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In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others. 'The Death' soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world. Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination. Cover art by Joe Roberts. Contributors: Peter Atkins; Peter Crowther; Paul Finch; Tim Lebbon; Paul McAuley; Kim Newman; John Llewellyn Probert; Marks Samuels; Pat Cadigan; Scott Edelman; Jo Fletcher; Robert Hood; Tanith Lee; Lisa Morton; Sarah Pinborough; Jay Russell; Mandy Slater. -
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all…One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better. He’s getting back everything he nearly lost forever - his business, his life, and with luck, his beloved girlfriend. Miracles do happen. Then the unmarked gifts begin to arrive - a box of candy hearts, a heart-shaped pendant. A large sum of money vanishes from his bank account, donated to the cardiology department of the local hospital. Ryan is being stalked by someone who feels entitled to everything he has. He is promised a nightmare death. In grave danger, along with his beating heart and its secrets, can Ryan unlock the mystery of the enemy who threatens his existence? -
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. -
Back from the dead…and back on the case! Even being murdered doesn't keep a good detective down - and in the Unnatural Quarter - inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud) in the night - a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. "Shamble," solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer. Here's seven cases from the files of Chambeaux and Deyer Investigations. Shamble has to solve the mystery of a stolen deck of fortune-telling cards and the undeath-defying feats of a vampire trapeze artist; finds himself sealed in a coffin in the back of a truck with no idea where he's being taken; and is even hired by Santa Claus to find his lost "naughty and nice" list. Being trapped in an unbreakable monster-proof crypt, deciphering a string of mysterious zombie graffiti, investigating the murder of a costumed fan at a science fiction convention where the monsters are the normal attendees or tracking down a kidnapped hell-hound for legendary vigilante werewolf cop Hairy Harry - it's all in a day's work for Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. Although this book is classified as teen fiction, there's plenty in it for adults prone to fits of silly humour. Cover art by Jeff Herndon. -
An exploration of the bizarre and often political terrain of the fascination for witchcraft throughout recorded history. From the rapacious maenads and horned Gods of classical Greek legend to the modern-day practitioners of Wicca, tales of werewolves and vampires, demons and fairies, fairy godmothers and wicked hags, together with the history of the very real human tragedy of the abominable holocaust of the burning times in Europe, and the heroes who risked torture to speak out against the madness. Merlin, Melusine, Morgan le Fay, the villanous Medea and the heroic Joan of Arc, the hysterical youngsters of Salem and the men and women they accused are among the diverse and infamous characters whose stories are told here. Less well known are the ordinary victims; mainly women - and sometimes men, including Father Gradnier, a priest accused of bewitching a convent - denounced by ignorance and ill-will; and children, as young as four years old. The arts of magic, and the fear of those arts, are timeless and universal and so this exploration covers all continents and many different forms of witchcraft. Lavishly illustrated with classical paintings, medieval woodcuts and photographs in black and white and colour. -
Books I and II of Wicked: Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents going on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. The girls will assume their roles in an inter-generational feud beyond their wildest imaginations...and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny. Cover art by Sammy Yuen Jr. -
Witch Beast: Bernard King
$12.00Uptown - the depressed Victorian slum area of Monkhampton long overdue for development - is dying: its shopping precinct boarded up, its church abandoned, its people moved away - into thin air, it seems. At the heart of Uptown, in Salvation, an affectionate white Newfoundland recovers slowly from the vicious maltreatment of his previous owner. And as Leader regains his strength, his coats begins to change colour and he grows - and he grows...Detective Inspector Ben Wilson, investigating a strange case of arson in Uptown, is attacked by a pack of dogs turned feral - a pack that behaves like a disciplined army. Then there are the murders...and Wilson begins to see a hideous connection; a link that shatters all the comfortable preconception about domestic pets. If he and the eccentric Professor Harker are correct, man's best friend is now man's most dangerous enemy - and beyond human control. Cover art by Alun Hood. -
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. -
Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But Zipp finds it hard to tell the police the details of when he last saw his friend - they had been shadowing an old woman, an easy target for some quick cash and Andreas, brandishing his knife, had boldly followed her into her house. And then he was gone. Inspector Sejer and his colleagues are baffled, but while the confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling, heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the old woman's home. Appearances aren't always to be believed, and people are not always what they seem. -
