Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-hungry-ghosts-99-99184.html A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui’s ‘Hungry Ghost’ clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is twelve-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family’s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to China. As successive tragedies engulf Alice, her ghostly entourage swells alarmingly. She flees to England, then France, in a bid to escape the past, only to find her portable ‘Hungry Ghosts’ have accompanied her. It seems the peace she longs for is to prove far more elusive that she could ever have imagined. ‘The Hungry Ghosts’ is a remarkable tour de force of the imagination, full of instantly memorable characters whose lives intermesh and boil over in a cauldron of domestic mayhem, unleashing unworldly spirits into the troubled air.

Author: ANNE BERRY  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dracula-99-87094.html The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key in the lock; I hear the creaking of lock and bolt...I shall not remain alone with them. I may find a way from this dreadful place, away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet!' Young lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania on business for a mysterious Count. Months later in England, beautiful Lucy Westenra falls ill and dies, inexplicably, as if from a severe loss of blood. Lucy's friends, including Jonathan's fianc

Author: Stoker, Bram  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/under-the-dome-99-94991.html There's a reason why Stephen King is one of the best selling writers in the world ever. He knows how to write stories that suck you in and are impossible to put down. The New York Times describes it as a 'relentless tidal pull' and Stephen King has done it time and time again with stories like The Shawshank Redemption, Misery, The Green Mile and The Stand. In Under the Dome, he has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it. It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out. The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late .

Author: STEPHEN KING  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dark-touch:-the-hunt-99-88433.html "Something is hunting. Something that will kill to get what it wants. And it isn’t human. Eve knows that her supernatural powers are called for, but she’d rather focus on dating than demons and gorgeous Luke is, frankly, pretty distracting. He’s already a friend – but could he be something more? Do Luke and Eve really have a future? And with demons on the hunt, will either of them live long enough to find out?"

Author: Meredith, Amy  Publisher: Red Fox]]> Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-waiting-room-99-95357.html Martin Stride is a retired rock star, enjoying the quiet life with his young family on their beautiful estate. On the edge of his grounds lies a derelict Edwardian railway station waiting room once used to transport troops in The Great War. Silent for many years, it has become a playground for Martin's children but now they won't go near it. Strange occurrences in the waiting room lead Martin to seek the help of TV's favourite ghost-hunter Julian Creed. But Creed's psychic ability is a fabrication to gain viewers. He doesn't believe in the paranormal. Until he spends a night in The Waiting Room.

Author: Cottam, F.G.  Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/15-miles-99-95358.html Samuel 'Sailor' Doyle has transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family. On Friday 3 July, the rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out of a hope chest overflowing with cat litter. And the farm is covered with dead bodies: dozens of cats, sheep, goats, cows, and one dead horse. The mentally handicapped daughter of the victims, Carl and Claire Bruckner, is missing. Doyle soon discovers that Bruckner was a Marine captain who lost his leg in Vietnam thanks to the incompetence of his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake - now retired General Robert Lake, and Republican Party presidential hopeful, who will be speaking in Richmond on July fourth - the following evening. What Doyle fails to realise as he follows the various clues is that wherever he goes, he is spreading disease - and not just any disease, but Yersinia pestis. The plague. Is the dead Marine planning revenge, even from beyond the grave?

Author: Scott, Robert  Publisher: ORION]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/15-miles-99-95359.html Samuel 'Sailor' Doyle has transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family. On Friday 3 July, the rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out of a hope chest overflowing with cat litter. And the farm is covered with dead bodies: dozens of cats, sheep, goats, cows, and one dead horse. The mentally handicapped daughter of the victims, Carl and Claire Bruckner, is missing. Doyle soon discovers that Bruckner was a Marine captain who lost his leg in Vietnam thanks to the incompetence of his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lake - now retired General Robert Lake, and Republican Party presidential hopeful, who will be speaking in Richmond on July fourth - the following evening. What Doyle fails to realise as he follows the various clues is that wherever he goes, he is spreading disease - and not just any disease, but Yersinia pestis. The plague. Is the dead Marine planning revenge, even from beyond the grave?

Author: Scott, Robert  Publisher: ORION]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ancestor-99-95360.html On a remote island in the Great Lakes, an unusual group of scientists are using extinct DNA to create the perfect organ donor. It could save millions of lives and win Dr Claus Rhumkorrf the Nobel Prize he craves. The donor animal is genetically the ancestor of all species on the planet -- but Nature wiped it out two hundred million years ago. Rhumkorrf and his team are about to find out why.

Author: Sigler, Scott  Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-prince-of-mist-99-94989.html In 1943 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast. They move into a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife but abandoned when their son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house Max spies an overgrown garden surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. When he goes to investigate, Max finds statues like troupe fill the garden. In the centre is the large statue of a clown set in another six-pointed star. Max has the curious sensation that the statue is beckoning to him. As the family grows increasingly uneasy when they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns, his sister Alicia has unsettling dreams while little Irina hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. But Max spends most of his time with his new friend Roland, who takes him diving to the wreck of a boat that sank close to the coast in a terrible storm. Everyone on board perished except for one man - an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. During the dive, Max sees something that leaves him cold - on the mast floats a tattered flag and on it is the symbol of the circle and six-pointed star. As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of a legendary figure called the Prince of Mist begins to emerge.

