A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Barker fans may breathe a sigh of relief. That the Walt Disney Company is paying $8 million for ancillary rights to the author's forthcoming for-all-ages novel series, The Arabat Quartet (first volume due out in 2002), doesn't mean the British master of dark fantasy has lost his savage bite. Barker's new novel is a ferocious indictment of (and backhanded tribute to) Hollywood Babylon, depicted through Barker's glorious im... View More...
A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. It is 1916 in the Hollywood of Theda Bara and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and silent film star Katya Lupi receives a magnificent gift: an entire room constructed of hand-painted tiles removed from a Romanian monastery and installed, piece by piece, on her Hollywood estate. Not only is the room an aesthetic masterpiece but it is also possessed by the Devil. Katya, a woman of strong desires and appetites, quickly learns ... View More...
Los Angeles--City of Angels, city of dreams. But sometimes the dreams becom e nightmares. Having fled New York, Victor Renquist and his small group of Nosferatu are striving to reestablish their Colony in Los Angeles. They have become a dee per, darker part of the city's nightlife. And Hollywood's glitterati are ho t on the scent of a new thrill, one that outshines all others--immortality. But someone, somewhere, is meddling with even darker powers, powers that ev en the Nosferatu fear. Someone is attempting to summon the entity of ancien t evil known at Cthulhu. And Renquist must overcome dis... View More...
Los Angeles, City of Angels, city of dreams. But sometimes the dreams can b ecome nightmares.Victor Renquist, centuries-old Master of a small group of Nosferatu, is working to establish the Colony in L.A. after leaving New Yor k just one step ahead of exposure.Renquist is uneasy. Ancient instincts war n him that someone is meddling with dark powers. The Council of Nine, the g overning board of Apogee, a highly successful quasi-religious cult, is atte mpting to summon Cthulhu. Renquist must find a way to stop them -- and also solve the problem of the Darklost, a human brought part-way along the... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Amanda Feral, a newly turned zombie trying to make her way through Seattle's undead scene while satisfying her craving for human flesh, discovers that someone or something is determined to turn the underworld into a place of true terror. Original. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful d eath From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the fa voured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality o ne more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to k now Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but... View More...
Rachel's request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She had never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was struck down in a traffic accident. His death was instantaneous. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric's body disappeared from the morgue - and Rachel was stalke d by someone who looked like her dead husband...Shadowfires. View More...
Published pseudonymously in 1985, Koontz has revised this thriller portrayi ng a pediatric psychiatrist's attempts to unravel the mental trauma suffere d by her estranged nine-year-old daughter. View More...
Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to th e smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and il lusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of h orror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying styl e lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror. View More...
A highly collectible first edition/tight clean copy, protected in a new bro dart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Blackwood Farm introduces Quinn Blackwood, the sexy, eccentric young gentleman who becomes both a vampire and the heir to the Blackwood estate. All his life, Quinn has been haunted by Goblin, a doppelgänger no one else can see--or believe in. But Goblin is real, and he is becoming maliciously tangible, strengthened by the blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation from his increasingly dangerous d... View More...
A wonderful tight clean copy, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this i s not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. "At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres, a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reigned in the shadowy world where African and French - the dark and the white - intermingled. Her ancestors are the great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing - and from whom she inherits the power and the magical knowledge of a Circe." "Into this exotic realm comes D... View More...
Departing from her Vampire and Mayfair Witches chronicles, bestselling auth or Anne Rice tales takes us into the Biblical world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Serv ant of the Bones. Journeying from ancient Babylon to the Europe of the Blac k Death and into the modern world, Azriel -- ghost, genii, demon, angel, an d pure spirit made visible -- pours out his heart to us as he confronts, am idst the towers of Manhattan, his human origins and the terrible, dark forc es that seek to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction. View More...
In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also desc ended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of t hem--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave , privilege and oppression, passion and pain. View More...
If neatness counts for you, don't count on Anne Rice's musical-ghost novel Violin. It is an eruption of the author's personal demons, as messy as the monster bursting from that poor fellow's chest in the movie Alien. Like Ric e, the heroine Triana lives in New Orleans, mourns a dead young daughter an d a drunken mother, and is subject to uncanny visions. A violin-virtuoso gh ost named Stefan time-trips and globetrots with Triana, taunting her for he r inability to play his Stradivarius--which echoes composer Salieri's jealo usy in Amadeus and possibly Rice's jealousy of her successful poet hus... View More...
Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becomes convinced it represents the city of his dreams, where ice skaters turn quintuple loo ps and trumpeters hit impossibly high notes.... where the girl of his dream s will agree to see him again. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares? Carl meets Annie Risk and falls for her. Hurt by a recent relationship, she resists becoming involved. A chance find offers distraction. Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becom... View More...
A seance held in an aristocratic London home goes horribly awry when one of the undead nosferatu appear. The resulting chaos leaves one of the fraudul ent spiritualists dead, Sherlock Holmes missing, and Dr. Watson alone and m ystified. With time running out, Watson has no choice but to summon the onl y one who might be able to help--Holmes' vampire cousin, Prince Dracula. View More...
Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle . The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dyin g is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in t he public consciousness for five years. "Today won't end it...I'm sorry I w on't be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong abou t me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband follo wing his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is... View More...
What is the truth about recently orphaned Joey Wilkenson's strange behavior and the increasing number of gruesomely butchered bodies turning up in Sug arloaf, Idaho? The reader who appreciates a leisurely developed work of psy chological terror will be rewarded by John Saul's methodical tightening of the thumbscrew. View More...
Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the inno cent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. N eilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening t o the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In b loodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark o rder of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulat ing these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supe... View More...
