He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan—and destroy her. But those who would protect the girl are determined to fight for what is left of the world, and their souls. In a wasteland born of rage, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, the last survivors on earth have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity....

    He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.

    One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose…Bestselling author Dean Koontz presents his most terrifying, dramatic and moving novel: The explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation…

    insatiate, tenebrous monsters, whose ultimate throne is Chaos.Greatest of all is he called Cthulhu. Only in ancient, blasphemous manuscripts can that name be found... and those who decipher it are left pale and numb, aware that in the very act of decipherment they have become both pawn and prey of an ultra-worldly power that renders human existence both tenuous and trite.The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall remain... long after they have devoured us.Contents:"Introduction" by David Drake "Arkham" (poem) "The Black Stone" "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" "The Thing on the Roof" "Dig Me No Grave" "Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls" (poem) "The Valley of the Worm" "The Shadow of the Beast" "Old Garfield's Heart" "People of the Dark" "Worms of the Earth" "Pigeons From Hell" "An Open Window" (poem)

    Adopted by colleges across the country to be used in literature courses, The Dark Descent showcases some of the finest horror fiction ever written.Contents: Pt. 1 - The Color of EvilThe Reach / Stephen KingEvening Primrose / John CollierThe Ash-Tree / M. R. JamesThe New Mother / Lucy CliffordThere's a Long, Long Trail A-winding / Russell KirkThe Call of Cthulhu / H. P. LovecraftThe Summer People / Shirley JacksonThe Whimper of Whipped Dogs / Harlan EllisonYoung Goodman Brown / Nathaniel HawthorneMr. Justice Harbottle / J. Sheridan Le FanuThe Crowd / Ray BradburyThe Autopsy / Michael SheaJohn Charrington's Wedding / E. NesbitSticks / Karl Edward WagnerLarger Than Oneself / Robert AickmanBelsen Express / Fritz LeiberYours Truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert BlochIf Damon Comes / Charles L. GrantVandy, Vandy / Manly Wade WellmanPt. 2 - The Medusa in the ShieldThe Swords / Robert AickmanThe Roaches / Thomas M. DischBright Segment / Theodore SturgeonDread / Clive BarkerThe Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan PoeThe Monkey / Stephen KingWithin the Walls of Tyre / Michael BishopThe Rats in the Walls / H. P. LovecraftSchalken the Painter / J. Sheridan Le FanuThe Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins GilmanA Rose for Emily / William FaulknerHow Love Came to Professor Guildea / Robert HichensBorn of Man and Woman / Richard MathesonMy Dear Emily / Joanna RussYou Can Go Now / Dennis EtchisonThe Rocking-Horse Winner / D. H. LawrenceThree Days / Tanith LeeGood Country People / Flannery O'ConnorMackintosh Willy / Ramsey CampbellThe Jolly Corner / Henry JamesPt. 3 - A Fabulous Formless Darkness Smoke Ghost / Fritz LeiberSeven American Nights / Gene WolfeThe Signal-Man / Charles DickensCrouch End / Stephen KingNight-Side / Joyce Carol OatesSeaton's Aunt / Walter de la MareClara Militch / Ivan TurgenevThe Repairer of Reputations / Robert W. ChambersThe Beckoning Fair One / Oliver OnionsWhat Was It? / Fitz-James O'BrienThe Beautiful Stranger / Shirley JacksonThe Damned Thing / Ambrose BierceAfterward / Edith WhartonThe Willows / Algernon BlackwoodThe Asian Shore / Thomas M. DischThe Hospice / Robert AickmanA Little Something for Us Tempunauts / Philip K. Dick

    With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror -- a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.Barker turns from his usual horror to epic-length fantasy for this account of the Fugue, a magical land inhabited by descendants of supernatural beings who once shared the earth with humans. The Fugue has been woven into a carpet for protection against those who would destroy it; the death of its guardian occasions a battle between good and particularly repulsive evil forces for control of the Fugue. Weaveworld is rich with memorable characters, exciting situations, and pockets of Barker's trademark horror.

