As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

    GIGER'S NECRONOMICON: A startling milestone on the darkly lit road once traveled by the likes of Bosch, Brueghel, Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka. Giger's remarkable book of the dead gives us some of the most powerful images ever an artist drew from the well of the imagination.

    Kids and adults will delight in this bone-chilling, classic tale.  In this spooky, horror-filled picture book, a strange varmint haunts the woodsman who lopped off his tail and had it for dinner.

    Steinway · ss Fantastic Apr ’54 113 · The Past Master · nv Bluebook Jan ’55 141 · I Like Blondes · ss Playboy Jan ’56 153 · All on a Golden Afternoon · nv F&SF Jun ’56 185 · Broomstick Ride · ss Super Science Fiction Dec ’57 197 · Daybroke · ss Star Science Fiction Magazine Jan ’58 209 · Sleeping Beauty [“The Sleeping Redheads”] · ss Swank Mar ’58 225 · Word of Honor · ss Playboy Aug ’58 237 · The World-Timer · nv Fantastic Aug ’60 271 · That Hell-Bound Train · ss F&SF Sep ’58 289 · The Funnel of God · nv Fantastic Jan ’60 319 · Beelzebub · ss Playboy Dec ’63 329 · The Plot Is the Thing · ss F&SF Jul ’66 337 · How Like a God · ss Galaxy Apr ’69 355 · The Movie People · ss F&SF Oct ’69 269 · The Oracle · ss Penthouse May ’71 377 · The Learning Maze · ss The Learning Maze, ed. Roger Elwood, Messner, 1974 393 · Author’s Afterword: “Will the Real Robert Bloch Please Stand Up?” · aw

    It received the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and has been adapted into a television film.

    On the surface Drago appeared to be like most small rural towns.But it was not.The village had a most unsavory history. Unexplained disappearances, sudden deaths.People just vanished, never to be found.

    What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?’Such are the thoughts of Baxter, a sociopathic bull terrier on the hunt for the perfect master, as he contemplates the demise of his first victim. The basis for the acclaimed 1989 film Baxter, Ken Greenhall’s utterly chilling and long-unobtainable Hell Hound (1977) has earned a reputation as a lost classic of horror fiction. This first-ever reissue includes a new introduction by Grady Hendrix.

    Nothing has been added in the interests of sensationalism. What happened in the small town of Watseka, Illinois, between the years 1865 and 1878 may strain credibility, as well as shock. But it did happen...Mary Roth, a gentle, unassuming 19 year old girl, died suddenly on the night of July 5th, 1865, in the town of Watseka, Illinois. Her death was strange, but her life had been stranger. For several years she had been subject to sudden, unaccountable "fits" - sometimes horrifically violent, sometimes so chilling in their effects her parents thought her insane: she would speak in German, or in a man's bass voice, as if possessed... But death brought to an end her sad and disturbing case...Thirteen years later, in 1878, Mary Roth reappeared - in the living body of Lurancy Vennum...

    Frankenstein and his creation in films. Also presents a synopsis of the 1931 film starring Boris Karloff.

    And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.

    She's the golden darling of a wealthy genius. A child-prodigy. Yogi adept. And dying of brain tumor. She wants to heal herself, but the courts and the doctors cry "no" - and enter her brain with an incredible million-dollar probe that cures her body, while it splits her soul -- and sends it hurtling into a psychic hell... Only Anatol Klane knows of his daughter's spirit-death. Now he must take her life... and convince an astonished world that he has set her free...

    

    Contents include: The Horror at Oakdeene; the Viking's Stone; Aunt Hester; No Way Home; The Cleaner Woman; the Statement of Henry Worthy; Darghud's Doll; Born of the Winds4000 copies printed.

