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Welcome to the Horror Club: a world of werewolves and poltergeists, psychopaths and shape changers, the unquiet and the living dead...A fantasy world, of course, for Richard, Robin, and Nigel, the club's members are ordinary boys from ordinary families, who just happen to share a taste for the macabre in films and videos, books, and comics. And then they admit a fourth member to their club — Toady, a far-from-ordinary boy with a taste for the macabre in real life. From the moment h...

Mark Morris describes himself as one of the UK's most stubborn horror writers. His first novel Toady was published thirty years ago during the genre's last great boom period. Back then publishers were falling over themselves to find and publish as many exciting new horror writers as they could. It was an exciting time—but eventually over-saturation of the market became horror's downfall. Faced with too much choice, the horror-reading public became more selective, and the majority of horror...

"I think it's true to say," says horror wunderkind Stephen Volk, "that many of us horror writers of a certain generation have treasured memories of Hammer Films, Amicus Productions and their ilk. In fact, their output of genre classics is so important that some of us have secretly longed for a way to relive and recapture the excitement we had when we first experienced them."That was my exact impulse when I first talked to Mark Morris about a book proposal entitled The Blythewood Ho...

David Fox, fast approaching his fortieth birthday, is in the throes of a mid-life crisis—going nowhere, no purpose in life... Until one day, whilst walking on the beach, he comes across a message in a bottle, washed up at his feet.The message, written in 1953, is from a boy called John Marshall who claims his father is trying to kill him. David feels compelled to find out what happened to the boy all those years ago—and so he sets off to discover the truth. But the truth is more bi...

“The uglimen are coming. Watch your back. They killed your dad. They’ll kill you too if they can.”Rob Loomis has everything he could wish for: a beautiful girlfriend, a job he loves, a nice flat in London. Life is sweet—until the day that his mother rings him at work to tell him that his quiet, thoughtful and apparently contented father has hung himself from the banister of their family home. Before long, Rob finds that it is not only his own and his mother's grief...

What will you do? How far will you go? What will you become?Welcome to Banoi, a tropical island where you can leave the stresses of the world behind...Welcome to the Royal Palms Resort - which offers its guests from around the world the ultimate in luxury and relaxation...Welcome to the holiday paradise where your dreams should come true...but where a nightmare is about to begin....Because a mysterious epidemic has suddenly, and without warning, bro...

Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It’s addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly disfigured and lucky to be alive. Who was behind such a violent and calculated attack? What did they want? And why was the parcel addressed to his girlfriend?Suspicion immediately falls...

When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk...Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach their home. A stolen yacht is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene.Torchwood have to deal with the intangib...

David Fox, fast approaching his fortieth birthday, is in the throes of a mid-life crisis—going nowhere, no purpose in life... Until one day, whilst walking on the beach, he comes across a message in a bottle, washed up at his feet.The message, written in 1953, is from a boy called John Marshall who claims his father is trying to kill him. David feels compelled to find out what happened to the boy all those years ago—and so he sets off to discover the truth. But the truth is more bi...

The national bestseller: John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita.On 4 February 1986, John Cobby’s life imploded.He was driving up the coast looking for his missing wife, Anita, when over the radio he heard: ‘The body of a naked woman has been found in a paddock in western Sydney.’ As details emerged of the rape and murder of the gentle nurse and former beauty queen, outrage engulfed Australia. Five me...

Preparing for Retirement Can Be as Challenging as Mountain Climbing.But Did You Know the Descent Has More Potential for Danger?While you'd never attempt climbing Mount Rainier without adequate training and an experienced escort, most try to navigate retirement planning alone or with amateurs. Without the proper preparation, those years after age sixty-five can be just as hazardous as the trip down the highest summit in Washington state....

A gripping story of bikies, feuds and a deadly clash of clansSydney has been the scene of the bloodiest gang war in living memory. There have been at least 20 people murdered, including innocent bystanders, women and a number of high-profile crime figures.The Daily Telegraph crime writers Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan have been at the forefront of every one of the hits, documenting the carnage in their newspaper columns, podcasts, Foxtel documentary, video series an...