Thomas Tessier

A lonely young woman finally meets the man of her dreams--and together they set off on a spree of torture and murder against people who have hurt them in the past.

Rapture

Secret Strangers

When Oliver's wife, Carrie, begins seeing her long-dead father's ghost, and Charley's wife, Jan, begins receiving messages from their dead daughter, both men reluctantly agree to take their wives to see Oona, a medium

Fog Heart

Father Panic's Opera Macabre

Unaided by his parents and his friends, young Ned Covington must face alone the phantoms that stalk the night and, in a cataclysmic battle, he confronts the forces of evil in all their disguises

Phantom

A businessman returns for his father's funeral and fixes upon an old high school friend with a perverted and obsessive love. No matter that Georgianne is happily married and has not thought of him in years. Jeff must have her--no matter what the cost.

The Fates

The Nightwalkers

BENEATH THE STREETS OF LONDON, DESIRE AND TERROR CARESS ...

On a quiet holiday in London, Dr. Tom Sutherland befriends the genial but mysterious Dr. Nordhagen and falls into a wild love affair with his assistant, the exotic Lina Ravachol. Bewitched by her sexual sorcery, Tom follows her into every fantasy and forbidden pleasure, deeper and deeper into a swirling vortex of erotic cruelty ... into the cellar-crypt of Nordhagen's laboratory, a secret chamber of living human horrors.

This new edition of Thomas Tessier's acclaimed Finishing Touches (1986) features a new introduction by Will Errickson and the original cover painting by Chris Moore.

Finishing Touches (Paperbacks from Hell)

Jeff loves Georgianne. Jeff has always loved Georgianne. Now, years later, Georgianne is as beautiful, as magical as ever -- and ripe for terror.

Because a love like Jeff's makes a man crazy, he'll do things he'd never have dreamed possible. Even target, stalk, and possibly destroy everyone Georgianne loves: her faithful husband, her nubile daughter. Until Jeff is all she has left ...

This new reprint of Rapture (1987), by one of the most critically acclaimed authors of the 1970s and '80s horror boom, Thomas Tessier, features a new introduction by Grady Hendrix and the original cover art by Sonja Lamut and Nenad Jakesevic.

Rapture (Paperbacks from Hell)

Beware the Blade… Jackie is lost. A college student stuck in a loveless marriage, she feels she cannot escape the monotony of her life. Then along comes Brooks, a mysterious but successful lawyer with political ambitions. He’s passionate, a true lover. But someone else has come to town. Brooks, Jackie discovers, is tracking a serial killer known as The Blade, whose victims are exclusively teenage girls. The killer is on a rampage, pursuing several women. Soon, many turn up dead – brutally murdered by the Blade. As he goes on however, he begins to get carried away with the killings and makes mistakes. Soon, the situation rises above boiling point. As Jackie has a confusing encounter with the man who appears to be the murderer, she is forced to decide: With the intensity of both the murders and her relationship hotting up, will she be able to keep her head? Will she be able to control herself? Or will the Blade add Jackie’s name to his list?

Shockwaves

While on an extended holiday in London, Dr. Tom Sutherland has a torrid affair with Lina, a mysterious surgeon's assistant, who leads him into a dark world of dangerous desire where all of his fantasies soon become terrifying nightmares when he comes face-to-face with evil. Original.

Finishing Touches

Elizabeth Massie

K. W. Jeter

Robert Silverberg

Jonathan Carroll

Kathe Koja

Pat Cadigan

Thomas Ligotti

Rick Wilber

Robert Holdstock

Barry N. Malzberg

Garry Kilworth

Jack Womack

Suzy McKee Charnas

Karl Edward Wagner

David J. Schow

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Melissa Mia Hall

Melissa Snodgrass

This “toothy follow-up to Datlow’s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough” offers “admirably inventive variations on vampirism” (Kirkus Reviews). Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a “consistently engrossing anthology” from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism—as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough—Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls “metaphorical bloodsuckers,” who can drain another’s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks. In “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who’s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s Kafkaesque “Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?” And in Jonathan Carroll’s “The Moose Church,” a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . . A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth.

