1439. Hill, Joe: 20th Century Ghosts

Published by Gollancz, London. 2007

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star, and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected . . . but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead. . .

1440. Hill, Joe: Heart-Shaped Box

Published by Gollancz, London. 2007

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. 'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it: because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books and all the rest of the paraphernalia that goes along with his kind of hard/Goth rock. But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life . . .

1444. Holland, Tom: Deliver Us from Evil

Published by Little Brown, 1997

1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with satanic rituals at Stonehenge. The return of a notoriously wicked Cavalier, signalling the impending royalist restoration, leads to a terrible tragedy for the Vaughan's. Robert's flight from his violent, terrifying past leads him to Restoration London, where he works as scribe for Milton, and where he survives the Plague and the Great Fire. But Robert is led along a dark path, to vampirism and beyond, as he devotes himself to gaining the powers that will enable him to fight an evil killer of seemingly satanic powers. He will travel the globe, from the ancient ghetto of Prague to the virgin forest of the New World, as he aims to gain revenge on those who betrayed him.

408. Holmes, Ronald (Editor): Macabre Railway Stories

Published by WH Allen & Co Ltd, London, 1982

1st edition hardback with green cloth boards is in near fine condition, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dustwrapper is in very good condition and is not price clipped. The book is in a protective clear plastic. Ronald Holmes has selected sixteen stories which explore the full potential of the genre Charles Dickens so astutely identified - from the early Gothic eeriness of steam-filled stations, to the uncanny obsessions railways continue to inspire in child and adult alike. They include stories by Lionel T.C.Rolt, Amelia B. Edwards, Roy Vickers, Charles Collins, John Edgell, A.Noyes, Harry Harrison, Paul Tabori and Jack Finney.'It is my most earnest request that readers do NOT read this book while travelling by rail. For when the train, screaming fearfully, hurtles into a dark noisome tunnel, horror comes and the cold skeletal hand of fear touches the nape of the neck, and dark things press against the windows and scratch to get in' - Ronald Holmes

2247. Hutson, Shaun: Relics

Published by W.H.Allen, London. 1986

1st edition hardback. A fine book in a very good dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is slightly sunned at the spine and has red dye from the boards along the top inner edge. It is not clipped but shows no price. A series of murders in which the victims are horrifically mutilated is triggered by the archaeological discovery of a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children. Investigations reveal the possibility of an even greater evil.

2064. Hutson, Shaun: Spawn

Published by Macdonald, London, 1992

1st thus, hardback edition in very good condition. Boldly signed by the author at the title page, there are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is a little worn and rubbed otherwise unclipped and very good. A horror novel originally published in 1983. Released from a mental hospital where he has spent all his adult life, Harold Pierce is given a job as a hospital porter. But that job involves the disposal of aborted foetuses, something which brings back nightmare memories of Harold's accidental killing of his baby brother years before. A time of trauma and terror has begun, terror heightened by the escape from prison of convicted killer Paul Harvey who, hunted by the police, embarks on a murderous rampage. Pierce and Harvey, both disturbed, are about to unleash a terror beyond belief.

2326. Hutson, Shaun: Slugs

Published by W.H. Allen, London, 1988

Hardback, reprint of the 1982 1st edition. Both book and dust wrapper are in very good condition. There are no previous owner names. They slime, they ooze, they kill... One female slug can lay one and half million eggs a year- a fact which holds terrifying consequences for the people of Merton. As the town basks in the summer heat, a new breed of slug is growing and multiplying. In the waist-high grass, in the dank, dark cellars they are acquiring new tastes, new cravings. For blood. For flesh. Human flesh...

294. Jordan, Lee (pseudonym of Alan Scholefield): Cat's Eyes

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, london, 1981

1st edition hardback in very good condition.Front endpaper has a little writing on it. The dust wrapper is in very good condition.The author's first pseudonymous thriller. A screech of brakes on wet tarmac .. a cat fleetingly seen .. then a crash .. These were the beginnings of the nightmare for Rachel Chater. Still convalescing after the accident and her husband abroad on business, she is left with her baby in an austere Sussex farmhouse, with only an unfriendly children's nurse and a hallf-witted daily help for company. Rachel, is a stranger to this isolated part of the Sussex Downs, and when a series of unexplained and menacing events occur, her nervousness turns to terror. At the heart of her fear is the growing belief that the cat, which caused the accident and which was itself injured, is somehow trying to avenge itself on her. Or is it? At night she hears it clawing and scratching against the house; but it is a human hand that taps at the window, a human face that presses against the glass: the face of a dead man - the man she killed.