Author: CARLOS LUIS ZAFON  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-living-dead:-the-beginning-99-94990.html In San Diego, an autopsy seems routine until the corpse sits up and begins to walk--after all of his organs have been removed. Suddenly, the rules of this world have been rewritten and the dead now walk the earth. In Atlanta, a reporter covers the epidemic, showing viewers glimpses of increasing chaos from across the globe. Nowhere, it seems, is safe. The captain of an aircraft carrier hopes to save his crew from the disease by remaining at sea, but seemingly within moments zombies are wreaking havoc on the ship. THE LIVING DEAD follows different groups of people as they react to the crisis, working together or, for some, using their limited knowledge of zombies to try to survive. But is survival even possible? Or desirable?

Author: Romero, George A.  Publisher: Grand Ctrl Pub]]> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/operation-gadgetman!-99-42382.html Beans calls her dad ‘Gadgetman’ because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he comes up with – everything from exploding biscuits to Spy Kits. But when Gadgetman accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, the wrong people find out and Gadgetman is kidnapped!With the help of her friends – and her special Gadgetman Spy Kit – Beans is determined to track down the kidnappers and rescue her dad. But can she find Gadgetman before he is forced to hand over the details of his invention...?

Author: Blackman, Malorie  Publisher: Yearling]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/exorcist-the-99-42814.html Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan' Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us'. The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in the eleven-year-old girl. Medical tests shed no light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded the child. Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit priest, is called in. Is it possible that a demonic force is present in the child? Exorcism is the only answer...

Author: William Peter Blatty  Publisher: Corgi]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/terror-the-99-50138.html The men on board Her Britannic Majesty’s Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn’t the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures, dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness, which stalks the ships, snatching one man at a time – mutilating, devouring. A nameless thing, at once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition’s nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death, it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival – or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy, starvation and madness take their toll, as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold, Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape…

Author: Simmons, Dan  Publisher: Bantam]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/diary-99-50200.html Diary takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's refurbished and scrawling vile messages all over the walls. Angry homeowners are suing, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. The canvases are taken away by her mother-in-law and her doctor, who seem to have a plan for Misty - and for all those annoying tourists...

Author: Palahniuk, Chuck  Publisher: Vintage]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/haunted-99-88442.html Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever. They are told by the people who have all answered an ad headlined ‘Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months’. They are led to believe that here they will leave behind all the distractions of ‘real life’ that are keeping them from creating the masterpiece that is in them. But ‘here’ turns out to be a cavernous and ornate old theatre where they are utterly isolated from the outside world – and where heat and power and, most importantly, food are in increasingly short supply. And the more desperate the circumstances become, the more desperate the stories they tell – and the more devious their machinations become to make themselves the hero of the inevitable play/movie/non-fiction blockbuster that will certainly be made from their plight.

Author: Palahniuk, Chuck  Publisher: Vintage]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/void-a-99-50666.html Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl’s past starts to cast its malignant shadow. This virtuoso story, chock-full of plots and subplots, shows the skill of both author and translator who impart all the action without a crucial grammatical prop: the letter ‘e’.

Author: Perec, Georges  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ghost-stories-99-88421.html Tales about ghosts are as old as human culture itself but the ghost story as a distinguished literary form reached its apogee in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As traditional religions declined in the West during those years, people looked for new ways of describing the spiritual realities explained by religion. The ghost story is a literary expression of this need, its rise corresponding to the growing popularity of Spiritualism. Ghost stories balance the increasingly powerful scientific materialism of the age with intimations that there are other orders of experience which we cannot define and only glimpse. The Everyman selection of ghost stories includes examples from this period by major writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Henry James and Edith Wharton. M. R. James is featured as a specialist in the genre. Later writers include Elizabeth Bowen, Penelope Lively and Ray Bradbury. One feature of this collection is to show that there is more to the ghost story than the thrill of horror, important though that is. These stories include comedy and tragedy, pathos, drama and even poetry. Each is a masterpiece in its own right, irrespective of whether or not we believe in the realm of spectres.

Author: Everyman  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/merrick-99-88422.html Louis is a vampire tortured by guilt. His status as a killer has left him conflicted for much of his immortal life, but after the murder of Claudia, his beloved child vampire, he spirals into a state of depression. And in a moment of desperation he decides to bring her back with the help of the beautiful witch Merrick. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use black magic to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be. But in the dark unknown of the underworld there are other spirits who will not lie still, and her search takes her close to the edge of peril.

