Jack Stone, outwardly shy and unremarkable, writes works of dark and tortured fantasy which have captured the public imagination. Despite his celebrity status, he's a lonely man whose smart London life is a form of exile. He has painful memories he refuses to examine, roots he refuses to revisit - until he meets Gail, a beautiful, enigmatic girl who seems to sense the shadows around him. When there is news of a death in is family, Jack is forced to return to the horror that has coloured his nightmares for years - his childhood home. There he finds the terror and humiliation he remembers from his upbringing - but he makes a startling discovery as well. Cover art by Ken Leeder.
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The Immaculate: Mark Morris
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Book II of Forest Kingdom. In Castle Midnight, where the Real and Unreal meet, the King lies murdered. His three sons get ready to do battle for the throne. One prince is ill - possibly the victim of poison - so his followers, determined to keep his illness a secret, hire an impersonator. The Great Jordan had been a great actor, but currently down on his luck, and more than willing to take on a royal role. Then the Unreal gets the upper hand and large sections of the castle become supernatural no-go zones, with hallucinations and spectres as thick on the ground as spies and traitors - and just as deadly. Soon the Great Jordan begins to wonder if this is his final curtain call. Cover art by David Farren. -
Book I of The Tower And The Hive. The Talents were the elite of the Nine Star League. Their gifts were many and varied, ranging from the gently telepathic to the rare and valued Primes. On the Primes rested the entire economic wealth and communications systems of the civilised worlds. But they were very scarce - only very rarely was a new Prime born. And now on the planet Altair, in a small mining colony, a new Prime existed, a three year old girl - trapped in a giant mudslide that had wiped out the rest of the Rowan mining community. Every Altarian who was even mildly talented could 'hear' the child crying for help, but none knew where the child was buried. Every resource is centered into finding 'The Rowan' - the first Prime ever born on Altair, more unique, more powerful, more agoraphobic and more lonely than any other Prime yet known in the Nine Star League. Cover art by Romas Kukalis as Romas.
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Book V of The Dancers At The End Of Time. At last! A self-proclaimed saviour has arrived at the End Of Time, home of the deliciously decadent and frightfully bored. Unfortunately, the last thing they need is a messiah. Especially one like the Fireclown - who offers such unlikely gifts as Madness, Pain and Doom. Still, he does provide a welcome touch of amusement and - dare we say? - conflict to the final days of Man. Indeed, that impregnable spinster, Miss Mavis Ming, is more than a little charmed by his attention - despite the destruction he might wreak on one and all. Such is the way of love...Cover art by Robert Gould. Published in Britain under the title of The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. -
Legend said the Empire Stone was larger than a fist and could light a man's path in the dead of night. Fashioned by the Gods - or demons - it could bring awesome power and untold riches to anyone who possessed it. But it was lost when the city of Thyone was destroyed. The Year of the Mouse has begun badly for Peirol of the Moorlands. Having fallen in with Koosh Begee and his gang of tricksters, he taken to gambling. And he's lost. Peirol soon realises he's been trapped and Begee forces him to recover a long-lost gem from a ruined temple. Peirol begins an incredible adventure of danger, magic and mystery, ruthless warlords and wild sorcerers in search of the fabled Empire Stone. Cover art by David O'Connor. -
Dungeons and Dragons Endless Quest No. 29. Everyone in your village knows about the Tower of Darkness. It's said to be bewitched and more than one villager - including your mother - has entered its dark passages, never to be seen again. But you'll have to brave whatever might be lurking inside...Cover art by Jeff Easley.
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Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When his chance comes, he grabs it but things go fatally wrong. Cosmo feels his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue parasite - when a wise-cracking gang of kids bursts in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, and Cosmo's new life with this unlikely 'family' is about to begin...Cover art by Tony Fleetwood.
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The world is held in the grip of a second Ice Age, and faces total destruction from rapidly advancing glaciers. Doctor Who, with Victoria and Jamie, lands at a top scientific base in England, where they have just unearthed an ancient Ice Warrior. Can the Doctor overcome these warlike Martians and halt the relentless approach of the ice glaciers? Cover art by Chris Achilleos. -
The sudden arrival of the K'Ronarin fleet saved Earth from enslavement to the insectoid biofabs and a new interstellar age has dawned on the planet. John Harrison, hero of the Biofab war, can relax - or can he? Unknown to the Alliance, a few renegade biofabs escaped through a dimensional portal into an alternate universe and they are rebuilding their forces for a counter-strike against humanity - in both universes. Harrison is catapulted into a strange world to discover the location of the biofab nests and burn it out before a new generation hatches. It won't be easy - in this version of Earth, Harrison is a revolutionary on the run from the secret police of the Fourth Reich! Cover art by Alan Gutierrez.
