Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • 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.
  •  Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them - manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen - pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own...Cover shows a young Drew Barrymore as Charlie in the film of the same name.
  • Book III of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. A devastating hurricane approaches New  Orleans and  Victor Helios, once known as Frankenstein, has unleashed his benighted creatures onto the streets. As New Orleans descends into chaos his engineered killers spin out of control and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor's first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have conceived: an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose beyond imagining.
  • 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?
  • After a run of failed movies, superstar Todd Pickett elects to have plastic surgery in a desperate bid to regain his lost beauty. The procedure goes horribly, grotesquely wrong. Hioding from his fans, and from the press he knows will tear him apart if they find out about the operation, Todd takes refuge in a place that no map of Hollywood has ever described: Coldheart Canyon. Here, nursing his wounds and his desperation, he discovers what the history of the Dream Factory has long concealed - a world somewhere between life and death, reality and illusion, where the great legends of a forgotten Hollywood are waiting to educate him in the bitter business of life after fame...
  • Book IV of The Adversary. The last will and testament of Doctor Roderick Hanley - Nobel Prize-winning geneticist - had left Jim Stevens a fortune and a Long Island mansion.  Adopted as a baby, and more importantly, the will also revealed the identity of his natural father.  But that was when his wife Carol began to dream terrible dreams...While in the city, a wandering band Charismatics, led by the wandering monk Brother Robert, became possessed of the knowledge of the coming of a great Evil...The true, awful nature of the inheritance was about to be made manifest...
  • For the last twenty years, Norman Bates has been in a state hospital for the criminally insane. With the help of his psychiatrist, Norman appears to have been cured of his mother fixation and now decides that he wants OUT. His opportunity comes when he is visited by a nun - he kills her, dons her habit and escapes. The murders are about to start again...
  • It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of them are shot dead and another fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but their families too? How are the Government and the British army implicated? What lurks within a secret research establishment in the English countryside? Franklin has to find out. Finally the only one left alive, he tires of being the prey and decides to become the hunter. His quest will bring him into conflict with forces he cannot begin to imagine or understand but he is driven by a need for revenge that overrides his fear. Aided by a desperate detective, Franklin becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a terrifying climax in the London Underground where he comes face to face with the answers he has sought. Like all of us, Franklin was told monsters don't exist. He's about to find out someone was lying...
  • Book VI of The Vampire Chronicles. Eternally young and angelic in looks, the Vampire Armand returns to New Orleans where the Vampire Lestat sleeps. Armand tells his tale and recalls the brutality, magnificent decadence and devil worship of his past, from a half forgotten childhood in Russia to slavery in Constantinople: from Renaissance Venice where he is saved from death by the dark gift of Marius, the greatest Vampire of them all, to nineteenth century Paris, where he is the leader of the Theatre des Vampires.  Now, in New Orleans, Armand is forced to make a decision - he must choose between the existence of twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.