Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their cramped Queens apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room,...

Peter Drexler is handsome, charming, and brilliant, and it doesn't take long for Maggie Newman to fall head over heels in love with him. But Peter has a secret-his previous girlfriend, Susan, plunged to her death from a balcony. The police wrote it off as suicide, but Susan's mother, Joanne Ellis, is convinced Peter murdered her. And then there is Peter's beautiful and enigmatic sister, Gail, who for some reason is doing everything she can to break Peter and Maggie up. As Maggie gets close...

One of the finest and best-selling horror novels of the 1970s returns at last to chill a new generation of readersIn the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, where life has changed little over the past several decades, John Moore and his wife Mim work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly ...

"The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King"Surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written." - Poppy Z. Brite"Beyond any trace of doubt, one of the best writers of horror in this or any other country." - Peter Straub"Readers of weak constitution should beware!" - Publishers Weekly"McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington PostAfter a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage,...

"The finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King"Readers of weak constitution should beware." - Publishers Weekly"McDowell has a flair for the gruesome." - Washington PostWelcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach o...

"They're just kids ... It's only a game." That's what Barbara, a lovely twenty-year-old babysitter told herself when she awoke bound and gagged. But the knots were tight and painful and the children would not let her go."They're just kids ... It's only a game," she told herself again. But the terror was real ... and deadly!In the decades since its original publication, Mendal W. Johnson's bestseller Let's Go Play at the Adams' (1974) has gained a reputation as one of the mo...

As a soldier in the jungle of Vietnam, Chris Stiles learned how to fight against a deadly enemy. Now the war is over, but when his brother is slaughtered in Central Park, Chris finds himself called back into action, this time to battle a different kind of foe: an army of the undead!His quest for the creature that killed his brother brings him to Isherwood, Indiana, home to 800 people—and one ancient vampire. As all hell breaks loose and the townspeople are turned one by one into bl...

Sally Ann and Martha. Two women, searching for love. Finding terror.During a terrifying storm, a gentle childhood is destroyed by a twisted man who promises love but delivers nightmare.In the lightless depths of an underground labyrinth, unseen creatures lie in wait for an innocent traveler, cold skeletal hands stretched out in welcome.There is horror in darkness—horror made greater WHEN DARKNESS LOVES USThis long-awaited reissue of Elizabeth Engstrom’s 1985...

“If you were to go into your bedroom tonight – perhaps by candlelight – and sit quietly before the large mirror, you might see what I have seen. Sit patiently, looking neither at yourself nor at the glass. You might notice that the image is not yours, but that of an exceptional person who lived at some other time . . .”The image in the mirror of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Cuttner is that of the fey and long-dead Frances, who introduces Elizabeth to her chilling world of the supern...

It was just an ordinary garbage dump on peaceful Cape Cod. No one ever imagined that conditions were perfect for breeding, that it was a warm womb, fetid, moist, and with food so plentiful that everything creeping, crawling, and slithering could gorge to satiation. Then a change in poison control was made, resulting in an unforeseen mutation. Now the giant mutant cockroaches are ready to leave their nest—in search of human flesh!Following in the footsteps of other “animal attack” c...

When Philo Drax receives a letter from her wealthy grandfather saying he fears for his life at the hands of the vicious Slape family, she rushes to the rescue. But too late! Katie Slape, a monstrous girl with psychic powers and a penchant for smashing skulls with her hammer, has already finished him off and gotten hold of his cash.Determined to track down the murderers, Philo hunts Katie and her family through the streets of 1860s New York, where the Slapes' coffers are filling up ...

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have c...