So terrifying that they scatter dreams like leaves before a midnight wind. So macabre that they give even the typesetter the chills. So horrific that Evil itself turns away. Imagine. Now open and read.

    Now Dani, along with her four companions, must fight against incredible odds to survive a night that no one will ever forget.A night that will forever be known as ‘the hatching.’The Hatching is a horror novel inspired by John Carpenter movies, as well as the classic stories of Stephen King and Richard Matheson. If you love taut, fast-paced claustrophobic horror, you’ll love The Hatching.

    Here are 22 sensually scary stories from authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more. Follow their unflinching imaginations deep into the heart of darkness . . . if you dare.1 • Aphra • (1993) • short story by Nancy A. Collins [as by Nancy Collins]18 • Eye of the Lynx • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 3] • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti29 • Heavy Set • (1964) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Heavy-Set)40 • Mr. Wrong • (1975) • novelette by Elizabeth Jane Howard77 • The Runaway Lovers • (1967) • short story by Ray Russell90 • The First Time • (1993) • short story by David Kuehls105 • The Ceremony • (1897) • short story by Arthur Machen110 • The Nature of the Evidence • (1923) • short story by May Sinclair123 • The Face of Helene Bournouw • (1960) • short story by Harlan Ellison134 • A Host of Furious Fancies • (1980) • short story by J. G. Ballard149 • When the Red Storm Comes: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Awakening to Her Nature • (1993) • short story by Sarah Smith165 • Ravissante • (1968) • novelette by Robert Aickman196 • A Birthday (revised) • (1987) • short story by Lisa Tuttle210 • The Crooked Man • (1955) • short story by Charles Beaumont221 • On the Lake of Last Wishes • (1993) • short story by Claudia O'Keefe238 • Again • (1981) • short story by Ramsey Campbell251 • Kin to Love • (1935) • short story by T. H. White263 • Same Time, Same Place • (1963) • short story by Mervyn Peake274 • The Model • (1975) • short story by Robert Bloch284 • Silver Circus • (1927) • short story by A. E. Coppard297 • Honeymoon • (1931) • short story by Clement Wood306 • The Parasite • (1894) • novella by Arthur Conan Doyle354 • Notes on the Authors • (1993) • essay by Michele Slung

    For one, she's in the White House bedroom and there is a peculiar object thrusting itself upon her.

    Designed exclusively for adults and young readers. The reader will re-live all the magic of Greek mythology on a journey of the imagination which will take him deep into an era separated from our own by more than three millenia. This series of books received the 1989 Pier Paolo Vergerio prizes of the University of Padua for its outstanding text and illustrations.

    Two Men in the same body...One Joseph Kallinger was a superb craftsman, a sensitive poet, a devoted family man, and a human being who held all life sacred.The other Joseph Kallinger was a lover who needed images of bloody violence to maintain sexual potency, and a father who physically tortured his children, lived in abnormal intimacy with his daughter, and enlisted his 12-year-old son in a campaign of rape and murder that terrified millions.This is the true story of Joseph Kallinger- both of him...

    When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid.Seventeen-year-old Don Boyd doesn't need the grief. He's already under siege-he's got family trouble, girl trouble, trouble with his high school classes and trouble with the jocks who rule the school. Surely the Howler will kill someone else, somewhere else, and then Don can go back to trying to escape notice.But the Howler likes Ashford. And one frosty autumn night, the Howler chooses Don as his next victim. The attack is swift-but it doesn't go as planned. Suddenly the killer and the boy are surrounded by an unnatural mist, by green fire, by the sound of iron striking iron.And then the real horror begins.

    But unlike the well-known traditional tales, the endings found here aren't always the familiar ones you remember -- or expect.

