Two tales that will have the hairs on the back of your neck rising, and alter your conception of the decency of man as you know it.

A collection of tales of the strange, the weird, and the frightening. Just the thing to read on a dark night when the lightning flashes, and the thunder crashes, and all the doors are locked.

When he came into the dining room, a little tired, but with his clothes hanging cool and free on him after his shower, the whole school stood up and clapped and cheered until he slunk down into his seat. From one end of the table to the other, people leaned forward and smiled at him. "Nice work, Lee. Not your fault we didn't win."

A collection of short stories in the horror genre: some weird, some strange, some downright unbelievable, but all designed to make the reader think...and think again, then leave the bedside light burning through the night.

a family of five vampires are driven out of their lair in Eastern Europe and board ship for australia, the state of van diemen's land, where a new prison colony is being built.saul, the teenage vampire, falls in love and watches in horror as his new love turns from what she was into what she has become. one by one, they are killed off until only one remains. but which one is it?

In the early days of rail, a shack was built on railway property to house the bodies of those killed on or near the rail. It became known as the Death House.this collection of short stories features mysteries all connected to the death house in some eerie and evil way.

Winner of the CWA Nonfiction Dagger Award, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, one of the world’s most exclusive luxury hotels. For sixty-eight hours, hundreds were held hostage as shots rang out and an enormous fire raged. When the smoke cleared, thirty-one people were dead and many more had bee...

Doctors have a unique view of the human body. Centuries of observing the sick and decades of testing these observations against science. A diagnosis starts with interrogation followed by observation, clinched by the appropriate test. Clinical skills are focused on patients, but friends and family are not exempt. The real test comes when the physician himself becomes acutely unwell without warning. This is a story of the continuing importance of clinical signs in the age of artificial intel...

an old jewish man is murdered in 1800's sydney by a gang of thugs, and his wife, a witch, uses her familiar, a large dog, as a murder weapon to slaughter one by one the gang. blood runs free in the streets, and a journalist is left in the middle of a mystery he cannot unravel...

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden's four wives and many children, his deputies and m...

the greeks say if a body is left unguarded between death and burial it will rise to prey on its kin.charles comstock drowns off the island of Santorini, and is transported to sydney for burial, but he rises to kill his kin one by one - and all that stand between it and success are an old greek woman and a disbelieving young priest.

Alan Carmody, a cattle breeder in South Africa, loses everything when an evil witchdoctor causes his negro hands to run off, after burning and looting his farm and killing his family. He kills the witchdoctor and emigrates to Australia, but the witchdoctor's spirit in the giuse of a cheetah, begins hunting down all with whom he comes into contact in this new country, until only Alan is left.