1447. King, Stephen: Cycle of the Werewolf

Published by New English Library, 1985

1st edition paperback, very good with Berni Wrightson's superb illustrations accentuating King's prose. When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated.

1446. King, Stephen: 'Salem's Lot

Published by New English Library, London. 1976

A scarce, fine, 1st UK edition hardback. Complete with a fine dust wrapper, clipped but retaining the original publishers £4.50 price sticker at the front flap, the gloss undiminished with no fading in sight. There is the usual slight browning of the pages with some light spotting at the edges otherwise I would be listing this book as mint. There are no previous owner names, inscriptions or marks. A superbly well preserved copy of this stunning vampire novel. The black boards are immaculate and as clean as the day the book came off the presses. The spine is tight and unmarked, the gold lettering unblemished. Overall an excellent item in superbly fine condition. Stephen King's second novel, 'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.

732. King, Stephen: Christine

Published by Viking, 1983

Hardback 1st US edition. Very good book in very good+ unclipped d/w. Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down, but not finished. There was still power in her - a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corroded the mind and turned ownership into Possession. The basis for John Carpenter's movie adaptation of the same name.

802. King, Stephen: Firestarter

Published by Macdonald, London, 1980

1st UK hardback edition. Pages yellowed otherwise very good, no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is also very good, just a little rubbed at the edges with a chip at the front fold. Unclipped but no price shown. 'You're a firestarter honey....just one big zippo lighter'. A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift. A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy . . .

1448. King, Stephen: The Bachman Books

Published by New English Library, London. 1986

2nd impression UK hardback. There is some browning at the page edges and the unclipped dust wrapper is a little rubbed but overall very good+ in condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. 4 novels in one volume: Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork and The Running Man.

1449. King, Stephen: Pet Sematary

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1983

1st edition hardback and dust wrapper in near fine condition. The book leans a little otherwise fine. The jacket is not clipped but shows no price. There are no previous owner names or marks. The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed. A place where his family could settle and the children could grow up and explore the rolling hills and meadows. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding.

1450. King, Stephen: Rosemadder

Published by Viking, 1995

1st US hardback and unclipped dust wrapper in fine or better condition, as new. There are no previous owner names or marks. Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realization that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight. She begins to build a new life, but her husband is getting closer.

1451. King, Stephen: The Shining

Published by New English Library, London. 1986

Hardback, third impression of the 1977 1st UK edition. The book leans slightly but is generally very good in condition; there are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is worn at the edges with a couple of closed tears and chipped at the tips. It is also faded at the spine. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive? Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel - and that, too, is beginning to shine . . .

1452. King, Stephen: 'Salem's Lot

Published by New English Library, London. 1986

Hardback, fourth impression in very good in condition. There is slight browning of the page edges but no previous owner names or other marks. The dust wrapper is price clipped but has no fading. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdo's and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size.Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow.Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror...

1453. King, Stephen: Misery

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1987

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard's She. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him.

1454. King, Stephen: The Tommyknockers

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1988

Hardback 1st UK edition. Unclipped d/w has a small water stain to bottom of rear panel otherwise very good. The book is very good although page edges are a little browned. Set in Maine, this story concerns Bobbi who has developed telepathic powers. A spaceship landed at the bottom of her garden and when it is uncovered, the citizens of Haven metamorphose into increasingly bizarre and dangerous creatures.

1455. King, Stephen: Hearts in Atlantis

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1999

Hardback 1st edition. Very nr mint book & unclipped d/w. 5 interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In 'Low Men in Yellow Coats' 11-year-old Bobby discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest ... and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In 'Blind Willie' and 'Why we're in Vietnam', two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era. And in 'Heavenly Shades of Night are Falling' Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.