    / My journey to your depths begins tonight / To serve immortal till the stars turn right."These lines from a poem by Ann K. Schwader are the coda for this fine collection of tales about H.P. Lovecraft's Innsmouth--that decadent, smugly rotting New England town where half-human creatures with forbidding batrachian faces follow the arcane practices of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. In his erudite and witty introduction, Robert M. Price calls Innsmouth "the most effective, most evocative ... example of Lovecraft's full-blown alien civilizations." The Innsmouth Cycle includes 13 stories and 3 poems, including the three tales by Lord Dunsany, Robert W. Chambers, and Irvin S. Cobb that inspired Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth." This collection is planned as the first of a pair, the second half of which will be Tales of Innsmouth, containing (according to Price) all new works of "fishy fiction."A fun detail: this book is "respectfully dedicated to Ben Chapman, the Creature from the Black Lagoon." --Fiona Webster

     When American scientist Tony Stevens hears that his young sister Ann has been killed in a skiing accident in Oslo, he refuses to believe it. She hated heights, would never risk descending the treacherous glacier slopes so rapidly – unless she was fleeing for her life. On arriving in Norway, he learns that Ann had been working with an archaeology team excavating a pre-Christian burial site in the frozen wilderness of Trolltinder. Something terrible has been disturbed – surrounding villages are in uproar, fear and superstition cloud the air like a mist of chilling malevolence. And Tony realises that whatever it is out there that devoured his sister has picked up his scent, and is poised to wreak its ancient vengeance once again... Praise for Peter Tremayne: ‘Tremayne is an absolutely gorgeous read, especially on a dark winter’s night . . .’ - Dublin Sunday Press 'Peter Tremayne is established as one of Britain’s leading horror fantasy writers.' – Retail Newsagent 'He brings to the writing of fantasy detail and dedication . . . scrupulous skill . . .' – Space Voyager English author Peter Tremayne started his career as a newspaper reporter and editor. Widely respected for his non-fiction work in language studies, Celtic history and mythology, Tremayne’s first novel was published in 1977. He has since written 28 bóoks, and his titles with Venture Press include Nicor!, Snowbeast! and The Curse of Loch Ness.

     She soon discovers that both her sister and her new husband have tragically perished in a fire which destroyed their home. Alone in the bleak Norfolk brecklands, Deborah is at first forced to accept hospitality from the handsome yet forbidding widower, Sir Randall Gaunt. Yet even when Deborah later stumbles upon the warm companionship of Lord Stannard, the charming young aristocrat wooing her with such passionate urgency, the strange events that follow cause her feelings of uneasiness to grow. And then, before long Deborah becomes inextricably involved in a nightmare of unimaginable evil…

    Vampires, werewolves, ghouls and ghosts - not to mention Frankenstein's monster - stalk the premises. Bats and spiders drop upon the unwary. At every turn a new fright awaits - all in fun, of course.Happy HalloweenBut the Manse's history of horror is ancient and terrible - more awful than the innocent Trick-or-Treaters can imagine. For twelve years it has been biding its time, feeding on the fear its unsuspecting visitors so willingly offered...Happy HalloweenUntil tonight. Tomight is the Thirteenth Annual House of Horrors.It will be the last.Tonight, at the Witching Hour, all Hell will break loose.Happy Halloween

    But she wants more. So when her new friend Luci offers Dore a chance to have it all, Dore decides to take it. But Dore discovers that beauty is also a beast.

    Lovecraft as 'unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living'. They will take you into unearthly realms of fantasy and horror beyond your wildest nightmares...Contents:1. The Nameless Offspring2. The Witchcraft of Ulua3. The Devotee of Evil4. The Epiphany of Death5. A Vintage From Atlantis6. The Abominations of Yondo7. The White Sybil8. The Ice-Demon9. The Voyage of King Euvoran10. The Master of the Crabs11. The Enchantress of Sylaire12. The Dweller in the Gulf13. The Dark Age14. The Third Episode of Vathek15. Chinoiserie16. The Mirror in the Hall of Ebony17. The Passing of Aphrodite

    With every revelation of the narrator's bizarre lifestyle and unusual acquaintances, the reader is less sure of what can be believed, until the line between actuality and fantasy disappears completely. McDowell has crafted an explicit and unusual nightmarish vision of contemporary urban life that embraces the range of social and sexual maladjustment. The narrator's calm, understated recitation of the unsavory events only heightens the horror; the fine illustrations match the surrealistic mood perfectly. An offbeat, puzzling, and disturbing work that should interest even the most jaded fans of horror fiction.