Black imprint: 2499 books

Trevor, Susan and their teenage son Mark are, to all intents and purposes, a normal family. And with the world in the grip of a terrible drought and tempers in the city are frayed to breaking point, they think a spell at their holiday home in the country might be what they need to repair their troubled...

Kate Leonard is a loner, psychological scars remaining from childhood abuse. She finds solace in her artwork especially in painting the ducks on the park lake. Then one day her solitary life is shattered when she is raped by a masked man. Although his features are concealed she knows that she would...

In a hunting lodge in the remote American Midwest, a family prepares to sit out a devastating storm. In the morning the hut is still standing, but has deteriorated and is filled with a dreadful, pervasive stench. Outside, their station wagon has corroded and the tyres have rotted. The trees in the...

Guy N. Smith began writing short stories at the age of 12. Best known for over 100 novels including ‘Night of the Crabs’, its six sequels, and his Sabat psychic detective series, he has penned numerous shorts over the past sixty years. This selection includes both a new Crabs and a Sabat story....

Merryn Bartram is dying of a brain tumour, and not wanting to die single, she marries her lover Bernie Oldroyd. Very much in love, he tries almost everything possible to keep her alive, finally including talking to Richie Howe, a colleague of a witch he has met. Howe waits for Merryn to die and then...

Simon Rankin, is an ex-Jesuit who has failed in his marriage and in his exorcism of a local house. He meets up with another divorcee and they head together to Cwmgilla, a Welsh mining village, for something of a trip away from it all. But inside the Cwmgilla slate mines, now worked only by tourist...

Roy and Liz Catlin take a week's holiday to visit Jacob Shaefer's funfair, and their young deaf daughter Rowena forms an unlikely bond with Jane, the fair's Red Indian fortune teller. Jane also does plenty of carving for the fair, fashioning the Punch and Judy dolls and the horses on the rides. She...

Most people’s personalities alter after a terrible accident, but Ed Cain’s changed beyond recognition. Hovering on the brink of death, he experienced a strange sensation, an abnormal feeling that brought him back to the land of the living. A living hell … Because on the life-support machine...

John Mayo, of the secret Government Department codenamed Operation Werewolf, loses his wife of only a few years, and heads away from the memories to recover his wits. He ends up in the Welsh town of Knighton which has recently come to grips with the graffiti and terrorism of Welsh National Activists,...

Mark Sabat, ex-priest, SAS-trained killer, exorcist, is a man with a dreadful mission. Driven and haunted, he has to seek out and destroy his mortal enemy. An enemy who has been chosen the Left Hand Path, who embodies the eternal principle of Evil. An enemy who is his own brother. "Who are you?"...

Caerlaverock is a top secret American missile silo situated in the Welsh hills, which contains the missile known as Spectre III, the most advanced on the planet. The security is strong, so to get into the base, the Russians use Mark Sallus, who has a knowledge of voodoo, and who knows a man inside....

The country of the bard is a perilous place at the turn of the 17th century. Ned, a beggar, is found dead in the stocks, a knife embedded in his back. There is a dark resurgence of witchcraft throughout the region and a popular church is desecrated. The witchfinder, nemesis of the peasants, is called...

What is the compulsive beat that seems to invade the very soul of listeners with violent, terrifying visions? Having sent a demo tape to Sarah Cowern, the lead singer of the Necromancers, Stephanie Insel is invited to meet the star.Very quickly Stephanie and her friend, Eddie Bannon, are enmeshed...

In the village of Hopwas, there is a barbed wire fence around the old reservoir--but it's not meant to keep something out, it's meant to keep some things in. Now, a wealthy man is being driven mad by a terrifying vision. A drowned corpse is found in a dry, empty field. Suddenly, a child is gone. And something even more horrific is waiting to be unleashed.