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October 2002 Catalog - Horror
* SCHALKEN THE PAINTER by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - Ash-Tree HC. The first of three volumes collecting together all of Le Fanu's short supernatural fiction, with the same very high quality production we've come to rely on Ash-Tree Press to supply. ... $47.00
* ABARAT by Clive Barker - Harper Collins HC. The Thief of Always demonstrated that Clive Barker could do an exceptional job at writing a young adult book with the depth for any age - but Abarat brings this to new heights. When Candy Quackenbush leaves boring old Chickentown USA, she finds a vast archepelago, where each island is a different hour of the day and both wonders and terrors abound. Lavishinly illustrated throughout with full color paintings by the author ... $24.00
* THE HOUR BEFORE DARK by Douglas Clegg - Leisure HC. When Nemo Raglan's father is murdered, Nemo must return to the New England island he thought he had escaped for good: Burnley Island. But what butchered Nemo's father may be something that Nemo, his brother Bruno and their sister Brooke have known since childhood. As children, they played The Dark Game. Now Brooke has begun to go mad, seeing faces at the windows and wandering at night to find what she beleives is a monster. Bruno discovers the forbidden secret in the wall of the old farmhouse. And as Nemo unravels the mysteries of his past and a terrible night in his childhood, he witnesses something unimaginable... ... $24.00
* DARKEST HEART by Nancy Collins - White Wolf Tpb. Sonja Blue, vampire and vampire-hunter, has lost too many friends and lovers over the centuries to stay connected to the billions who live around her. But when a vampire goes rogue, threatening the lives of the living and the existance of the undead, something must be done. ... $13.95
* REALM OF SHADOWS by Shannon Drake - Leisure pb. In an ancient churchyard just outside Paris, archeologists uncover an ancient tomb, but something goes very wrong as it is opened. American visitor Tara Mason hears the screams from the churchyard and runs from both the powerful stranger chasing after her and the predator who stalks the night. ...$7.00
* GUILTY PLEASURES by Laurell K. Hamilton - Berkley HC. (1993) First hardcover edition of the beginning of the Anita Blake series, which was a paperback original. Anita's regular job would seem hazardous enough to most people. As a trained zombie-raiser, she's always dealing with the dangers of the supernatural. But with a hobby in vampire-slaying and a boyfriend with a secret, life just keeps getting more interesting. ... $21.95
* NARCISSUS IN CHAINS by Laurell K. Hamilton - Jove pb. After the terrible events in OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, Anita realizes it's long past time to bring some closure to her tumultuous relationships with Jean-Claude, master vampire of St. Louis, and Richard, Ulfric of the local werewolf clan. The marks they share make all of them vulnerable - but consumating the triad may well be the end of her humanity. ... $8.00
also available:
NARCISSUS IN CHAINS, HC ... $22.95
OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, pb ... $8.00
* THE CLEANSING by John D. Harvey - Arkham House HC. An ancient indian myth called Wananta or "The Cleaning" tell of the time when the forces of nature clean the earth of harmful intrusians - including all of humanity. NOw, in Alaska, Wananta has come again, and two Indian shaman join together to fight this force, with the help of a half-breed Eskimo and a back-to-nature survivalist. I haven't had a chance to read this one yet, but another reviewer here says that while it starts off a little uneven, it settles down to being a fine read. ... $32.95
* LIES AND UGLINESS by Brian Hodge - Night Shade Books HC. Collection of horror short stories including "Madame Babylon", "The 121st Day of Sodom", "Empathy", "Cancer Causes Rats", "Some Other Me", "Nesting Instincts", "Before the Last Snowflake Falls", "An Atumnal Equinox Folly", "Confession", "Cenotaph", "Far Flew the Boast of Him", "Now Day Was Fled As the Worm Had Wished", "Pages Stuck By a Knife to a Cheyenne Gallows", "Driving the Last Spike", "Little Holocausts", "Dead Giveaway", "Past Tense", "Our Lady of Sloth and Scarlet Ivy", "The Last Testament", "The Alchemy of the Throat", and "Come Unto me, All Ye Heavy Laden". Limited to 150 Slipcased copies, Signed by the Author, with a special CD of music by Brian Hodge. No Discount. ... $55.00
also available:
LIES AND UGLINESS, Tpb ... $15.00
LIES AND UGLINESS, HC ... $27.00
* EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS by Brian A. Hopkins - Earthling Publications HC. Just outside of Mexico City is the market Iztapalapa and a hill where every 52 years the Aztecs once performed their New Fire Ceremony. The ancient rites haven't been enacted for hundreds of years ... but this yer, on the Day of the Dead, archeologist Richard Bennington will awaken the old Aztec gods in an attempt to save his marriage by resurrecting the daughter he lost in a earthquake. What Bennington has forgotten is that neither gods nor man can be trusted. 109 pages ... $30.00
* VISIONS THROUGH A SHATTERED LENS by Gerard Houarner - Delirium Books HC. Limited to 300 copies and signed by the author and the artist (Colleen Crary). Houarner has a very distinctive voice and a wild imagination to boot, and here are 20 stories to display the craft of this master of psychological horror. ... $45.00