    She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus. But soon they realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.

    The young counselors were getting ready for it while they joked about the scary rumors attached to the isolated camp.But evil was waiting in the shadows as the sun set. The laughter turned to screams...the easy living to agonized dying. For the light had gone and the wind was howling and it was--Friday the 13th.

    Those who are found the next day, if they are still alive, will have gone mad.”  Chills and thrills to make your flesh crawl with fear! Turn the lights down low and grab your favorite reading chair. But first, you’d better check behind you. . . .   Ghosts, monsters, murders, and madmen! These thirty stories have been collected for your reading displeasure from all over the globe, and represent the world’s best scary stories and frightening folktales, featuring famous authors such as Washington Irving and the Brothers Grimm. Welcome to a chilling world of hair-raising tales!

    This sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman.Don't Look Now, a classic story of the macabre, opens the collection, followed by The Apple Tree, The Blue Lenses, The Birds, The Alibi and Not After Midnight.

    Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy. As Bloch writes, "These stories in this collection have a common theme; they deal with monsters. Some of the monsters are human, some are not-- but all of them embody, in one way or another, the fears common to us in our dreams. We call these monsters by many names-- ghosts, vampires, extraterrestrials, changelings. But we recognize them for what they are; manifestations of the secret dreads and desires which lurk beneath the surface of consciousness." "Bloch has become a virtual fixture on the popular culture landscape." --Publishers Weekly "If you're not familiar with Bloch's short fiction, find someone to borrow this from; if you already are familiar, you know that you want to own these volumes." --Locus

    The town is plagued by bikers and some mysterious deaths. The younger boy, Sam, makes friends with two other boys, the Frogg brothers, who claim to be vampire hunters. Meanwhile the older boy, Michael, is drawn into the gang of bikers by a beautiful girl named Star. Michael starts sleeping days and staying out all night while Sam starts getting into trouble because of his friends' obsession.

    In addition to nineteen superb stories of dark fantasy and horror, The Color of Evil includes a long, insightful introduction, which delineates the evolution of horror fiction, and, for each writer, notes which say something about the literature and the author's place in it.

    While the land of Delain mourns, the evil wizard Flagg, hatches an unscrupulous plot, which sees the King's eldest son Peter imprisoned for his father's murder, and the youngest son inherit the throne. Only Peter knows the truth about his own innocence and the evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror that Flagg has in store. But first, he must escape from the high tower.

    Whether based in sf or fantasy, Shea's short fiction is not for the squeamish.Contents:Polyphemus (1981)The Angel of Death (1979)Uncle Tuggs (1986)The Pearls of the Vampire Queen (1982)The Horror on the #33 (1982)The Extra (1987)The Autopsy (1980)

    A complete collection of Poe's short stories with marginal notes and interpretations.

    Contents:Water's EdgeThe Real Bad FriendMan With a HobbyWelcome, StrangerTerror Over HollywoodLuck Is No LadyCrime in RhymeThe CureSock FinishBroomstick RideDaybrokeBetsy Blake Will Live ForeverTerror in Cut-Throat CoveWord of HonorThat Old Black MagicThe Deadliest ArtThe Screaming PeopleThe Hungry EyeShow BizThe Gloating PlaceThe Man Who Knew WomenThe Big KickNight SchoolSabbaticalThe Funnel of God'Til Death Do Us PartThe Show Must Go OnA Matter of LifePin-Up GirlThe Baldheaded MirageThe Masterpiece

    She liked to pretend that the beautiful golden haired woman in the portrait was her mother. And that the big dollhouse she had found upstairs was hers, along with the family of dolls who lived there. Sometimes she was sure the dolls moved all by themselves. Sometimes she even heard them whisper to her. Only instead of calling her Jessica, they always called her Annabelle.Life Like HorrorAnnabelle had come back to them. The dolls had lived for so long by themselves. With no one to dust them off, play with them or love them. But now Annabelle had come back. And everything would be just like it was before. Only this time, they would never let anyone hurt Annabelle. And anyone who tried would soon discover that pretty dollies can have very ugly tempers.

