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'Fascinating.' Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' New Scientist 'Gripping.'
Financial Times 'Stunning . . . Brimming with mystery and suffesed
with haunting atmosphere.' Patrick Radden Keefe What if you had a
vision that something terrible was going to happen? A train crash,
a department store fire, an assassination. What if you could share
your vision, and prevent a disaster? In 1966, John Barker, a
British psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental
hospital, established the Premonitions Bureau to investigate this
very idea. He would find a network of curious correspondents, and
among them two highly gifted 'percipients'. Together, they
predicted calamities and international incidents with uncanny
accuracy. And then, they gave Barker their most disturbing warning:
that he was about to die.
The intricacies of chess meet the matchless Mythos of H.P.
Lovecraft. Stories of doors, of passages, of patterns. Squares and
threats, moves and counter-moves. Forbidden knowledge and cosmic
horrors. ... Two young lovers and the hand that plays them ... A
man trapped with an unwholesome companion uncovers the secret of a
cosmic struggle ... A professor and his protege find themselves
pawns on an ancient chessboard ... A young Soviet boy's chess match
holds the fate of his nation in the balance ... A battered woman
seeks safety in a shelter, only to find there might be no safety
anywhere Let these five guides to the grotesque lead you into the
dank depths of their imagination ... where the monsters lurk.
Four adventure short stories by Sam Knight. Does Old Snorter really
protect the gold in a haunted old Spanish Gold mine? What Plunder
on the High Sands is there for a lost pirate to find? What happens
when two college students stumble upon the Gateway to the Garden of
the Gods? Here be demons, as we learn Victor's Story.
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