Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • No-one lived there; no-one dared - none but the dead.  A house haunted by grotesque apparitions, victims of the unspeakable evils that had transpired there.  But to the great inventor Edison it was the ideal place to test his new advice - a machine to speak to the dead.  What he saw there left him shaken, determined to neutralise the strange and dangerous instrument and keep its terrible secret hidden. When Ben and Laura unearth the long buried apparatus and attempt to recreate Edison's experiment, the unwittingly unleash a malevolent force more powerful than anything ever known to Mankind.  Too late, they realise they've played straight into the hands of the Master of Evil...A story  allegedly based on real events.
  • On a cold lonely night in New York, Lonnie Blake, widower and jazz musician, takes refuge in the arms of Carol, a beautiful woman who has flung herself into his doorway to hide from an unknown pursuer.  She gives him everything he needs for that one night - and in the morning she is gone, leaving no trace.  Lonnie can't forget her - he must see her again. Carol has an incredible secret that centres on her daughter Amanda and extraordinary events after a massive plane crash.  There are men who want answers and they will stop at nothing to get those answers.  Lonnie's search for lost love becomes a life-or-death effort to discover Carol's secret.
  • Freddy Travis had just found his first full-time job at the vast Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse.  He didn't expect the racks of skeletons...the pickled brains...the freezers full of fresh corpses.  But there was a much larger horror there, concealed in a store of huge metal drums.  Now one of them is accidentally opened...it would spread through the warehouse... then drift over the the cemetery next door...Dear Reader, a special note:  This is a novel based on the film of the same name and is markedly different from the earlier novel of the same title by John Russo.
  • Who can forget Jack Nicholson's classic line from the classic film? "I'm just a horny little devil!" In the quiet little town of Eastwick, in 1970,  nothing ever changes...but three beautiful women are about to discover powers they never knew they had.  Now the man of their dreams is here to stay for a spell, ready to lure them into his mansion where they can do things they never dreamt of...
  • A mysterious letter from Europe to Frank Cooper, professor of Archaeology in Omaha leads to a discovery with terrifying consequences for the future of Mankind.  Deep in a secret vault beneath Notre Dame, Cooper discovers the true burial place of 16th seer Nostradamus and a cache of documents hidden in the tomb.  A desperate race begins, with the help of  Cooper's small team and a super computer to avert the nightmare Armageddon foreseen by Nostradamus - an ending full of horror.
  • The portrait which Basil Hallward painted of Dorian Gray revealed the face of an Adonis, and when he saw the finished picture of himself, the beautiful young aesthete exclaimed: 'Why should it keep what I must love. Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could always be what I am now!' His perverse aspiration was strangely fulfilled. Abandoning himself to every sin his profligate mind could devise, the wealthy and exquisite young man brought misery and disgrace upon all who accepted his companionship, but Dorian Gray still wore the outward appearance of serene beauty. It was upon the portrait, locked away in his attic, that the marks of degeneration mysteriously appeared, for the painting of Adonis slowly transformed into the likeness of a satyr.  This was Wilde's only novel; slightly edited when it first appeared in print in 1891 but due to public outrage at the remaining hints of homosexuality and deviancy, was further edited.  This edition is the version in which only 500 words had been cut from Wilde's original manuscript. Wilde himself said, of Dorian Gray: 'All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment.'  Many believe that Wilde not only intend to point a moral but to highlight the fact that Dorian. himself and many others in the Victorian age were forced to live a double life of hypocrisy, but that to lead such a double life is, in the end, destructive to oneself and to those about one.  Cover art from an engraving by Ceil Keeling.
  • Something is happening to the children of Eastbury. Something that causes healthy babies to turn cold in their cribs - and strikes at the heart of every parent's darkest fears. Something is taking the children one by one. An entire town waits on the edge of panic.  There must be a reason for the terror...They all know it... But no-one ever suspected...
  • 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....

  • According to statistics, only 10% of the world's population has seen a ghost or experienced something supernatural. What lends substance to this small number is that it is 10% of each generation. Thus, over the millennia, many millions of people have encountered  haunts of one sort or another, and it is this rather formidable number that makes the phenomenon believable. What makes them unbelievable is the sceptical 90% and it is between these two disparate hordes - living and dead - that the debate has raged for thousands of years. In this volume there are well known cases - Borley Rectory, the most haunted house in England, the Phantom Battle of Edgehill, the Drummer of Tedworth - but also lesser known occurrences, such as the late Nelly Butler and the Dark Lady of Bognor Regis.  There are also chapters on poltergeists, non-human apparitions, spirit voices and demons.