    

    The people are like you and me.But when you are alone there, you see strange sights: phantom hands, dogs that will not die, vampire moths, and the vengeful ghosts of children.This book contains your worst fears . . . or your darkest fantasies.Dark Feasts presents the best of Ramsey Campbell's collected and uncollected stories. It includes 'The Chimney' (winner of the World Fantasy Award, 1978), 'In the Bag' (winner of the British Fantasy Award for best short story, 1978), 'Mackintosh Willy' (joint winner of the World Fantasy Award, 1980) and 'The Companion', of which Stephen King wrote ' . . . maybe the best horror tale to be written in English in the last thirty years'.

    The individual copyright date for each story ranges from 1925 to 1987."The Queen of Sheba’s Nightmare" by Bertrand Russell "The Brazen Locked Room" by Isaac Asimov "Sir Dominick’s Bargain" by Sheridan LeFanu "Tapestry" by C. H. Sherman "Seven Come Heaven?" by Diane Wnorowska "The Temptation of Harringay" by H.G. Wells "The Tenancy of Mr. Eex" by Paula Volsky "The Demon Lover" by Anonymous "The Imitation Demon" by Robert Kuttner "Just a Little Thing" by Joan Vander Putten "The Devil’s Wager" by William Makepeace Thackeray "Rachaela" by Poul Anderson"Hell-Bent" by Ford McCormack "Damned Funny" by Marvin Kaye "Me, Tree" by Morgan Llywelyn "Enoch" by Robert Bloch "Catmagic" by M. Lucie Chin "The Hound" by H. P. Lovecraft "The Princess and Her Future" by Tanith Lee "Novel of the White Powder" by Arthur Machen "The Celery Stalk in the Cellar" by Saralee Terry "The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima" by Bernhardt J. Hurwood "Caliban’s Revenge" by Darrell Schweitzer "The Trilling Princess" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson "The Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner "Daddy" by Earl Godwin "The Well-Meaning Mayor" by Leslie Charteris "A Madman" by Maurice Level "The Devilish Rat" by Edward Page Mitchell "Rokuro-Kubi" by Lafcadio Hearn "The Burial of the Rats" by Bram Stoker "High-Tech Insolence" by Russell Baker "Ulalume" by Edgar Allan Poe "Boogie Man" by Tappan King "The Maze and the Monster" by Edward D. Hoch "Father Meuron’s Tale" by Robert Hugh Benson "The Philosophy of Sebastian Trump or, the Art of Outrage" by William E. Kotzwinkle and Robert Shiarella "Don Juan’s Final Night" by Edmond Rostand "A Friend in Need" by W. Somerset Maugham "Armageddon" by Fredric Brown"Secret Worship" by Algernon Blackwood"Devil in the Drain" by Daniel Manus Pinkwater"I Am Returning" by Ray Russell"The Shadow Watchers" by Dick Baldwin"The Demons" by Robert Sheckley"A Ballad of Hell" by John Davidson"The Generous Gambler" by Charles Pierre Baudelaire"A Midnight Visitor" by John Kendrick Bangs"Markheim" by Robert Louis Stevenson"Lost Soul" by Jay Sheckley"The Last Demon" by Isaac Bashevis Singer"Influencing The Hell Out Of Time And Teresa Golowitz" by Parke Godwin

    Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee.Contents:"Fragment of a Novel" by George Gordon, Lord Byron "The Vampyre" by John Polidori "Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood" [excerpt] by James Malcolm Rymer "The Mysterious Stranger" by Anonymous"Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu"Good Lady Ducayne" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker "Luella Miller" by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman "For the Blood is The Life" by F. Marion Crawford "The Transfer" by Algernon Blackwood "The Room in the Tower" by E.F. Benson "An Episode of Cathedral History" by M.R. James "A Rendevous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore "Revelations in Black" by Carl Jacobi "School for the Unspeakable" by Manly Wade Wellman "Drifting Snow" by August Derleth "Over the River" by P. Schuyler Miller "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber "The Mindworm" by C.M. Kornbluth "Drink My Blood" by Richard Matheson "Place of Meeting" by Charles Beaumont "The Living Dead" by Robert Bloch "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aikman "The Werewolf and the Vampire" by R. Chetwynd-Hayes "Love-Starved" by Charles L. Grant "Cabin 33" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro "Unicorn Tapestry" by Suzy McKee Charnas "Following the Way" by Alan Ryan "The Sunshine Club" by Ramsey Campbell "The Men & Women of Rivendale" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Bite-Me-Not, or, Fleur de Feu" by Tanith Lee Also includes short appendices of vampire novels and movies.

    R. James) • (1987) • essay by Michael Cox13 • Introduction (Ghosts and Scholars: Ghost Stories in the Tradition of M. R. James) • (1987) • essay by Richard Dalby and Rosemary Pardoe17 • Ghosts—Treat Them Gently • (1931) • essay by M. R. James20 • On the Leads • (1904) • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould28 • The Stone Coffin • (1913) • short story by B35 • The Slype House • (1904) • short story by A. C. Benson46 • Father Macclesfield's Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]53 • The Saint and the Vicar • (1935) • short story by Cecil Binney61 • Christmas Reunion • (1946) • short story by Sir Andrew Caldecott70 • This Time • (1986) • short story by Ramsey Campbell79 • Dr Horder's Room • (1935) • short story by Patrick Carleton87 • Blind Man's Hood • (1937) • short story by John Dickson Carr [as by Carter Dickson]104 • The Strange Affair at Upton Strangewold • (1987) • short story by Frederick Cowles116 • Brother John's Bequest • (1912) • short story by Arthur Gray125 • 'Come, Follow!' • (1982) • short story by Sheila Hodgson (variant of Come, Follow!)141 • Ghost Story Competition • (1930) • essay by M. R. James143 • 'Here He Lies Where He Longed to Be' • (1930) • short fiction by Winifred Galbraith145 • The House-Party • (1930) • short fiction by Emma S. Duffin148 • An Incident in the City • (1979) • short story by Chico Kidd [as by A. F. Kidd]155 • As in a Glass Dimly • (1931) • short story by Shane Leslie165 • Between Sunset and Moonrise • (1943) • short story by R. H. Malden175 • New Corner • (1939) • short story by L. T. C. Rolt186 • Sins of the Fathers • [Father O'Connor] • (1962) • short story by David G. Rowlands195 • Celui-La • (1929) • short story by Eleanor Scott210 • The Face in the Fresco • (1928) • short story by Arnold Smith223 • The Dean's Bargain • (1936) • short story by Dermot Chesson Spence230 • The Horn of Vapula • (1932) • short story by Lewis Spence239 • The Grimoire • (1936) • short story by Montague Summers256 • The Eastern Window • (1912) • short story by E. G. Swain264 • Select Bibliography (Ghosts and Scholars: Ghost Stories in the Tradition of M. R. James) • (1987) • essay by uncredited

    For three decades authorities of the Roman Catholic Church knew about the terrifying phenomena surrounding this small, pretty young woman. Physical acts of superhuman strength, voices that conversed in several languages, horrible blasphemies, obscene manifestations...and prophecies that could rock the world.Then they sent famous exorcist Father Theophilus Reisinger to attempt a dangerous exorcism that could set Satan loose in a small midwestern town. Veteran journalist David St. Clair now gives us the whole harrowing truth about the possession of Mary Lawrence, and an exorcism that becomes a real-life warning about today's satanic cults...and the true power of the Devil in the world today!

    But it was neither the first nor the last. This anthology presents 23 rare vampire stories written between 1867 & 1940. B&W illus.

    In 3D Sound.

    Whether describing a town of one-legged miners, a bizarre brother/sister relationship, or salty seamen telling their favourite real-life horror stories, McCormack disturbs and enchants.

