Peter Tremayne – Swamp!

Peter Tremayne – Swamp!   (Sphere, 1985)

It was huge, reptilian, a flesh-eating nightmare from hell! Its lair was by the murky waters of Chay-in-cuna – Lake of the Dead in the old Calusa tongue of the Indians who once inhabited these Florida Everglades.

Sometimes this monstrous survivor of the primitive past would emerge into the foul, fetid air of the swamps, and run amok among the impenetrable mangroves and giant waving sawgrass. It killed whatever crossed its path – hunters, tourists, swamp people.

And not even the worst hurricane to strike Florida in years could forestall its bloodthirsty rampage!

Thanks to H. P. Saucecraft for the cover scan.

Peter Tremayne – Nicor!

Peter Tremayne – Nicor! (Sphere, 1987)

 

The monsters straddled the bay, giant black towers spurting flame far into the tropical night. From the belly of each a long, sharp proboscis stabbed down into the seabed. Oil rigs. Slashing, whirling teeth biting greedily into the ocean floor, sucking deeply into its secrets. Secrets that should have remained forever buried in those peaceful waters. For in those Caribbean depths lurked something beyond the feeble powers of man, an abomination that the oilmen’s relentless probing would provoke into a violent frenzy of retribution and surging, blood-stained surf.

Thanks to Severance for the cover scan

Peter Tremayne – Kiss Of The Cobra

Peter Tremayne – Kiss Of The Cobra (Sphere, 1984)

Blurb:

Hissing and writhing, the venomous fork-tongued Cobra seeks out its prey…

When Sir Keith Chase of Oxford University stumbled upon the sacred crypt of Monosha in West Bengal, it was the archaeological find of the century. But what Sir Keith didn’t know was that by breaking open the musty burial chamber he had brought on himself one of the most ancient and terrifying curses known to Man…

For Monosha was the Hindu goddess “Mother Serpent”. And for any mortal who defiled her tomb, a fearful vengeance lay in store – the remorseless, agonising vengeance of the deadly Hooded One…

James Darke – Witches #4 The Escape

James Darke – Witches #4 The Escape (Sphere, 1984)

THE SHADOW OF FEAR

In a shattered time of Civil War and broken laws vultures like Robert Monk cast the shadow of their dank wings over England. The Witchfinder: the fiend in human form who guided the hands that held the branding irons, tied the cords and applied cruel tortures to the bodies of innocent men and women accused of witchcraft.

Monk had lost the slattern Eliza Hall and two of the brutal Mendoza brothers, slain by the avenging angel John Ferris – but Ferris’s former sweetheart had become Monk’s whore, and the barbarous Daniel Mendoza had sworn vengeance for his brothers’ deaths. The duel between Ferris and the devil’s men would be savage and grim – but what of the duel between Ferris and Mary, the maiden who had become a hound of hell?

Thanks to Steve Goodwin for the cover scan and blurb

James Darke – Witches #5 The Meeting

James Darke – Witches #5 The Meeting (Sphere, 1985)

TERROR OF THE TORTURER

His career in the Royalist Army cut tragically short by an accident, Captain John Ferris had sailed for Virginia in search of a new life with his ravishing gypsy wife Sarah. Here at last it seemed he might shed his bitter memories of the Civil War – and of the atrocities that he and his kind had suffered at the hands of that brutal torturer and withfinder, Robert Monk. But it was not to be.

Even in the New World, the fiendish Monk would continue to haunt him – and the terrors of the past would be nothing compared to the butchery that was to come…

Thanks to Steve Goodwin for the cover scan and blurb