1413. Anscombe, Roderick: The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula
Published by Bloomsbury, London. 1994
1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in fine condition, it has not been price clipped and still retains the original £14.99 net price. There have never been any vampires, only terrible, tortured human beings. This is the premise of this erotic novel which creates the memoirs of Laszlo, Count Dracula - aristocrat, doctor, and helpless killer of young women. This is a tale of evil, madness and twisted sexuality.
1415. Atkins, Peter: Big Thunder
Published by HarperCollins, 1997
1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. A dark avenger from the pages of a 1930s pulp magazine, Strange Thrills, materializes in the present day streets of Manhattan. This scourge of muggers and rapists is the Blue Valentine, dressed like Fred Astaire, gentleman vigilante. But he is not the only character coming alive in modern New York, and not even his creator's fertile imagination could have prefigured the carnage to come…
2089. Atkins, Peter: Morningstar: or The Summer of Vampires
Published by HarperCollins, London, 1992
1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names the jacket is also fine and unclipped. 'FACT:' when Stephen Lumby was being slaughtered he lost as much sweat, induced by mortal terror, as he would have lost on a two-mile run. 'FACT:' although the majority of Katharine Elizabeth Ferritti was found in a deserted hardware store, smaller pieces of her were still being discovered by sewer workers up to two months after her killing. 'FACT:' Lumby, Ferritti and ten other people were all murdered in the first eleven days of June. Their ages ranged from eight to sixty-one. In each case, on the available surface nearest to the body, scrawled in the victim's blood, was a single word: 'MORNINGSTAR' Facts not released by the police: in each case, the cause of the death was rupture of the heart by a sharpened wooden stake; in each case the victim's mouth was stuffed with garlic.
1416. Bachman, Richard (pseudonym of Stephen King): The Regulators
Published by Dutton, 1996
1st US edition hardback and unclipped dust wrapper in fine condition. Poplar Street is just an ordinary street in an ordinary town, except there's something strange about Audrey Wyler's nephew. When the strange-looking vans arrive a surreal nightmare begins which threatens to turn the familiar street into a wasteland of devastation and desperation.
1417. Bachman, Richard (pseudonym of Stephen King): Thinner
Published by New English Library, 1990
Hardback, later impression. Near fine book in a very good dust wrapper with just a couple of small nicks at the top of the folds. There are no previous owner names or marks. 'Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.
1418. Bailey, Hilary: Frankenstein's Bride
Published by Simon & Schuster, 1995
1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. In Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein began to make a woman - a bride for his male creation - but then destroyed her. This sequel imagines that he actually pursued the plan.
1419. Barker, Clive: The Thief Of Always
Published by Harper Collins, 1992
Hardback 1st edition. Very near mint book and unclipped d/w. A fable, illustrated by the author. Mr Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childish whim may be satisfied. There is a price to be paid, of course, but young Harvey Swick, bored with his life and beguiled by Mr Hood's wonders, does not stop to discover the consequences. It is only when the House shows it's darker face - when Harvey discovers the pitiful creatures that dwell in its shadow - that he comes to doubt Mr Hood's philanthropy. The house and its mysterious architect are not about to release their captive without a battle, however. Mr Hood has ambitions for his new guest, for Harvey's soul burns brighter than any soul he has encountered for a thousand years…
1420. Blatty, William Peter: Legion
Published by Collins, 1983
1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation? Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between "these" crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years ago--and supposedly ended with the death of the killer?
1421. Bloch, Robert: Psycho 2
Published by Transworld (Corgi), 1982
Hardback, a very good book in an edge worn and chipped d/w which has a couple of small nicks and creases. There is some colour fading to the spine but otherwise very good. The page edges show slight browning. You remember Norman Bates - the shy motel manager with the fatal mother fixation. Now, years after his bout of butchery that horrified the world, Norman is at large again, breaking free from the psycho ward, cutting a shocking swath of blood all the way to Hollywood - where, so it happens, they are making a movie about Norman's life and crimes. A movie that suddenly and terrifyingly becomes a lot like real life...
1422. Bloch, Robert: Psycho House
Published by Robert Hale Ltd, 1995
Hardback 1st edition, fine in a fine dust wrapper. The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a recreation of the murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But now there's a new exhibit, one nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death. Among the avalanche of press and publicity is reporter Amelia Haines, true-crime book writer. She's studying the original Psycho killings and to Amy, the new murders are a golden opportunity - if she can be part of the investigation, perhaps track down the killer herself, then her fame, and her fortune, will be assured. But catching the madman won't be easy...the town is full of suspects, and Amy's best informants keep turning up murdered. If she isn't careful, Amelia Haines may be the next permanent guest at the Bates Motel...
334. Brite, Poppy Z.: Exquisite Corpse
Published by Orion, London. 1996.