1456. King, Stephen: Four Past Midnight

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1990

Hardback 1st edition. Previous owner name and inscription to front endpaper. Page edges a little dusty otherwise very good book and unclipped d/w. At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger! The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. Four Past Midnight: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity . . .

1457. King, Stephen: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1999

Hardback 1st edition. Book leans very slightly otherwise fine in a fine unclipped d/w. 'The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.' Trisha McFarland discovers this when she is nine years old. Trying not to be terrified. Trying not to think that sometimes when people get lost in the woods they get seriously hurt. Sometimes they die. In Trisha's panic to get back on the track, she takes turnings which lead her deeper and deeper into the woods. The only thing that keeps her going is her Walkman on which she listens avidly to Red Sox baseball games, creating an imaginary friendship with her hero Tom Gordon. And as she struggles for survival and a way out, she realises she's not alone. There's something else in the woods - and it's watching her...

1458. King, Stephen: The Dark Half

Published by Viking, 1989

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be... The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet . . . the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.

348. King, Stephen: Gerald's Game

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1992.

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks and the dustwrapper is not clipped, retaining the original £14.99 net price to the front flap. Alone in their bedroom, Jessie and Gerald Burlingame are playing a game of trust and control. But when her husband takes the game too far by handcuffing her to a bedpost, Jessie lashes out--with deadly results. But now she is trapped, with no way to escape the deathly quiet of the room. Over the next twenty-eight hours, Jessie will come face-to-face with her most terrifying nightmares that exist in the last place she would ever look...her mind!

806. King, Stephen: Song of Susannah

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2004

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is a small puncture in the front gulley halfway down and a corresponding hole in the unclipped dust wrapper otherwise fine. This, a pivotal installment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called "Salem's Lot". Song of Susannah is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues The Dark Tower series seamlessly from Wolves Of The Calla and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.

23. King, Stephen: Everything's Eventual

Published by Scribner, New York. 2002.

1st US edition hardback in fine/unread condition. Unclipped dust wrapper and no previous owner names or other marks. 14 Dark Tales including "Riding the Bullet".

2251. King, Stephen: Skeleton Crew

Published by Macdonald, London. 1985

1st edition hardback. A very good book in a very good dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is not clipped. In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, we meet: a woman who has never crossed The Reach, the water dividing her from the mainland; a gramma(grandma) who only wants to hug little George, even after she is dead; an innocent looking toy with sinister powers; and a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite.

2289. King, Stephen: Joyland

Published by Hard Case Crime/Titan, London. 2013

1st edition. A paperback original of this latest tale from the master of macabre. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Condition is fine/as new.

1459. Koontz, Dean R.: Watchers

Published by Headline, 1987

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. They escape from a secret government: two mutant creatures both changed utterly from the animals they once were. And no one who encounters them will ever be the same again: a lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent. Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards an evil beyond human imagining.

1460. Koontz, Dean: From the Corner of His Eye

Published by Headline, 2000

Hardback 1st edition. Very near fine book and unclipped d/w. The jacket is only slightly rubbed at the top edge and the front board has a thumb nail sized damp spot which is hardly noticeable. Bartholomew Lampion was blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly removed his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regained his sight when he was thirteen. This sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the glory of light was not brought about by a holy healer. No celestial trumpets announced the restoration of his vision, just as none had announced his birth. A rollercoaster had something to do with his recovery, as did a seagull. And you can't discount Barty's profound desire to make his mother proud of him before she died. The first time she died was the day Barty was born. January 6, 1965.

1542. Koontz, Dean R.: The Mask

Published by Headline, London, 1989

1st edition hardback. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in near fine condition. She had appeared out of nowhere...in the middle of traffic, on a busy day, in front of Carol's car. A teenager with no past, no family - and no memories. Carol and Paul were instantly drawn to her, this girl they named Jane - she was the daughter they never had. It was almost too good to be true. Then the haunting began - ghastly sounds in the dark of night; a bloody face in the mirror; a dim but persistent sense of fear...and the déjà vu. Where had Jane come from? Was she just an orphan in need of love? Or was she hiding a more sinister purpose?