Author: Rice, Anne  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/blackwood-farm-99-88423.html A terrifying drama of bloodlust and betrayal is unravelling within the Blackwood Farm family. Their grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible, blood-stained secrets. Heir to them all is the young, rash and beautiful Quinn Blackwood. But he is being controlled an evil spirit, a demon who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of the vampire Lestat, combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair witch clan can save Quinn from himself, and rescue the doomed girl he loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel brings us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampire and witches, men and women, demons and doppelgangers, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

Author: Rice, Anne  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/violin-99-88424.html Triana's grief is deep and almost boundless. Death has marked her, and taken her husband. Now only the music in her dreams can carry her from night to night. And now, into those dreams, into those nights, comes Stefan, the restless, tormented ghost of a Russian aristocrat. Stefan's musical genius will first enchant Triana, then dominate her sothat she will be drawn into the cruel past in which he lived his earthly life. Finally Triana will find herself in the realm of ghosts and spectres where an ally awaits her... Surreal, dramatic and mesmerising, Violin moves across time and continents to bring together three lost souls bound to one another through music, passion and rapture.

Author: Rice, Anne  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dracula-99-88425.html Though Stoker did not invent vampires – and in fact based his character’s life-in-death on extensive research into European folklore – his novel elevated the nocturnal monster to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies which flourishes to this day. A century of imitation has done nothing to diminish its power. As the suave and chilling Count stalks his prey from a crumbling castle in the Carpathians to a lunatic asylum in Purfleet and the bedrooms of his swooning female victims, the drama builds to a fever pitch of sensuality and suspense. Dracula is not only a classic of Gothic horror and a wellspring of modern mythology: it is also irresistible entertainment.

Author: Stoker, Bram  Publisher: Everyman]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/barnaby-grimes:-curse-of-the-night-wolf-99-88426.html Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and 'high-stacking' around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog. He kills it - but that's not the end of this particular mystery . . . as Barnaby finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange tonics and very expensive furs... Could there be more to the seemingly respectable Dr Cadwallader and the tonics he doles out to the poor? Is there a link between the tonic and the huge dogs - or possibly wolves - that are roaming the city at night? When Barnaby's old acquaintance Benjamin goes missing, Barnaby fears the worst for him, and decides to dig deeper... A fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby. This new series from the bestselling dream team of Stewart and Riddell is a must for all fans of the Edge Chronicles - but also for fans of Horowitz and Shan, as they move into new territory and deliver a brilliantly exciting thriller-horror for boys.

Author: Riddell, Chris,Stewart, Paul  Publisher: Corgi Childrens]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ms-wiz-rocks-99-88427.html Ms Wiz is Class Five’s favourite teacher, who also happens to be a paranormal operative! Bind-up of two stories: BRAND NEW Ms Wiz story: Ms Wiz Rocks. Podge is learning an instrument but he's terrible. Then he meets a street singer playing the ukelele: it's Ms Wiz of course! And in joining her band, he finds himself in a TV talent competition! Rock on, Ms Wiz! You're Nicked, Ms Wiz Lizzie’s cat is missing, stolen by fur-nappers, and Ms Wiz turns her into a cat to get it back.

Author: Blacker, Terence  Publisher: Andersen]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hand-of-the-devil-the-99-88428.html When young magazine journalist Ashley Reeves receives an intriguing letter he leaves his London office in the hope of reporting on an unusual species of insect - the Ganges Red. That evening he arrives on Aries Island and encounters the writer of the letter - Reginald Mather. At first Mather seems no more than an eccentric collector, happy to live in isolation on the island. But when Reeves unearths the horrific truth he finds himself thrown headlong into a macabre nightmare that quickly spirals out of control. His life is in danger . . . and Mather is not his only enemy . . . Both gruesome and compelling, chilling and page-turning, this much-anticipated thriller from Dean Vincent Carter will delight older readers.

Author: Carter, Dean Vincent  Publisher: Corgi Childrens]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ghost-writer-99-88429.html Take a boy with a reading problem, a protective mother, and a village primary school set in its original 19th century buildings and there are all the ingredients for an accessible modern ghost story… Frankie likes his school even though his bullying teacher thinks that ‘dyslexic’ is another name for lazy. But who is the ghost boy who writes 'GET HER' on the blackboard in the original classroom – and what is his connection with the cupboard at the back? What really happened in the influenza epidemic that swept the village 70 years before – and who died in it?

Author: Jarman, Julia  Publisher: Andersen]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/vampire-blog-the-99-88430.html Marcus was convinced that vampires didn't exist. He was very wrong . . . On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett is faced with a bombshell. His parents are half-vampire. And, although he hates the thought of it, he is about to become one too. But, as he secretly blogs about the horrors of his new fang, bad breath and cravings for blood, Marcus is unaware that his life is in serious danger . . .

Author: Johnson, Pete  Publisher: Corgi Childrens]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/vampire-blog-the-99-88431.html Marcus was convinced that vampires didn't exist. He was very wrong . . . On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus Howlett is faced with a bombshell. His parents are half-vampire. And, although he hates the thought of it, he is about to become one too. But, as he secretly blogs about the horrors of his new fangs, bad breath and cravings for blood, Marcus is unaware that his life is in serious danger . . .

