Jack Stone, outwardly shy and unremarkable, writes works of dark and tortured fantasy which have captured the public imagination. Despite his celebrity status, he's a lonely man whose smart London life is a form of exile. He has painful memories he refuses to examine, roots he refuses to revisit - until he meets Gail, a beautiful, enigmatic girl who seems to sense the shadows around him. When there is news of a death in is family, Jack is forced to return to the horror that has coloured his nightmares for years - his childhood home. There he finds the terror and humiliation he remembers from his upbringing - but he makes a startling discovery as well. Cover art by Ken Leeder.
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The Immaculate: Mark Morris
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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.
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A collection of Poe's best horror-chillers: In this volume: The Gold-bug; William Wilson; The Facts In The Case Of M. Valdemar; The Island Of The Fay; The Sphinx; MS. Found In A Bottle; Eleonara; A Descent Into The Maelstrom; The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion; The Murders In The Rue Morgue; They Mystery of Marie Roget; The Purloined Letter; The Thousand-And-Second Tale Of Scheherazade;; The Fall Of The House Of Usher; The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall; The Pit And The Pendulum; The Domain Of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; The Premature Burial; The Assignation; Shadow - A Parable; The Black Cat; The Masque of the Red Death; The Spectacles; The Cask Of Amontillado; The Oval Portrait; The Tell-Tale Heart; Ligeia; The Oblong Box; Metzengerstein; Silence - A Fable; Hop-Frog; The Man Of The Crowd; A Tale Of The Ragged Mountains; The Imp Of The Perverse; Some Words With A Mummy; The Devil In The Belfry; The Balloon Hoax; "Thou Art The Man" Cover art: The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Harry Clarke -
From the dank crypt of his foreboding castle in the Transylvanian forests to the bustling foggy streets of London, Count Dracula comes to claim his victims to feed the lustful hunger that has damned him to a life of lonely immortality and to bind him to an innocent young woman - the miraculous double image of the love that he lost four centuries earlier. Contains colour photos from the film starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves.
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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.” -
The Ka of Gifford Hillary is a story concerned with the greatest of all mysteries: what happens after death? With Sir Gifford Hillary and Wing Commander Johnny Norton involved in plans to counter the might of Soviet Russia, interest soon centres on the evil Lady Ankaret and the tragedy which occurred at Longshot Hall, South Hampshire, on the night of the 9th September. A victim is struck down, and from that moment onward, the events which follow seem - at first - fantastic and unbelievable...but are later realised to be entirely logical. What does happen after death? And why should Sir Gifford find himself in prison, on trial for his life?
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Fleshcreepers series. What ancient force connects strange happenings in a London home, a spitting cat and an Egyptian mummy's severed hand? Unsuitable for children under 10. -
According to statistics, only 10% of the world's population has seen a ghost or experienced something supernatural. What lends substance to this small number is that it is 10% of each generation. Thus, over the millennia, many millions of people have encountered haunts of one sort or another, and it is this rather formidable number that makes the phenomenon believable. What makes them unbelievable is the sceptical 90% and it is between these two disparate hordes - living and dead - that the debate has raged for thousands of years. In this volume there are well known cases - Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England, the Phantom Battle of Edgehill, the Drummer of Tedworth - but also lesser known occurrences, such as the late Nelly Butler and the Dark Lady of Bognor Regis. There are also chapters on poltergeists, non-human apparitions, spirit voices and demons. -
Bartholomew Lampion is blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regains his sight when he is thirteen. The sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the light has nothing to do with a holy healer, nor do celestial trumpets announce the miracle. A roller coaster has something to do with it, as does a seagull. Barty's profound desire is to make his mother proud of him before she dies. The first time she dies was the day Barty was born: January 6, 1965....
