Could it be, though, that the horses were unusually sluggish, and that there was something more sinister attempting to sabotage him...?"The best thriller writer going."ATLANTIC MONTHLY

    But when the boys arrive for an overnight visit at Terror Castle -- home of a deceased horror-movie actor -- they soon find out how the place got its name!

    The parallel plot is his inability to handle life, love, success. Great story.

    

    the prison... the doctors... they were all part of the past. Charlie was free and getting well now -So no one had to know how much time Charlie spent around the school yard, watching. No one did - until the night 9-year-old Jessie Brant disappeared...

    This first in a series, involving the same characters, is full of action and suspense.

    After eighteen months as a companion-secretary to a charming but eccentric old lady, she felt she was ready to forget the past and begin again…But a chance encounter on a London railway station brings it all back…

    not only in haunted houses and ruined abbeys but suddenly, in everyday places and in the hearts of ordinary people. Here are eleven tales of horror and the supernatural by a master of the art of bringing fear to your doorstep.

    This collection of true stories of unholy horror and unspeakable evil were written by one of America's most brilliant fact-crime reporters—Alan Hynd.Forward by Noel Hynd

    From the moment of her arrival at the gloomy Bascomb mansion in the New England port Scots Harbor, Miranda becomes the target of a strange, hostile conspiracy.She knows she must sift out the truth by herself. She can trust no one in the bizarre household; least of all the dour Brock McLean, whom the Captain insists she marry....

    

    Two high school boys are exposed to danger when they set out to solve the theft from a local museum of five ceremonial Egyptian fingertips.

    While there he learns of a possible gold mine in the Arizona mountains and thus begins the mystery and adventure.

    Jenny Vleedam knows it cannot be anyone but Peter, and she tries to let it ring. He left her for another woman--a vicious trollop called Fiora--and Jenny has too much self-respect to let him kick her around anymore. But she answers anyway, and hears the words she has been longing for: Fiora has been shot. But as often as she has fantasized about something happening to the woman who stole her husband, now Jenny feels only fear--fear that the police might not believe Peter's story that Fiora was the one holding the gun. Not knowing if the woman is dead or alive, Jenny rushes to Peter's side. Guilty or innocent, they will never be apart again.

    And they're in danger!When two customers appear in her father's antique shop, each trying to buy Henri and Henriette, a pair of Swiss mechanical dolls, Nina Martin scents a mystery. Then the hint of hidden treasure and a secret message send Nina and her friend Muffin off on a treasure hunt in New York City.