* WITCHES' BREW edited by Yvonne Jocks - Berkley Tpb. Throughout history witches have enthralled us. Be they good witches or bad witches, ancient sorcerers or modern-day Wiccans. These stories are gathered from across literature, including work by Erica Jong, Dean Koontz, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Shakespear, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shirley Jackson, H. P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury among many others. ... $13.95
* LOVECRAFT'S LIBRARY by S. T. Joshi - Hippocampus Press Tpb. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This revised and enlarged edition provides comprehensive information on nearly 1000 books owned by Lovecraft. These books focus chiefly on four key areas that Lovecraft found particularly fascinating: ancient literature and history; the history and antiquities of New England; astronomy, chemistry, and other sciences; and, of course, the literature of weird fiction. S.T. Joshi has supplied tables of contents for many titles, data on Lovecraft's discussions of the volumes in his stories, essays, poems, and letters, and a wealth of other information. ... $15.00
* ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN by Dean Koontz - Bantam pb. 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. ... $8.00
also available: ONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN, HC ... $26.95
* RUNNING ON INSTINCT by N. M. Luiken - Forge/ Tor pb. Genevieve would do anything to get away from him. He is the Selector, sent to cull the herd of humanity, selecting who lives, and who dies. But she can't escape, for he lives only in her dreams. Genevieve then learns that the dream-murders she's witnessed are real, committed not by the brutally handsome psychopath from her dream but by ordinary, everyday people who have no memories of committing the atrocities for which they have been caught literally red-handed. ... $7.00
* INVOKER by Jon F. Merz - Leisure pb. Lawson is a vampire. It's his job to stop other vampires from stepping out of line and tipping off humanity to the vampire's existence. But an easy assignment to sanction Watterson for dealing drugs turns out to be a setup, someone high up on the Council wants to nab his son, Jack, and use his talents as an Invoker - someone who can conjure up spirits and control them. The strings are pulled to take Lawson down. When the smoke clears Jack is missing, every lowlife human and vampire is after Lawson and the renegade Council member is about to open a portal into Hell. ... $6.00
* UNDER THE OVERTREE by James A. Moore - Leisure pb. (2000) The new boy in town is getting picked on by everyone and nothing goes his way until, strangely, it all changes. Slowly, reality is molding itself to suit Mark Howell's desires. They who haunt the shadowy woods whisper, and their screams ride faintly on the winds -- the world is changing at a sinister cost under the Overtree. ... $6.00
also available: UNDER THE OVERTREE, Tpb ... $16.00
* BLOOD AND GOLD: THE STORY OF MARIUS by Anne Rice - Ballantine Books pb. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millenia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientous foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet intimate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. ... $8.00
* EMBRACING THE STARLIGHT by Dave Smeds - Dark Region Press Tpb. Short stories collected from a wide range of professional magazines and anthologies, along with "Family Values" which is brand new. ... $15.95
* THE LAST VAMPIRE by Whitley Strieber - Pocket pb. Miriam Blaylock goes to Thailand in an attempt to find a mate during the vampire conclave there. Instead she finds evidence that the asian Keepers have been destroyed and that she herself is being hunted by CIA agent Paul Ward. A sequel to Streiber's famous classic The Hunger, with an ending that leaves openings for another sequel to follow. ... $7.00
* LILITH'S DREAM by Whitley Strieber - Pocket HC. An ancient vampire, beautiful beyond words, a vulnerable young man drawn to her by a power beyond his understanding and two desperate parents searching for the son they love illustrate the great pleasures and dangers of a vampiric life. Lilith is the ages-old mother of the dying race of vampires, now forced from her cave. She knows nothing of the modern world, and stuggles, penniless and starving, to New York City where she encounters Ian Ward, and knows that he can be the key to adapting to this confusing new world. ...$25.00
* THE HAUNTED AIR by F. Paul Wilson - Forge/ Tor HC. In Astoria, Queens, a house is being haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl in riding clothes. More than two decades before, she had been abducted from stables in Brooklyn. Now it's up to Repairman Jack to uncover the truth of her story and liberate the pretty, blond spirit. ... $24.95
* FOURTEEN FANTASIES FROM A SHOP CALLED IMAGINATION by Ken Wisman - Dark Regions Tpb. Fourteen fantasies ranging from horror - "The Finder-Keeper," which may just answer the age-old question of where lost things--socks, earrings, children--go when they disappear - to humor - "The Xeroxorcist," about a copy machine possessed the devil and the repairman hired to perform the xeroxorcism - and everything in between. Also includes: Straw Goat, Barelli's Demon, The Snowman, Grandma Babka, Archie, My Mother's Purse, Brother Senechelle, Seasons of Ice, Fields of Winter, Moses and Brother Estevan. ... $12.95
* A FEAST IN EXILE: SAINT GERMAIN by Chelsey Quinn Yarbro - Tor Tpb. This time out the Count is in Delhi when the Mongol hordes of Timur-i overrun the city. However, before the Count can get out of the city he is captured by the horders, who do not know his true nature. ... $15.95
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