They fall in love and discover that their "life's work" is murdering children. Set in Victorian-type era, inspired by the Moors Murders that rocked 1960s England.

    Adrift in a strange land, surrounded by cold and suspicious relatives who had disowned her mother on her wedding day, Francesca is determined to make the best of a bad situation. But nothing could have prepared her for the nest of dark secrets and oppressive cruelty she has been cast into. And her fate now rests in the hands of a mysterious horseman known as the Falcon, whose appearance will speed her salvation ... or hasten her doom.

    These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot be...satanic.

    Even so, Kate found it difficult to understand his peculiar hatred of his elder brother Logan, on whose charity Maurice was obliged to depend. But when she accidentally stumbled upon Maurice with Logan's fiancée , she became aware of some of the secrets of Tor-Fret, and realised she was getting too deeply involved with Logan Rossiter and the other inhabitants of the mysterious household.

    While staying with her mother in an old Victorian hotel, a young girl becomes entangled in a mystery involving a dangerous old mill, a labyrinth, and faked antiques.

    — Before her stood the groom, Edward Liscombe, master of Liscombe Manor, his violent, wastrel past a scandal through the countryside, his sudden marriage an incredible surprise. — He was strong, handsome, yet as she looked up at him, Yasmin felt a sudden shiver, as cold and piercing as the wind off the moors. Already she had seen in his dark gaze spectres of a terrible past and the pain of an injury of which Edward refused to speak. But now she saw something else. Unmistakable in her loved one's eyes was hatred, black and unrelenting hatred -- and he was staring straight at her!

    She would be a "friend" who would try to protect her from another scandalous involvement--like the one back in France.Alain was a generous and thoughtful employer. Victorine a bright and amusing companion. But Tamaris could not help wondering about the significance of the gold and enamel snake Victorine wore around her neck. Nor could she stop thinking about the fact that someone had been going through her belongings and leaving strange objects among them.Then one day Alain was forced to reveal the true story of Victorine's past. A past, Tamaris suspected, that would soon gain on the future and place everyone at Rancho del Sol under a shadow of constant fear..

    She only knew that her publishing firm was interested in this man's haunting photographs, and her job was to make contact with him.From the moment Lisa met this towering, brooding figure, she was irresistibly drawn to him... even when she learned of the macabre mystery in his past... even when she realized that she like Ragan's dead wife, like his tormented children, like all who lived in this place of so many secrets and so little safety, were part of Ragan Strangely’s history of horror.Here love meant death, and Lisa was its slave...

    But she gets more than she bargains for when she meets Matt Stockdale, a rugged Vietnam veteran with a mysterious past. And she is trapped in a web of sheer terror when the old legend comes to life!

    Rooms and secret obsessions....a nightmare vision of Victorian sexuality....rich.....entertaining and splendidly wrought!

    Emily was a widow and when she and her daughter went to live in the house, she soon realizes that it has unearthly tenants! Even though the handsome Blair Morgan found it for her, she's not sure how much longer she can stay there!

    amphigorey & amphigorey too / 1977 / putnam2 books in one box, the box has cover illustration not in either of the separate books