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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The Jonah: James Herbert
$5.00The shadow of the past was always with him, but he never knew what it was, or when it would strike next. Sent to a small coastal town to investigate drug smuggling, Kelso stumbles on a dangerous organization, and suddenly more than just his life is at stake—it's his past, his future, and his sanity. Through torture and drugs he discovers the terrifying secret of the Jonah...and learns, in the most horrifying way, that it can destroy him as well as others. -
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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Night Howl: Andrew Neiderman
$25.00Bobby loves his dog King, a playful German Shepherd - until the day King turns and attacks him, snarling and vicious. The dog is put to sleep but Bobby still sees him everywhere - in the garden, on the stairs...crouching...waiting...Then the horrific deaths begin - brutal savage maulings. Terror grips the sleepy town of Fallsburg and doors are locked at night. For through the woods runs a dark shadow with dripping jaws, eluding pursuit with uncanny skill. Now, more than ever, the scientists down the road most guard the deadly secret of the monster they've let loose. -
Oktober: Stephen Gallagher
$10.00Beyond the experimental labs, the three operating theatres were used mainly for post mortem dissection. Security was tight. High in Swiss Mountains, the research station was only a small part of the giant Risinger-Genoud drug company. A small, but very important and secret part. The clinical results were fascinating - and terrifying. But there had been a security breach. An outsider, skiing on the edge of the glacier, had had an accident and was lying unconscious near the animal pens. When James Harper came to, he knew only that something had happened to him that was destroying his sanity...Cover art by Paul Davies (as by Davies) -
Count Dracula: Gerald Savory
$25.00A dramatic re-telling of Bram Stoker's immortal classic, this chronicles the momentous conflict between the forces of good and evil as Professor Van Helsing, Dr Seward, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Holmwood confront the Count and hs undead disciples. Cover shows Louis Jourdan as Count Dracula in the BBC TV production. -
Rose Madder: Stephen King
$15.00Rosie Daniels, trapped in a fourteen year nightmare marriage is suddenly roused by a single drop of blood and she realises that her husband Norman is going to kill her. Or maybe - worse still - he won't. And she takes flight – with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an old junk shop painting, "Rose Madder," which is perfect for her new apartment and strangely, the painting seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog’s instinct for tracking people. And he’s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he is getting… Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Haunted: James Herbert
$6.00David Ash, psychic investigator is invited to Edbrook, a remote country house where there is an alleged haunting. He meets the Mariell family: brothers Robert and Simon, sister Christina and their aunt, Nanny Tess. Ash is renowned for his dismissal of all thing supernatural, having exposed fake mediums and finding natural causes for so-called psychic phenomena. He has his reasons for refuting such unearthly occurrences. But over three hideous nights of terror, Ash is forced to re-evaluate his beliefs and confront the enigma of his own past. There are games to be played here; nightmarish pastimes of a deadly, maleficent nature and only when they are done will Edbrook's dreadful secret be revealed. Cover art by James Herbert.
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In this volume: The Black Cat/ The Tell-Tale Heart/ The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe; The Torture Of Hope, Villiers de l’Isle Adam; An Episode Of The Terror, Honoré de Balzac; The Hand, Guy de Maupassant; The Withered Arm; Thomas Hardy; The Idiots, Joseph Conrad; The Bird, Thomas Burke; The Terror, Arthur Machen; Lot No. 249, Arthur Conan Doyle; The Apprentice, Hilaire Belloc; The Sentence, J. Kaden-Bandrowski; The Killers, Ernest Hemingway; Arabesque: the Mouse, A. E. Coppard; Treasure Trove, F. Tennyson Jesse; Cinci, Luigi Pirandello; Suspicion, Dorothy L. Sayers; The Last Chukka, Alec Waugh; Dead on Her Feet, Cornell Woolrich; Taboo, Geoffrey Household; A Little Place Off The Edgware Road; Graham Greene; The Words Of Guru/ The Little Black Bag, CM Kornbluth; Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper, Robert Bloch; The Glass Eye, John Keir Cross; The Web, D’Arcy Niland; The Physiology Of Fear/ The Head And The Feet, C.S. Forrester; The Veld / Skeleton, Ray Bradbury; Evening Primrose, John Collier; Back From The Grave, Robert Silverberg; A Rose For Emily, William Faulkner; The Island Of Bright Birds, John Christopher; The Comforts Of Home; Flannery O’Connor; The Skylight; Penelope Mortimer; Pig, Roald Dahl; The Question, Stanley Ellin; In The Steam Room, Frank Baker; The Pencil, Edmund Crispin; The Dark Of The Moon, Olaf Ruhen; Falling Object, William Brittain; The Terrapin, Patricia Highsmith; The Taste Of Your Love, Eddy C. Bertin; Aunt Jennie’s Tonic, Leonard Tushnet, Not After Midnight, Daphne du Maurier; The Game, Thomasina Weber; The Fanatic, Arthur Porges; The Whimper Of Whipped Dogs, Harlan Ellison; Judas Story, Brian M. Stableford; You’re Putting Me On - Aren’t You? Joe Gores; Wake Up Dead, Tim Stout; Corabella, David Fletcher.