2390. Koontz, Dean R.: Strangers

Published by Guild Publishing, London. 1986

1st thus, UK hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names. The dust wrapper is a little rubbed at the top edge with a small tear at the top of the front corner. A surgeon, a writer, a motel-keeper, a priest and a thief; they have nothing in common - nothing but one hot summer night at the Tranquillity Motel: a night filled with unending terror; a night when an awesome power stripped them of their memories. Now the evil is creeping back into their minds. Slowly, tauntingly, maddeningly they are recalling the unspeakable events of that fateful moonlit evening. And as the vision of evil grows clearer, the guests of the Tranquillity Motel seek each other out. Some of them will not live to face the power head on. But some will - in a terror-packed climax unlike anything ever experienced before...

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1995

1st edition UK hardback in fine condition. Page edges a little tanned otherwise fine. The dust wrapper is also fine and not clipped. There are no previous owner names or marks. No one has seen Jack Draegerman for 20 years. He lives in a huge fortress known as "The Rock", its interior a crazy structure of labyrinthine, descending corridors, with no way out. But now he has summoned seven apparently unconnected men to visit him, and he's prepared to pay for the privilege.

Published by Souvenir Press, London. 1990

1st edition UK hardback in very good condition. Boards bottom corners bumped, overall very good. The dust wrapper is also very good but clipped. There are no previous owner names. This is the story of Eddie, just out of prison - whose quiet family life changes after the brutal killing of his wife and children. Carnage and horror in gangland, realised by the author of 'Ghost Train', 'Specter' and 'Wyrm'.

171. Laymon, Richard: Darkness, Tell Us

Published by Headline, London. 1991.

1st edition hardback in very good condition. There is a slight lean to the book, the pages are a little browned and there is light wear at the top and bottom edges of the unclipped dust wrapper otherwise fine. No previous owner names or marks. Uncommon.

1461. Laymon, Richard: Midnight's Lair

Published by Headline, 1992

Hardback reprint book is in very good condition, just see first signs of foxing/browning to page edges, and it has no previous owner names or inscriptions. The unclipped dust wrapper is in very good condition. The story was previously published under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. Mordock's Cave is a natural wonder, and thousands of tourists take the boat trip on the lake deep beneath the earth's surface. After a power failure, a group of tourists become trapped, and, emerging from the depths come the creatures that dwell there - creatures that nature never intended.

1462. Laymon, Richard: Flesh

Published by W.H. Allen, 1987

Hardback 1st edition. Very good in a very good unclipped d/w. Jacket is a little rubbed with a stain to inside bottom edge. The book has slight shelf wear along the bottom edge. No one in town has ever seen anything like it; a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh - but what it makes you do to others.

1414. McCauley, Kirby (editor): Dark Forces

Published by Macdonald, London. 1980

1st UK edition hardback in very good condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. This is the ultimate feast of fear by a host of horror writers such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, and others. Twenty-four macabre tales include the nerve-twisting novelette The Mist by Stephen King.

1464. Monahan, Brent: The Blood of the Covenant

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1996

Hardback 1st edition. Very good+ in a very good+ d/w. The jacket is only slightly rubbed and the page edges are a little browned. Following on from "The Book of Common Dread", the vampire DeVilbiss is dead and Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen are on the run, scrolls in tow. An ancient vampire, the last of his kind, has been sent in pursuit, but it may be too late even for him to keep the vampire's existence a secret.

1465. Myers, Robert J.: The Cross of Frankenstein

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 1975

1st edition hardback, fine in a fine dust wrapper. A continuation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

2050. Newman, Kim: The Bloody Red Baron

Published by Carroll & Graf, New York, 1995

1st edition US hardback in fine condition. The dustwrapper is also fine and not clipped. It is 1918, and Dracula has returned as commander-in-chief of the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary. His desire for power leads to World War I, and caught in the conflict are an intelligence officer, a vampire journalist, the resurrected Edgar Allan Poe, and the infamous Baron von Richthofen.

