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Rees - Simon

The Devil's Looking Glass  Simon Rees

The Devil's Looking Glass is the tale of two Cambridge faculty members, Born and Thomas, who conduct experiments in ESP. It is John Born who is the willing subject in these experiments and... (read more?)

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Rivers Siddons - Ann

The House Next Door   Ann Rivers Siddons

The House Next Door is a haunted house story. There are lots of those, I know, but this one is a little different. Usually in books the haunted house is an old house, a house where people have lived and died, or perhaps been murdered. It is, in short, a house with a bad history. The house in this story is not an old house... (read more?)

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Saul - John

Comes The Blind Fury  John Saul

At 318 pages, John Saul's Comes the Blind Fury, is of quite a reasonable length, and is quite an interesting read. It is a little sad in places, a little mysterious in others, and spooky all the way through... (read more?)

 

Cry for the Strangers  John Saul

Clark's Harbour is not a good place for strangers. The locals all come from family's that have lived there for generations and strangers are an intrusion that they don't appreciate ... (read more?)

 

In the Dark of the Night   John Saul

Every summer Kent Newell and Tad Sparkes go to Wisconsin with their parents and spend the holiday in houses beside the lake. And each year when his friends have headed off for some summer fun by the waterside Eric Brewster and his sister Marci have to... (read more?)

 

The Unwanted  John Saul

 

The Unwanted is 340 pages long and the central character is a young girl called Cassie Winslow. Cassie's parents are divorced and she has been living in California with her mother. When her mother dies in a car crash the sixteen-year-old moves to the town of False Harbour ...

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Smith - Guy N.

Crab's Moon  Guy N. Smith

In the summer of 1976 the Giant Crabs First attacked Mankind on the Welsh Coast. Part of that story was told in Night of the Crabs; the remainder is told in this book... (read more?)

 

Entombed  Guy N. Smith

Entombed is the story of a failed Jesuit priest called Simon Rankin. Simon has seen a lot of failure in his life, including his marriage. His wife has left him and taken their two children with her. They have a new daddy now... (read more?) 

 

Manitou Doll  Guy N. Smith

Bank holiday Monday and visitors are flocking to town, in search of a little sea air and a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Among these visitors are Roy and Liz Catlin and their young daughter Rowena ... (read more?)

 

Night of the Crabs  Guy N. Smith

Night of the Crabs was first published in 1976 and was a bestseller for its author, Guy N. Smith. As with a lot of books from that time it is not very long when compared to modern works... (read more?)

 

Sabat (Book 1) The Graveyard Vultures   Guy N. Smith

During the early 1980s Guy N. Smith wrote a series of four books about an ex-priest and exorcist who was also an SAS-trained killer. He named this rather versatile, if unorthodox individual, Mark Sabat... (read more?)

 

Snakes   Guy N. Smith

There are no prizes for guessing what this book is about. The title says it all: Snakes. And snakes are not something that the average British citizen has to worry about most of the time. In this story though, the inhabitants of a little village called Stainforth... (read more?)

 

The Master  Guy N. Smith

Guy N Smith's The Master was first published in 1988 and is a little over 200 pages long. On the front cover of the book, underneath the title, there is a single sentence that says ... (read more?) 

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Suzuki - Koji

Dark Water  Koji Suzuki

Dark waters isn't a novel, but a collection. It consists of a prologue and an epilogue with 7 short stories between them. All of the stories have a common theme - water ... (read more?) 

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Weinberg - Robert

The Black Lodge   Robert Weinberg

The Black Lodge is set in Chicago and there is a new guy in town. The Dark Man is a creature of the shadows and he dresses all in black. From his cowboy hat down to his old work boots everything is black, and even in summer he... (read more?) 

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Wheatley - Dennis

The Devil Rides Out   Dennis Wheatley

When Simon Aron becomes involved with the wrong crowd it is up to his friends Rex van Ryn and the Duke de Richleau to save him. This is easier said than done though because the crowd that Simon has fallen in with happen to be a coven of Satanists and the two men have to resort to desperate measures to save him... (read more?)

 

The Haunting of Toby Jugg   Dennis Wheatley

The Haunting of Toby Jugg is a supernatural thriller set during World War 2. The central character, Toby Jugg, is a wounded RAF pilot who is confined to a wheelchair. Toby might be crippled physically, but financially he is sitting pretty because on his upcoming... (read more?)

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Wilde -- Oscar

The Picture of Dorian Gray   Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray first saw print in 1891 and it was considered quite shocking at the time. Times change though and I would be surprised if anything in the book shocked a modern reader.  There are three main characters in the story:  a talented artist named Basil Hallward, Lord Henry (Harry) Wotton, and, of course, Dorian Gray... (read more?)

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Wyndham - John

The Day of the Triffids   John Wyndham

"The sky's simply full of shooting stars," the nurse says. "All bright green. They make people's faces look frightfully ghastly, and sometimes it's almost as light as day -- only the wrong colour." Lying in a hospital bed, and with his eyes buried underneath thick bandages, it seems to Bill Masen that he must be the only person who is missing the display... (read more?)

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