WILL SUTTON AND THE WIZARD'S CURSE is the first of an exciting new series of supernatural adventures for Young Adults, mixing laughs with chills and thrills in a non-stop roller-coaster ride. When orphaned Will Sutton moves across country to live with his mysterious Uncle Zachary, he becomes the pawn in a fiendish plot devised by a dead wizard to return from the grave. With his new friends Waldo Pepperidge, the brainiest kid in school, Lisa Goodwin, who's nearly as smart as Waldo (but also three times as athletic), and Zachary's supernaturally gifted cat Brimstone, Will must somehow thwart...

While making a Super-8 Frankenstein movie at an historic local castle, Will, Lisa Goodwin and Waldo discover a real monster: the statue of Lamia buried by the castle's builder, Ethelbert Cramley. The statue looks like a winged sphinx with clawed hands and the head of a beautiful woman - and it bears a ghastly curse. Whoever sees Lamia's image is fated to become her victim. Each night, the vampire animates the marble statue holding her spirit, and sucks the breath & blood from her victims. Through telepathic contact with Will's mind, Lamia learns that the kids' home movie has captured her...

Will's idyllic summer vacation at the beach comes to an unexpected end when he unwittingly summons notorious pirate Red Patch Roger, the bloodiest buccaneer of them all, from his unhallowed grave. Red Patch, whispered the legend, had sold himself to the Powers of Darkness for success at piracy. The pirate captain laid a terrible curse on his mutinous crew as he lay dying, binding them to his will forever - and now they rise from their watery grave at their undead master's call. The only way to break the curse of Red Patch's unnatural life-in-death is to find the treasure he stole from his...

Tired of being the smallest and puniest kid in school, forever being picked on, bullied and beaten up, Waldo allows sorcerer Nathan Airmont to transfer his soul into the body of a golem, a mass of living clay in humanoid form. But Nathan doesn't tell Waldo everything about the transference - including that there's no way back The sorcerer only wanted Waldo as a test subject for his newly devised spell of soul transference. Now that Nathan knows that the spell works, he transfers his own soul into a golem body too - and uses it to wreak his violent vengeance on the world For the golems are...

During a class trip to remote Thunder Mountain, Will, Lisa and Waldo stumble upon the sinister secrets of Seth Tuttle, a mad old farmer who has made a terrible bargain with She-Who-Walks-In-Thunder, a forgotten pagan goddess. In exchange for blood sacrifices, the goddess will grant good harvests. But Seth has other plans for his dark deity - and she has other plans for him. The goddess wants Seth to open the ancient magical gates so she can return and rule the world - and in the terrible pages of Abdul Alhazred's NECRONOMICON, She-Who-Walks-In-Thunder is named as a force of cosmic evil. When...

When Will searches for a prop he can use as an infernal machine (a Victorian time bomb) for a comedy melodrama his class is putting on as a school play, lawyer and sorcerer Titus Croadley realizes this is his chance for revenge. He has a score to settle with Will Sutton, who once interfered with his evil plans. Now the sorcerer creates a real infernal machine - with a real demon trapped inside it. Croadley arranges for Will to give the infernal machine to Miss Laveau, the English teacher putting on the class play. She is the descendant of a powerful voodoo queen, and has inherited some of her...

Seven tales of terror, to play havoc with a good night's sleep . . . among the SKULL FUNGI you'll find: The tortured composer's hellish last work - haunted by a seductive yet destructive spirit of wrath and lust. The ghastly thing lurking in the ancient sewers below the city, waiting for its release into the upper world. The naive, unworldly scholar's monstrous inheritance from an unsuspected enemy, trapped inside a coffin-like chest by nothing more than a fragile seal of wax. The mad artist's unholy bargain with a dream-muse - a bargain that reveals a secret world of darkness - and dark...

SET SAIL ON THE SEVEN SEAS OF HILARITY At last the fabulous exploits of Captain Aleister Gaspard, the not-quite-King of the Buccaneers, can be told Compiled from the horribly misspelled journals of his biographer at tremendous expense (and no end of eyestrain), these tales of the freebooting reaver of the Seven Seas (well, six-and-a-half, really. . .but just give him time ) will shiver your timbers (and tickle your funnybone). Gaspard sets off on a wild odyssey complete with rich booty, curses, licentious pagan goddesses, bloodthirsty pirate queens, desperate alliances, living treasure...

LOVES THAT TRANSCEND TIME AND SPACE Published together for the first time, newly annotated and revised, SONNETS FROM THE SARCOPHAGUS and WIZARD'S VISIONS perfectly complement each other. These two sonnet-sequences tell connected stories of love and longing, beauty and horror, as the sundered souls of lovers seek each other across the trackless gulfs of infinity and eternity. In SONNETS FROM THE SARCOPHAGUS, the first of these stories told in verse, an ancient Egyptian priest accidentally resurrected from the dead seeks the reincarnation of his lost love - only to learn that the gulf that...

Everybody wants something. But what will they do get it? When fabulously wealthy General Kingsley throws a coming-out party for his staggeringly beautiful (but not overly bright) daughter Julia, all the local predators swoop in for the kill: a corrupt judge, a slimy lawyer, an unscrupulous psychiatrist and an explosive-tempered munition manufacturer. The greedy General is scheming to sell off his valuable offspring to the bidder offering him the most profitable deal. All of the suitors want Julia's money - and they're not averse to satisfying their other desires at her expense. None of them...