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Book II of Creed. Becoming a vampire was easier than Ardeth had ever dreamed … Living as a vampire was more complicated than she had ever expected … Understanding what it means to be a vampire would prove harder than she had ever imagined … She surrendered her mortal life in a night of despair and desire, initiated by five-hundred-year-old vampire Dimitri Rozokov. Fleeing Toronto, Ardeth and Rozokov settle in the tourist town of Banff, Alberta. While she tests her new strength by mountain-climbing, Rozokov returns to astronomy, the science of his youth. Together they hunt the dark reaches of the park, preying on the animals they find there, upholding an unspoken agreement not to taste human blood. Yet all their activity cannot disguise their restlessness and soon their fragile happiness is shattered by bitter conflict and inevitable betrayal. Ardeth returns to Toronto - but what Ardeth and Rozokov do not know is that they are being hunted... -
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. -
Blackbriar: William Sleator
$20.00When Danny moved to Blackbriar, he thought the house would be quiet and peaceful, a change from the big city. But there's something sinister about the house, something...strange. Danny begins to dream of fires and witches. Night after night he is awakened by a peal of laughter that seems to belong to a different place and time. Then Danny and his friend Lark discover an ancient doll abandoned in a corner of the house. They know it has something to do with the mysteries of Blackbriar - but they don;t realise it will lead them to a secret more awful than they can imagine and a mystery that could take their lives to solve.. -
A volume of shorts that expose the fears we all share...The Dripping: A search for a wife and child visiting his mother leads a husband into a basement, scattered with children's toys and milk dripping from the ceiling...The Partnership: Two business partners are thoroughly fed up with each other. Black Evening: A detective makes a grisly discovery in a dilapidated old mansion which has been the subject of complaints by the neighbours. The Hidden Laughter: An old house seems to hold the echoes of children who lived there. The Typewriter: A starving writer who admittedly is a bit of poseur, acquires a typewriter that has a mind of its own. A Trap for the Unwary/But At My Back I Always Hear: A professor is stalked by an obsessed female student. The Storm: A massive storm keeps following one man. For These And All My Sins: A car breakdown in rural Nebraska sends a motorist into a small town at sundown, seeking help - but the locals do not seem to be disposed to be helpful. Black And White And Red All Over: Someone is kidnapping paperboys but only during snowstorms...what can it mean? The Beautiful Uncut Hair Of Graves: Your parents die suddenly, leaving adoption papers dated at your birthday - but on investigation, every official document has vanished...Orange Is for Anguish, Blue Is For Insanity: The beautiful landscapes of a master's paintings hold deeper meanings, hiding unearthly horrors...Mumbo Jumbo: A high school sports team mascot has an intriguing effect on the players...The Road To Damascus: Author's notes on influences. Dead Image: -
Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X. England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...Illustrated by David Hollinshead. N.B. While this was the first Gregory Sallust story published, it is No. X in the chronological order. -
Julian Day adventure No. III. The opening of the story is macabre: a Japanese father regarding the severed head of his son which had been sent to him in a box. But of that, the lovely half-English, half-Chinese Merri Sang knew nothing, neither did Julian Day nor Bill Urata, both of whom were in love with her; but the father's thirst for revenge brought all three of them into deadly peril. The story moves swiftly from Hong Kong in 1942 to Hong Kong in 1964, but first, there are the terrible days when the beautiful island was invaded by the Japanese – who, in many cases, treated their prisoners with appalling barbarity... -
Includes: The Willows; Secret Worship; Ancient Sorceries; The Glamour of Snow; The Wendigo; The Other Wing; The Transfer; Ancient Lights; The Listener; The Empty House; Accessory Before the Fact; Keeping His Promise; Max Hensig. -
Berserk: Tim Lebbon
$15.00"They kept monsters." That's what Tom overheard in the bar one night, Then he heard more things that could finally lead him to the truth about his son's death ten years earlier. The army said it was a training accident - but why had the coffin they sent home been sealed? So on a dark night in a deserted field, Tom begins to unearth the mass grave where he hopes - and fears - to find his son's remains. Instead he finds madness - corpses in chains, dead bodies that still move and clutch and grasp. And one little girl, dead and rotting, who promises to help Tom find what he's really looking for - if only he will free her... -
Ten year old William Bellman takes aim at a rook with his catapult and his friends watch in awe as the impossible shot kills the bird. This is the first time death enters Willima's life; and the incident is soon forgotten in the riot of growing up. Years later, William is successful; married to a beautiful woman; he has a lovely healthy family and a thriving business. Then, one by one, his distant relatives begin to die - and at each funeral, there is a mysterious man in black present, who smiles at William. The deaths come closer to home - and closer...until a drunk and despairing William stumbles into the graveyard, where the mysterious man in black has a proposition for him - a business proposition...
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