Search Results: Horror from Infinity Books Japan

Ballantine Books, 1996. Very Good. Sufficient detail is provided to enable participation in this horror puzzle . The last person convicted-murderer Richard Kraven asks to see before dyin g is Ann Jeffers, the newspaper woman who had kept his name and crimes in t he public consciousness for five years. "Today won't end it...I'm sorry I w on't be here to see you suffer when you finally realize you were wrong abou t me," he says. Brutal murders, perhaps copycat, perhaps at the hands of an accomplice, resume. At first, Ann accepts the changes in her husband follo wing his heart attack. Gradually, they both begin to question what is happe ning. Soon readers will be more concerned with how things transpire than wi th who is responsible. Readers seeking a deliberately told tale that promis es to raise them to the edge of their seats should find satisfaction in thi s story.

Vintage Uk, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. F/F. A highly collectible first edition/tight clean copy, protected in a new bro dart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Blackwood Farm introduces Quinn Blackwood, the sexy, eccentric young gentleman who becomes both a vampire and the heir to the Blackwood estate. All his life, Quinn has been haunted by Goblin, a doppelgänger no one else can see--or believe in. But Goblin is real, and he is becoming maliciously tangible, strengthened by the blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation from his increasingly dangerous doppelgänger is to find the legendary vampire Lestat. But Lestat has vowed to destroy any vampire who sets foot in New Orleans.

US: Decapita Publishing, 2001. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

New York: HarperCollins, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. It is 1916 in the Hollywood of Theda Bara and Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and silent film star Katya Lupi receives a magnificent gift: an entire room constructed of hand-painted tiles removed from a Romanian monastery and installed, piece by piece, on her Hollywood estate. Not only is the room an aesthetic masterpiece but it is also possessed by the Devil. Katya, a woman of strong desires and appetites, quickly learns to use its powers to her advantage, ensnaring the souls of other cinema legends who share her thirst for beauty, fame, and fortune. From this dangerous precipice, Barker, whose numerous best-selling novels (Galilee, etc.) and experience as a film producer have won him a loyal following, entices his readers to leap into a fantastical world… Read More

London: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2001. Hardcover. F/NF. A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Barker fans may breathe a sigh of relief. That the Walt Disney Company is paying $8 million for ancillary rights to the author's forthcoming for-all-ages novel series, The Arabat Quartet (first volume due out in 2002), doesn't mean the British master of dark fantasy has lost his savage bite. Barker's new novel is a ferocious indictment of (and backhanded tribute to) Hollywood Babylon, depicted through Barker's glorious imagination as a nexus of human and inhuman evil where fleshly pursuits corrupt the spirit. It's also one ripping ghost story, spooky and suspenseful, as well as a departure for Barker in that here, as never before, the fantastic mingles with the real, kind of.

US: Tor Books, 2001. Very Good. Los Angeles--City of Angels, city of dreams. But sometimes the dreams becom e nightmares. Having fled New York, Victor Renquist and his small group of Nosferatu are striving to reestablish their Colony in Los Angeles. They have become a dee per, darker part of the city's nightlife. And Hollywood's glitterati are ho t on the scent of a new thrill, one that outshines all others--immortality. But someone, somewhere, is meddling with even darker powers, powers that ev en the Nosferatu fear. Someone is attempting to summon the entity of ancien t evil known at Cthulhu. And Renquist must overcome dissent in his own Colony, solve the riddle of the Darklost (a being brought partway along the Nosferatu path and then abandoned), and combat powerful enemies to save the world--of humans!

Signet Book, 1994. Paperback. Good. Published pseudonymously in 1985, Koontz has revised this thriller portrayi ng a pediatric psychiatrist's attempts to unravel the mental trauma suffere d by her estranged nine-year-old daughter.

Ballantine Books, 1986. Very Good. In the days before the Civil War, there lived a Louisiana people unique in Southern histroy. Though descended from African slaves, they were also desc ended from the French and Spanish who enslaved them. Called the Free People of Color, this dazzling historical novel chronicles the lives of four of t hem--men and women caught perilously between the worlds of master and slave , privilege and oppression, passion and pain.

Feature, 2000. Near Fine. Some men are not serial killers--they just keep finding reasons, which seem good to them at the time, for a series of murders; Junior, the villain of Dean Koontz's genuinely strange dark comedy of misunderstanding and awful d eath From the Corner of his Eye suffers from the delusion that he is the fa voured child of destiny, and that all he has to do is tinker with reality o ne more time, kill one more person. He keeps guessing wrong--he thinks that he has to fnid a child called Bartholomew, who is his nemesis; we get to k now Bartholomew, a prodigy who loses his eyes to cancer as a child, but can walk between raindrops. Bartholomew is only one of the good people whom Ju nior's crimes bring together--for a book with as much mayhem as this one co ntains, it is one which has a surprising confidence in the provident abilit y of the universe to bring the delightful out of the horrible, the wonderfu l out of the disgusting. Dean Koontz has always been one of the more intere… Read More

Fawcett, 1994. Very Good. What is the truth about recently orphaned Joey Wilkenson's strange behavior and the increasing number of gruesomely butchered bodies turning up in Sug arloaf, Idaho? The reader who appreciates a leisurely developed work of psy chological terror will be rewarded by John Saul's methodical tightening of the thumbscrew.

