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Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine For the first time
on CD! Vintage Stephen King at a great low price! Stephen King's
unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of
four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic,
Nightmares & Dreamscapes. An all-star cast of readers bring to
life these timeless stories from the darkest places. An infamous
house in Castle Rock takes on a life of its own in It Grows on You.
In The Fifth Quarter, a crook seeks to avenge his friend's death
and to piece together a map to stolen treasure that his buddy died
trying to claim. A nightly free rock-androll concert carries a
hidden price in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band. And a tabloid
reporter's pursuit of a brutal killer could turn deadly in in The
Night Flier. Stephen King, Gary Sinise, Grace Slick and Frank
Muller lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic
stories that no Stephen King fan should be without.
The finest works of H P Lovecraft, renowned as one of the great
horror writers of all time. A major figure in twentieth-century
supernatural fiction, H P Lovecraft produced works of enduring
power. He has influenced the whole spectrum of those working in the
horror genre, from Stephen King to the creators of hit TV show
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gathered together in this volume are
seven of his greatest works, including the three short novels, The
Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness and The
Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Timeless in their appeal, these
classics of the sinister and the macabre hold the power to truly
terrify.
Ash is James Herbert's last and most controversial novel. It will
make you wonder what is fact and what is fiction. Fear will let you
in. Terror will keep you there. David Ash, ghost hunter and
parapsychologist, arrives at Comraich Castle - a desolate, ancient
place with a dark heart - to investigate a series of disturbing
events. An incorporeal power has been ignited by a long-ago curse,
fed and now unleashed by the evil of those who once inhabited this
supposed sanctuary - and by some who still do. Yet their hour of
retribution is at hand . . . Start the chilling series from the
Master of Horror, with Haunted.
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Tear
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A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022 49TH STREET EDITOR'S PICK FOR
SEPTEMBER 2022 A reclamation of female rage and a horrifyingly
deformed Bildungsroman. Frances is quiet and reclusive, so much so
that her upstairs roommates sometimes forget she exists. Isolated
in the basement, and on the brink of graduating from university,
Frances herself starts to question the realities of her own
existence. She can't remember there being a lock on the door at the
top of the basement stairs-and yet, when she turns the knob, the
door won't open. She can't tell the difference between her
childhood memories, which bloom like flowers in the dark basement,
and her dreams. Worse still, she can't ignore the very real tapping
sound now coming-insistently, violently-threatening to break
through her bedroom wall. With the thematic considerations of Mary
Shelley and Shirley Jackson's work, and in the style of Herta
Muller and Daisy Johnson, Tear is both a horrifyingly deformed
Bildungsroman and a bristling reclamation of female rage. Blurring
the real and the imagined, this lyric debut novel unflinchingly
engages with contemporary feminist issues and explores the
detrimental effects of false narratives, gaslighting, and
manipulation on young women.
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Haunted House Short Stories
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Rebecca Janicker; Contributions by Rebecca Buchanan, Ramsey Campbell, H.B. Diaz, Tom English, …
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"Another recent volume of the Gothic Fantasy series is Haunted
House Short Stories, which offers another selection of excellent
fiction." - Kirkus Following the great success of our Gothic
Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, Supernatural
Horror, Murder Mayhem, Lost Souls and many others, this latest
title takes housebound trapped spirits and creepy gothic mansions
as its chilling subject. Contains a potent mix of classic and brand
new writing, with authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Oh, what
is that sound within the walls? The creaking floorboards, the
children hiding in the mirror, the spirits that rake across the
flesh of the mind - all find a home in this anthology of
spine-tingling tales. Classic authors include: E.F. Benson, Ambrose
Bierce, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, Bernard Capes, Ralph Adams Cram, B.M. Croker, Joseph
Sheridan le Fanu, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Gaskell,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, O. Henry, William Hope Hodgson, W.W.
Jacobs, M.R. James, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de
Maupassant, Edith Nesbit, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Oliphant,
Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Charlotte Riddell, Mark
Twain, Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton.
