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The Message: John Wilding
$20.00The 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. -
One dark and rainy night, Sir James Monmouth returns to London after years spent travelling alone. Intent on uncovering the secrets of his childhood hero, the mysterious Conrad Vane, he begins to investigate Vane’s life, but he finds himself warned off at every turn. Before long he realises he is being followed. A pale, thin boy is haunting his every step but every time he tries to confront the boy he disappears. And what of the chilling scream and desperate sobbing only he can hear? His quest leads him eventually to the old lady of Kittiscar Hall, where he discovers something far more terrible at work than he could ever have imagined. From the author of The Woman in Black and Mrs. De Winter (sequel to Rebecca) -
Omnibus edition; Tithe: Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.Valiant: When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming...Ironside: In the realm of Faerie, the time has come for Roiben's coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing -- her love for Roiben. But when Kaye, drunk on faerie wine, declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest. Now Kaye can't see or speak to Roiben unless she can find the one thing she knows doesn't exist: a faerie who can tell a lie. Miserable and convinced she belongs nowhere, Kaye decides to tell her mother the truth -- that she is a changeling left in place of the human daughter stolen long ago. Her mother's shock and horror sends Kaye back to the world of Faerie to find her human counterpart and return her to Ironside. But once back in the faerie courts, Kaye finds herself a pawn in the games of Silarial, queen of the Seelie Court. Silarial wants Roiben's throne, and she will use Kaye, and any means necessary, to get it. In this game of wits and weapons, can a pixie outplay a queen? This volume includes the short story The Lament of Lutie-Loo. -
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. -
After the death of their infant son, Hal and Rowan Graham decide to leave the mad bustle of London and move to a quiet country refuge. And the rustic village of Moorstone seems perfect. Too perfect ...? Lying beneath a hill capped by an enormous stone, Moorstone hides mysterious secrets. Why does such a small town need such a large insane asylum? Why do the village's elderly residents leave everything they own to young newcomers they barely know? And why is everyone so friendly, so handsome, and so preoccupied with Hal and Rowan's health? Before the Grahams can piece the insidious puzzle together they are plunged into a spiralling terror of ancient mysteries reborn, people who are not quite what they seem, and a village that is quaint, charming - and deadly...Cover art by Peter Thorpe. -
Ten tales of horror, jeopardy and death by Poe. The Oval Portrait: A portrait painted by an artist robs his sitter of her life. Hop-Frog: A jester dwarf takes a terrible revenge on the king and the court. The Masque of the Red Death: The Red Death stalks the chambers of Prince Prospero. The Cask of Amontillado: Montresor takes Fortunato to a dark Roman cellarage, to taste an Amontillado... The Pit and the Pendulum: A razor-edged pendulum wings ever lower towards a prisoner of the Inquisition. Other tales included in this volume: Ligeia: A dark and gothic tale of a beautiful woman - with a surprising ending. Eleonora: An uncharacteristic celebration of love. Morella: Morella is his love, his teacher. But when she dies in childbirth she leaves an eerie legacy. Berenice: Berenice is beautiful and she is dying; and her husband develops a dreadful obsession... The Fall of the House of Usher: Roderick and Madelaine are the last of the House of Usher; and Roderick is convinced that the house is 'alive'... Plus: the four classic tales with which Poe created a new genre: the detective story - The Gold-Bug: William LeGrand is literally bitten by a gold-coloured bug and draws two friends into an adventurous hunt for buried treasure. The Murders In The Rue Morgue: A baffling double murder - and the killer leaves the clues of a bloody razor, tufts of gray hair and two bags of gold coins. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt: A perfume shop is murdered and her body dumped into the Seine - but why? The Purloined Letter: A letter from the queen's lover has been stolen from her boudoir by an unscrupulous Minister - but a search of his rooms reveals nothing. Cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. -
A mysterious letter from Europe to Frank Cooper, professor of Archaeology in Omaha leads to a discovery with terrifying consequences for the future of Mankind. Deep in a secret vault beneath Notre Dame, Cooper discovers the true burial place of 16th seer Nostradamus and a cache of documents hidden in the tomb. A desperate race begins, with the help of Cooper's small team and a super computer to avert the nightmare Armageddon foreseen by Nostradamus - an ending full of horror. -
The Offering: Paul Huson
$65.00Pretty 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 ... -
England, 1321: Deep in the heart of the countryside lies the isolated village of Ulewic - governed by a sinister regime of Owl Masters: men cloaked in masks and secrecy, ruling with violence, intimidation, and terrifying fiery rites. It is a pagan world of terror and blackmail, where neighbour denounces neighbour and sin is punishable by death. This dark status quo is disturbed by the arrival of a house of religious women who establish a community - a beguinage - outside the village. Why do their crops succeed when village crops fail, and their cattle survive despite the plague? But petty jealousy turns deadly when the women give refuge to a young martyr. For she dies a gruesome death after spitting the sacramental host into flames that can't burn it - what magic is this!? Or is the martyr now a Saint, and the host a holy relic? The battle lines are drawn: accusations of witchcraft and heresy run rife while the Owl Masters rain down hellfire and torment on the women, who must look to their faith to save them; as innocents are swept into the drama; as Ulewic is ravaged by flood and disease; and with villagers driven by fear, a secret inside the beguinage will draw the desperate and the depraved - until masks are dropped, faith is tested…and every lie is exposed.
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