New York: Kensington Books, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Amanda Feral, a newly turned zombie trying to make her way through Seattle's undead scene while satisfying her craving for human flesh, discovers that someone or something is determined to turn the underworld into a place of true terror. Original.

New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Peter Straub is a fine sorcerer of horror whose bag of tricks includes stories of pure, unadulterated horror (Julia and Koko), as well as more subtle tales of psychological suspense (Mr. X and Shadowland). Now Straub conjures up Magic Terror, a collection of seven deeply disturbing tales that display his entire range.

Knopf Canada, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A wonderful tight clean copy, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this i s not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. "At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de couleur libres, a society of New Orleans octoroons and quadroons steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reigned in the shadowy world where African and French - the dark and the white - intermingled. Her ancestors are the great Mayfair Witches, of whom she knows nothing - and from whom she inherits the power and the magical knowledge of a Circe." "Into this exotic realm comes David Talbot - hero, storyteller, adventurer, almost-mortal vampire, visitor from another dark realm. It is he who recounts Merrick's haunting tale - a tale that takes us from the New Orleans of past and present to the jungles of Guatemala, from the Maya ruins of a century ago to ancient civilizations not yet explored.

Warner Books, 2003. Fine. They say his palazzo is to be a magnificent work of art-a dazzling edifice to rival the most opulent in the city. Its owner is a stranger to Florence, a wealthy foreigner who dresses in black silk and practices the age-old se crets of alchemy. But the man who calls himself Francesco Ragoczy da San Ge rmano conceals his own dark secrets that have exiled him to a life of blood -filled torment and eternal wandering. Yet in the sensation-craving Estasia , cousin to Botticelli, San Germano has found a woman whose unquenchable pa ssions could exceed his own. And in the fanatical monk Savonarola, he has f ound a powerful enemy: a dangerously obsessed ascetic who exerts a hypnotic power over the citizens of Florence. Savonarola is embarked on a reign of terror that will not end until every thing of beauty is destroyed and every heretic burned at the stake. As the city becomes a hotbed of religious fer vor and escalating violence, San Germano is faced with an impossible choice that… Read More

Dell, 1990. Very Good. Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the inno cent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. N eilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening t o the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In b loodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark o rder of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulat ing these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supernatu ral force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to... Punish The Sinners.

US: Rebellion, 2011. Good. Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becomes convinced it represents the city of his dreams, where ice skaters turn quintuple loo ps and trumpeters hit impossibly high notes.... where the girl of his dream s will agree to see him again. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares? Carl meets Annie Risk and falls for her. Hurt by a recent relationship, she resists becoming involved. A chance find offers distraction. Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becomes convinced it represent s the city of his dreams, where ice skaters turn quintuple loops and trumpe ters hit impossibly high notes.... where Annie Risk will agree to see him a gain. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they tur n out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares? British Fantasy Award winner Nicholas Royle has written a… Read More

US: Tom Doherty Associates, 1997. Very Good. A seance held in an aristocratic London home goes horribly awry when one of the undead nosferatu appear. The resulting chaos leaves one of the fraudul ent spiritualists dead, Sherlock Holmes missing, and Dr. Watson alone and m ystified. With time running out, Watson has no choice but to summon the onl y one who might be able to help--Holmes' vampire cousin, Prince Dracula.

Ballantine Books, Inc, 1997. Very Good. Departing from her Vampire and Mayfair Witches chronicles, bestselling auth or Anne Rice tales takes us into the Biblical world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Serv ant of the Bones. Journeying from ancient Babylon to the Europe of the Blac k Death and into the modern world, Azriel -- ghost, genii, demon, angel, an d pure spirit made visible -- pours out his heart to us as he confronts, am idst the towers of Manhattan, his human origins and the terrible, dark forc es that seek to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

Berkley Publishing Group, 1994. Paperback. Fair. Rachel's request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She had never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was struck down in a traffic accident. His death was instantaneous. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric's body disappeared from the morgue - and Rachel was stalke d by someone who looked like her dead husband...Shadowfires.

US: Vintage, 1991. Paperback. Good. Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to th e smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and il lusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of h orror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying styl e lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.