1st edition hardback in dustwrapper. Both book and jacket are in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dustwrapper is not clipped retaining the original £16.99 price at the front flap. A convicted serial killer leaves his prison cell a dead man and rises again to build a new life. His journey takes him to New Orleans' French Quarter- to the decadent bars and frivolous boys that haunt the luscious dark corners of a town brought up on Voodoo and the dark arts. Anticipating a willing victim, he finds an equal, something he never expected even in his wildest dreams... "Treats the human body like a communion wafer ...A guidebook to Hell" PETER STRAUB
2162. Brite, Poppy Z.: Are You Loathsome Tonight?
Published by Gauntlet Publications. 2000
1st trade paperback edition in fine condition. This astounding collection of Poppy's short stories includes work written with Christa Faust and David Ferguson. From erotic fairy tales, to gruesome horror, this anthology contains something for every fan of Poppy Z Brite, the woman dubbed "most exciting new horror writer of the 1990's".
1423. Brookins, Dana: Soul-Eater
Published by Macdonald, London. 1987
1st edition hardback in dust wrapper. Both book and jacket are in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The authors debut novel.
1424. Calder, Robert: The Dogs
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1976
1st UK edition hardback in very good condition. The book is near fine, no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper has a couple of small closed tears at the bottom edge and very slight fading at the spine but is not price clipped and generally very good. One man and his dog, but the pup has been specially bred. To be a killer.
1425. Campbell, Ramsey: The House on Nazereth Hill
Published by Headline, 1996
1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. A ghost story about a young woman who as a child, moved into a sprawling gothic mansion, whose labyrinthine ruins used to be her unofficial playground, and where her imagination could run free, but she is about to learn that the secrets of the mansion's dark past remain.
1426. Campbell, Ramsey: Ancient Images
Published by Legend, 1989
1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. The legends have persisted for decades of a lost horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi that was never released. Rumor has it that, for reasons long forgotten, powerful forces suppressed the film and burned all known prints. Nobody now living has seen the finished film. But that might no longer be true… Film researcher Sandy Allan is invited to a screening of a newly discovered sole-surviving print, but then the film disappears and the real horror begins. Sandy's search for the film leads her to Redfield, a rural community known for its rich soil, fertilized by blood from an ancient massacre. But Redfield guards its secrets closely, with good reason. During every step of her search, Sandy is watched, shadowed by strange figures. Is it paranoia, or is someone-or something-determined to keep the lost film and the secrets it reveals buried forever?
1427. Campbell, Ramsey: To Wake the Dead
Published by Millington, 1980
1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. Published a month before the U.S. edition with a variant ending as 'The Parasite'. Twenty years after a game of Ouija ends in a ten-year-old's disappearance, Rose Tierney discovers that she has developed psychic powers that enable her to see into the future and travel without her body, but that make her vulnerable to an evil force.
2085. Campbell, Ramsey: Incarnate
Published by Granada, London, 1984
1st edition hardback in very good condition. The book leans and is a little grubby at the pages top edge. There are no previous owners etc. The jacket is also very good but slightly colour faded at the spine. An experiment in prophetic dreaming begins to go wrong and is immediately aborted. Many years' later hallucinations invade the lives of the original participants and one by one they succumb to a diabolical force that threatens more than their lives.
Published by Macdonald, London. 1989
1st UK hardback edition in fine condition. The dust wrapper is not price clipped and is also fine. There are no previous owner names or marks. From salacious witches' covens to voodoo love dolls, here are seven tales of sex and death which will leave you drained through one spasm of terror after another. Illustrated by J.K. Potter with an introduction by Clive Barker.
1429. Caveney, Philip: 1999
Published by Headline, London. 1997
1st edition hardback. The pages are slightly browned otherwise both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. Manchester approaching the Millennium is a violent city which is succumbing to the deadly delights of Warp, a designer hallucinogenic. When Will Ambrose's son dies after taking the drug he determines to find out who controls its supply. He soon finds himself on a bad trip into his worst nightmare.
2092. Clark, Simon: Hotel Midnight: A Collection of Short Stories
Published by Robert Hale, London. 2005
1st edition hardback in fine/as new, unmarked condition. The unclipped dust wrapper is also fine. A collection of short stories that showcase the astonishing imagination of Simon Clark. These are tales that journey into places unseen, where everyday objects can draw a cold finger of fear down the spine. Here, there are no barriers. A man might step out of his back door to find his garden had been replaced by primordial forest. Or track how the two detectives investigating a brutal murder tackle their case in a surprisingly unorthodox way. In the award-winning Goblin City Lights, we follow Jack Constantine as he learns about another London hidden from everyday view: one with its own teeming population hell-bent on trapping the unwary. And visit the Electra Suite, a trio of nerve-twisting stories that have fed on the lifeblood of Simon Clark's bestselling novel, Vampyrrhic. Welcome one and all. This is Hotel Midnight where every room has a view to die for.
Published by Barrie & Jenkins, 1989
1st edition hardback in fine condition in a fine dust wrapper. A chilling tale of suspense and ancient horror set in the Western Highlands of Scotland. It involves journalist Nick Ryan who returns to his roots in the little Highland town of Arden to start a new career as a novelist.
1430. Douglas, John: Zoo Event
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1996
1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. The story of an impenetrable black dome that envelopes a peaceful town. The only refuge from the horrors of this dome is a mysterious central light force and the fight is on to reach this.
