MIDNIGHTS LAIR Mordocks Cave is one of those wonders of the world: a place where thousands of sightseers every year taker an awe-inspiring boat trip on a lake deep beneath the earths surface & marvel at Natures handiwork. But the darkness is also the home of things Nature never intended
- things violent bestial & obscenely evil. & when a sudden power failure traps a group of tourists underground the unnatural creatures who dwell there emerge from the depths...ENDLESS NIGHT Jody Fargo is sweet sixteen but tougher than she looks -- she has to be. Shes sleeping over at a friends when the killers break in. They slaughter the family but Jody escapes rescuing twelve-year-old Andy on the way... Simon Quirt doesnt seem like the kind of fellow who would rape & murder in the dead of night. But together with his friends thats just what he does. Now Simon is alone. His task is to track down the only eyewitnesses to the massacre & dispose of them. Simon just cant wait to get his hands on Jody...
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THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW is coming to town & Dwight Rusty & Slim are determined to go. But its for over 18s only. They decide to go & watch the crew set up anyway hoping to catch a glimpse of Valeria billed as the only known vampire in captivity. But when the three teenagers break the rules they run into big trouble. DREADFUL TALES Shane Malone sits sweltering in front of his computer trying to write an anthology in which every chilling tale must end in the death of a twenty-two-year-old woman in her apartment. But the deafening music from next door is not helping. He furiously bangs on his neighbours door & discovers shes a twenty-two-year-old woman who will not be argued with. Shane is about to find out that life really can imitate art. ...

SAVAGE Whitechapel November 1888: Jack the Ripper is committing his last known act of butchery in the one-room hovel occupied by the luckless harlot Mary Kelly. & beneath the bed on which the fiend is cruelly & cheerfully eviscerating his victim cowers a fifteen-year-old boy... This is just the start of the extraordinary adventures of Trevor Bently a boy who embarked on a errand of mercy & ran into the most notorious serial killer in criminal history a boy who became a man as he travelled on a quest of vengeance across a wild & untamed continent
- a boy who brought the horrors of Jack the Ripper to the New World. IN THE DARK Nothing much happens in Donnerville at least not in the public library. Then the new librarian Jane Kerry receives a strange envelope. Inside is a fifty-dollar bill & a note instructing her to Look homeward angel. Mystified Jane pulls Thomas Wolfes novel of that title off the shelf & finds a second envelope. This one contains a one-hundred dollar bill & a clue to another pay-off. Like the first one it is signed MOG (Master of Games). Suddenly Jane is hooked this is one game she must play to the end.
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AMONG THE MISSING Its 2:32am. Behind the wheel of a jaguar sits the beautiful wife of Professor Grant Parkington. She has left Grant behind. The man she wants is waiting for her on the roadside. Where to? she says. He suggests the Bend where theres a soft sandy beach
- an ideal place for love. But in the morning a naked body will be found
- a body missing more than its clothes...COME OUT TONIGHT Its the hottest night of the year so far & its also young couple Sherry & Duanes first time. Discovering they have no condoms Duane throws on his clothes & makes his way down to the twenty-four hour Speed-D-Mart. Not a place anyone would want to visit at night. Suddenly Sherry hears a noise from down the street. It sounds like a gunshot...

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NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER Its been a long summer for Ed without Holly. But in September Holly doesnt return to campus. Ed receives a letter from her
- she has fallen in love with someone else & wont be coming back. Heartbroken he leaves his apartment & takes a walk. But hes not the only one out on this October night. There are others
- roaming the streets lurking under bridges seeking prey...NO SANCTUARY Rick would do anything for his girlfriend. Hed even spent his vacation walking the trails around Fern Lake
- though after what happened last time its the one place in the world hed prefer not to go. But Rick & Bert are not the only ones heading to there. Gillian likes breaking into peoples homes while they are away & living there. But this time she chances on the home of a serial killer...


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NIGHT SHOW When he was in high-school Tony Johnson locked school beauty Linda Allison in a haunted house for the night. Now he has moved to Hollywood determined to break into horror movies & hes forgotten all about her. But Linda is a girl with vengeance in her heart
- & she certainly hasnt forgotten him...ALLHALLOWS EVE The Sherwood house has been deserted since the horrific killing of a local family in the sleepy town of Ashburg. When invitations to a mysterious party to be held there are sent out nobody is particularly surprised
- after all everyone wants to party in a house of death on Allhallows Eve.

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BEWARE! Elsie doesnt normally shut shop early but neither is it normal for meat cleavers to fly through the air by themselves or for Elsie to wind up on the meat counter neatly wrapped & jointed. Something very strange is happening in the small town of Oasis & everyone had better...BEWARE! DARK MOUNTAIN It was supposed to be a peaceful escape for the two families camping high in the California mountains. But they made the mistake of camping at Mesquite lake home to two of the wildernesss most terrifying inhabitants: an aged hag with gruesome powers & her depraved son whose unnatural lusts even she cannot control... ...

ALARUMS Melanie Conway is a pale & lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. When she crashes to the floor during a concert her boyfriend Bodie is at hand to hear her fearful premonition of disaster... Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister but her looks frequently get her in trouble. The last thing she needs is a series of obscene phone calls... Capitivated by these two alluring sisters Bodie finds himself drawn deep into a strange mystery that is fired by sex & haunted by blood. BLOOD GAMES They meet up for one week every year: Helen Cora Vivian Finley & Abilene
- five former co-eds in search of thrills & adventure. Just like they enjoyed together at college. This time its Helens choice. Helen the fat girl with a taste for horror the brainy one with a fear of being caught alone in the shower by an unknown assailant with a sharp knife & a taste for blood...
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BITE Tick-tock tick-tock... Sams in the wardrobe. With a hammer in one hand a wooden stake in the other
- & a heart full of fear.
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AMARA The Princess of Egypt the once beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the first lies in a museum. She has been dead for 4000 years. Or has she? Barney the night-watchman is the first to discover that the mummys coffin has been broken open. But Barney wont be able to tell the authorities. The dead cant testify to anything. Now Amara is free again & nothing can stop her...THE LAKE Leigh yearns for a summer of excitement by the lake. But instead she stumbles into a legacy of terror which will shatter her life... Eighteen years on Deana has no knowledge of her mothers troubled past. But when the horrors of the past meet the perils of the present both mother & daughter are plunged into a nightmare of blood & terror from which there is no escape. ...