Jack Finney – Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Jack Finney – Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (Sphere, 1979; 1981)

Blurb

THE SEEDS CAME FROM THE SKY – TO POSSESS HUMANITY

Everyone in the small community was concerned. Familiar friends, neighbours, lovers, looked like they always had, and for the most part acted like they always had. But suddenly they were somehow `somebody else’.
Then things seemed to return to normal. Until Miles Bennell started finding `carbon-copies’ of men and women he knew. Perfect, except that they were unmarked, without even finger-prints. ZOMBIES!

Afterwards, Miles came across the seed-pods, voracious spawn of an all-conquering alien race. And realised the full, fearful truth of what was happening all around him – THE ULTIMATE, WORLD-CONSUMING HORROR HAD BEGUN…

Guy N. Smith – The Ghoul

Guy N. Smith – The Ghoul (Sphere, 1976)

Les Edwards

Blurb

Two cars roar away into the darkness from the noisy brilliance of a party, on a race to Land’s End. But a few hours later inpenetrable fog brings them to a halt on a deserted moorrland road, and brings the occupants to the brink of an unspeakable fate. For nearby is a house of horror and death, a house which harbours a terrible creature which feeds on human flesh …. the ghoul.

Robert R. McCammon – Bethany’s Sin

Robert R. McCammon – Bethany’s Sin (Sphere, 1980; 1989)

Bethany's Sin, Sphere 1989 edition. Artwork Steve Crisp

When Evan Reid brought his wife and small daughter to Bethany’s Sin it seemed the perfect setting. A small village, far from the noise and pollution of the city, it was quaint and very peaceful.
Too peaceful. There were no sounds at all . . . almost as if the night had been frightened into silence.
Then Evan noticed there were very few men in the village, and that those he knew of were crippled. And sometimes he thought he heard the sound of horses galloping in the dead of night.
Soon he would know the superhuman secret that kept the village alive. And he would watch in horror as Kay and Laurie underwent a hideous transformation right before his eyes.
He would know the terror that happened at night — and only to men … in Bethany’s Sin.

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