A collection of short stories from the master of spine-chilling terror
The secretary seeking a cosmopolitan lifestyle in Europe's most sophisticated city; the architect whose secret life is about to become all too public; the delighted beneficiary of a superb inheritance: all very different people trying to make the best of their ordinary lives. But all of them will turn out to have something in common when they are thrown in at the deep end in situations that will turn on its head everything they have ever taken for granted.
When drowning in a puddle becomes a real danger;...
A collection of short stories from the master of spine-chilling terror
The secretary seeking a cosmopolitan lifestyle in Europe's most sophis...
When a mysterious, crumbling painting is implicated in a number of gruesome deaths it seems that the investigating team has resorted to madness. But this rotten painting hides a terrifying family secret.
When a mysterious, crumbling painting is implicated in a number of gruesome deaths it seems that the investigating team has resorted to madness. But t...
The quaint little seaside town of Granitehead seemed like a perfect place for John and Jane Trenton to start their life together. But disaster strikes, and Jane and their unborn child are killed. John's grief is total, so when he starts to see the ghostly apparition of his wife, he almost welcomes this supernatural phenomenon. Yet all is not what it seems, and this sinister spirit is not Jane, but something altogether evil and terrifying. He soon finds that many more in the town have been victims of unwanted visitations, and...
The dead walk the earth--how can they be stopped?
The quaint little seaside town of Granitehead seemed like a perfect place for John a...
Martin Williams is a broke, two-bit screenwriter living in Hollywood, but when he finds the very mirror that once hung in the house of a murdered 1930s child star, he happily spends all he has on it. He has long obsessed over the tragic story of Boofuls, a beautiful and successful actor who was slaughtered and dismembered by his grandmother. However, he soon discovers that this dream buy is in fact a living nightmare; the mirror was not only in Boofuls house, but witness to the death of this blond-haired and angelic child,...
It is said that a mirror can trap a person's soul
Martin Williams is a broke, two-bit screenwriter living in Hollywood, but when he fi...
Hradba mlčení skrývá tajemství, jemuž se nechce věřit.
Jednoho chladného jarního rána najdou dva rybáři ranec hadrů plovoucích na řece Blackwater v Corku. Jde o mrtvolu otce Heaneyho, bývalého učitele hudby na místní chlapecké škole. Má svázané ruce i nohy a na krku stopy po škrcení drátem. A co hůř, je vykastrovaný. Případ místní komunitu hluboce zasáhne a inspektorka Katie Maguirová se ocitne pod velkým tlakem, aby ho co nejrychleji vyřešila. Jenže pak je nalezený další zavražděný kněz...
Hradba mlčení skrývá tajemství, jemuž se nechce věřit.
Jednoho chladného jarního rána najdou dva rybáři ranec hadrů plovoucích...
Má komisařka Katie Maguirová hledat vraha, když si zavražděný trest zasloužil? Na zakrvácené matraci ve špinavém bytě v Corku leží mrtvý muž. Jeho tvář je k nepoznání — sedm střel mu roztříštilo chrupavky i kosti. Přesto Katie Maguirová brzy zjistí, o koho se jedná: je to Mawakiya, nigerijský pasák spolupracující s rumunským překupníkem s bílým masem Mâniem Dumitrescem, kterého se roky neúspěšně snažila dostat do vězení. Katie ví, že její prací je dopadnout vraha. Ale Mawakiya byl zlý člověk, který prodával mladé dívky do Irska za...
Má komisařka Katie Maguirová hledat vraha, když si zavražděný trest zasloužil? Na zakrvácené matraci ve špinavém bytě v Corku leží mrt...
They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family's banking business was there in his children and grandchildren. Their methods were as aggressive as their lifestyle was opulent, and they could stab each other in the back or drive a competitor to ruin as calmly as a bank clerk counting out change. In time, their empire was to encompass the great financial capitals of the world. As it grew, so too did their power and influence.
First published in 1984, Lady of Fortune is the story of the Watson...
They were shrewd and uncompromising, the Watsons, and all the arrogance and acumen with which old Tom Watson had built up the family's banking busines...
No one lives for very long in the houses they buy from Mr Vane. Neighbours complain of noises that chill the blood, and then deathly silence. Maybe the occupants have moved away, but then again, maybe they haven't.
John has joined Mr Vane's estate agency. He thinks houses are for living in - happily ever after. He has no idea about the hidden forces inside Mr Vane's properties, nor about their strange appetites, but he's about to find out.
First published in 1998, House of Bones is a chilling, gruesome, horror novel.
No one lives for very long in the houses they buy from Mr Vane. Neighbours complain of noises that chill the blood, and then deathly silence. Maybe...
A hot summer day in New York City gives Conor O'Neil no warning of the nightmare about to engulf him. After witnessing a fatal robbery, Conor escapes wrongful arrest and immediately goes on the run, fearing for his life. He discovers that an eerie pair of stage hypnotists, a fervent Southern Baptist, and a very sinister televangelist are involved in the heist, the proceeds of which are to fund something unthinkable yet all too possible.
Conor's desperate need to clear his name takes him on a terrifying trip to a distant and hostile land, where he must use all of his remaining...
A hot summer day in New York City gives Conor O'Neil no warning of the nightmare about to engulf him. After witnessing a fatal robbery, Conor escap...
