A major new biography of the young Richard III. Richard III is a paradox
- the most hated of English kings yet the most beloved
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Includes: regular exercises for students to complete practical ideas to try out examiner's tips & suggestions for further
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THE STAKE In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town horror writer Larry Dunbar & his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within lies the corpse of a naked female
- with a stake through its heart. Was she the innocent victim of a gruesome murder? Or was she a vampire? Theres only one way for Larry to solve the mystery
- he must pull out the stake...FUNLAND A series of unexplained disappearances has cast a dark shadow over the summer pleasures over the seaside town of Boleta Bay. & holiday-makers are being threatened by a growing army of leering foul-mouthed bums who have taken over the promenade. Convinced that the down-&-outs are behind the abductions a gang of local teenagers decide to wreak violent revenge. Led by the charismatic Tanya the gang graduate from simple beatings to more sinister punishments. & as they grow more daring their campaign leads them to the old abandoned Funhouse where the real truth of the disappearances awaits them...

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DARKNESS TELL US It starts at an end-of-term party. Six college kids & a Ouija board. The board that Professor Coreen Dalton had hidden at the back of a cupboard & sworn never to touch again
- not after Jakes death. & now here are these kids falling for the revelations of a spirit called Butler swallowing its promise of a fortune hidden in the mountains. Not that Corie believes they would be stupid enough to head off in to the wilderness on the say-so of a childs plaything. To embark on a two-day hike into the unknown where any foul danger may lie in wait to cut & slice & tear them limb from limb. But then professor or not Corie could be wrong...ONE RAINY NIGHT The water drops like a shroud on the town of Bixby. Warm viscous & unnatural it coats the inhabitants in an unending torrent
- & turns them into crazy hate-filled maniacs. A helpful stranger at a gas station shoves a petrol pump down a customers throat & squeezes the trigger. A soaking-wet queue of cinema-goers smashes its way inside the movie house to slice up the dry people within.A loving wife attacks her husband bouncing the back of his head on the marble floor until it sounds like sloppy wet meat...

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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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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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ISLAND When eight people go on a cruise to the Bahamas they plan to swim sunbathe & relax. But after their yacht blows up they find themselves stranded on a desert isl&. As they wait to be rescued it becomes clear theyre not alone on the isl&. In the jungle behind the beach theres a maniac on the loose with murder in his heart. & hes plotting to kill them all one by one...QUAKE Twenty minutes before the quake hits Stanley is ogling a pretty female jogger through his living-room window. He watches Sheila every morning & thats not all hed like to do to her. As the quake hits Sheila becomes separated from her husband & daughter. Will her family get there before Stanley does? > ...

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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