Tricked by his cunning ... Treated to his savagery ... Annie, Linda and Laurie ... fresh, pretty, ready to be taken ... stalked by a sadistic power who has returned to claim new victims, on this ... the most frightening night of the year.

    If you break the rules, you get three warnings. If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying. Reissue.

    C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind.

    The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin.

    In the future a jaded dilettante purchases a few organisms of an alien species for entertainment, but when he fails to care for them properly they develop into a threat.

    Klein's highly acclaimed first novel The Ceremonies - which Stephen King called "the most exciting novel in my field to come along since Straub's Ghost Story - established him in the top rank of horror writers. Now, with the four novellas gathered here, Klein proves himself to be a master of this classic shorter form.The collection opens with "Children of the Kingdom", a beautifully crafted chiller that gradually reveals the horrors that lurk behind the shadows of the city. In "Petey", George and Phyllis and the die-hards at their housewarming think that their new rural retreat is quite a steal - unaware that foreclosure, in a particularly monstrous form, is heading their way.In the insidiously terrifying "Black Man with a Horn", a homage to Lovecraft, a chance encounter with a missionary priest over the Atlantic lures a traveller into a web of ancient mystery and fiendish retribution. And in "Nadelman's God", the protagonist discovers, degree by shocking degree, that the demons of our imaginations are not always imaginary.

    Subjected to unmerciful physical and mental torture from an early age, Bishop kills his mother at the age of 10 and is placed in an institution for the criminally insane. He grows to manhood knowing the outside world only through a television screen. At 25, he succeeds in a brilliant escape and change of identity and begins to move across the country, murdering women in particularly gruesome ways. Pursued by reporters, police, and the mob, Bishop manages to elude them all, and the search for him becomes the greatest manhunt in U.S. history. Stevens takes the reader on a harrowing descent into the mind of a mass murderer in this eerily realistic serial-killer novel. The chilling denouement will hold readers spellbound until the shattering, unforgettable conclusion.

    And we too become victims of the unknown forces he conjures. Against a wide variety of settings, Aickman's chilling stories unravel with the psychological subtlety and uncanny vision of a true master of the genre.

    A graphic novelization of the screenplay to the motion picture Alien, published at the time of the films release.

    ten years ago to sing in a Japanese nightclub. Ever since, she's been plagued with nightmares of terror. There is only one man can help her -- Alex Hunter. Ten years ago he saw her picture in the papers -- as a senator's daughter who had disappeared. Now he has to bring her memories back to her, memories of a past more terrifying than they dreamed possible...

    Includes: background on Stoker's classic, and the literary history of the vampire novel; commentary by leading contemporary writers; a selected filmography of major vampire films; and dozens of illustrations.

    The inventor of the modern detective story, a master of the tale of horror, a poet of haunting melody, Poe has gripped the intellect, the emotions, and the esthetic impulses of the world's readers for over a century.Great Tales and PoemsHere, in one volume, are the masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, and the finest lyric and narrative poetry of the ill-fated genius who was one of America's supreme writers.

    K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.

    Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.~

    Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.

    into five hardcover volumes stored in a handsome slipcover. The stories and stark black-and-white artwork by Johnny Craig, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Al Felstein, et. al. are superb. They date from 1950 to 1955.

    

    

    

    Grant ·Suffer the Little Children · Stephen King · Peekaboo · Bill Pronzini ·*Daughter of the Golden West [“A Feast for Cathy”] · Dennis Etchison ·The Duppy Tree · Steven E. McDonald · *Naples · Avram Davidson · Seat Partner [Saint-Germain] · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ·Camps · Jack M. Dann · The Anchoress · Beverly Evans · Transfer · Barry N. Malzberg · Unknown Drives · Richard Christian Matheson The Night of the Piasa · George W. Proctor & J. C. Green ·The Runaway Lovers · Ray Russell ·Fisherman’s Log · Peter D. Pautz ·I Can’t Help Saying Goodbye · Ann Mackenzie ·Midnight Hobo · Ramsey Campbell ·Snakes and Snails · Jack C. Haldeman, II ·Mass Without Voices · Arthur L. Samuels ·He Kilt It with a Stick · William F. Nolan ·The Ghouls · R. Chetwynd-Hayes

    FellLuck Is No LadyThe CureThe Screaming PeopleThe Big KickThe MasterpieceTalentThe Final PerformanceLife In Our TimeUndergroundA Case Of The StubbornsThe HeadWhat You See Is What You GetNinaAuthor's Afterword

    Choice calls these two long witch stories "a welcome and timely treat."

    

    Seven decades of passion and sin fester beneath the bleak Montana sky.In the spectral beauty of these pages you will meet: the Eastern-bred mortician who discovers love after death; the rancher's beautiful daughter who delivers death after love; the old cowboy whose survival skills turn against him; and the gunslinger, dressed in black, who tries to outdraw the modern age on the blacktop of present-day Montana."The grimmest of fairy tales"- William Hjortsberg