Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • Neal has been carrying a gun in his car lately - just to be safe. And it looks like it's a good thing he has. When he spots a woman tied naked to a tree and a man ready to kill her, he has no choice but to shoot the attacker. As a reward, the woman gives Neal  a reward - a bracelet. A very special bracelet. It allows its wearer to step inside other people, to see through their eyes, to feel whatever they feel. To take "body rides". But Neal has a big problem. The man he shot isn't dead...and he wants revenge. First he's going to finish what he started with the woman. Then he's going after Neal...From the horror-meister himself: If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat.  Stephen King.
  • This volume contains:  The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde; Teeny-Tiny, Anonymous; The Signalman, The Strange Visitor, Anonymous; Madame Crowl's Ghost, J. Sheridan Le Fanu; A Ghostly Wife, Anonymous; Legend of Hamilton Tighe, Richard Bartram; The Phantom Ship, Captain Marryat; The Brown Hand, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Ghost-Brahman, Anonymous; The Ghost Ship, Richard Middleton; The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall, John Kendrick Bangs; The Inexperienced Ghost, H.G. Wells; The Buggane and the Tailor, Dora Broome; Laura, Saki; The Betrayal of Nance, R. Blakeborough; The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Being Bagged, Anonymous; The Beast With Five Fingers, W.F. Harvey; The Night The Ghost Got In, James Thurber; The Story of Glam, Andrew Lang. Cover art by Philip Gough.
  • Just after sunset...when darkness grips the imagination. The time when the unexpected creeps into everyday events..In this volume of short stories from the King of Horror...Willa: After a train derails leaving its passengers stranded, David's wife wanders  toward the bright lights of the honky tonk bars in the nearby town...and they'll be staying for quite some time. Gingerbread Girl: After leaving her husband, Emily takes up running. Her life is turning around until she goes on holiday and while running, finds herself running from a serial killer. Harvey's Dream: A woman in a boring marriage is surprised when her husband is anxious to share a dream with her. Rest Stop: A crime writer on the way home stops at a rest area and is confronted with a real crime. Can his alter-ego give him the courage he needs? Stationary Bike: An overweight commercial artist gets a stationary bike. Installed in a basement bay, he livens up his exercise by painting a woodland mural on the wall he faces...and then finds that he's riding through it... The Things They Left Behind: An office worker who called in sick on 9/11 finds that mysterious objects begin to appear in his apartment - things that belonged to his deceased co-workers. Graduation Afternoon: A young woman attending her boyfriend's family's post graduation party knows this will be the last time - and it is. In  more ways than one. N: A psychiatrist commits suicide and his sister reads the file on his last patient, an OCD man named N. The Cat From Hell: A pharmaceutical millionaire hires a hitman to kill... a cat? The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates: A woman gets an unexpected phone call from her dead husband on the afternoon of his funeral. Mute: After finding out his wife has been having an affair, a man picks up a deaf-mute hitchhiker and bares his soul. But later, he wonders if the man was really deaf...Ayana: A blind girl visits a dying man and saves his life - with a kiss.  A Very Tight Place: A man is made a prisoner by his vicious, vindictive neighbour - in a portable toilet tipped over and resting on its door. Can a much-loved deceased pet help him escape?
  • For a moment, seeing the green-eyed woman staring in terror at the shining blade, Graham had not been aware of the world around him - the TV studio, the lights, the cameras.  Grahame is a gifted psychic, and during a late night television interview, he 'sees' a murder being committed.  He knows it is the killer the police call The Butcher, the brutal slayer of nine young women.  And now The Butcher, learning of the psychic identification, stalks Grahame. Cover art by Graham Potts.
  • J.C., deserted by his mother, spends the holidays at her old family home, the lush tropical estate known as Christobel.  There's also his brother August, his stepfather Marcus and Marcus' new wife Justine.  But something's wrong.  The Cane Cave where the rum kegs are kept feels strangely terrifying - but it was once J.C.'s favourite place.  Justine is distressed and attempt suicide.  Marcus fears for her sanity but realises her anguish and J.C.'s fears are similar.  Is someone trying to hurt them?  There's Remus, a local boy with a long-standing grudge; Amalie, reputedly a Haitian witch - and the presence of the ghostly woman in white...
  • The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game quickly becomes an extraordinary, sometimes horrific adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is alien yet somehow familiar...and one hundred years ago...Cover art by Geoff Taylor.
  • The greatest of all mysteries is...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 on, events 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? Cover art by H. Johns.
  • Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six,  had a dark childhood which taught her to fear strange houses, and she cannot sleep on this first night in the home of her college friend Laura. A muffled scream from another room alarms her. A homicidal sociopath, Edgler Vess, is intent on killing everyone in the house. Life has taught Chyna to be a survivor but this will be her greatest test. A series of strange developments find her in Vess's motorhome - a dungeon and morgue on wheels - without him being aware of her presence. Vess lives only to satisfy his every appetite, to seek ever more outrageous experience, to immerse himself in sensation - to live with intensity. At first Chyna's only goal is to get out alive. But when she learns the identity of Vess's next victim and realises that only she can save that precious life, she must face the fact that a moral life requires acceptance of unwanted responsibilities. She must find courage and take risks beyond any she imagined she could endure.
  • Roger Brook XI. As William Pitt the Younger's special agent, Roger Brook has faced untold dangers. But he is completely unprepared for the satanic practices of the Irish Witch, Abbess of the new Hell Fire Club and ringleader of the secret spy ring which passes information to the enemy. Then Roger learns that his young and beautiful daughter has been abducted in readiness for the sacrificial violation of a virgin at the Black Mass of Walpurgis Night...