A stunning new edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other
stories including Rip Van Winkle. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE
COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless
home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover
treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The
unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and
Literary terms produced for the modern reader. First published in
The Sketch Book in 1819-20, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the
story of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, who comes to live in Sleepy
Hollow, a Dutch settlement near the Hudson River. It is a place
that abounds with local superstitions, including one concerning a
headless horseman. Crane's eye is caught by Katrina van Tassel, the
daughter of a wealthy farmer, and he starts to court her. This
behaviour provokes the ire of another would-be-suitor, Brom Bones,
a renowned village prankster. At a party, Crane confesses his love
for Katrina, who rejects him. On his way home, he encounters the
'horseman', who hurls his head at Crane. Ichabod Crane is never
heard of again. The only traces that remained of him were his
horse, saddle, hat and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. What did
happen to Ichabod Crane that night, and who was the Headless
Horseman?
"A sleek, stylish, and sexy graphic novel." -- FOREWORD REVIEWS "A
beautiful drawn and very delicately told love story." -- SMASH
PAGES When the vampire Lucardo, a royal member of the Court of
Night, fell in love with a 61-year-old mortal named Edmund Fiedler,
their passion grew legendary before Lucardo's practical father
intervened. After a furious search, Lucardo finally reunited with
his aging lover, but was it too late? Terminally ill with Shifter's
Lung, filling his chest with blood and drowning him from the
inside, Ed has finally collapsed. But fiery Lucardo is having none
of it; in a panic he has gone against Ed's wishes, turning him over
to the progenitor and god of his kind, the dreaded Silent Lord, in
a last-ditch effort to escape death. Will Ed embrace the dark gift,
living forever with his beloved? And what will it mean,
surrendering himself to this uncaring, malevolent force that lives
for nothing but tormenting those that call it "father?" An erotic
graphic novel that redefines a genre, this highly anticipated third
installment of the Letters for Lucardo series takes a dark and
foreboding turn in a captivating saga of immortal love.
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Black House
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Stephen King, Peter Straub
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The North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking
Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and
is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she
follows him down into the hold and finds him leaning over an open
sarcophagus, surrounded by mutilated bodies. She catches but a
glimpse of what lies within before she's sucked into a maelstrom of
freezing brine and half-devoured corpses. Elle is pulled out of the
water, but the stranger - and the secrets she stumbled upon - are
lost. Unintentionally, however, he leaves her a gift; one so
compelling that Elle embarks on a journey that pulls her into a
world of ancient evils, vicious hunters and human prey to find the
man who saved her that fateful night. From trench warfare at Cape
Helles in 1915 to a shipwreck in the tropical shallows off the
Honduran coast, from a lost mine beneath the towering Externsteine
in a Germany on the verge of war to the gothic crypts of Highgate
Cemetery in London, Elle gets closer to a truth she has sought for
most of her life. But at what cost? Gifts, after all, are seldom
free.
It has been just a year since the tragic death of eleven people,
nine of whom were innocent of any wrong doing. Despite six bodies
having never been found, life in the village of Lingtree had
gradually begun returning to normal. But then Detective Chief
Inspector Eversden is called in to investigate the suspicious death
of a pipeline contractor called Harris. Unfortunately for the
detective, he was unaware that prior to his death, Harris had
handled a number of skulls exposed in the pipe trench. He dismissed
these as just skeletal remains of prisoners brutally executed for
breaking centuries' past Stannary Laws, the laws relating to tin
mining. As his investigations proceed, events begin to challenge
even the vast experience and abilities of Eversden and his
colleague, Sergeant Jones. However, unbeknown to him, even the best
detective in the force would face the gravest difficulty in dealing
with future incidents which have their roots in the past. Two years
later, the village has undergone a major change, a change which no
one relays to two visiting students, Sally & Helen. Ignoring
the weather forecast and a warning from their guesthouse landlady,
they set off to explore 'The Path of the Dead', the route taken by
coffin bearers in the 13th Century, to meet their obligation to
bury their dead in the graveyard of Lingtree church. What follows,
is a tale of horror beyond anything ever told by even the hardiest
and bravest of traveller.
'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very
often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he
did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside
Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories'
(his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of
his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the
steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that
the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.
Dark Entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious
and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including
the classic story 'Ringing the Changes'. Robert Aickman (1914-1981)
was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of
the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a
conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his
talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries
(1964) was his first full collection, the debut in a body of work
that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's
most profound writer of what we call horror stories.'
