Gillian Bellaver's family is one of the wealthiest in the world. Robin Sandza's father Peter is a government assassin. The two teenagers seem to have nothing in common. Yet they are spiritual twins, possessing a horrifying psychic energy that threatens humanity. While dangerous and fanatical men vie for the secrets of their awesome power, Peter Sandza, using all the ruthless skills of his trade, makes a final desperate effort to save them. Exploring with extraordinary skill the myths and l...

In a peaceful Vermont courtroom, humanity will be called to trial by endless evil. Ancient and implacable -- armed with sensuality, delusion and horrible death -- it will join itself to human weakness in an unholy alliance.Against it stand only imperfect human beings, caught in a world-spanning struggle in which they have everything to lose -- for all of us -- and only human strength to help them.Not since The Exorcist has there been such a powerful novel of demonic possess...

"Auntie Helen," the little boy sobbed, "I'm home, and nobody's here!"The phone trembled in Helen Connolly's hand. She could not believe her ears. This was her nephew, Michael Young, on the phone — Michael, who had been dead for sixteen years.Who was this mysterious caller? Could it really be Michael? And if so, what did he want?

Anne Ramsdell dreamed of soft rain and stately elms.Reality was a psychopathic maniac who mauled her, battered her, hurled her through a plate-glass window — and now stalks her wherever she goes.She cannot remember his face — she cannot forget her terror.

To the outward eye the billionaire Trevellian family appears to be the paradigm of culture and class. But when hot young artist Sharan Norbeth is taken under their wing, she discovers that family loyalties have become horribly twisted, and hidden evil festers below the surface. Sharan must pry apart the mystery hidden in the family's innermost core—and fast, if she doesn't want to disappear into a traceless oblivion.

Dr. Joe Bryce, a dedicated physician, has spent the last three years in war-torn Africa. Having left his millionaire fiancee at the altar, the con man continues his string of taking advantage of rich women to fund his living the high life on his yacht, the Dragonfly. In Nimrod's Chapel, GA, he meets the hottest-selling American romance author, Abby Abelard -- a blindingly beautiful and wealthy woman, but one paralyzed after a hit-and-run accident. Her uncle, Dr. Luke, and his wife, Charlen...

Near-naked, flagrantly male, the Minotaur loomed out of the dark places of Greek mythology. Roaring, bull-headed, the creature advanced. The razor-sharp Cretan axe swung murderously, slicing through the air, through flesh, through bone.One by one its enemies died.Out of the past too came the plague – long-dormant seeds awakening to destroy. The victims would be legion, their deaths horrible.Yet behind the killing lay a plan, a purpose.

It happened quickly. Overnight, the greater Los Angeles area found itself in the horrifying grip of a werewolf epidemic. Twenty-eight days of the month, those who change are no different from those who have managed to stay uninfected—the normals, the High Bloods. But every full moon, they become the most ravenous creatures mankind has ever seen.A new law-enforcement agency keeps tabs on those whose blood runs Lycan. Rawson is a agent for Lycan Control, making sure all the afflicted...

Shay Waco is a stuntwoman on her way home with her eleven-year-old daughter when a semi sends her car over an embankment. The two must jump nearly sixty feet, and crash through a nest of conifers, in order to escape. Bruised and bleeding, Shay walks with the girl until they discover a lone house. Planning to call for help, they break in, only to find a family sitting around a dinner table with bullets in their foreheads. As Shay fights to free herself from the web of money and drugs she's ...

The year is 1952. Fourteen-year-old Alex Gambier is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute from a bout with diphtheria at an early age, Alex expresses himself by writing imaginative stories and by conceiving daredevil stunts that test all of his physical resources while putting his life in extreme danger.The aftermath of one of his hair-raising stunts finds Alex in the care of a young blac...

The United States is besieged by terrorists who are working from within the White House itself to overthrow the government. They have frightening weapons at their disposal, not the least of which are techniques of mind control undreamed of even a decade ago.Graduation day at the University of California at Shasta. Eden Waring, star athlete and valedictorian, is about to address fellow graduates and family members in the school's stadium when she is overwhelmed by a terrible premoni...

(Originally published as Elvisland)No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories.Stories included in this collection:"Waiting for Mr. Gillray""The Odor of Violets""No Sin Unpunished" (previously titled "horrorshow")"Talking Heads""I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream""Hairshirt""Good Mo...