Author: Johnson, Pete  Publisher: Corgi Childrens]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dark-touch:-shadows-99-88432.html Fifteen-year-old Eve Evergold is cute, sassy and enjoying a busy social life. What she doesn't know yet is that someone close to her is an evil demon that only she has the supernatural power to defeat. She needs to work out who it is - and fast! Because although there's something very attractive about the dark side . . . dating a demon? Pure hell!

Author: Meredith, Amy  Publisher: Red Fox]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/count-karlstein-the-novel-99-88434.html Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman, was Philip Pullman’s first novel for children, published by Chatto and Windus in 1982. It is a wonderful gothic melodrama which he first wrote as a play for school-children when he was an English teacher. No one in the village of Karlstein dares to leave their home on All Souls Eve - the night Zamiel, the Demon Huntsman comes to claim his prey. But the evil Count Karlstein has struck a terrible bargin with Zamiel, and so the lives of his young nieces, Lucy and Charlotte,are in danger. Their only hope lies with Hildi, a castle maidservant, and her fearless brother, Peter. Can they save the girls from their dreadful fate? Only one thing is certain - the Demon Huntsman will not return to his dark wood unsatisfied!

Author: Pullman, Philip  Publisher: Corgi Childrens]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/midnight-hand-the-99-88435.html It was only when he woke up that Tom realized he'd been asleep. It was still night-time, and outside a raging wind was buffeting the windows and howling down the chimney - not that it was the wind which had woken Tom... When Tom starts at Styles Grange Boarding School he knows he will feel a little lonely, but he never dreamed he'd experience such pure terror! For at midnight, when the bronze bell tolls, Tom feels something stroking his cheek, something cold and dry. . . a skeletal hand! A gripping and chilling mystery from popular author Paul Stewart.

Author: Stewart, Paul  Publisher: Yearling]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/weather-witch-the-99-88436.html Joe and Kerry, sent to stay in the country with their great-aunt, find themselves whirled into the past when they investigate the mystery of an Elizabethan village that escaped destruction by simply vanishing overnight - more than four hundred years ago. But the spell that saved it then has now become a curse…

Author: Stewart, Paul  Publisher: Yearling]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/twelve-99-88437.html On 12th June 1812, Napoleon's Grande Armee forded the River Niemen and crossed the Rubicon - its invasion of Russia had begun. Charged with delaying the enemy's inexorable march on Moscow, a group of Russian officers summon the help of the oprichniki, a band of mercenaries from the outermost fringes of Christian Europe. As rumours of a plague travelling west from the Black Sea reach the Russians, the Oprichniki - twelve in number - arrive. Preferring to work alone, and at night, they prove brutally, shockingly effective against the French. But one amongst the Russians, Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, is unnerved by the mercenaries' ruthlessness...and as he comes to understand the true, horrific nature of these strangers, he wonders at the nightmare they've unleashed in their midst...

Author: Kent, Jasper  Publisher: Bantam]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/merrick-99-88438.html When last the vampire Lestat was seen, he was rising from the dead in present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead. Now Lestat lives again, but in a twilight world of music and memory. His charismatic friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. He calls on Merrick, young and gorgeous mixed-race by-blow of the rich New Orleans Mayfair clan. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be. There are other Mayfair spirits who will not lie still, and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror, ritual and violence. Sweeping from New Orleans to the Brazilian jungle and the island of Haiti, this is vampire literature at its most tantalising, sexy and irresistible.

Author: Rice, Anne  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/blackwood-farm-99-88439.html Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality- Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelg-nger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

Author: Rice, Anne  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/thirteen-years-later-99-88440.html Aleksandr made a silent promise to the Lord. God would deliver him – would deliver Russia – and he would make Russia into the country that the Almighty wanted it to be. He would be delivered from the destruction that wasteth at noonday, and from the pestilence that walketh in darkness – the terror by night ... 1825. Russia has been at peace for a decade. Bonaparte is long dead and the threat of invasion is no more. For Colonel Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov, life is calm. The French have been defeated, as have the twelve monstrous creatures he once fought alongside, and then against, all those years before. His duty is still to his tsar, Aleksandr the First, but today the enemy is merely human. However, the tsar himself knows he can never be at peace. He is well aware of the uprising fermenting within his own army, but his true fear is of something far more terrible – something that threatens to bring damnation upon him, his family and his country. Aleksandr cannot forget a promise: a promise sealed in blood … and broken a hundred years before. Now the victim of the Romanovs’ betrayal has returned to demand what is his. The knowledge chills Aleksandr’s very soul. And for Aleksei, it seems the vile pestilence that once threatened all he held dear has returned, thirteen years later …

Author: Kent, Jasper  Publisher: Bantam Press]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/blood-canticle-99-88441.html Lestat is back with a vengeance and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. Both demon and angel, he is drawn to kill but tempted by goodness as he moves among the pantheon of Anne Rice's unforgettable characters. Julien Mayfair, his tormentor; Rowan, witch and neurosurgeon, who attracts spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat; Patsy, country and western singer, who was killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp; Ash Templeton, a 5,000 year old Taltos whose genes live on in the Mayfairs. Now, Lestat fights to save Patsy's ghost from the dark realms of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair. Both of Anne Rice's irresistible realms - the worlds of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches - collide as Lestat struggles between his lust for blood and the quest for life, between gratification and redemption.

