Horror/Occult

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  • 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.
  • Pretty 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.
  • Book II of Department of Unclassified Artefacts. George Archer, Liz Oldfield and Eddie Hopkins have made a rather unfortunate discovery: vampires really exist and they do feed on human blood. Using a labyrinth of tunnels beneath Victorian London, these sinister creatures are intent on destroying the human race and they'll start by taking over the most powerful place in London - the Houses of Parliament. Liz, George and Eddie come up with a plan to beat the vampires at  their own game. And they'd better do it soon...

  • Beneath the Opera House in Paris, somewhere in the dark labyrinths hidden from public view, the Phantom lurks, watching and waiting.  In his crazed obsession to further the career of a beautiful young singer, he will stop at nothing - not even murder.
  • Beneath the Opera House in Paris, somewhere in the dark labyrinths hidden from public view, the Phantom lurks, watching and waiting.  In his crazed obsession to further the career of a beautiful young singer, he will stop at nothing - not even murder. This 75th anniversary edition contains a foreword by Peter Haining, which introduces the larger-than-life character of author Gaston Leroux and traces the history of the Phantom - its basis in fact, the novel's poor reception yet its astonishing success in the cinema and theatre.  There is also a special appendix in which a speculation links the Phantom to Sherlock Holmes.   Cover art by Mark Teague.

  • Dorian is handsome, debonair and charming - and he wants to stay that way.  In fact, he'll do anything to stay young and handsome - forever.  So when he looks at his portrait and wishes that the portrait could age in his place...He gets his wish, but with awful consequences...The tale of Dorian Gray’s gradual moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting influence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.”