    It includes 23 stories in all.

    A pragmatic small-town policeman investigating cases of farm animal mutilation is recruited unwillingly to help thwart the impending catastrophe of the force's rebirth.

    Cadet Barstow would wake then, and the gray shape would be there, the llights of its eyes shining on them with infinite sadness. Barstow sthought he was going crazy. One morning, visited again by the dream and its spectral attendants, he disappeared.When faculty psychologists Sam Bondurant and Liam FitzDonnell are consulted in Barstow case, their job is to keep the episode quiet--at least until the Army-Navy game--and to find some reasonable explanation for whatever is really going on in that room. Sam and Liam are friends who rarely see eye to eye, but together they're fit for the task--Sam withhis rationalism and faith in sophisticated equipment, Liam with his own painful grasp of the demons to which the mind is vulnerable. Their investigation is wilolfully joined by Sam's scholarly and fanciful wife, Maggie, who gradually uncovers evidence of not one ghost but several, bound together in the warp of time to a fatal fire in 1830.What none of these protagonists realizes is the awesome power of the supernatural--the power to clutch at the living from the other side of death. Shades ofGray offers the reader many satisfactions: a colorful and amusing portrait of West Point and the people who spend their lives there, a resonant psychological theme, stylish and intelligent writing. But most of all, Timothy O'Neill's novel makes the power of the supernatural real...and terrifying.

    Fiction

    except in the rambling mansion where Myrtle Hollenbeck paced up and down like a mad woman, waiting for the return of her children.But Myrtle's waiting is soon over: one night she is found hanging from her daughter's skipping rope. Everyone believes Myrtle's death to be a case of routine suicide; everyone, that is, apart from Cassie Larchmont, the ten-year-old child who witnessed Myrtle's death, and Robert Landers, an investigating police officer who hears from Cassie how a dark shadow stood by Myrtle's side that fearful night.At the same time, Nicole Morgan comes into Cassie's life. Dark-haired, malevolent, dressed in quaint old-fashioned clothes popular decades before, Nicole seems bent on luring the other children into Myrtle's haunted mansion. The fabulous playroom they discover conceals untold horrors, while outside the terror that has lain quietly on the lake bed for thirty years rises slowly towards them. Only Landers can save them before that evil kills them all...

    But the "untcigahunk" are no one's imagination. Hideous forest creatures who feed every five years on human flesh and now they are back. Only this time, there will be no escape for the young boy.This collections contains the novel Little Brothers with six short stories and three “myths".Dark Essentials Series: Volume 4, Book 2

    Wright Law of Averages - Wendy WebbThe Fence - Thomas SullivanMoonflower - Melissa Mia HallBob Leman - Come Where My Love Lies DreamingThe Finder-Keeper - Ken WismanJust a Little Souvenir - Cheryl Fuller NelsonLike Shadows in the Dark - Stephen GallagherOffice Hours - Dogulas E. WinterWe Have Always Lived in the Forest - Nancy HolderJust Like Their Masters - Mona A. CleePigs - Al Sarrantonion

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    When a mysterious stranger threatens the Hillcrest Academy, Amy uses her psychic powers and the help of her twin brother, Jamie, to solve the mystery.

    Culled from celebrated hardcover anthologies. A valuable collection...may well serve as a standard anthology of supernatural tales.

    

    The spidery words were elegantly penned: Whosoever possesseth this letter and dares to break this chain shall suffer disaster and death... Abby and Brian knew what they had found. A chain letter. But it was unlike any chain letter their friends had ever gotten. This one was evil - they knew it in their souls. They dared not break this chain. They would send the letter to their special friends. And they would know who had broken the chain - by who had died...

    A twist of fate. An error in judgment. Reality or just . . . imagination? Here are 18 stories designed to disturb, a collection of the best of the cult-classic television series by masters of this macabre art.

    Sixteen short stories by Stephen King, William Tenn, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Richard Matheson, Tanith Lee, and others deal with the nightmarish theme of female vampires.