Author: Rice, Anne  Publisher: Arrow]]> Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dracula-99-4501.html The story of Dracula has never been better told than by Stoker. He aims to terrify and succeeds, portraying the awesome power of evil to corrupt even the virtuous heroine, Lucy. Only the old magic--a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake--can provide effective weapons against the Count's appalling strength. Umbriel Editores publica ahora el clásico de Bram Stoker con el prólogo de su más digna seguidora Elizabeth Kostova, para que los lectores puedan disfrutar, una vez más, del relato que dio lugar a la inolvidable leyenda del conde Drácula.

Author: STOKER, BRAM  Publisher: HBGUS]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bad-place-the-99-6391.html She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/by-the-light-of-the-moon-99-6392.html Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as "America’s most popular suspense novelist"(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning mysteries and miracles, enthralling tales that speak directly to today's readers, balm for the heart and fire for the mind. In this stunning new novel, he delivers a tour de force of dark suspense and brilliant revelation that has all the Koontz trademarks: adventure, chills, riddles, humor, heartbreak, an unforgettable cast of characters, and a climax that will leave you clamoring for more. Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He is on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious "doctor," injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor's enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police. Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep's path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they'll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that's coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share - secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work "by the light of the moon."

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chase-99-6393.html Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to gethim? When society is sick, the mad are sane and persecution is a killer's game...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cold-fire-99-6394.html Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to gethim? When society is sick, the mad are sane and persecution is a killer's game...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dark-rivers-of-the-heart-99-6395.html Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/darkfall-99-6396.html DARKFALL

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/demon-seed-99-6397.html She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dragon-tears-99-6398.html Harry Lyon was a cop who believed in order and reason, until the fateful day he was forced to shoot a man. Now he is haunted by the words that were uttered by a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes..".Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn..".

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/false-memory-99-6399.html Read by Stephen Lang 10 Cassettes, 18 hours Martie Rhodes is a young wife (happily married to Dustin for three years), a video game designer, and a compassionate woman who takes her agoraphobic friend Carol to therapy sessions. Carol is so afraid of leaving her apartment that the trips are grim ordeals for both women--but bonding experiences as well. Then one morning Martie experiences a sudden fear of her own, a brief but disquieting terror of...her shadow. The episode is over so quickly it leaves her shaken, but amused. Then, as she is about to check her makeup, she realizes she is terrified to look in the mirror and confront her own face. As the episodes of this traumatic condition --autophobia-- build, the lives of Martie and her husband change drastically. Frantic to discover the trigger for her descent into hell, Dustin begins to look into the background of a respected therapist. As he comes closer to the truth about this strange and troubled " healer, " Dustin finds himself afflicted with a condition even more bizarre and terrifying than Martie's. No fan of psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind's capacity to torment...and destroy.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fear-nothing-99-6400.html Too hot to be making love unless your romance is young, like Sherry and Duane's. It's their first time and there's just one problem - they have no condoms. Of course they could wait until tomorrow... In the usual circumstances, the twenty-four-hour Speed-D-Mart is not a place anyone would want to visit at night. But these aren't usual circumstances. Duane throws on his clothes - the store is just ten minutes down the block. Now Sherry is waiting. It's been more than twenty minutes. She's not worried - what's another few minutes? Then she hears the noise from down the street. It might be the backfire of a car. But Sherry thinks it sounds mostly like a gunshot.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/from-the-corner-of-his-eye-99-6401.html  Bartholomew Lampion is blinded at the age of three, when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but although eyeless, Barty regains his sight when he is thirteen. This sudden ascent from a decade of darkness into the glory of light is not brought about by the hands of a holy healer. No celestial trumpets announce the restoration of his vision, just as none announced his birth. A roller coaster has something to do with his recovery, as does a seagull. And one cannot discount the importance of Barty's profound desire to make his mother proud of him before she dies. The first time she died was the day Barty was born: January 6, 1965.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hideaway-99-6402.html In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves round the empty throne. A terrible power struggle threatens the country, and one of London's powerful merchant princes is foully murdered within a few days of the old king's death. Coroner Sir John Cranston and Dominican monk Brother Athelstan are ordered to investigate. As others associated with Springall are found dead, Cranston and Athelstan are drawn ever deeper into a dark web of intrigue...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/icebound-99-6403.html THE ARCTIC NIGHT IS ENDLESS. THE FEAR IS NUMBING. SCREAMS FREEZE IN THE THROAT. DEATH ARRIVES IN SHADES OF WHITE. COLD-BLOODED MURDER SEEMS RIGHT AT HOME.... The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/intensity-99-6404.html Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with "intensity." Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive--until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl...as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lightning-99-6405.html She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ..