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All Fall Down: John Saul
$5.00Something is happening to the children of Eastbury. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs - and strikes at the heart of every parent's darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. An entire town waits on the edge of panic. There must be a reason for the terror...They all know it... But no-one ever suspected... -
The portrait which Basil Hallward painted of Dorian Gray revealed the face of an Adonis, and when he saw the finished picture of himself, the beautiful young aesthete exclaimed: 'Why should it keep what I must love. Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could always be what I am now!' His perverse aspiration was strangely fulfilled. Abandoning himself to every sin his profligate mind could devise, the wealthy and exquisite young man brought misery and disgrace upon all who accepted his companionship, but Dorian Gray still wore the outward appearance of serene beauty. It was upon the portrait, locked away in his attic, that the marks of degeneration mysteriously appeared, for the painting of Adonis slowly transformed into the likeness of a satyr. This was Wilde's only novel; slightly edited when it first appeared in print in 1891 but due to public outrage at the remaining hints of homosexuality and deviancy, was further edited. This edition is the version in which only 500 words had been cut from Wilde's original manuscript. Wilde himself said, of Dorian Gray: 'All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.' Many believe that Wilde not only intend to point a moral but to highlight the fact that Dorian. himself and many others in the Victorian age were forced to live a double life of hypocrisy, but that to lead such a double life is, in the end, destructive to oneself and to those about one. Cover art from an engraving by Ceil Keeling. -
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. -
Who can forget Jack Nicholson's classic line from the classic film? "I'm just a horny little devil!" In the quiet little town of Eastwick, in 1970, nothing ever changes...but three beautiful women are about to discover powers they never knew they had. Now the man of their dreams is here to stay for a spell, ready to lure them into his mansion where they can do things they never dreamt of... -
Freddy Travis had just found his first full-time job at the vast Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse. He didn't expect the racks of skeletons...the pickled brains...the freezers full of fresh corpses. But there was a much larger horror there, concealed in a store of huge metal drums. Now one of them is accidentally opened...it would spread through the warehouse... then drift over the the cemetery next door...Dear Reader, a special note: This is a novel based on the film of the same name and is markedly different from the earlier novel of the same title by John Russo. -
On a cold lonely night in New York, Lonnie Blake, widower and jazz musician, takes refuge in the arms of Carol, a beautiful woman who has flung herself into his doorway to hide from an unknown pursuer. She gives him everything he needs for that one night - and in the morning she is gone, leaving no trace. Lonnie can't forget her - he must see her again. Carol has an incredible secret that centres on her daughter Amanda and extraordinary events after a massive plane crash. There are men who want answers and they will stop at nothing to get those answers. Lonnie's search for lost love becomes a life-or-death effort to discover Carol's secret. -
No-one lived there; no-one dared - none but the dead. A house haunted by grotesque apparitions, victims of the unspeakable evils that had transpired there. But to the great inventor Edison it was the ideal place to test his new advice - a machine to speak to the dead. What he saw there left him shaken, determined to neutralise the strange and dangerous instrument and keep its terrible secret hidden. When Ben and Laura unearth the long buried apparatus and attempt to recreate Edison's experiment, the unwittingly unleash a malevolent force more powerful than anything ever known to Mankind. Too late, they realise they've played straight into the hands of the Master of Evil...A story allegedly based on real events.
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An old man is possessed and tormented by an evil spirit...the ghost of a little girl returns to terrorise her isolated home...a house in the leafy suburbs becomes a place of worship for followers of the black arts..crew members begin to die on a space station when a cryogenics experiment goes horribly wrong...and a corpse is grotesquely brought back to life in the name of science. All these incidents are linked to Matthew Kindling: an ex-priest fighting for his sanity and his life, relentlessly pursued by Darkness and propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagination. Cover art by Gregory Bridges. -
Pig Island: Mo Hayder
$8.00When journalist Joe Oakes visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he'd learned as in expert in exposing supernatural hoaxes is overturned. Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? And why will no-one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of the island? The confrontation and bloody aftermath is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil and whether he might not be responsible for the terrible crime about to unfold.