Weaveworld: Welcome to the Fugue, a magical land inhabited by descendants of supernatural beings who once shared the earth with humans. The Fugue has been woven into a wondrous, magnificent carpet for protection against those who would destroy it; but as the carpet begins to unravel, battle is joined between good and the particularly repulsive evil forces for control of the Fugue. Title art by Tim White. Cabal: Boone now knew for sure there was no place on this earth for him, no happiness here, not even with Lori. Just as certain as there as no salvation possible for him in Heaven. He would let Hell claim him then, let Death take him there. But Death itself seemed to shrink from him. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered and violated and shredded so many others' lives. And Decker had shown him the proof - the hellish proof of the photographs where the victims were forever still, splayed in the last obscene moment of their torture. Neither Heaven, nor Hell, nor Earth was possible. It could only be Midian then - that awful, legendary place which gathered to itself in its monstrous embrace the half-dead, the Nightbreed. Boone made his way there, not knowing and caring even less. All he wanted was to leave the nightmare behind....but the nightmare had yet to begin... Title art by David Scutt. -
Research scientist David Foe was described by his girlfriend as 'the walking dead'. Sent to a less than tropical paradise where the Prime Minister is a despot and his mother a witch, David is forced to wake up a little. Before long, he's mixing criminals, outdoing the voodoo cults and masterminding a slave result - all in the name of science, of course. -
Voices Of Evil: G.M. Hague
$15.00A deranged Gallipoli veteren locked in a padded cell. The grisly deaths of two beautiful young women. An ancient charm in a old metal tin. When journalist Brendan Craft discovers the mysterious Egyptian charm, a series of terrifying events is unleashed. Confronted with evil beyond imagining, Brendan becomes locked in a battle for his sanity. Where does a dream end and reality begin? Death may be the only escape from the voices of evil...Cover art by Gregory Bridges. -
Book II of New Tales Of the Vampires: Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue. -
Gregory Sallust V. Set against the background of Vichy, France and the occupied territories in 1940, with Gregory as determined as ever to overthrow the iron rule of the Third Reich. Nursed back to health by Madeleine Lavalliere, he leaves Paris just as the Germans march into the capital. Little did he realize, however, that he would meet up with Madeleine once more, that together they would evolve a plan which would inflict irreparable damage upon the Nazis... -
Unto The Altar: John Tigges
$18.00Adriana had come to the remote island to recover from the shock of her parents' violent death. The other guests at Revillion Manor welcomed her with open arms, eager to make her feel at home - perhaps too eager. Adriana began to think. Overwhelmed by their solicitude, she sensed a mysterious purpose behind the ministrations of her incredibly attractive companions, all of whom seemed to have discovered the secret of eternal youth and beauty. And when Adriana found out the horrifying truth, there was nowhere to run, no one to turn to, no way to save her immortal soul.... -
Wolf Springs Chronicles I. Katelyn McBride’s life changed in an instant when her mother died. Uprooted from her California home, Katelyn was shipped to the middle of nowhere, Arkansas, to her only living relative, her grandfather. And now she has to start over in Wolf Springs, a tiny village in the Ozark Mountains. Like any small town, Wolf Springs has secrets. But the secrets hidden here are more sinister than Katelyn could ever imagine. It’s a town with a history that reaches back centuries, spans continents, and conceals terrifying truths. And Katelyn McBride is about to change everything. Broken families, ageless grudges, forced alliances, and love that blooms in the darkest night...welcome to Wolf Springs. -
This volume contains three of Russell's best-known horror tales: Sanguinarius: Count Ferencz Nadasdy - Charming, handsome, irresistible...and depraved beyond redemption as he indulges in fiendish rites. Sardonicus: The hideously afflicted master of a remote, dungeon-dark castle. Sagittarius: Laval - a monstrous actor in plays of torture and death, plays that become terrifyingly real... -
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. -
Under The Dome: Stephen King
$12.00–$15.00On an entirely normal, beautiful autumn day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. A planes crashes into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage; a gardener’s hand is severed as The Dome comes down on it; those running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families; cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away. The Army needs a man on the 'inside' and finds Dale Barbara, former Iraq veteran, now a short-order cook. He finds support with a few intrepid citizens - but against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a local politician who will stop at nothing - even murder - to cling to power and who sees The Dome as the answer to his political prayers. With Big Jim is his son, who is keeping a dreadful secret; and a bunch of Big Jim's renegade bully-boys who designate themselves as the new law and order. They have to find what created The Dome, fast. Because the children begin having dreams of a horrific Hallowe'en...electricity and the internet begin to fail...food and water is running short...air is limited...and time is running out... -
