After Dexter inherits the old family mansion in Tormouth, on the death of his uncle, he visits the main library. Here he peruses the old records pertaining to Tormouth, and finds several references to the Dexter family. The documents trace their history back for almost four centuries. He locates numerous listings of births and marriages in the family, but not one instance of a death! Dexter begins to wonder if he's done the right thing in t ...
"I see two women struggling together by the lake. I see them fall into the water… The wind rustles the branches of the willows and it is the sound of gentle sobbing in the night… Someone screams…" Something dark and mysterious haunts the halls of stately Green Willows. Village gossip says it's the ghost of Jonathon Tremayne's wife, the beautiful and saintly Angela, who was treacherously murdered here. Pretty Mary Kirkpatrick, hire ...
After eighteen long and friendless years in an orphanage, Julia has finally traced her father, the handsome Dr. Lucius Cagliostro, to a small New England village. But her happiness soon turns into nightmarish terror. The town of Belham is home to unspeakable evil, and the dark and sinister forces that have tormented her all her life are also present too. She quickly finds herself the prey of a demon-worshipping society that wants to make her a s ...
The eighth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction, including:<P> «Sun Ching Foo's Last Trick,» by Adam Beau McFarlane<BR>"Do You Love Me?" by Marc Bilgrey<BR>"The Somerset Wonder," by Ron Goulart<BR>"The Hounds of Basketballville," by Hal Charles<BR>"Hit One Out of the Park," by Jeff Baker<BR>"Travelling Light," by John M. Floyd<BR>"Date Ni ...
Issue #334 features IN THE CATACOMBS, by Charles L. Harness, plus new stories by Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt, W.C. Morrow, Myke Cole, and Joshua Rupp. Plus poetry and the usual features. ...
From out of the bog alongside the ancient track to the fenland village of Hexney, a line of deep freshly-made footprints runs, trodden into the dry surface of the abandoned droveway. Are these footprints, or hoofprints, or what? Triangular, eight or nine inches long, they're set in a line one in front of another. And, each night, the footprints are advancing steadily towards the village. When a young boy’s body is found in the marsh, the su ...
What is the nature of the evil that terrorizes Dyrysgol? Detective Inspector Bernard Owen must investigate the disappearances of several inhabitants of a remote Welsh village. Local anger is directed towards Dyrysgol Castle and its enigmatic owner, Viscount Ravenwood, but Owen knows that fear and superstition can cloud the facts; he needs to make his own judgment. The nobleman is a strange and solitary man–but is he a murderer? When another man ...
When a new strip mall and housing development are built near a small New England town, tearing through untouched forest, a 300-year-old grave is uncovered, thereby setting loose an ancient evil from its eternal prison. Science fiction writer Erik Hunter soon finds himself the target of a near-immortal horror that feeds on human suffering. In order to save his family and his town, he must make the harrowing trip into the underworld of another rea ...
Here is another collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of detectives, in a sequence of eight intriguing episodes from the Doctor’s casebook. The Doctor meets both brutal and cunning murders and murderers, ranging from a man battered to death with a heavy brass object to a woman poisoned with cyanide. Morelle investigates in his inimitable, cerebral, and biting style. He is aided–or sometimes handicapped–by his ...