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/midnight-99-6406.html She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mr-murder-99-6407.html In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves round the empty throne. A terrible power struggle threatens the country, and one of London's powerful merchant princes is foully murdered within a few days of the old king's death. Coroner Sir John Cranston and Dominican monk Brother Athelstan are ordered to investigate. As others associated with Springall are found dead, Cranston and Athelstan are drawn ever deeper into a dark web of intrigue...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/night-chills-99-6408.html Glenn drove the Land Rover into a stone wall at just over 100mph. Alice stuck a meat fork through her hand and pinned it to the chopping board. Brenda took off all her clothes. She did whatever she was told. They were compelled by a fear too great to be remembered, enslaved by a power no man should ever wield.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/one-door-away-from-heaven-99-6409.html Jinnie is the story of Jinnie a  child  from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband, Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan . When Ben takes, his own life, and Susan deserts her newborn child, Louise puts aside her own heartache and adopts little Jinnie as her own. Louise's solace down the years is little Jinnie, and their close  relationship. But what will happen when Jinnie finds out the truth? And then, one day, a letter arrives from Susan, saying she intends to get Jinnie back. There are others whose lives are badly affected by the tragic events of the past: Adam, who witnessed his mother's murder, and his sister, Hannah, inwardly traumatised by  what she too saw that night. And their beloved grandmother, who longs to keep them safe, but knows in her heart that the day will soon come when she must take them back to the place where it all happened. It seems Fate is already taking a hand.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/phantoms-99-6410.html PHANTOMS

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/seize-the-night-99-6411.html SEIZE THE NIGHT is the brilliant second thriller in the Moonlight Bay trilogy, following the acclaimed bestseller FEAR NOTHING

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shadowfires-99-6412.html A woman's relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror, in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from "New York Times"-bestselling author Koontz. This newly repackaged edition features a new Afterword by the author. Reissue. Now with a new afterword by the" NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLING AUTHOR... And a brand-new package. A womanas relief over the death of her husband gives way to mind-numbing terror in this shockingly suspenseful thriller from "New York Times" bestselling author Dean Koontz

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sole-survivor-99-6413.html THE PLANE CRASHED WITHOUT WARNING. THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY PEOPLE DIED. NO EXPLANATION. NO SURVIVORS. Now one man who lost everything that night is about to discover the answers he needs to go on with his life -- or the conviction to finally end it. Crime reporter Joe Carpenter lost his wife and two young daughters in the crash of Flight 353. Aching from his loss, Joe is unable to work, or to think... unable to do anything but grieve, and wait for his own death. Then Joe meets Rose, a woman who claims to be the crash's sole survivor. But before Joe can probe further, the elusive Rose slips away...and Joe is left with haunting, terrifying questions: If Rose lived through the crash, is it possible his family could have survived it, too? Did the authorities conspire to hide what really happened that night? Will his search for the truth shatter him like nothing has before...and force him to question everything he thinks he knows about life and death? A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter. A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away. Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash. Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death -- a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/strange-highways-99-6414.html A brilliant collection of dark and suspense-filled stories from the international bestselling Dean Koontz

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/strangers-99-6415.html Steven Tyler is one of life's natural-born survivors. With an exhaustively vibrant personality, this dynamic lead singer has been one of the most distinctive figures in rock music for more than three decades. Raised in a close, loving family, Tyler survived a tough upbringing in the Bronx. His inherent passion for performing and a talent for playing instruments propelled him into rock music as a teenager. He fronted a succession of local bands before meeting the guys with whom he would form Aerosmith in 1970. Laura Jackson reveals the stories behind Tyler's relationships with band members and the many women in his life, his battle with Hepatitis C, and his drug-fueled meltdown during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he was snorting pure heroin. She also explores his visits to rehab in the 1980s which saved his life. Tyler has lived a roller-coaster life of excess--spending over a million dollars on drugs--but is miraculously still performing.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-door-to-december-99-6416.html This newly repackaged Koontz classic--one of his best-loved novels of psychological suspense--features a new Afterword by Koontz that examines what this book means to him 25 years after he first wrote it.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-eyes-of-darkness-99-6417.html A year after little Danny's death, his mother swore she saw him in a stranger's car...It was a mystery she could not escape. An obsession that would lead her from the bright lights of Las Vegas to the cold shadows of the High Sierras. A terrible secret seen only by...The Eyes Of Darkness.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-face-of-fear-99-6418.html To stop a brutal killer, the NYPD enlists the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris. He sees the murders in his mind -- sometimes at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all -- his own murder..