324. Newman, Kim: Dracula Cha Cha Cha

UK 1st edition hardback in fine, as new condition. Rome 1959. Along the Via Veneto, the living and the dead enjoy la dolce vita, as the vampires, intellectuals, conspirators, jet-setters and swindlers of Europe gather in an endless round of indulgence and gaiety, dancing giddily to the music of the Dracula Cha Cha Cha. The Vampire King, in Italian exile, is to be married to a Moldavian princess, and rumours circulate that his wedding will be the first move in a campaign to return him to his position as Lord of the Undead and a power in the world. In the eternal city, three corpses in the Fontana di Trevi lead three vampire women towards the destinies of their hearts. A flamboyant murderer stalks the elder vampires of the city, perhaps intent on wrecking the Royal Marriage; an undead British secret agent with a license to kill is swept up in a titanic conflict with the supernatural agents of SMERSH; a living American opportunist sees a way of surviving as a parasite upon the dead; and a creature older even than Count Dracula is awakened to decide the fates of lovers and monsters.

1552. Rice, Anne: Memnoch the Devil

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1995

1st edition UK hardback in fine condition. Complete in a fine, unclipped dust wrapper. Page edges slightly darkened with age otherwise fine. Book 5 in the Vampire Chronicles series. Satan has come to New Orleans with an enticing proposition. Under the name Memnoch this lord of darkness takes Lestat on a tour through the boundaries of space and time, offering an alternative and personalised account of the Bible, exploring the events which shaped our world. Their journey comes to an apocalyptic conclusion in hell, from which Lestat returns frail and broken. The experience has shattered his perceptions of the known Universe, but can you ever trust the Devil?

1553. Rice, Anne: The Vampire Armand

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1998

1st edition UK hardback in fine condition. Complete in a very good, unclipped dust wrapper. There is a scuff at the bottom edge of the dust wrapper spine area, the book is not affected. Book 6 in the Vampire Chronicles series. This angel-faced killer was snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice. From there Armand's story spans several hundred years, culminating in a visit to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century. Here his victims await either death or immortality. But once there his own existence comes into question when he must chose between salvation and his immortal soul...

2195. Rice, Anne: The Queen of the Damned: Vampire Chronicles (Book 3)

Published by Macdonald, London. 1989

1st edition UK hardback. The book is in very good condition, page edges are browned as is usual with this edition. The dust wrapper too is very good being a little rubbed and worn at the edges with some chipping at the tips but unclipped. There are no previous owner names. After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.

2404. Rice, Anne: Servant of the Bones

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1996

1st edition hardback in very good condition, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions. The dust wrapper is also in very good condition and is not price clipped or faded. There is only slight browning of the page edges and light wear at the wrapper edges. The creator of fantastic universes of vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

1466. Saxon, Peter: Dark Ways to Death

Published by Howard Baker, 1968

Hardback 1st edition. Very good in very good- unclipped d/w. D/w chipped and edge worn with small sticker removal damage to front. Occult novel about a group of people known as the Guardians who pledge to war against Satanism, Black Magic and Witchcraft.

1467. Schow, David J.: The Kill Riff

Published by Macdonald, 1989

Hardback 1st edition. Near fine book in a very good+ unclipped dust wrapper. Jacket is just slightly rubbed and chipped at the tips. This is the author's first novel the background of which is the L. A. rock music and advertising scenes. Lucas Ellington's daughter, Kristen, is crushed to death at a rock concert held by "Whip Hand", the baddest band around. Returning to the world after a year in psychiatric care, Lucas decides to kill the band members one by one.

300. Simmons, Dan: Children of the Night

Published by Headline, London. 1992.

1st edition hardback. The book is fine and the unclipped dustwrapper would be but for a small 10cm tear to the front bottom hinge. A Romanian infant who flourishes when given the wrong blood transfusion could hold the key to a cure for AIDS and cancer, but he also shares an intimate link to a clan of vampires.

1468. Sloane, William: To Walk the Night

Published by The World Publishing Co, 1946

Hardback, 1st tower books edition. Very good in a very good slightly chipped d/w. A terrifying novel of death and the supernatural.

198. Stoker, Bram:

The Jewel of Seven Stars

Published by Desert Island Books, Essex. 1996.