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The Strain
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Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
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The high-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from the
world-famous director, whose films include Pan's Labyrinth and
Hellboy. A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously 'goes dark',
stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all
lights off, all doors sealed. The pilots cannot be raised. When the
hatch above the wing finally clicks open, it soon becomes clear
that everyone on board is dead - although there is no sign of any
trauma or struggle. Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the
Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause
of this strange occurrence before panic spreads. The first thing
they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive.
But that's the only good news. And when all two hundred corpses
disappear from various morgues around the city on the same night,
things very rapidly get worse. Soon Eph and a small band of helpers
will find themselves battling to protect not only their own loved
ones, but the whole city, against an ancient threat to humanity.
Perfect for fans of Dean Koontz's The Eyes of Darkness
A sinister being called Night and her panther-like Harriers stalk
their quarry, a man known only as Arron. Arron seeks refuge within
an office building, a place Night cannot go, for it's part of the
civilized world, and she's a creature of the Wild. To flush Arron
out, she creates Blight, a reality-warping field that slowly
transforms the building and its occupants in horrible and deadly
ways. But unknown to Night, while she waits for the Blight to do
its work, a group of survivors from a previous attempt to capture
Arron are coming for her. The hunter is now the hunted. FLAME TREE
PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree
Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror
and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery /
thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors
and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original
voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com
and connect on social media @FlameTreePress
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Carrie
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Stephen King
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Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the
revenge she enacts on her classmates.
Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had
a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A
candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her
sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts
of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to
her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her
gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates
would never forget.
From Britain's 'master of horror', Adam Nevill, comes The Ritual, winner of the August Derleth Award and perfect for fans of Stephen King. Now a major film with Rafe Spall.
In Adam Nevill's The Ritual, four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle. No longer young men, they have little left in common and tensions rise as they struggle to connect. Frustrated and tired they take a shortcut that turns their hike into a nightmare that could cost them their lives.
Lost, hungry and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, they stumble across an isolated old house. Inside, they find the macabre remains of old rites and pagan sacrifices; ancient artefacts and unidentifiable bones. A place of dark ritual and home to a bestial presence that is still present in the ancient forest, and now they’re the prey.
As the four friends struggle toward salvation they discover that death doesn’t come easy among these ancient trees . . .
Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the
woods. In this dark fairy tale, a young woman sets off to pick
berries in the depths of the forest, but can't find her way home
again. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps
she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of
the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman who
offers her help. Then everything changes. On a journey that will
take her to the depths of the witch-haunted woods, through a deep
well wet with the screams of men, and on a living ship made of
human bones, our heroine may find that the evil she flees has been
inside her all along.
A selection of deliciously spooky short stories from the Japanese
master of suspense, the acclaimed author of RING. The first story
in the collection has been filmed as DARK WATER. Suzuki
demonstrates the power of his psychological insight into the
mechanics of fear in this highly atmospheric collection of stories
unified by the theme of water. Following her divorce, Yoshimi
Matsubara lives with her five-year-old daughter Ikuko in a
depressing and damp apartment block on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay.
But when a child's red bag keeps turning up in unexpected places,
Yoshino's sanity seems to be threatened, and she soon begins to
fear that her daughter's life is at risk. Kensuke Suehiro jumps at
the chance to visit a restricted island in Tokyo Bay, about which
he once heard a rather strange story. But when he arrives, he finds
far more than he bargained for. Fisherman Hiroyuki is embittered
and unhappy in his marriage. But getting rid of his wife turns out
to be anything but easy, especially when his own boat seems to be
against him. Family man Sugiyama finds himself trapped in an
underwater cave. Can he find a way to communicate with his beloved
son one last time? Just four examples from this beautifully crafted
collection of stories filled with suspense, tension and drama. A
perfect introduction to one of Japan's top literary stars.
'An astonishing novel' The Independent I am William Lee: brute;
liar, and graveside thief. But you will know me by another name.
Heathcliff has left Wuthering Heights, and is travelling across the
moors to Liverpool in search of his past. Along the way, he saves
Emily, the foul-mouthed daughter of a Highwayman, from a whipping,
and the pair journey on together. Roaming from graveyard to
graveyard, making a living from Emily's apparent ability to commune
with the dead, the pair lie, cheat and scheme their way across the
North of England. And towards the terrible misdeeds - and untold
riches - that will one day send Heathcliff home to Wuthering
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