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-funhouse-99-6419.html In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves round the empty throne. A terrible power struggle threatens the country, and one of London's powerful merchant princes is foully murdered within a few days of the old king's death. Coroner Sir John Cranston and Dominican monk Brother Athelstan are ordered to investigate. As others associated with Springall are found dead, Cranston and Athelstan are drawn ever deeper into a dark web of intrigue...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-house-of-thunder-99-6420.html Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to gethim? When society is sick, the mad are sane and persecution is a killer's game...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-key-to-midnight-99-6421.html Joanna's life in Japan is perfect. She sings in a successful nightclub that she owns. At night she's plagued by the dream of a man with a needle and feelings of being violated. She meets fellow American Alex Hunter, who helps Joanna awaken to the fact that she's not who she thinks she is. Special release date of 4/20/95. Joanna Rand left the U.S. ten years ago to sing in a Japanese nightclub. Ever since, she's been plagued with nightmares of terror. There is only one man can help her -- Alex Hunter. Ten years ago he saw her picture in the papers -- as a senator's daughter who had disappeared. Now he has to bring her memories back to her, memories of a past more terrifying than they dreamed possible...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-mask-99-6422.html From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Thunder and Hideaway. She appeared out of nowhere. And Paul and Carol were drawn to her immediately--the child they had never had. It was a dream come true--until the young girl's mask fell away to reveal the face of terrifying evil. A beautiful young girl appears out of nowhere. A teenager with no past, no family -- no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her. She was the child they'd never had. Most mothers would die for such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol most of all...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-servants-of-twilight-99-6423.html Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to gethim? When society is sick, the mad are sane and persecution is a killer's game...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-vision-99-6424.html She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-voice-of-the-night-99-6425.html Colin and Roy were total opposites -- and had everyone wondering why they were friends. Then one day Roy asked Colin, "You ever killed anything?" And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine -- and to irresistible to stop...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ticktock-99-6426.html Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night, Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life and he doesn't know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy's computer screen: The deadline is dawn. Ticktock Time is running out. "From the Paperback edition. Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for eyes and another pair over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. But that night, with the popping of two stitches, something terrifying will emerge to tear apart the fabric of Tommy's reality ... and his life.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/twilight-eyes-99-6427.html They're out there, lurking in the dark shadows of an eerie carnival, feeding on human suffering, plotting the downfall of the human race, and invisible to the eyes of all, but one man...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/watchers-99-6428.html She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light ...As a child, she was Baby Celeste, the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution and sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple, Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes, luxury cars, even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price - because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps ...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/whispers-99-6429.html Stalked by a madman when she was a child, beautiful and successful Hollywood writer Hilary Thomas is convinced that she had already killed him--but now she's plagued with the terror that he has come back.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/winter-moon-99-6430.html In 1376, the famed Black Prince died of a terrible rotting sickness, closely followed by his father, King Edward III. The crown of England is left in the hands of a mere boy, the future Richard II, and the great nobles gather like hungry wolves round the empty throne. A terrible power struggle threatens the country, and one of London's powerful merchant princes is foully murdered within a few days of the old king's death. Coroner Sir John Cranston and Dominican monk Brother Athelstan are ordered to investigate. As others associated with Springall are found dead, Cranston and Athelstan are drawn ever deeper into a dark web of intrigue...

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shattered-99-6431.html As Alex and Colin speed toward their new home in San Francisco where Courtney awaits them, they are pursued by a madman who is also eager to see Courtney.

Author: KOONTZ, DEAN  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-keeper-99-6432.html The image shown in not the actual Image. Cost of shipping Rs.30- per book is extra already added to price of the book. Books will be shipped within 7 days.

Author: LANGAN, SARAH  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/virus-99-6433.html Something lurking in the woods threatens to destroy an entire town in Sarah Langan's brilliantly crafted second novel. Lois Larkin should never have taken her class to the woods for the field trip. Preoccupied by the betrayal of her fiance she never even notices when little James Walker doesn't get back on the bus and suddenly the quiet, prosperous town of Corpus Christi is plunged into tragedy and united in shock.

Author: LANGAN, SARAH  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/after-midnight-99-6435.html When Alice's friend Serena goes away she stays in her house, with its sunken bathtub and big-screen TV. Best of all is the outdoor swimming pool. But one night a stranger walks out of the woods and jumps naked into the pool. Alice hopes he won't be coming to get her, like so many have done before.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/alarums-99-6436.html Melanie Conway is a pale and lovely violinist who has strange visions of death. Penelope Conway is even more stunning than her sister but her looks frequently get her into trouble. Captivated by these two sisters, Melanie's boyfriend Bodie finds himself drawn into a strange mystery.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/allhallow-s-eve-99-6437.html Nothing unusual ever happens in Ashburg, until a local family are mutilated and left to die in their own home. Since then, the house has stood empty, but when mysterious invitations arrive announcing a party there, nobody thinks its a joke. After all, it is Allhallow's Eve.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/amara-99-6438.html Amara, Princess of Egypt, the once-beautiful wife of Mentuhotep the First, lies in her coffin in the Charles Ward museum. Dead these 4000 years, now she's just an inanimate bundle of withered skin and desiccated bone. Or is she? When Barney the nightwatchman discovers that the mummy's coffin has been broken open, it seems grave-robbers are at work. It's a pity Barney and the guards can't tell the authorities how the mummy came to be missing. But the dead can't testify to anything. Now Amara is free again, driven by an ancient need that can only be assuaged at the cost of human life, and nothing can kill her - for she is dead already.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/among-the-missing-99-6439.html A Californian wife has left her academic husband. As she drives through the mountains in the early hours of the morning, she picks up a hitch-hiker - rugged, adventurous - who suggests a romantic stop. But no love takes place at The Bend that night and in the morning a body is found.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beware!-99-6440.html The supermarket shouldn't have been shut. It wasn't normal for Elsie to quit early, or for the guard dog to end up like hamburger meat, or for Elsie herself to feature on the butcher's slab, neatly wrapped and jointed. Residents of Oasis, like hotshot reporter Lacey Allen had better beware!

