Sax Rohmer – Brood of the Witch Queen

Sax Rohmer – Brood of the Witch Queen [# 41]    (Sphere 1976)

Blurb:

What was Anthony Ferrara doing in a darkened room with a fire burning on a hot summer night? What are the ‘unholy’ things he brought back from a holiday in Egypt? Above all, who is he? Ferrara’s friend Robert Cairn begins to suspect the answers – but the power which confronts him is more terrifying than he could ever have imagined. Long forgotten evil has come out of the darkness.  The smell of it, the chill of it, hang menacingly in the air.

Thanks to Nightreader for the cover scan and blurb.

Brood of the Witch Queen is Volume 41 in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult

Guy N. Smith – The Camp

Guy N. Smith – The Camp (Sphere, 1989)

Les Edwards

Hi De Hi! meets James Herbert’s The Fog as blissfully unsuspecting holiday campers are used as guinea pigs for the new C551 drug and take to butchering one another in their chalets.

“A bit far fetched, even by GNS standards. A holiday camp becomes the site of bizarre mind control experiments”  concludes Vault’s tame GNS authority, funkdooby.

A. E. W. Mason – The Prisoner In The Opal

A. E. W. Mason – The Prisoner In The Opal [# 10] (Sphere, 1975)

Blurb:

‘The two men were standing face to face, the priest sheltering what knowledge he had behind a stolid face, Hanaud towering over him, like an
inquisitor…

“You did not find all your vestments in the sacristy this morning. For one of
them is in the mortuary at Villeblanche stained with the blood of a young
woman who dined at the same table with you in this house last night, and
was savagely murdered afterwards.”‘

The Prisoner in the Opal is Volume 10 in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult

Owen West – The Funhouse

Owen West [Dean R. Koontz] – The Funhouse (Sphere, 1981)

Blurb:

For twenty-five years it grew in the shadows—tonight it waits for Amy in …  THE FUNHOUSE

A novel by Owen West based on a screenplay by Larry Block

Tonight Amy and her friends are spending the night at the carnival. And whilst they enjoy all the fun of the fair they will visit the funhouse, a place for gondola rides, gory delights and midnight terror.

But there is unspeakable Evil waiting for Amy in the dark labyrinths of the funhouse, a secret Evil that began twenty-five years ago, when a lonely woman destroyed her monstrous offspring, and a violently disturbed man vowed to exact his terrible revenge.

Now it’s Amy’s turn to keep her date with horror  as she enters the funhouse – for A CARNIVAL OF TERROR!

Marc Alexander – Haunted Houses You May Visit

Marc Alexander – Haunted Houses You May Visit: A Ghostly Guide To Britain’s Haunted Stately Homes (Sphere, 1982)

Blurb:

Spectral figures, screaming skulls, gliding monks and white ladies – phantom harbingers of doom, avengers of past misdeeds and innocent victims … the whole spectrum of supernatural phenomenon is contained within the precincts of Britain’s stately homes.

Sandford Orcas in Dorset with its fourteen ghosts, including the stinking man, the wicked priest and the screamer … Glamis Castle with its white lady and bloody history … the four Royal ghosts of Windsor …

HAUNTED HOUSES YOU MAY VISIT details the ghostly manifestations in historic houses open to the public – we can’t guarantee that you’ll see a ghost, but at least you’ll know where to look!