Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • The title is a bit of a misnomer since these are not ghostly tales, but documented ghost sightings: some, like Borley Rectory, 50 Berkeley Square, the Amherst Mystery and Glamis Castle are very well-known; others are a little more obscure. In this volume...Ghosts Of Ancient Egypt, Frank Usher; Chased By A Prehistoric Horseman, J. Wentworth Day; Hauntings Royal and The Phantoms of Littlecote, Frank Usher;  Phantom Lovers, Vida Derry; The White Lady of Berlin, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; School For Ghosts and Vengeful Ghosts, Vida Derry; Pearlin Jean, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; Child Ghosts, Vida Derry; The Club Of Dead Men, J. Wentworth Day; A Piece Of Black Velvet, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; The Ghost In Two Halves, The Ghost Of  Nance and The Haunting Of Itchells Manor, Ronald Seth; The Brown Lady of Raynham, Frank Usher; The Return Of Richard Tarwell, Ronald Seth; Ghosts of Old France, Frank Usher; The Spirit of Sergeant Davies, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; The Haunting at Hinton Ampner, Frank Usher; The Drunk Who Lost His Way, Radiant Boys and Alarm At Wellington Barracks, Ronald Seth; The Ghost of Garpsdal and The Whiskered Sailor of Portsmouth, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; The Reverend John Jones And The Ghostly Horseman and Steer Nor'west, Ronald Seth; The Haunted House at Hydesville, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; The Guardian Ghost, Ronald Seth; Charles Kean's Ghost Story: Nurse Black, Ghosts of the Mutiny and The Artist's Ghost Story, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; Phantoms of the East, Vida Derry; The Fur-Trader's Corpse and The Gold-Miners' Vengeance, Frank Usher; The Coach Calls For George Mace, Ronald Seth; Shades of Murder, Frank Usher; Black Shuck - The Dog of Death, J. Wentworth Day; The Strange Haunting at Ballechin, Frank Usher; The Amherst Mystery, Michael and Mollie Hardwick; Glamis The Haunted Castle, Tony Parker; The Horror at No. 50 Berkeley Square, Ronald Seth; The Bird Of Lincoln's Inn, Tony Parker; The Ghosts Of Versailles and A Bargain With A Ghost, Frank Usher;  The Ghostly Cavalry Charge and The Spectres of Crécy, J. Wentworth Day; The Mystery Of Borley, Frank Usher; The Ghostly Trapper of Labrador, J.Wentworth Day; The Sceptic's Tale, Robin Miller; Brighton Ghosts, Frank Usher.
  • 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.
  • In this volume:  The Black Cat/ The Tell-Tale Heart/ The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe; The Torture Of Hope, Villiers de l’Isle Adam; An Episode Of The Terror, Honoré de Balzac; The Hand, Guy de Maupassant; The Withered Arm; Thomas Hardy; The Idiots, Joseph Conrad;  The Bird, Thomas Burke;  The Terror, Arthur Machen;  Lot No. 249, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Apprentice, Hilaire Belloc; The Sentence, J. Kaden-Bandrowski; The Killers, Ernest Hemingway; Arabesque: the Mouse, A. E. Coppard;  Treasure Trove,  F. Tennyson Jesse;  Cinci,  Luigi Pirandello; Suspicion, Dorothy L. Sayers; The Last Chukka, Alec Waugh; Dead on Her Feet, Cornell Woolrich; Taboo, Geoffrey Household;  A Little Place Off The Edgware Road;  Graham Greene;  The Words Of Guru/ The Little Black Bag, CM Kornbluth; Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper,  Robert Bloch;  The Glass Eye, John Keir Cross;  The Web, D’Arcy Niland;  The Physiology Of Fear/ The Head And The Feet, C.S. Forrester;  The Veld / Skeleton, Ray Bradbury; Evening Primrose, John Collier; Back From The Grave, Robert Silverberg;  A Rose For Emily, William Faulkner;  The Island Of Bright Birds, John Christopher;  The Comforts Of Home; Flannery O’Connor; The Skylight; Penelope Mortimer; Pig, Roald Dahl; The Question,  Stanley Ellin; In The Steam Room, Frank Baker; The Pencil, Edmund Crispin; The Dark Of The Moon, Olaf Ruhen; Falling Object, William Brittain; The Terrapin,   Patricia Highsmith; The Taste Of Your Love, Eddy C. Bertin; Aunt Jennie’s Tonic, Leonard Tushnet, Not After Midnight,  Daphne du Maurier; The Game, Thomasina Weber; The Fanatic, Arthur Porges;  The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs, Harlan Ellison; Judas Story, Brian M. Stableford; You’re Putting Me On - Aren’t You? Joe Gores; Wake Up Dead, Tim Stout;   Corabella, David Fletcher.