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/bite-99-6441.html Sam hasn't seen his first love, Cat, for  10 years. But now she's back and is asking for help to kill a vampire. Sam doesn't believe in vampires, but he does believe the marks on Cat's body. Are they self-inflicted, or is there really a vampire?

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/blood-games-99-6442.html College friends Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene all meet up for one week every year. Helen has a taste for horror, and this year she has chosen the Totem Pole Lodge, a deserted hotel in the backwoods with a sinister past. But the girls soon find it is not as deserted as they thought.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/body-rides-99-6443.html When Neal rescues a woman from a vicious assult, she gives him a magic bracelet, which allows him to step inside other people to experience their feelings. But the woman's attacker is out for revenge, first on her, then Neal, and Neal must use the gift to look inside the would-be killer's head.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/come-out-tonight-99-6444.html It's a hot, hot night. Too hot to be making love unless your romance is young, like Sherry and Duane's. It's their first time but there's just one problem - they have no condoms. Of course they could wait until tomorrow...Duane remembers the all-night Speed-D-Mart. In the usual circumstances, it's not a place anyone would want to visit at night. But these aren't usual circumstances. Duane throws on his clothes - the store is just ten minutes down the block. Now Sherry is waiting. Ten minutes has gone, so has twenty. She's not worried - what's another few minutes? Then she hears the noise from down the street. It might be a door slamming. It might be the backfire of a car. But Sherry thinks it sounds mostly like a gunshot...

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dark-mountain-99-6445.html When two families head off on a camping holiday, it is meant to be a break from city life, in the hills amid the wonders of nature. But in the wilderness lurk two others, an old woman with gruesome powers and her son, whose depraved and unnatural lusts even she cannot control.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/dreadful-tales-99-6446.html Richard Laymon is the undisputed master of the macabre, and nowhere is his talent to terrify shown to better effect than in his short stories. DREADFUL TALES contains all of his short fiction not previously published in the UK and forms a delicious cornucopia of homicidal maniacs, vampires and lust-crazed teenagers - not to mention the drinkers in a low-life dive who attempt to salvage a diamond ring from the mouth of a severed head in a fish tank - with grisly results.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/endless-night-99-6447.html A cop's daughter, Jody is sleeping over at a friend's when the killers break in. They slaughter the family but Jody escapes, killing a man on the way out. All rapist and murderer Simon Quist has to do now is dispose of the one eyewitness to the massacre. And he can't wait to get his hands on Jody.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/darkness-tell-us-99-6469.html At an end-of-term college party, six students come across a Ouija board. When a spirit called Butler tells them of a fortune hidden in the mountains, they head off on a two-day hike into the wilderness, where any danger may lie in wait to cut and slice and tear them limb from limb.

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-richard-laymon-collection-volume-3:-night-show-allhallow-s-eve-99-6472.html THE RICHARD LAYMON COLLECTION VOLUME 3: NIGHT SHOW & ALLHALLOW'S EVE

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-richard-laymon-collection-volume-4:-beware-dark-mountain-99-6473.html THE RICHARD LAYMON COLLECTION VOLUME 4: BEWARE & DARK MOUNTAIN

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-richard-laymon-collection-volume-5:-flesh-resurrection-dreams-99-6474.html THE RICHARD LAYMON COLLECTION VOLUME 5: FLESH & RESURRECTION DREAMS

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-richard-laymon-collection-volume-6:-funland-the-stake-99-6475.html THE STAKE In an abandoned hotel in a Californian ghost town, horror writer Larry Dunbar and his friends make a chilling discovery. By chance they stumble on a coffin hidden under the stairs. Within lies the corpse of a naked female - with a stake through its heart. Was she the innocent victim of a gruesome murder? Or was she a vampire? There's only one way for Larry to solve the mystery - he must pull out the stake...FUNLAND A series of unexplained disappearances has cast a dark shadow over the summer pleasures over the seaside town of Boleta Bay. And holiday-makers are being threatened by a growing army of leering, foul-mouthed bums who have taken over the promenade. Convinced that the down-and-outs are behind the abductions, a gang of local teenagers decide to wreak violent revenge. Led by the charismatic Tanya, the gang graduate from simple beatings to more sinister punishments. And as they grow more daring, their campaign leads them to the old abandoned Funhouse, where the real truth of the disappearances awaits them...

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-richard-laymon-collection-volume-15:-the-travelling-vampire-show-dreadful-tales-99-6483.html THE RICHARD LAYMON COLLECTION VOLUME 15: THE TRAVELLING VAMPIRE SHOW & DREADFUL TALES

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-richard-laymon-collection-volume-16:-night-in-the-lonesome-october-no-sanctuary-99-6484.html THE RICHARD LAYMON COLLECTION VOLUME 16: NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER & NO SANCTUARY

Author: LAYMON, RICHARD  Publisher: HBP]]> Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:30:00 +0100