    Leiber maintained that the two texts “should be regarded as the same story told at different times”; thus this volume reprints The Pale Brown Thing for the first time in nearly forty years, with an introduction by the author’s friend, Californian poet Donald Sidney-Fryer. The novella stands as Leiber’s vision of 1970s San Francisco: a city imbued with an eccentric vibe and nefarious entities, in which pulp writer Franz Westen uncovers an alternate portrait of the city’s fin de siecle literary set — Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Clark Ashton Smith — as well as the darker invocations of occultist Thibaut de Castries and a pale brown inhabitant of Corona Heights.

    When a Spectral glove points an empty, ghostly finger at the guilty and the doomed...When amphibious vampires slither and writhe at the exhilarating scent of fresh blood...When a withered nameless crone administers her foul caress in the name of unholy seduction...When half-dead monstrosities rise up from subterranean depths in search of sacrificial flesh...THEN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS UPON US.WHEN WHISPERS TURN INTO SCREAMS...

    A young botanist leads a small expedition to find a way out to rescue humanity.

    

    Cover illustration by Alan Lee.

    Part One: Tales of the Uncanny and SupernaturalPart Two: Tales of the Mysterious and MacabreForty three stories including:Running Wolf The TrodThe Glamour of the SnowThe Pikestaffe CaseThe Lost ValleyChinese MagicFirst HateThe SacrificeThe DamnedThe Sea FitThe Destruction of SmithInitiation

    JamesThe Undead One by E. Everett EvansThe Horror Undying by Manly Wade WellmanThe Bat is My Brother by Robert BlochBlood Brother by Charles BeaumontSomething Had to be Done by David DrakeNight Life by Stephen UtleyFurther Rivals of Dracula. Vampires of the Silver Screen.A Checklist of Vampire Films.

    Out in the corn, something is watching them, and help is nowhere to be found.From the unrivaled master of horror and the supernatural, Stephen King. “Children of the Corn,” first collected in the extraordinary collection Night Shift in 1973 and then adapted into a horror film franchise of the same name, is a terrifying and unforgettable classic of the genre.

    He has been described as a writer on whom the mantle of Poe has fallen and no less an authority than H.P. Lovecraft wrote: few can equal him in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal. This volume, the first in the Masters of Terror Series represents the very best of Hodgson's tales of sea horror:the Voice in the NightA Tropical HorrorThe Mystery of the DerelictThe Terror of the Water-TankThe Finding of the GraikenThe Stone ShipThe DerelictMasters of Terror is a series of collections of short stories by those authors who have made their name in the genre of the macabre and supernatural. Each volume is edited by an authority on the author in question and includes an introduction giving details of the author's life and works.

    

    

    Contents: Dennis Wheatley's Black Magic classics are world famous. So brilliant is the writing, so thorough has been the research, that the impact of these novels is overwhelming. In 'The Devil Rides Out', the Duke de Richleau rescues Simon Aron and a beatiful woman from the heart of a blasphemous, orgeastic sabbat in the West Country. From then on they are pursued by the terrifying powers of evil exercised by the Satanists for vengeance, lust and gain. 'The Haunting of Toby Jugg' is the story of a young, crippled airman's hallucinations as devil worshippers try to overpower him, the ever-mounting tension and terrifying climax make this a superlative novel. Gateway to Hell finds the Duke on the hunt for Rex Van Ryn through hair raising Satanist strongholds in Argentina. To the Devil - A Daughter introduces new characters and the sunny, flower-filled gardens of the Riviera where it seems impossible that evil practises of the worst kind could ever penetrate

    For here is a truly alarming brood of tales pulsating with delicious evil, the macabre, and all the mystery and suspense for which you crave.Ross Macdonald, Theodore Sturgeon, Harold Q. Masur, Talmage Powell - as you turn the pages, and the house darkens, you will hear the Master chuckling in the shadows. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin...

    He introduces each individually, aiming to convey to the reader some of the pleasure that acting in the films associated with the tales has given him.Included are The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker, >The Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and six other classic talswe of horror and suspense. With 8 pages of illustrationsCover Illustration: Colleen Payne