William Hope Hodgson – Carnacki The Ghost-Finder

William Hope Hodgson – Carnacki The Ghost-Finder [# 6] (Sphere, 1974)

Blurb

Carnacki   …. ‘ghost finder’ and ‘ghost breaker’, a psychic sleuth fighting against sinister forces from Outside. These nine spinetingling tales of conflict with dark powers lurking on the rim of human consciousness include such classics as The Gateway of the Monster, The Thing Invisible and The Searcher of the End House.

Carnacki The Ghost-Finder is Volume 6 in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult.

Gaston Leroux – The Phantom Of The Opera

Gaston Leroux – The Phantom Of The Opera [#34]  (Sphere, 1975)

“This story, translated from the French, of Gaston Leroux is the most famous of all tales of the occult written by French authors, and holds a high place in fiction of that type by authors of all nationalities. …. The story is packed with strange, apparently inexplicable happenings, mad desire, torture, murder and a suspense that cannot fail to grip the reader.”

– From Dennis Wheatley’s introduction.

The Phantom Of The Opera is Volume 34 in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult

William Hope Hodgson – The Ghost Pirates

William Hope Hodgson – The Ghost Pirates (Sphere, 1975, 1981)

Cover of the 1981 edition

There were rumours that the Mortzestus was haunted.

But when she had sailed two weeks out of ‘Frisco before a fair wind, the crew dismissed them. Until, unaccountably, the rigging went slack. A ghostly form was seen to climb up from the sea. A great weight crashed down from the mast. The shadows thickened and an unnatural mist descended around the ship, leaving her helpless. Then a legendary ship bore down on the Mortzestus and it looked like the fate of the crew was sealed — to disappear on a calm sea … without a trace.

“We know of nothing like the author’s work in the whole of present day literature” – Bookman
Introduction by Gerald Suster, author of The Literature of Fear

Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult edition, 1975

The Ghost Pirates is Volume 33 in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult

Frances Mossiker – The Affair Of The Poisons

Frances Mossiker – The Affair Of The Poisons [#28] (Sphere, 1975)

Frances Mossiker - The Affair Of The Poisons

From The Introduction by Dennis Wheatley:

At no time has Satanism been so widely practised as in Paris in the 1670s. During this period Louis XIV – the Sun King, the builder of magnificent Versailles, the commander of the greatest army in Europe – was in his late thirties and at the height of his powers.

Yet, while he won for himself glory by personally conducting the victorious campaigns that greatly extended France’s borders, in his capital Black Masses were celebrated daily. Scores of beautiful women who made his Court the most splendid in Europe lay naked on altars and allowed often repulsive, elderly priests to copulate with them, then murder infants so that their blood might be offered up to the Devil.

The revelation of these appalling practices began in 1676 with the trial of the Marquise de Brinvilliers. This terrible woman and her lover first visited hospitals with gifts of food for the inmates, into which they had inserted a variety of poisons to try out their effects. She then murdered her father and two of her brothers, but an attempt on her husband failed. She fled but was caught, tried and condemned to be first tortured then executed. Before her death she declared, ‘If I cared to talk you would learn that half the aristocracy are as guilty of poisoning as I am.’

And she was right.

The Affair Of The Poisons is volume 28 in the Dennis Wheatley Library Of The Occult

Guy Endore – The Werewolf Of Paris

Guy Endore – The Werewolf Of Paris [# 2] (Sphere, 1974)

Guy Endore - Werewolf Of Paris

Half Human … half wolf he stalked the streets of Paris search of prey. Born of an unholy union he was cursed, doomed to live in the netherworld of the werewolf, a man by day … a wolf by night, his victims the eager women of the Parisian streets.

The Werewolf Of Paris is Volume 2 in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult