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Cold Hand in Mine
by Robert AickmanThese eight stories draw the reader irresistibly into eight strange worlds-uncanny, enigmatic, unearthly. In each there is something chillingly wrong-a hint of diabolism or vampirism, of reincarnation or the living dead-all of which could be explained away as hallucination or hysteria. Or could it? The stories cover a wide variety of settings and situations. A young English girl falls into peaceful but oddly enervating love in a palazzo in Ravenna, a man traveling on business finds himself as night falls in an isolated, unnervingly Kafka-esque hotel, Prince Albrecht von Allendorf meets his mysterious end in a mountain lake in Bavaria. Robert Aickman's stories are the work of a master of the genre, subtle, written with consummate skill and command of detail. Their mystery lingers, tantalizes, never quite lets the reader go.
Bloch and Bradbury
by Robert Bloch Ray BradburyTen dark fantasy stories from the early careers of two of the best writers. By Robert Bloch--The Shadow from the Steeple, The Grinning Ghoul, Mannikins of Horror, The Druidic Doom, A Question of Etiquette, The Man Who Cried Wolf!. By Ray Bradbury--The Watchers, Fever Dream, The Dead Man, The Handler
The Pack
by William EssexFueled by an insatiable hunger and driven by madness, the pack roams the countryside, chasing and devouring their prey with the icy, snarling efficiency of the perfect killing machine. <P><P>They were once pets, but now they're man's worst enemy--and their numbers are growing.
Dracula Doesn't Drink Lemonade (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #16)
by Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton JonesFrom the Book jacket: There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new guidance counselor really be Count Dracula, the famous vampire? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "You won't be laughing when Count Dracula nibbles your neck while you sleep," Howie warnec plan to be safe." "For all you know, he's a sickly cousin of Mrs. Jeepers," Melody argued. "After all, who seen a vampire breaking up fights?" "And I'm sure Count Dracula doesn't drink lemonade," Eddie added.
Ghosts Who Went to School
by Judith SpearingWhat would you do if a ghost came to your class? Wilbur doesn't mean to make trouble, but books rise by themselves, voices answer the teacher...
The Demon of Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross #8)
by Marilyn Ross[from the back cover] "The arrival of a movie company at Collinwood gives Barnabas a chance to escape Angelique's awful curse--the curse which has made him one of the living dead. Barnabas meets and falls in love with beautiful film star Rita Glenn. In order to save him, she introduces him to the mysterious Dr. Moreno who has a cure for Barnabas. Barnabas is jubilant over his recovery--but not for long. Suddenly he is in a life and death battle with another vampire--with Rita's life at stake. The only way to save her is to return to the curse once again." The Demon of Barnabas Collins is the eighth in a series of thrilling novels based on ABC-TV's popular suspense drama, Dark Shadows. Look for the rest of the books in this series based on one of the most popular and unique series from the late 1960s and early 1970s in the Bookshare library. They are: #1. Dark Shadows, #2. Victoria Winters, #3. Strangers at Collins House, #4. The Mystery of Collinwood, #5. The Curse of Collinwood, #6. Barnabas Collins and #7. The Secret of Barnabas Collins.
The Shrine
by James HerbertCome worship at the shrine. If you are lustful, your most carnal desires will be fulfilled. If you are greedy, wealth will be yours for the taking. If you are holy, you will learn of a force greater than all your dreams of the divine. If you are a disbeliever, you will be converted or you will be destroyed. Bow before the shrine and little Alice, the angelic child who stands before it and casts her light over the world [will heal you]... ... as the flames of hell leap up to conquer heaven itself. . . .
The Wicked Ones: Children of the Lost
by J. Z. FosterYou know, the best thing about nightmares is that they're not real. It's all just in your head, and as soon as you wake up, pop! It's all gone. You're safe. It's not like they could crawl out, creeping from your mind with long, slender fingers and milky yellow eyes sunken into heads with pointed horns bursting out. That'd just be insane. Daniel Tanner's life is insane. A mysterious disease came to claim his son, seemingly pulling him into the grave with cold fingers named misery and hopelessness. Now a stranger has come calling with an even stranger tale of monsters—horrible things that take children in the middle of the night and leave their own, things that crawled out of the fairy tales our barbarous ancestors used to tell, things that they tried to warn us about. We didn't listen. Because monsters aren't real, are they? There's no reason to fear the dark, no reason at all to believe the old tales about creatures with a taste for human meat. That would be insane... wouldn't it?
