An artist painting a German village from a nearby hillside is interrupted by a distraught woman. During the brief encounter, she comments on the surplus of red in the work. Subsequent visits bring an increasingly darker hue to his painting as he is drawn into her provocative world. When he takes it upon ... more »

On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything ... more »

Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night--whatever you call him--Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest ... more »

Blood will curdle in Calcutta. In the most crime-ridden city, nightmares become real and evil is defined by frightening occurrences. When an American family finds themselves encircled by the terrors of this land, lurid events befall them and life takes on a new meaning - death. Winner of the World Fantasy ... more »

One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling ... more »

Harker Lee is a survivor. His mind withstands the threat of insanity and the pressure of imprisonment. His lifelong struggle to keep mind and body together in the face of the hostile environment of the maximum-security block is struggle against the society of his fellow men. But that society can still ... more »

There are no words... Holly Summers is deaf, but she hears thanks to her immense talent for lip-reading. A child welfare officer, Holly moonlights for the Portland, Oregon, police, using her unique gift to aid in criminal investigations -- including one into the case of a recent string of women who have ... more »

A PROFOUND AND COSMIC WEREWOLF MASTERPIECE! Considered one of the most sophisticated and imaginative novels of lycanthropy ever written, Jessie Douglas Kerruish's spellbinder is the story of the Hammand family, which for centuries has been the prey of an undying monster that wreaks a hideous death on ... more »

Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzzle, and punish every crime. For nearly as long, the ... more »

Je vous dédie ce livre, qui vous revient de droit; en m'ouvrant votre érudition et votre bibliothèque, vous m'avez fait croire que j'étais savant et que je connaissais assez l'antique Égypte pour la décrire; sur vos pas je me suis promené dans les temples, dans les palais, dans les hypogées, dans la ... more »

In the mansion that houses the Senetsky School of the Performing Arts in New York City, four girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and Honey, the first-rate violinist. At Madame Senetsky's mansion ... more »

TRAPPED IN THE MESHES OF THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS Here is a keystone work in the development of the modern horror novel first published in the early 1960s. When Ambrose Sampson dies, everyone in the family considered him the next-best thing to a saint, including his college-grad nephew, Hal. So Hal is ... more »