Shift your fear into top gear. Set your pulse racing with this collection of automotive horror that fires on all cylinders. This bad boy comes fully-optioned with fifteen tales of classic cars and motorcycles behaving badly, and the star-studded lineup is sure to provide all the nightmare fuel you can handle. So strap in and hold on, because we're going pedal to the metal. It's blood-soaked horror or bust, and we aren't stopping for anything. You're in for a ride.

Summer of '76. A scorching heatwave hits Britain and holidaymakers flock to the beautiful Welsh coast for sun, sea and sand. But something is terribly wrong. When bathers start disappearing, marine biologist Professor Cliff Davenport discovers giant crabs lurking in the deep. Giant crabs hellbent on destruction. Can Davenport and the military annihilate these monstrous crustaceans before they extinguish humankind? Or is mass mutilation just a pincer-grip away? By the time you hear clickety...

Discover dark rituals, eldritch creatures, and monstrous secrets in this masterfully frightening horror anthology of 17 short stories inspired by the iconic works of legendary writer H. P. Lovecraft, curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones.Featuring some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Brian Stableford, and many more. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and ...

Violet Morgan is found dead in the library of Winchcombe Hall. She is found where she always used to read after dinner. Mortified, her daughter Gloria Morgan visits Sherlock Holmes. She accuses her father of murdering his wife so he is legally able to marry his mistress Eva Dann and acquire Longparish Estate, but the local doctor Lambeth is insistent her mother died of lockjaw. Holmes and Watson dash to Andover to untangle the disastrous events of the night before last.

Summer of ’76. A scorching heatwave hits Britain and holidaymakers flock to the beautiful Welsh coast for sun, sea and sand. But something is terribly wrong. When bathers start disappearing, marine biologist Professor Cliff Davenport discovers giant crabs lurking in the deep, hellbent on destruction. Can Davenport and the military annihilate these monstrous crustaceans before they extinguish humankind? Or is mass mutilation just a pincer-grip away? By the time you hear clickety-click … it’...

This revised and updated second edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1990, the year when the horror boom finally went bust. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Poppy Z. Brite, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson and Gene Wolfe, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightm...

After his wife loses interest in him, fifty-year-old Dave Barndon turns to the dark side of the Internet and sex chat rooms. There he finds willing partners who are happy to fulfill his needs with no strings attached. But they aren't the only ones looking to play. When a woman he had an affair with is murdered he becomes the prime suspect. He thinks his alibi is solid until a second woman is murdered, and then a third. He fights for his freedom and redemption while the body count rises. He...

Simon Clark, Clive Barker, Heather Herrman, Wrath James White, Marc Rains, Lisa Tuttle, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch unleash the terrifying truths behind love, loyalty, and obsession in a sextet of twisted tales presented by preeminent horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar.BASTION by Simon ClarkThe Bastion boys were the perfect soldiers: courageous in the face of a fearsome enemy, unwaveringly devoted to each other—and young enough not to ask ...

Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short-story collection curated by legendary horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar.THE OLD DUDE’S TICKER by Stephen KingRichard Drogan has been spooked ever since he came back from Nam, but he’s no head case, dig? He just knows the old dude needs to die.THE RICH ARE DIFFER...

New Milford, Connecticut is a peaceful old town where nothing much ever happens – until overnight the well water turns a sickly yellow colour … Then a local boy is murdered in bizarre circumstances and his parents disappear, while rumours spread of terrifying scaly crab-creatures lurking in the darkness … From beneath the town, an ancient force of terrible evil is reawakening, claiming fresh victims to swell the ranks of a race that springs straight from the Wells of Hell. ...

London is gripped by the bloodiest outbreak of gang warfare ever seen.Shootings in the street, kidnappings, bombs and car chases have become commonplace. The gutters are running red with blood and the Police are powerless to stop it.Frank Harrison had ruled gangland unopposed for more than two years and yet someone is out to wipe him and his men from the face of the earth. Who and why? The answer, when it comes, will test not just Harrison's courage but his sanity too. For ...

In a quiet field in Buckinghamshire, a huge crack has appeared in the earth's surface. And people are dying. Incinerated beyond recognition. At the same time, hospitals have noticed an increase in catastrophic deformities in foetuses, and cancer levels soaring.Dr Adam Royston, a scientist working at the nearby military base, thinks he knows what it is; a creature as old as the earth that slumbers for centuries, then wakes to feed on the energy and radiation produced by humans. But ...