A Tiger Walks
by Ian NiallYosef and Ram Sing stop in a small Welsh village, get a little drunk and release a tiger.
Barnabas Collins and the Gypsy Witch
by Marilyn RossThe fifteenth novel based on the TV series Dark Shadows. It was Halloween night when Barnabas and his lovely distant cousin Roxanna decided to visit the Gypsy fortuneteller. "What do you see in my future?" Roxanna asked nervously. In the shadowy tent, the ancient Gypsy was some- how frightening, and Roxanna was grateful that Barnabas was with her. The Gypsy lowered her eyes to gaze into the crystal. "Your house is under a curse," she said at last. "The cold hand of death is over it. There will be sudden and violent deaths ... many of them!"
What if the Night Never Ended and The Day Never Came?
by Mary Elizabeth OverstreetWhat if... Barnabas was not killed at the end of "House of Dark Shadows"? What if... Maggie joins him as one of the undead, and Willie Loomis must serve both of them? Even when the vampires face their fate and Willie manages to escape and begins to make a new life for himself, the long reach of the evil from Collinwood is still able to track him down...
Shadowed Beginnings
by Carol MaschkeJulia Hoffman's disappearance from Collinwood greatly worried her friends. When Elliot Stokes found her, the secret she told him revealed more pain and personal tragedy than she'd ever known. Based on the classic TV series, Dark Shadows.
Resolutions in Time
by Dale ClarkCollinwood, 1971: After Barnabas and Julia returned from 1840, a mysterious stranger came to town, and begins a reign of terror such as Collinwood has never known. Thus began a desperate race back through time until they reached the heart of the mystery, the curse which has plagued the Collins family for centuries. Based on the classic TV drama, Dark Shadows.
The Seekers
by Doris ShannonTHAT ISLAND IS A PLACE OF DISTILLED EVIL” Such was the reputation of Covencroft, a narrow strip of land in the water just north of Vancouver Island. Terrible things were said to have happened on that island. People who had gone to visit had never returned. Most of them young. Most of them women. But John Akers, a wealthy and handsome Texan, had never heard of Covencroft. Not until he met the beautiful and beguiling Cynthia. John Akers fell passionately in love with her. So passionately it was like a madness. ”He’s so infatuated with her,” said his friends, ”that he’d follow her to Hell.” He did. Because Cynthia asked him to take her to Covencroft....
Paradox
by Kathleen ReschIn 1970, Barnabas instantly recognizes Roxanne Drew, the woman he fell in love with in Parallel Time. But this was not the same Roxanne, yet she knew him - and had compelling reason to hate him. This novel is based on the classic TV series, Dark Shadows.
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes (Goosebumps #34)
by R. L. StineJoe's dad loves tacky lawn ornaments. But when he brings home two ugly lawn gnomes trouble starts. Someone's creeping in the garden. It couldn't be the lawn gnomes--or could it?
Haunted Animals: True Ghost Stories
by Allan ZulloNine stories of the spirits of pets and other animals haunting various humans from beyond the graves in the pet cemetary.
Witch’s Canyon (Supernatural)
by Jeff MariotteSam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America... and he taught them how to kill it.
Dark Changeling
by Lori PaigeNovel based on the classic TV series, Dark Shadows. A possessed stranger sets every inhabitant of the Collins estate against each other...
Winds of Eternity
by Nancy EddyA reincarnation story between Barnabas and Angelique, it goes from Celtic England to 1960s Collinsport, exploring the ties that bind them through 4 lifetimes.
The Unloved
by John SaulLush and deceptively tranquil, the secluded island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast-as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amid the ancient oaks. Now, for the first time in two decades, Kevin Devereaux has returned here with his wife and children to visit Kevin's hated, frightening mother. She said she was ill-but is that really why the old woman has summoned the son she has not seen in so many years? Suddenly, horribly, one of the Devereauxs is going to die. And now, all the dark secrets of this once-proud Southern family will emerge to wrap their evil around the unsuspecting children. Until, in the shadowed corridors and dust-covered rooms of the decaying old house, they learn the true terror of..
My Boy Willie
by Christina E. PilzClaustrophic and terrifying, this is the story of Barnabas' release from the coffin and his first few months at Collinwood, as seen by the man who released him into the 20th century, Willie Loomis.