Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • A fearsome foursome: Moon: He had fled to the island to escape those chilling glimpses of grotesque, brutal murders, but the monster that lurked inside his mind followed, eager to seek him out... Shrine: Alice was a little girl - small, thin and a deaf-mute. Then came the vision. Suddenly, she could hear, speak and perform miracles. But with the wondrous change, she became an agent of evil; of corruption and hate that was centuries old. The Dark: It invaded men's minds, drove them to frenzies of destruction, orgies of murder and mutilation.  It was strong enough to take over an entire city, too powerful to be destroyed. It was The Dark... Fluke: He was a puppy; different from other dogs, different from other animals. The men called him Fluke and that was apt, for Fluke was a man, with a man's feelings and intelligence trapped inside the body of a dog.  Cover art by Kevin Jones.
  • Book III of The Omen. His coming was foretold in a prophecy of ultimate evil from beyond the dawn of time. A prophecy which spelled destruction for those who ignored the warning until it was too late, and which is about to be fulfilled...From a crumbling monastery in the depths of Northern Italy, Father DeCarlo has watched the relentless progress of the Anti-Christ. Now he knows the world is on the edge of a nightmare that it will not survive. Around the globe, drought, famine and flood strike down helpless millions. There is trouble everywhere. Damien Thorn, the handsome, thirty-two year old head of one of the world's most powerful corporations... and certain to be president of the United States by the time he is forty. Damien, believed to be the son of Satan, reaching out to claim the Earth for the forces of darkness... Now is the time of prophecy, and Mankind's only hope lies with twelve men and one woman who must fight a desperate battle that will carry them across the very frontiers of darkness in the final showdown between good and evil. From the screenplay by Andrew Birkin and based on characters created by David Seltzer.
  • Born almost 2500 years ago in Babylon of a wealthy Jewish family in exile, Azriel is forced to take the role of a god for three days, paying for his people's freedom with an eternity of half-death, half-life, caught forever between heaven and earth. His restless spirit may be called forth by whoever holds the casket of golden bones and understands its mystery.  From the household of an ancient Greek philosopher to the deathbed of Alexander the Great, from the Mongolian steppes to a pogrom in  14th century Strasbourg, where the Jews were made the scapegoats for the Black Death... Azriel bears witness to it all. In the present he is summoned to witness and avenge a brutal murder on Fifth Avenue.  The dead women is Esther, step-daughter of the fanatical Gregory Belkin, messianic leader of a worldwide cult, The Temple of the Mind. The world knows that Belkin is a Holocaust survivor, but he has a secret history that binds Azriel's fate to his. Swayed by instincts almost forgotten, Azriel is caught up in a malevolent plot which could destabilise the world. Cover photo by Colin Thomas.
  • Anne Case was an agoraphobic. A quiet lady, she was a willing prisoner in her own home, happily tending her plants, writing unpublished poetry and receiving the occasional visit from her psychic twin brother David. Then one day - she was brutally murdered. David believes that to dies is to simply cross a boundary from one reality to another. In that other reality, Anne is alive, waiting for him...Waiting for him, to avenge her murder...Cover art by Danny Flynn.
  • A woman is ravished - and unto her a child is born, unleashing an unspeakable evil upon the world.  He is named Baal and he will lead the reader through the uttermost depths of evil, into a nightmare world of bloodlust and violence that would freeze the heart.
  • Book I of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. Two hundred years old, the monster Deucalion is a monster no more. Literate and intelligent, he arrives in modern-day New Orleans, where he will join forces with a street-smart police detective and her partner on the trail of a macabre serial killer...a serial killer spawned, Deucalion will discover, by his own creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, now Victor Helios. Now Deucalion will find that there are many others like him, that they live among us at every strata of society, and that his nemesis, Victor Frankenstein, has survived the centuries as well, and dreams of seeding the earth with his creations.
  • This volume contains five chillers and thrillers: Hitch-hiker; Blackham's Wimpey; Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou; St. Austin Friars; Sergeant Nice. Cover art by Alun Hood.
  • The last thing newly-widowed Maggie O'Connor wants is the responsibility of a baby.  But when her heroin-addict daughter Jenna abandons new-born Cody, Maggie's maternal instincts and love prevail.  Three years later, an impeccably groomed Jenna complete with her new wealthy husband Eric Vannier returns to claim her daughter.  On Maggie's first visit to Cody in the new home, the child is vacant-eyed, subdued and fearful.  The police cannot act - until an anonymous caller reveals the Vannier's link to a Satanic cult.  Then an acnient prophecy begins to turn to reality, and suddenly there is more at stake than little Cody's sanity and safety.
  • It's a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident, a year since she began the painful process of trying to rebuild her life. Then a shattering message appears on the blackboard in Danny's old room: NOT DEAD. Is it someone's idea of a grim joke? Or the tangible evidence of her tormented unconscious? Or something more? The search for an answer, the search for Danny, demands a courage and endurance beyond any that Tina thought she possessed. Only her love for her son, her love for the one man who believes her, drives her on, through the neon clamour of Las Vegas nightlife, the sun-scorched desert and the frozen mountains of the High Sierra. People die, coldly, brutally, as a buried truth struggles to surface. A truth so incredible, so frightening, so dangerous that its secret must be kept at the price of any life - any man, any woman...any child. Cover art by Graham Potts.