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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
'A Strange Story' is an extraordinary testament to the belief in
and fascination with the Occult and spiritualism that was prevalent
in nineteenth century society, and reflects Bulwer Lytton's own
particular views. The young hero, Doctor Allen Fenwick, is utterly
unable to counteract the malign influence of the sinister mesmerist
Margrave over his beloved, the mystical Lilian, by scientific
methods - will this lead him to put aside his rationalist creed and
embrace the notion of a world beyond our own? This new edition
brings together both the original volumes, and has been completely
re-typeset in a modern font to be clear and complete.
This book is two of the Tale of The Dark Flames trilogy. Meeka,
Moros and Tammy lived through a terrible war. The three clans who
deemed themselves powerful all fought for power. Victory was Moros
and Meeka's alone. Ten years has passed from the time they dawn the
gates of Rome. Rocksy and Isis had their wedding and found life
together; I am sure it was pleasurable. This book is the tale of
Moros and Meeka as they left for Meeka's home town and too to find
out if her father was truly a vampire. Tara will also dawn this
story as she finds a cure to the curse. Merie is dragged around and
is still captured by the assassin Haz. Like the first book this
will instill their own points of view and what they see and hear.
It's 2012. Our planet is moving into the last days as prophesized
in the Bible. The Mayan Calendar nears its final recorded day of
12/12/12.Compounding the matter and disturbing man and demon alike,
scientists discover an enormous object on a collision course with
the earth, .This story has it all, Angels, demons, Zombies, Good
and Evil men, Rescues, executions, ground and air combat as
gigantic creatures both good and evil struggle for superiority on
the earth.
Gaetano and Emilio are in search of La Dolce Vita-wealth, fame, and
beautiful women. They encounter the Contessa di Aubria, a
mysterious woman with a dark bloodline and penchant for erotica.
Will she fulfill their desires, or bring about their destruction?
Masquerade & Other Stories is a collection of macabre and
erotic tales. Marija Elektra Rodriguez is an award-winning writer
of horror and erotica fiction. Her stories have been widely
anthologized in Australia and internationally.
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Pitch
(Hardcover)
Matthew Krause
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R695
Discovery Miles 6 950
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In the late 1980s, Travis Lembeau, a freshman catcher trying to
make his college baseball team, meets Nicholas "Pooch" Shepherd, a
brilliant, ambidextrous pitching prodigy. The two become fast
friends and decide to work out together to earn a spot on the
rotation. But Pooch has a love of the drink and a talent for
sabotage, and one cool February night in 1989, he embarks on a
night of drunken violence that leaves Travis in the hospital.
Almost a decade has passed, and the two have gotten on with their
lives. Travis has married his college sweetheart and works for a
small-town newspaper, and Nick Shepherd, no longer calling himself
Pooch, is a recovering alcoholic, ten years sober, who cares for
his ailing mother and teaches baseball to the local kids. It would
seem that the terrible days of Pooch are long gone ... but
sometimes the past is never where you think you left it. Through a
quantum anomaly, the demon that Nick used to be--the vicious Pooch
circa 1989--claws its way across the portals of time to stalk
Travis and harass his family. After Travis suffers another beating
at Pooch's hands, he fears the worst--that Nick has fallen off the
wagon and returned to his violent ways. But Nick is still very much
sober and has an even greater reason for concern. For if this thing
really is Pooch, if Pooch has somehow come out of the past to
torment the present, then every atrocity committed by Pooch will
leave a trail leading back to Nick. Working together and apart, and
enlisting the aid of a mysterious time-traveling transient, Travis
and Nick set out to stop Pooch and send him back to where he came
from ... before Pooch's madness destroys everything they love.
The Funland Amusement Park provides more fear than fun these
days. A vicious pack known as the Trolls are preying on anyone
foolish enough to be alone at night. Folks in the area blame them
for the recent mysterious disappearances, and a gang of local
teenagers has decided to fight back. But nothing is ever what it
seems in an amusement park. Behind the garish paint and bright
lights waits a horror far worse than anything found in the freak
show. Step right up. The terror is about to begin
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