The day I died started out bad and got worse in a hurry... Betsy Taylor has just woken up in a morgue to discover she's a vampire. On the plus side, being undead does beat the alternative - she now has superhuman strength and an unnatural effect on the opposite sex. What Betsy can't handle is her new liquid diet. And whilst her mother is relieved to find out that being dead doesn't mean that Betsy can't visit, her new night-time friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen. The scrumptious Sinclair and his cohorts want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious, power-hungry vampire for five centuries. Frankly, Betsy couldn't care less about vamp politics. But Sinclair and his friends have powerful methods of persuasion. Not the least of which is unlimited access to Manolo Blahnik's Spring Collection... -
Lost World adventure No. II. In the face of an Atlantic hurricane, two girls and a boatload of men from various nations pit their strength against the appalling rigours of the open sea. Tension mounts. The desirable Synolda is forced into the arms of a man who knows her past and uses that knowledge. A man with hatred in his eyes – a hatred that can only be satisfied with blood. There is mutiny and murder before the unrelenting Sargasso weed entombs them all. But suddenly land is sighted – land unmarked on the chart, concealing unimaginable horrors. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/found-atlantis-dennis-wheatley/ -
Twisted: Jeffery Deaver
$5.00The creator of Lincoln Rhyme offers a selection of sixteen very twisted tales: Without Jonathon; The Weekender; For Services Rendered; Beautiful; The Fall Guy; Eye To Eye; Triangle; All The World's A Stage; Gone Fishing; Nocturne; Lesser-Included Offence; The Blank Card; The Christmas Present; Together; The Widow of Pine Creek; The Kneeling Soldier. A great sampler of Deaver's writing. -
You're travelling through another dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind: a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of the imagination...The Twilight Zone: where demonic tyrants of the past live again to terrorise a man who carries the seeds of their hate into the present; where evil perches on the wing of a plane taunting a psychic who dare not believe his eyes and hold onto his mind; where the power to control the world rests in the fantasy-fraught imagination of a lonely child; where the joys of eternal youth are offered to those who remember childhood and who are not too old to dream. With fabulous black and white photos from all four segments.
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No ordinary teenager does the things that Slim MacKenzie does - but then no ordinary teenager sees the things he has seen. Slim has Twilight Eyes, a terrifying psychic ability that allows him to see beneath the outer skin of humans - sometimes revealing an altogether different creature beneath. And once he's identified the monster within, Slim knows it is his sacred duty to kill it. Cover art variant by Phil Parks. -
This book is NOT fiction! Count Dracula really existed. Donald F. Glut brings to life tales of historical vampires taken from numerous contemporary chronicles dating from the days of the Roman Empire up through the recorded exploits of vampire hunters of the Twentieth Century. From the cobblestone streets of European cities, through the vastness of Asia and the jungles of Africa, to the secret haunts of the New World, the author brings his researches to life in over fifty narratives of vampire case histories. Have you ever wondered whether or not vampires actually exist? Folklore or fact? Glut's classic survey of the historical record provides food for thought fascinating insights into sanguinary world of the vampire. -
Tread Softly: Richard Laymon
$45.00For two families, it was supposed to be a relaxing camping trip in the California mountains. They thought it would be fun to get away from everything for a while. But they're not alone. The woods are also home to two terrifying residents who don't take kindly to strangers - an old hag with unholy powers, and her hulking son, a half-wild brute with uncontrollable, violent urges. The campers still need to get away - but now their lives depend on it...Cover art by Jill Bauman -
Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn't know. Molly Fountain, the no-nonsense neighbour, was determined to find the answer. She sent for a wartime secret service colleague to come and help. What they discovered was horrifying beyond anything they could have imagined...the young, beautiful girl is being groomed to be the sacrificial virgin at a ceremony... her death will give life to a hideous creature that lurks beneath the ancient stones of Bentford Priory. Writer Molly Fontaine and her son John battle time, ruthless gangsters and the forces of evil to try to save Christina.
