Gerald Suster – The Devil’s Maze

Gerald Suster – The Devil’s Maze (Sphere, 1979)

 

With his death in November 1977, Dennis Wheatley left a vacancy for a new British dark master of Black Magic, and three of the applicants, as it were, were serious occultists turned pulp horror authors Jack Shackleford, Eric Erickson and Gerald Suster. The Devil’s Maze, Suster’s debut, has so far eluded me, but writing in the current Paperback Fanatic, Stephen Sennitt has no hesitation in proclaiming it Suster’s finest novel, a tribute to Arthur Machen which takes the Welsh mystic’s The Three Imposters as its inspiration.

Peter Tremayne – The Ants

Peter Tremayne – The Ants (1978)

 

THE HUNGRY HORDES ARE ON THE MARCH…

When Jane Sewell returns to the Brazilian jungle to help her anthropologist father in his work, it is not the happy reunion she is expecting. She doesn’t find the thriving village she remembers. Just a pile of bones. Human bones. Picked clean.

And then the ancient steamboat Falcão chugs cheerfully into sight, carrying a ghastly cargo of grisly death. And, for Jane, the horror really begins.

Somewhere, out in the seething jungle, a remorseless army is on the move. And it seems as though nothing can stop its savage, merciless drive.

Relentlessly, inexorably, tearing, rending and consuming everything in their path

…THE ANTS ARE COMING!

A bibliography of Peter Tremayne’s  Horror & Fantasy Paperbacks compiled by compiled by Justin Marriott for Paperback Fanatic #9, February 2009 is available online at Vault Of Evil. Many thanks to Mr. Marriott for granting us permission to reproduce it!

Peter Tremayne – The Curse of Loch Ness

Peter Tremayne – The Curse of Loch Ness (Sphere, 1979)

 

A bibliography of Peter Tremayne’s  Horror & Fantasy Paperbacks compiled by compiled by Justin Marriott for Paperback Fanatic #9, February 2009 is available online at Vault Of Evil. Many thanks to Mr. Marriott for granting us permission to reproduce it!

Robin Squire – A Portrait Of Barbara

Robin Squire – A Portrait Of Barbara (Sphere, 1980)

Artwork: Terry Oakes

“A good old fashioned, twisting and turning spook story”, according to Justin of the mighty Paperback Fanatic.  Don’t have a copy myself, i’m afraid, so can’t comment further! Thanks to Nightreader of Vault for providing the scan!