfe: Three friends on a fishing trip exchange ghost stories around the fire - and one has a very impressive story. Jimmy, David Case: A small sleepy town is terrorised by a violent attacker with long nails, a mask-like face with sulphuric eyes - and a rapacious passion for teenage girls. White, Tim Lebbon: A raging virus has destroyed most of the world's population and a fierce winter smothers most of the land under deep snow. If that weren't bad enough, a small group of survivors bunking in an abandoned mansion have to deal with a more immediate threat emerges from out of the wilds, an otherworldly threat that is as bloodthirsty and vicious as it is cunning and cruel. Pork Pie Hat, Peter Straub: A student secures a private interview with  ailing jazz musician, Hat, hoping to sell the interview to a magazine with the hope of bringing Hat to the attention of a wider audience.  But Hat passes away. The interview is published...leaving out a very interesting part of Hat's childhood. Tricks And Treats One Night on Halloween Street,  Steve Rasnic Tem: A collection of Hallowe'en scenes including Ronald, a young lad who answers the door to a trick or treater who seems to be wearing a mask of Ronald's face...Cover art by Julek Heller.
  • Rosie Daniels, trapped in a fourteen year nightmare marriage is suddenly roused by a single drop of blood and she realises that her husband Norman is going to kill her. Or maybe - worse still - he won't. And she takes flight – with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an old junk shop painting, "Rose Madder," which is perfect for her new apartment and strangely, the painting seems to want her as much as she wants it.  But it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog’s instinct for tracking people. And he’s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he is getting… Cover art by Bob Warner.
  • The Fog: A strange, deadly yellow fog is drifting across the English countryside, leaving madness and murder in its trail. As villages, towns and London itself fall victim to its choking insanity, only one man can stop it…The Spear: The Spear of Destiny, that once pierced the side of Jesus on the Cross, has immense powers for good or evil. A fanatical neo-Nazi cult plans to use the Spear to reanimate their long dead leader...Hitler’s right-hand man, Heinrich Himmler. Sepulchre: There is a house hidden away in a small valley that holds a dark and dreadful secret. The psychic who lives in the house is a part of the secret. The house has a guardian - also the guardian of the psychic and the secret....The Keeper. Together they serve a force whose existence threatens mankind. And now a terrible danger is sensed and an outsider must protect them all. The outsider is Halloran, and he is unaware of the terrible evil he must face. He will learn of multinational corporation's strange method of detecting new mineral resources; he will combat men who thrive on the worst of physical corruption; he will find love of a most perverse nature; he will confront the darkness of his own soul - but most of all, he will discover the horrific and awesome secret of the Sepulchre.
  • A widespread drought is causing murderous famine. There is one possible solution: giant masses of Arctic ice, split from the polar pack by high explosives, could be moved south to parched coastlines and melted for water. In an Arctic ice field, a special team of eight scientists has planted sixty powerful bombs that will detonate automatically at midnight. But before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp - Edgeway Station - a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which they are working, leaving them hopelessly marooned on an iceberg during the worst winter storm in a decade. The bombs, buried irretrievably deep beneath them in the ice, are ticking...And in the midst of a desperate struggle for survival, the scientists discover that one of them is a ruthless killer on a strange mission of his own...Cover art by Chris Moore. Originally published under the pseudonym David Axton.
  • Bob Harlow is an academic; Vern Cugnet is an auto mechanic.  Beside this difference, Bob has another distinction - his once-pleasant life in North Dakota is going to hell. Terrible things are befalling Bob, his family and friends:  strange infections, nasty infestations, thefts and accidents - one of which is fatal. And Bob realises that the jinx is the result of a side trip he took into Tibet after a year-long sabbatical in China. There, in the Place of the Dead, Bob committed thoughtless sacrilege when he pocketed two mani stones - engraved funeral markers - as souvenirs. No matter what the obstacles, he must return the sacred objects. Vern - naive, crude and indomitable - volunteers to go along and the unlikely companions set out to undo the curse. The trek will take them through China, India and Nepal and involve them in border frays, encounters with holy hermits and bloodthirsty demons and finally, an audience with the Dalai Lama himself.