Stories of Vampirism

A Whisper of Blood

Bobby had almost convinced himself his lover's death was an accident. It wasn't his fault. Once the uncontrollable tingling began in his hands, he could only watch in horror as they killed her. But then he saw the jogger. As his eyes followed the man, he felt that same eerie power flowing into his arms and legs, and he found himself running with inhuman animal grace to overtake the runner. When the race turned into a chase, a reign of terror began. Night after night the beast will silently stalk the city streets, its bloody jaws and tearing claws leaving only death in its wake.

The Nightwalker

Bram Stoker Best Novel Award Finalist and International Horror Guild Best Novel Award Winner Two couples, both skeptical and desperate, are drawn together by a medium named Oona, a fragile, beautiful young woman who knows things that no other living person should know. Is her gift real, or is it the sign of a consuming madness? Can she lead them all to important truths, or will they be trapped in the tightening web of terror and death?

The small town of Winship seems so perfect … on the surface. But as investigator Jack Carlson is finding out, appearances can be deceiving. He's looking into a rash of mysterious deaths in the town, but the more he pokes behind the picture-postcard facade, the more frightened her becomes. How could someone disappear in an open meadow, as if swallowed by the earth? Why does the ground seem to glow in spots? Why is no one able to stop the gangs of young thugs who roam the streets at will? Local residents are afraid to answer his questions—with good cause. They know that Winship's tranquil exterior hides some truly … WICKED THINGS.

Wicked Things

World of Hurt gathers together for the first time twenty eight short stories and novellas by the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of horror and suspense, Thomas Tessier. By turns disturbing, mysterious, harrowing and horrifying, these tales illuminate the darkness swirling on the edge of what is real and what is not -- in both the world around us and in the lives of people caught up in it. Thomas Tessier's novels and stories have defied and pushed beyond genre expectations and norms, and World of Hurt is a milestone collection of his work. Stories included in this collection: In the Desert of Deserts The Vacant Lot Evelyn Grace The Banshee Blanca A Grub Street Tale Ghost Music La Mourante The Infestation at Ralls Infidel The Woman in the Club Car Curing Hitler The Green Menace In Praise of Folly The Ventriloquist Torching the Escalade Food Nocturne Club Saudade For No One Lulu If You See Me, Say Hello In the Sand Hills 10-31-2001 I Remember Me The Dreams of Dr. Ladybank Scramburg, USA Father Panic’s Opera Macabre

World of Hurt: Selected Stories

The first sign was the disgustingly mutilated carcass of a cow. The second, an old man torn to pieces. The third, the eerily beautiful blue fires that hovered over the small town… Stark white faces, diabolical eyes—raging within the unearthly flames—were turned toward the innocent town. And now it moved—toward the children walking home from school. Toward the young priest who wondered if this hideous power came from heaven…or from hell. Toward the laughing housewife who called it a visitor from space…until her screams branded it a deadly terror from the unknown. Toward the news reporter out to get a story…who found instead a bloody swath of horror.

Money may be the root of all evil… but in the respectable community of Clearville there is a greater evil abroad. The first incident is a suicide: a young wife who cannot have children. The second is more bizarre—a God-fearing father butchers his family before turning a gun on himself. And then a well-respected accountant simply disappears. But dark secrets abound in this prosperous town, for behind the shuttered windows of the middle-class homes lies a network of depravity and vice. While babysitting for her neighbors' child, seventeen-year old Heidi stumbles across photographs from illicit sex sessions. Instead of going to the police, Heidi and her boyfriend Gary decide to exploit the crime for avaricious purposes, unaware of the magnitude of the horror and tragedy that will result from their blackmail. As they become greedier, suspicion and fear—like poison—corrode the heart of Clearville, and violence and retribution inevitably follow. Very soon, Heidi and Gary are trapped in a situation which is hurtling crazily out of control—the blackmailers are now the hunted, and family and old friends are no longer what they seem to be. Suddenly the people they grew up with, and knew all their lives, have become secret strangers…

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