Cet auteur explore des thèmes qui sondent les aspects profonds de l'expérience humaine. Son approche stylistique se caractérise par sa précision et sa puissance évocatrice, entraînant les lecteurs dans ses mondes méticuleusement conçus. À travers son écriture, il offre une perspective unique sur les vérités universelles et les complexités de la vie. Ses œuvres résonnent d'une voix forte, laissant une impression durable.
A Gothic Horror Classic is Back! Pirie DuChamps fears for her own life, but she can't leave Moonwater, their ancestral home, because of her sister Peely's grave illness...one that causes Peely to see horrific, ghostly reflections of herself and terrifying visions of the future. Most disturbing of all, Peely can see Pirie being brutally murdered. Their housekeeper Valonia believes the visions are real, that Peely is seeing her own "astral double," and won't let anyone but an old bayou doctor of folk medicine treat her. But Pirie wants to get her sister to a real doctor....before someone kills them both.
In the terrifying tradition of The Bad Seed and The Exorcist -- a macabre adventure into the strange world of The Dark Mill. Valery Curtis is hired by an old dowager named Carlotta Van Dyne to go to Verdolet, the family estate in Maine, to be a nanny for her grandchild Tansy. But Valery soon discovers, to her horror, that this is no ordinary child...she is death cloaked in beauty, consummate evil wrapped in the gauze of innocence. She's also a killer. And it's Valery who will pay for those crimes... if she isn't killed first.
The House stands there, a place for cauldrons and witches, with the stink of death. Was she going crazy again, or was someone there trying to kill her? Young interior decorator Nancy Hazleton is still reeling from the shock of her husband's fatal accident when she is hired by the Howells, a mysterious family in Kentucky, to redecorate Bloodroots Manor, their ancestral home. She arrives from New York very late at night, in middle of a brutal storm, and things only get worse from there. She finds herself amidst a strange family inexplicably seething with resentment towards her...including Old Sam, the ruthless power behind everything, and his daughter Jodie, who has a burning look of madness that Nancy knows far too well...like her own reflection. She begins to suspect that she was brought here for something more than decorating...and they the only way they will let her leave is in a pine box. "There is a sense of evil about the manor that permeates everything. Well-written and filled with suspense." Green Bay Press-Gazette A gripping novel of mystery and suspense, back in print for the first time in 50 years. "Claudette Nicole" is a pseudonym for Jon Messman, the prolific author of crime novels, spy thrillers, westerns, and gothic suspense.
Did she come her of her own free will...or was she compelled by an evil force from the dark past? Sophisticated, beautiful, impetuous Jean Burroughs flees the chaos of the city to find some peace. So she retreats to the old family place at Hawk's End, high on a lonely tip of the Nova Scotia coast. But from the moment of her arrival, the townspeople hate her... and pressure her to leave. But Jean is stubborn … and proud...and is soon plunged into a nightmare of horror and violence. She's terrorized by strange accidents, fiery visions on the sea, and the sound of death padding after her in the night. She knows that something evil has been unleashed....and it's coming for her.
A gothic suspense classic, back in print for the first time in 50 years! "The heroine climbs cliffs, wields a gun, and incapacitates various male characters while wearing only a bikini that miraculously stays in place. The forerunner of today's romantic suspense novel." Lori A Paige, The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels 1960-1993 Lisa is living a quiet life in Vermont when she's asked by her Aunt, who lives in England, to help her move to Orion Hall ancient, ocean-front castle in Cyprus that's steeped in legend...and mysterious secrets. There Lisa meets Demetrius, the strong, dark, classically handsome young Greek...and Michael, an uninhibited archaeologist. Both men share with her stories about the haunted castle. At first, Lisa is enchanted and intrigued. But she soon realizes to her horror that someone is trying to destroy her...and that she's being stalked at night by a wailing, shrouded figure who may have risen from the dead. "A good novel of love and suspense... with a surprising climax. It is well done." Green Bay Press-Gazette "Claudette Nicole" was a pseudonym for Jon Messmann, a prolific author of crime novels, spy thrillers, westerns and gothic suspense.