FAERIE TALE
1987 GRAFTON
HARDBACK
REPRINT. VERY GOOD+ BOOK AND UNCLIPPED D/W. JACKET ONLY SLIGHTLY RUBBED AT THE EDGES. PAGE EDGES BROWNING. DON MAITZ WRAP-AROUND ILLUSTRATED D/W. FANTASY MEETS TERROR FROM THE AUTHOR OF "MAGICIAN".
1432. Fowler, Christopher: The Bureau of Lost Souls
Published by Century, 1989 Hardback
1st edition. Very good+ in a very good unclipped dust wrapper. This is a collection of tales of urban paranoia about desperate people in seemingly ordinary situations - workers in offices and friends in pubs, husbands and wives in apartments and houses. All of them the most unlikely people to find themselves trapped within their personal vision of hell.
1433. Fowler, Christopher: Red Bride
Published by Little, Brown & Co, 1992
Hardback 1st edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. John Temple is 29, has a loving wife and son, a comfortable home and a promising career. Then he meets the beautiful, mysterious Ixora, and his life starts to change disturbingly. Despite good intentions, he finds himself embarking on an affair. But violence and death track the ill-fated couple.
Published by Harper Collins, 1997
1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. When long-distance truck driver Josh Spiller pulls into the small backwater town of Furnace, Virginia, he has a lot on his mind. He's been driving for thirty-six hours straight after busting up with his pregnant girlfriend; he's tired and hungry, and all he wants is to get some breakfast and rest up. But Furnace has something special in store for Josh. Amongst the surprisingly affluent houses, the neat streets and smartly-dressed townsfolk lurks the stuff of living nightmare. A sequence of events is about to be unleashed that will test Josh to the edge of his endurance. A world of sorcery and malice is waiting to gather him in. For behind the prosperity of Furnace lie terrible secrets; and a terrifying fate in store for those who take an unwarranted interest. Even now, as Josh searches for a place to stop, his electric-blue Peterbilt roaring through the gears, the eyes of the town are upon him. The nightmare is beginning…
2213. Harris, Charlaine: Dead Reckoning
Published by Gollancz, London. 2011
Hardback 1st edition. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in fine condition. There is a publisher's publicity sticker to the front but there are no previous owner names or other marks. There's a reckoning on the way . . . . . . and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble's way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but before she can investigate something else - something even more dangerous - comes up. Sookie's lover Eric Northman and his 'child' Pam are plotting something in secret. Whatever it is, they seem determined to keep Sookie out of it; almost as determined as Sookie is to find out what's going on. She can't sit on the sidelines when both her work and her love life under threat - but as she's gradually drawn into their plans Sookie finds the situation is deadlier than she could ever have imagined.
1435. Harris, Steve: Angels
Published by Headline, London. 1993
1st edition hardback. Near fine in condition being only slightly rubbed and chipped at the dust wrapper edges. There are no previous owner names or marks. The jacket is not clipped and retains the original £16.99 price to the front flap.
1436. Herbert, James: Domain
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1991
1st thus, new edition, hardback. Fine in a fine dust wrapper. The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. Has become their prey.... Remember with fear
1437. Herbert, James: Moon
Published by New English Library, 1985
1st edition hardback, both book and dust wrapper are in near very good condition. The book leans and the jacket is rubbed at the edges. The nightmare begins before you sleep.... He had fled from the terrors of his past, finding refuge in the quietness of the island. And for a time he lived in peace. Until the 'sightings' began, visions of horror seeping into his mind like poisonous tendrils, violent acts that were hideously macabre, the thoughts becoming intense. He witnessed the grotesque acts of another thing, a thing that glorified in murder and mutilation, a monster that soon became aware of the observer within its own mind. And relished contact. A creature that would eventually come to the island to seek him out....
1438. Herbert, James: '48
Published by Harper Collins, 1996
Hardback 1st edition. Very good in a very good unclipped dust wrapper. In 1945, Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke, an American pilot and one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease, has survived alone among the debris and the dead of London for three years. Now, in 1948, a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a transfusion of blood from one of Hoke's kind. Ever more desperate as their deaths approach, they're after his blood.
1626. Herbert, James: The Dark
Published by New English Library, 1980
1st reprint UK hardback. The dust wrapper is a bit colour faded at the spine otherwise both book and jacket would be near fine in condition. It was a very ordinary-looking house. A Victorian grey brick building in a quiet suburban street. That's what Bishop thought, before he saw the man dangling obscenely in the stairwell, felt the almost physical blackness from the cellar, the claustrophobic terror, and had fled, screaming, into the daylight. Thirty-seven hideously mutilated bodies were found inside.
2439. Herbert, James: Shrine
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1993
UK hardback, 2nd impression. Fine in a near fine unclipped dust wrapper. A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the Immaculate Conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old. Innocence and evil have become one.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1988
1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. The book leans slightly and the pages are a little browned at the edges. There are no previous owner names. The dust wrapper is also very good and unclipped. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting will be victim of horrifying and maleficent games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed.... And the true nightmare will begin Remember with Fear!