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February 2002 Catalog - Horror
* BEASTS OF BRAHM by Mark Hansom - Midnight House HC. An eerie mystery that blends the genres of the whodunit with supernatural horror. (OK, I fess up - this one hasn't arrived yet, but we're expecting it today or tomorrow -
long before you'll get this catalog. Hard to do a good write-up, though.) No - wait - it just came in, so moments before the catalog rolls out of here... Originally published in 1937, briefly reprinted in 1940, this book has been virtually unobtainable until now. The first of a series of books that Midnight House will be doing to bring the work of Mark Hansom back into print. I found the extensive introduction by John Pelan almost as engaging as the novel itself, quite the feat for a novel judged to be even better than Henson's lauded classic THE SHADOW ON THE HOUSE. 201 pages, limited to 450 numbered copies. ... $40.00
* THE RETURN OF THE SOUL AND OTHER STORIES by Robert Hichens - Midnight House HC. The first of a two book set that collects together all of this prolific mystery author's supernatural tales, many being gathered from obscure and difficult sources. This volume has eight stories, including Dorothy Sayer's choice for her anthology OMNIBUS OF CRIME: "How Love Came to Professor Guildea". With an excellent introduction by S. T. Joshi. 316 pages, limited to 450 numbered copies. ... $40.00
* FROM WEIRD AND DISTANT SHORES by Caitlín R. Kiernan - Subterranean Press HC. A short story collection of 13 stories which range between horror, fantasy and science fiction; in fact several are drawn from Shared Worlds such as The Sandman and The Crow. But we like to shelve them next to her collection SILK, so we've classified it as horror. Includes pivotal work such as "Emptiness Spoke Eloquent", "Persephone" and "The King of Birds". Limited to 600 numbered copies, Signed by the Author. No Discount. ... $40.00
SILK by Caitlín R. Kiernan - Gauntlet Press HC. First hardcover edition, limited to 450 numbered copies. Signed by Kiernan and Poppy Z. Brite. Special "LAST ONES LEFT" Clearance Price! No additional discount. Was $50.00, Now ... $35.00
* CRIMSON KISS by Trisha Baker - Pinnacle pb. Meghann O'Neill is a psychologist who treats victims of abusive relationships. She is also a vampire - and had for many years suffered the cruelty of the man who turned her. Over 30 years ago she left him staked on a roof with dawn approaching. He survived and has now returned, but he'll find the pitiful servant has changed a lot. ... $6.00
* DEAD LOVE by Donald K. Beman - Leisure pb. Sean has returned to his hometown to come to terms with his past, and his feelings for a woman long dead. But it's hard to deal with your past when someone-or something- is making your present a living hell. Sean will soon find himself wrestling with a shocking evil, as he learns that some memories are better left buried. ... $6.00
* KATASTROPHE by Randall Boyll - Avon pb. On an ordinary night at a university faculty party, two ambitious men begin a hokey parlor game that will unwittingly thrust them into the national spotlight. The burned out television reporter, will break the most astonishing story of the century, while the young associate professor will become a hunted man - reviled around the world... ... $8.00
* DARKER by Simon Clark - Leisure pb. Richard is looking forward to a quiet week with his wife and his little daughter, but instead he gets a knock at the door. The stranger begging to be let in is being hunted. Not by a man or an animal, but by something that cannot be seen or heard, yet which has the power to crush and destroy anything in its path. ... $6.00
* THE LIVING BLOOD by Tananarive Due - Washington Square Tpb. Four years ago Jessica lost both her husband and her oldest daughter, but now the nightmare may have only just begun. She has discoverd the terrifying legacy her husband left to their second daughter, Fana. As Fana begins to display unearthly abilities that are spiraling out of control, she becomes the target of those who would exploit her power, and the unwitting touchstone in an ancient supernatural battle. ... $14.00
* JUDAS EYES by Barry Hoffman - Leisure pb. At one time Shara was a vigilante killer, vicious and effective - but those days are over. Now she satisfies her need for the hunt legally, as a bounty hunter. Currently she is hunting Mica, who is on a killing spree, driven by mysterious forces, that compell her towards more and more bloodshed. There is a strange psychic connection between these kindred spirits, and Shara hopes that she can use it to bring Mica down. But nothing is more dangerous than cornered prey... ... $6.00
* SMOKING POPPY by Graham Joyce - Pocket HC. A deep and challenging story about a father's quest to rescue his estranged daughter from a Thai prison, the stalwart but equally naive friends that come with him from London to help, and the deadly and mysterious people they meet. ... $23.00
* MOJO HAND by Greg Kihn - Tor Tpb. It's 1977, ten years after the "Big Rock Beat", and Beau is back. Now he's playin' the blues, touring dives with legend Oakland Slim and he uncovers an evil voodoo plot to assassinate the remaining blues masters. Then blues martyr Robert Johnson turns up alive forty-three years after his death, a victim of a witch zombie poison. Beau knows Johnson could be the key to the murders. Originally we listed this one with the Mysteries, but further experience prompts me to move it to Horror. ... $15.95
* ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN by Dean R. Koontz - Bantam HC. Despite the brace she must wear on her deformed left leg, and her withered left hand, nine-year-old Leilani Klonk radiates a buoyant and indomitable spirit that inspires her new, older friend Micky. But Leilani's father has moved his family from place to place as he fanatically investigates UFO sightings, claiming to have had a vision that by her tenth birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better life on their world. Now Micky's desperately tracking her friend across America, pitted against a fearsome and cunning adversary. ... $26.95
* A PAPER DOORWAY: FUNNY VERSE AND NOTHING WORSE by Dean R. Koontz - HarperCollins HC. A fanciful collection of rhymes, poems and doggerel, intended for children and all of the young-at-heart, with more than a twist of the bizarre for spice. With plentiful, fanciful illustrations by Phil Parks. ... $17.95
FROM THE CORNER OF HIS EYE by Dean R. Koontz - Bantam pb. At the age of three Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As the growing boy copes with his blindness his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason. Three years earlier a ruthless man had learned that he had a mortal enemy named Bartholomew, and embarked on a relentless search to destroy this threat. At thirteen Barty regains his sight, and his world changes more than anyone could have expected. ... $8.00
also available in HC ... $26.95
* SPIRIT by Graham Masterton - Leisure pb. Peggy was a sweet, adorable girl until the tragic day when her family found her, dead, in their icy swimming pool, white dress billowing around her. Her sisters couldn't imagine their lives without her - and maybe they don't have to... As the sisters grow up, their lives become nightmares due to a string of inexplicable deaths. Each corpse shows signs of frostbite, and each victim's dying moments are tortured by a little girl in a white dress, whose icy kiss is colder than death. ... $6.00
* NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET by Richard Matheson - Tor HC. WE goofed! In January, we listed this title only as a Tpb, and for $24.95. Truth is, it's available BOTH as a Tpb for $14.95 OR as a HC for $24.95. D'oH! - A collection of stories by the horror master, including "Nightmare at 20,000 feet," which was the basis for that classic Twilight Zone episode and "Duel," the tale that inspired Stephen Spielberg's first film. ... $24.95
* NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET by Richard Matheson - Tor Tpb. Also available . ... $14.95
* MALACHI'S MOON by Billie Sue Mosiman - DAW pb. The second of her Vampire Nations novels. Offspring of humans and vampires face terrible questions regarding how to live with their human companions. Ancient beings still struggling to know how to live on, and young new vampires who vary widely in their responses to their new lives as beings who might live hundreds or thousands of years. The vampire, like man, chooses to be good or bad, evil or benign, true to himself or overcome with frailties and faults. ... $7.00
RED MOON RISING by Billie Sue Mosiman - DAW pb. Della Cambian was just beginning to enjoy life when she was struck with her family's curse. The disease porphyria has made all of her family Vampires in nature. She has chosen however to stay near the light and become a Natural, a vampire who lives by the rules of humans. But then the search for a cure for porphyria and the source of vampirism unwittingly unleashes the ultimate evil. ...$7.00
* BLOOD ON THE ARCH by Robert J. Randisi - Leisure pb. Joe Keough is St. Louis's top homicide cop, so he's seen it all. When he's called to look at a body near the Arch, and finds the monument stained a deep crimson, he knows that this is not an ordinary murder. Why is the killer taunting police with information? Why was the body dragged to such a prominent place? Joe will have more chances to ponder these questions as the body count grows... ... $6.00
* DIARY OF ELLEN RIMBAUER: MY LIFE AT ROSE RED by Joyce Reardon - Hyperion HC. At the turn of the century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nightmare that her life would become. Her experiences at Rose Red later lead Joyce Reardon to head a study on parapsychic phenomena, as seen in Steve King's TV Movie "Rose Red". (Now, Joyce Reardon is a fictional character, but it remains indistinct which living person wrote this book. The Warner rep says, quote "I definetly can't say that Steven King wrote it", unquote.) ... $22.95
* EDEN by Ken Wisman - Dark Regions Press Chapbook. Both a science fiction novella with a strong horror element and a personal philosophy of mankind's creative sources. ... $4.95
* THE LAST VAMPIRE by T. M. Wright
- Leisure pb. Elmo Land was just a young man when he first met the enigmatic
Regina Watson. He'd heard she was crazy, that she kept a white-faced boy
in her back room, but Elmo was drawn to her - even though he could feel
there was something not right about her. Something unclean. Something deadly.
... $6.00
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