1st thus. Hardback in very good condition. The book has been slightly bumped at the corners otherwise fine with no previous owner names or marks. There are some slight surface marks to the unclipped dust wrapper but generally very tidy.
Complete and unabridged. Introduced, annotated, and edited by Clive Leatherhead. Part of the Desert Island Dracula Library series.

961. Straub, Peter: Mystery

Published by Grafton, 1990

1st edition hardback in very good condition. The dust wrapper is also very good. On the tiny Caribbean island of Mill Walk, the rich play tennis, polo and golf, trying to ignore the distasteful realities of life. So when Tom Pasmore, the grandson of a powerful establishment figure, develops a passion for detective work - particularly murder cases - his reputation undergoes a subtle darkening. One murder in particular fascinates Tom - the 1925 killing of Jeanine Thielman at Eagle Lake, a resort patronized only by the cream of the island's upper crust community. But when he starts investigating the case, Tom arouses much more than mere disapproval. On the edge of a web of corruption, deceit and violence, he is in danger of uncovering the darkest secrets of the people who own and run Mill Walk.

960. Straub, Peter: Shadowland

Published by Collins, 1981

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. This tale of supernatural horror from the author of "Koko", "The Talisman" and "Mr X." concerns two boys at a New England boarding school. Del introduces Tom to his world of magic tricks. But at Shadowland - Del's uncle's lakeside estate - their hobby suddenly takes on much more sinister tones.

1442. Sullivan, Eleanor (editor): Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Scare You Stiff

Published by Max Reinhardt, London, 1981

1st UK hardback edition. Slightly browned page edges otherwise fine book and dust wrapper. Twenty-seven tales in all: each one calculated to startle, shock, dismay and appal you in just the way you associate with Alfred Hitchcock.

1441. Sullivan, Eleanor (editor): Alfred Hitchcock's Tales to Take Your Breath Away

Published by Max Reinhardt, London, 1982

1st UK hardback edition. Small stain to the foot of the rear board, page edges a little grubby otherwise very good. The dust wrapper is rubbed at the edges and folds but generally very good and not faded. Contributions from almost 30 authors including Robert Bloch, Bill Pronzini, Jack Ritchie.

1471. Winter, Douglas E. (editor): Prime Evil

Published by Bantam, 1988

1st edition hardback, very good in a very good dust wrapper. Contributors include Clive Barker, Jack Cady, Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, Peter Straub.

2255. Winterson, Jeanette: The Daylight Gate

Published by Hammer/Arrow, London. 2012

1st edition hardback. A fine book in a fine dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is not clipped there are no previous owner names or marks. A wonderfully atmospheric, intricately woven, magical modern-day tale of the Pendle Witches. The animosity and anger between the accused and the accusers -- which tore the community apart in the seventeenth century -- is still going strong in the present day. A couple go to Pendle and the woman is caught up in the legend that has haunted the area for centuries.

295. Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn: Cautionary Tales

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1980

1st UK edition hardback in very good condition, front endpaper has a closed tear, there are no previous owner names or inscriptions, the dustwrapper is in very good condition with minimal shelfwear, it has not been price clipped and still retains the £6.50 net price.Chilling tales full of alien beauty or terror. Each is unique. "Into My Own" is a story which takes please inside the head of an aging playwright in a hospital bed, trying to resign himself to giving up his soul to an organic computer. "Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair" deals with the problems which a lady ghoul faces when she attempts to gain access to the city morgue. And in "Fellini Beggar" Ms. Yarbo highlights one of the unifying themes of this volume, the magic mystery of beauty and love surviving, however doomed, against all odds. Also includes "Everything That Begins with an "M"", "Frog Pond", "Un Bel Di", "Lammas Night", "The Meaning of the Word", "The Generalissimo"s Butterfly", "Allies", "Dead in Irons", "Swan Song" and "An Indulgence". She is the recipient of the Fine Foundation Award for Literary Achievement (1993) and (along with Fred Saberhagen) was awarded the Knightly Order of the Brasov Citadel by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula in 1997. In 1995 Yarbro was the only novelist guest of the Romanian government for the First World Dracula Congress, sponsored by the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, the Romanian Bureau of Tourism and the Romanian Ministry of Culture. She has been nominated for the Edgar, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards and was the first female president of the Horror Writers Association.