Burnt Offerings (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author: Robert Marasco
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948405898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals. But Mrs. Allardyce never seems to emerge from her room, and it soon becomes clear that something weird and terrifying is happening in the house. As the suspense builds towards a revelation of what really lies behind that locked door, the Rolfes will discover that their cheap vacation rental comes at a terrible cost . . . The basis for a classic 1976 film adaptation and an acknowledged influence on Stephen King's The Shining, Burnt Offerings is one of the most original and scariest haunted house novels ever written. This edition, the first in decades, features a new introduction by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. "[N]ear brilliance . . . a disturbing tale . . . highly recommended." - Stephen King "Burnt Offerings has no peer. Better than Rosemary's Baby, The Other, and The Exorcist." - Hartford Courant "Insidiously frightening . . . It snares you early and draws you inexorably to one of the most nerve-shattering finales in years." - Publishers Weekly "Terrifies even by daylight." - New York Times

American Nightmares

Author: Dale Bailey
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 029926873X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.

Parlor Games

Author: Robert Marasco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Set in a world of glamorous, gifted, intelligent people, the novel is a psychosexual drama about the close and sinister relationship between Maggie Newman and Peter and Gail, brother and sister, whose love, when threatened, degenerates into possessiveness and then darkest evil.

The Sentinel

Author: Jeffrey Konvitz
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504027515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
Jeffrey Konvitz’s New York Times–bestselling horror novel about a young woman descending into demonic madness who discovers it’s not simply in her mind Aspiring model Allison Parker finally moves into her dream apartment: a brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. But her perfect home quickly turns hellish. The building is filled with a cast of sinister tenants, including a reclusive blind priest, who seems to watch her day and night through an upstairs window. Eventually, Allison starts hearing strange noises from the empty apartment above hers. Before long, she uncovers the building’s demonic secret and is plunged into a nightmare of sinful misdeeds and boundless evil. In the tradition of Rosemary’s Baby, this gripping novel was adapted into a feature film starring Ava Gardner, Cristina Raines, and Chris Sarandon. The Sentinel is classic horror at its best.

Night and the City

Author: Gerald Kersh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description

The Auctioneer

Author: Joan Samson
Publisher: Centipede Press
ISBN: 9781933618203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A hardcover, nonreturnable signed edition with a short print run (300 numbered copies).

Once Upon Atari

Author: Howard Scott Warshaw
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986218668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
ONCE UPON ATARI is an intimate view into the dramatic rise and fall of the early video game industry, and how it shaped the life of one of its key players. This book offers eye-opening details and insights, delivered in a creative style that mirrors the industry it reveals. An innovative work from one of the industry's original innovators.This is a detailed look behind the scenes of the early days of video games, with particular attention to the causative factors leading up to the video game crash of the early 1980s. It is also the journey of one industry pioneer, and how his experience creating some of the world's most noted pieces of interactive entertainment reverberates throughout his life. It is a compelling and dramatic tale of innocence, greed, exuberance, hubris, joy, devastation and ultimately redemption, told in a fresh voice and an unorthodox style.

The Night Cyclist

Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765391880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
"The Night Cyclist" by award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose nightly bicycle ride home is interrupted by an unexpected encounter. There must be no compulsion to hide the bodies. Otherwise I’d have never found them. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Cold Moon Over Babylon (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author: Michael McDowell
Publisher: Bright Sparks
ISBN: 9781941147634
Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror ... And beneath the murky surface of the river, a shifting, almost human shape slowly takes form. Night after night it will pursue the murderer. And when the full moon rises over Babylon, it will seek a terrible vengeance ...

The Elementals

Author: Michael McDowell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941147177
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Something terrifying waits in the decaying Victorian house on the coast, something that has haunted two men since they were children, something that may be ready to kill...again.