Ужасы и Мистика
Различные книги в жанре Ужасы и МистикаBury the Hatchet
George Carter and his wife and two teenage daughters are just an ordinary family, living peacefully in the small British town of Uphill. But then they hear a bulletin that a homicidal maniac is in the area, reportedly toting a suitcase with a broken handle containing the chopped-up body parts of a female victim. And when a new lodger appears at their house, and George discovers a women's leg inside the man's suitcase, all hell breaks loose.... A crime novel written by Philip J. Harbottle, based on the teleplay by John Russell Fearn.
Midnight Rain
"Detective Jack Dunning and his partner Jim Tunney have their hands full. Two young boys have turned up dead within a two-month period on the same stretch of lonely highway outside the small agricultural town of Santa Paulina, California. Are they the victims of the same illusive hit-and-run sedan that mowed down rookie cop, Curley McDaniel? Or are they part of a darker, more sinister plot? <P> Jack's beautiful young girlfriend, Angel Doll, has problems of her own when a man from her troubled past tries to abduct her off the street in broad daylight. Clues lead investigators to a school teacher who isn't the drab little mouse she pretends to be, the mysterious Deutschlander Social Club, and a wealthy pedophile who makes late night forays into the dark heart of Chinatown…"
Death on the Driving Range
Off-duty Police Constable Arthur Root is playing a round at Wolvers, his local golf club. However, he soon finds himself back on duty when a JCB driver working there digs up the body of a man. Root protects the excavated area as a crime scene. The man had been murdered, and is identified as Roger Hancock, a former member of the club. When there is a second brutal murder, involving many members of the golf club – Root himself becomes implicated…
Carla's Revenge
Carla Bowman is a young and beautiful society girl with wild blood coursing through her veins. She becomes the honey of King Logan, a gangster operating the protection racket on New York's East Side, and is caught up in a maelstrom of violence and bloodshed. When Sylvester Shapirro cuts in on King, Carla decides to double-cross the gang-leader and join Shapirro, a decision she regrets when she faces him in his fantastic house at Montauk Point. Here she learns the horrifying secret of Shapirro’s true nature, and becomes his captive in a sanatorium. After she escapes, to learn that Shapirro has killed her father, Carla's only desire is to revenge her father's death–whatever the cost to herself. A classic, hard-driving crime thriller from the 1950s!
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective in Dead Ends
This volume collects two stories featuring Dan Turner, hardboiled Hollywood detective. In “Death Ends the Scene,” a washed-up movie-director is going to knock himself off in order to give his no-good bride a double-indemnity payoff—and Dan Turner, trying to do a couple of good deeds, finds himself facing a murder rap with some very hard gunsels making it tough! In “Phony Shakedown,” Dan thinks the girl shot at him, and it didn’t make him any the less mad because she had missed. But before he can make her talk, another bullet closes her mouth. That sort of interference in Dan’s business is the last straw! Somebody is going to pay—and plenty.
Hideous Faces, Beautiful Skulls
The darkness holds many surprises. In this collection of thirty stories of horror and the bizarre, we shall explore some of those surprises. Even though I’ve been extolling the virtues of darkness, I do encourage you to read this book with the lights on. Light does have its practical applications, you know. You have to see the words.
The King in Yellow
THE KING IN YELLOW – recently featured in HBO's hit series TRUE DETECTIVE – is a collection of 10 short stories, the reading of which will curse one to a terrible fate. You have been warned! This edition features an introduction by H.P. Lovecraft.
Adventure Tales #1
Adventure Tales showcases the best authors from the classic pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century. This volume highlights the work of Hugh B. Cave as the Featured Author, with two rare, previously unreprinted stories, plus fiction contributions by J. Allan Dunn, H. Bedford Jones, Harold Lamb, Vincent Starrett, H. de Vere Stacpoole, Saki (H.H. Munro), Johnston McCulley, Captain A.E. Dingle, Charles C. Young, John Kendrick Bangs, and F. Marion Crawford. Interview with Hugh B. Cave.
Hollywood Heat
The year: 1956. The place: Los Angeles, California. When six-year-old Daisy Adler vanishes from her upscale Hollywood Hills home during a crowded New Year's Eve party, LAPD Detective Rusty Hallinan enters a case with more dangerous twists and turns than Mulholland Drive. Hallinan's life hits a bump or two of its own when he's dumped by his wife of eleven years, and falls hard for an enchanting young murder suspect half his age. But what's the connection between the suspect's murdered husband and a dying bar-room stripper? How does Ty the transvestite fit into the puzzle? And where has little Daisy gone–murdered, abducted, or killed by accident? A marvelously intricate historical mystery with an absolutely authentic setting!
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 11
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with issue #11, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: «The Adventures of Sherlock Hoosier,» by Dan Andriacco; «To Walk a Crooked Mile,» by Hal Charles; «Closing the Circle,» by Sergio Gaut vel Hartman; «The Cantor and the Ghost,» by G. Miki Hayden; «The Compound,» by Marc Bilgrey; «The Adventure of the Missing Countess,» by Jon Koons; «Home Tour,» by D. Lee Lott; «The Peculiar Adventure of the Paradol Chamber,» by Jack Grochot; «The Red-headed League,» by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. «Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine» is produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate Ltd.