  • Jeff was a loving son to Mr and Mrs Reed.  But when he went to Ashtaroth, they lost him. He took a new name, cursed his parents and spurned their love forever.  He has become a member of the Cult, The Souls for Jesus, the brainchild of the Master, Buford Hodges - a tax deductible multi-million dollar industry feeding on the young and vulnerable.  Only one man can redeem these lost souls, who will dare to take on the sinister forces of the Master. Only one man can help the Reeds - the man they call The Devil.
  • The survivors of Drago...He had no doubt that there were survivors. Many times h had heard the howling in the night, calling him. Though his body yearned to answer their call, he fought against it - he was not ready.  All that remained of Drago was a burned out village deep in the forest and the ashes of things half human, and half something else. Then came a murder - two murders...and Malcolm the strange boy with feral green eyes - and the reawakening of an unearthly terror that no-one could forget. Cover art by Peter Elson.
  • 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.
  • Three years have passed since the horror of Drago, when Karyn Beatty and Chris Halloran escaped the great fire which swept through the town, destroying all its accursed inhabitants - except two. Karyn has built a new life but always at the back of her mind lies the terror. Eventually she can no longer ignore the signs that its evil has begun again. In the mountains of Mexico she and Chris are forced to a final confrontation with - The Howling...
  • Tales of horror from the original masters...Spinechillers in this volume include: The Furnished Room, O. Henry; The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde; The Oval Portrait, Edgar Allan Poe; The Ghost Detective, Mark Lemon; The Horla and A Ghost, Guy de Maupassant; The Story of the Unknown Church, William Morris; The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell; The Devil's Wager, W.M. Thackery; Teigue Of The Lee, T. Crofton Coker; The Captain Of The PoleStar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Haunted Mill or The Ruined House, Jerome K. Jerome; The Goblins Who Stole A Sexton, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman and The Bagman's Story, Charles Dickens; The Spectre of Tappington, Thomas Ingoldsby; The Hollow Of The Three Hills, Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Lady of Rosemount, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson; Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman, Wilkie Collins; The Ghost Ship, Richard Middleton; The Body Snatcher, Robert Louis Stevenson; Man-size in Marble, Edith Nesbit; The Last of Squire Ennismore, Mrs. J.H. Riddell; The Withered Arm, Thomas Hardy; The Moonlit Road, Ambrose  Bierce; Ghosts That Have Haunted Me, John Kendrick Bangs; The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, Florence Marryat.
  • A triple treat of terror: The Rats: The natural competition between the industrious and intelligent rodent and Man is inevitable when they share an environment - but what would happen if a new, more dangerous and deadly rat was bred and then unleashed on the world? Fluke: What could happen if identity and personality were interchangeable?  Not between humans - but between man and dog? The Dark: People are capable of acts of scarcely imaginable cruelty and appalling depravity.  What would happen if that individual power, that personal desire, became a tangible force? And instead of seeming to exude an aura of evil, instead those who have committed evil continue to propagate their deeds after they have phsysically ceased to exist?