"No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews' creations".--"Washington Post Book World".

    After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Her family's estate with its load of debt is no longer her worry. Still, her father's final, dire warning about a terrible family curse haunts her days and her dreams. And there is something odd about her father's sudden death... Bryony has inherited the Ashley 'Sight' and so has one of the Ashleys. Since childhood the two have communicated through thought patterns, though Bryony has no idea of his identity. Devastated, she believes, that the mysterious stranger is her destiny... the lover-to-be who waits for her now at Ashley Court. Now she is determined to find him. But passion is not all that will greet Bryony upon her return -- for the crumbling walls of the old mansion guard dark secrets, tragic memories... and inescapable peril.

    But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia. There she will discover the mysteries - and evil - surrounding the greatest opal ever found. There she must confront the danger that lust for the stone has aroused even in her own husband - and there she must find love.

    Caught in a raging storm in sight of the Colorado Rockies, she takes refuge in a seedy motel only to be awakened by lightning and an ominous figure standing over her. A fast-paced mystery with danger, romance, and a Psycho-like setting.

    But around her neck hung a time bomb on a chain--a tiny gold unicorn that brought her face-to-face with the violent intrigues of the past--and the murderer her real mother had not escaped....

    All anybody knows about him is that he is lean, has close-cropped black hair, always wears dark glasses, and has enough money in the bank to pay $100,000 cash, to buy the property.He resists rudely and coldly all overtures from townsfolk, who are accustomed to paying a friendly social call on new neighbors, perhaps bearing a jar of jelly or a few tips on where the best clamming areas are. It makes no difference whether the visitor is Lorenzo Darby, the faithful though unpaid caretaker of the house, or the bustling head of the local Historical Society. Mr. Cory Sanderson makes it abundantly clear that he has come to Applecross for privacy and isolation and intends to have it.His reclusive habits at first lead to nothing more than amused speculation by old-timers. But then there are incidents - minor at first and then increasingly violent. A dog, which everybody in town loves, is found shot to death. Then there is the fire, which erupts with blazing ferocity in the night...With consummate skill Miss Ogilvie weaves ever tighter the web of entrapment. Though spring sunshine begins to warm the Maine countryside, it can do little to dispel the chill of terror the novel's crashing finale brings.

    This encounter with another order of things reinforced his conviction that there is a world beyond the one where we usually walk.The six stories in The Children of the Pool, reflect in their different ways this lifelong belief. The bookish recluse in 'The Exalted Omega', the kabbalistic artist in 'Out of the Picture', the holiday¬makers in a Welsh resort in 'Change', all encounter the truly uncanny, and cannot emerge unchanged. And in the other three stories Machen explores the edges of that unknown terrain, the human mind.'There are hints or indications of new paths,' was Machen’s typically modest comment on the book to his old friend A.E. Waite. In this last collection of fiction (first published 1936), the Apostle of Wonder shows he has lost none of his visionary power.Contains: 'Introduction' by Mark Valentine, 'The Exalted Omega', 'The Children of the Pool', 'The Bright Boy', 'The Tree of Life', 'Out of the Picture', 'Change'. With a Vorticist frontispiece drawing of the author.

    She had jewels and fine satins to caress her tawny skin, everything a woman could want--except the urgent warmth of a man's passion...For the thousandth time, Diamond searched the mirror and found there the gypsy orphan girl who had fled to London only six years before. But had she escaped? Was she now free to love the man whose dark eyes had burned into her soul on that never forgotten night…MY NAME IS CLARY BROWN

    

    But she no longer controlled her own destiny. Her aunt, who hated her, was sending Mary to the Levassoux estate in France - at the height of the bloody Revolution.Now Mary was in constant peril. Not only was there the threat of The Terror but there was also a very real menace that lurked in the chateau.There was only one person she could trust - young Alain d'Arturois, whose courage had already saved many lives. He begged her not to dig up the secrets of the dangerous Levassoux family. Yet once Mary began, she could not stop herself from unmasking the evil that threatened her sanity - and her life....

    But Christie's worst fears about her Piscean husband were not realized until she arrived at Ellersley Hall and learned the truth about the first Mrs Radford's dark fate...a fate that seemed to be written in the blackest stars...and would soon be Christie's own.

    A warning, perhaps, of worse to come? Then the master of the household was dead, impaled by his own rapier. And his nineteen-year-old twin daughters were left orphans, facing a future that would bring them danger, misunderstanding, and love...a future complicated by the venomous hatred of a scheming woman who would stop at nothing - not even murder - to gain possession of the plantation and destroy its lovely heiresses.

    A munificent inheritance from an unknown benefactor...a fabulous Victorian mansion in San Francisco, the only one on Juniper Hill to escape destruction in the great earthquake...a ghostly pianist who plays a locked grand piano in the depths of the night...an eerie séance in the flickering candlelight...a beautiful young woman- very much in love- threatened by a desperate killer as she unravels the mystery of the musical ghost.

    She planned to sell the house, to travel, to do what she had always dreamed of.But when she arrived at Seacliff Pines, her dreams became visions of hell. For the house was tainted with the touch of death and alive with the whispers of madness…

    But as soon as their passionate honeymoon is over, suspicion and jealousy begin to cloud their marriage. Cecilia is forced to give up her acting career. Rumors circulate about the bizarre death of Hugo's first wife, who was killed during her pregnancy. Is it possible that Hugo is so possessive of a wife that he'd be envious of his own heir? Is it true that madness runs in the Kinnaird family? If so, what can Cecilia do to save herself - and the child stirring within her?

    Christobel's life was a simple one - days filled with tutors, horseback riding, needlework, an d troubadours. Her mother's unexpected death shatters her world. Grieving for her mother, shaken by her father's withdrawal from the world, vulnerable Christobel tries not to hear the servants' whispers that her mother's ghost walks the halls of Langdale Castle. One night in the light of the full moon, Christobel is drawn to the woods outside the castle and startled by the appearance of a young woman. Pale as alabaster, half conscious, number with terror. Christobel leads the trembling Philippa back to her own chamber and listens with horror to her pathetic tale of being kidnapped and abandoned in the forest by five armored knights. Little does Christobel know that her act of kindness to this gentle stranger may cost her everything she holds dear. Before even a day has passed Philippa has seduced Christobel's father, banished her favorite minstrel and teacher, and set her loved father against her. With mounting terror, Christobel knows she must cast off her grief and use her wits to regain what is rightfully hers, sensing that the treacherous Philippa will not rest until she is banished from the castle - or dead.

    

    

    She accepted a job on the island of Madeira - in a beautiful castle high in the mountains off the coast of Africa. She was to be the companion of the aged Dona Christina. She was presented with a mysterious locket, a gift from the grateful lady. But that gesture of love slowly transformed her happiness into dread. For the jewel had belonged to Dona Christina's step-sister, a woman gone mad with the pain of a long-lost love. And Jennifer seemed suddenly touched by that same evil fate - a fate that drove her into loneliness and desperation, that followed her, like footsteps, into the cold arms of death.