Horror/Occult

//Horror/Occult
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  • A Roger Brooks Adventure, No. VI. Roger Brook – 'wanted' for illegal duelling – sailed for Calcutta in the summer of 1796.  With him went his lovely Clarissa.  And in Calcutta Clarissa was abducted.  Abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced. Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon.
  • Why did the solitary girl leave her rented house only for short walks at night? Why was she so frightened? Why did animals shrink away from her? The girl herself didn't know.  Molly Fountain, the no-nonsense neighbour, was determined to find the answer. She sent for a wartime secret service colleague to come and help. What they discovered was horrifying beyond anything they could have imagined...the young, beautiful girl is being groomed to be the sacrificial virgin at a ceremony... her death will give life to a hideous creature that lurks beneath the ancient stones of Bentford Priory.  Writer Molly Fontaine and her son John battle time, ruthless gangsters and the forces of evil to try to save Christina.
  • Nancy Kincaid was sure of one thing as she stepped onto the crowded New York subway - it was going to be a lousy day. Commuters were packed tightly in the aislses, jostling against her as she made her way to her dreary job. But when she reached the office...an unfamiliar woman tells her to leave: This is Nancy Kincaid’s office, but you are not Nancy Kincaid... Her memory grows fuzzy and her reason seems to slip away. None of her workmates recognise her. Ejected from her office, she is harassed by a homeless man, who insists that there is someone she  has to kill, at 8 o'clock...the animal hour...and then she finds the pistol in her purse...Cover art by George Smith.  
  • He was a rangy mongrel, wandering the streets of the city, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a quarry he could not define.  Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness  was a memory clawing its way up, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest.  The memory that he had once been a man...
  • Omnibus.  Death Day: Four hundred years ago, a women died in agony to keep the secret of a golden disk and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake... Wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil, hideous, powerful and vile - is once again reborn... Renegades: Immortality - the ultimate secret. David Callahan needs to find the answers and he's being tracked down by hired killers. In a race against time, a trail of violence and terror leads from a desecrated church in France, to London and then to Ireland where modern terrorism battles against ancient powers and a terrible secret is revealed. Cover art by Mark Taylor.
  • If you must have a séance, then you need to know how to do it properly.  This is not a party game, or something to do for laughs when there's nothing on the telly; a séance is a ritual with a purpose and like any ritual, needs to be done with respect. This simple book tells, step by step, how to conduct a séance; what you will need; the ideal number of sitters; there's even a glossary of terms.
  • Back from the dead…and back on the case! Even being murdered doesn't keep a good detective down - and in the Unnatural Quarter - inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud) in the night - a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. "Shamble," solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer.  Here's seven cases from the files of Chambeaux and Deyer Investigations.  Shamble has to solve the mystery of a stolen deck of fortune-telling cards and the undeath-defying feats of a vampire trapeze artist; finds himself sealed in a coffin in the back of a truck with no idea where he's being taken; and is even hired by Santa Claus to find his lost "naughty and nice" list. Being trapped in an unbreakable monster-proof crypt, deciphering a string of mysterious zombie graffiti, investigating the murder of a costumed fan at a science fiction convention where the monsters are the normal attendees or tracking down a kidnapped hell-hound for legendary vigilante werewolf cop Hairy Harry - it's all in a day's work for Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. Although this book is classified as teen fiction, there's plenty in it for adults prone to fits of silly humour. Cover art by Jeff Herndon.
  • TV Script writer Larry Baker is hired to pen a new horror series. On location at an old castle he crashes through walls with the ease of Superman - and somehow usually lands plunk in the middle of a lovely lady's bed. But Larry isn;t really a sex maniac. Not quite. Even though the black-haired babe calls him seducer and the gamin-type blonde screams bloody murder... When you're up against real live vampires, disappearing corpses, things that go bump in the night... plus a couple of gorgeously undressed gals guaranteed to drive you up the wall - something's got to give - and it does - with plenty of happy horrible hilarity...
  • Mysterious and bizarre people...who were they?  Where did they go? There's mysterious geniuses - a French Rabbi who had electric light in the 13th century, to the man who was caught on video walking through a solid door; author Jonathan Swift, who described the Martian moons and their orbits 150 years before they were discovered to the disappearance of Lord Lucan. And more...Hannah Brade, the mysterious maid who wasn't what she seemed; William  Harrison - the bizarre case of the Campden murder; Bruce Lee - was the martial arts superstar murdered? The Man in the Iron Mask -  who was the legendary prisoner who could not show his face? The Men In Black - shadowy visitors who stalk UFO witnesses; Adolf Hitler - black magician? The Atlanteans - did the legendary island of Atlantis really exist? The Green Children - a strange tale from the Middle Ages; Robin Hood - who was the legendary outlaw? The Lunarians - is there intelligent life on our  moon? Nostradamus - the man who saw tomorrow; Richard Bingham - the case of the vanishing peer...and many more.