Academy, The (Available)Synopsis: Released August 2008: "With a promise of more freedom, and the chance to get out from under the thumbs of a reactionary school board, the teachers of Tyler High have voted to become a charter school. Instructors and parents alike are thrilled with the prospect of independence—and yet. . .
The formerly laid-back principal has become unusually strict. With her toadying secretary, she seems to be running the show. That isn't all. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things that defy rational explanations are happening on school grounds. But there is an explanation—it's just not something that anyone can begin to believe...or hope to survive. "
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Association, The (Available)Synopsis: Released September 2001: Barry and Maureen have just been approved as tenants by the Association. Pity they never read the fine print on the lease. It could be the death of them...
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Burning, The (Available)Synopsis: Released August 2006. A college freshmen finds herself stranded in Arizona with no place to stay and nowhere to run. Cabin fever closes in on an isolated park ranger, as two sinister beauties lurk in the desert outside his door. A California divorcee is starting a promising new life. But her young son knows better - because he's seen what's creeping outside the window. A cross-country traveler is on a journey of self-discovery. But one tourist trap holds its own dreadful surprises....
Four strangers with one thing in common: a mysterious train choking the sky with black smoke, charging trackless across the American night...and carrying an unstoppable evil, raised from the bowels of history, that will bring their worst fears to life.
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Collection, The (Available)Synopsis: A 464 page collection of 32 short stories released in June 2002. Contains the following previously published stories: The Sanctuary; The Woods Be Dark; The Phonebook Man; Estoppel; The Washingtonians; Life With Father; Bob; Bumblebee; Lethe Dreams; Paperwork; The Idol; Skin; The Man In The Passenger Seat; Comes The Bad Time; Against The Pale Sand; The Pond; Roomates; Llama; Full Moon On Death Row; The Show; The Mailman; Monteith; Pillow Talk; Maya's Mother; Colony; Confessions of a Corporate Man; Blood; And Here I am, Fighting With Ghosts; The Baby; Coming Home Again; The Potato; The Murmurous Haunt of Flies.
It also contains the following new stories: Full Moon on Death Row, Maya's Mother, Colony and Confessions of a Corporate Man
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Dark Dominion (UK) (Unavailable)Synopsis: Dion Semele is a teenager trying to make friends in a new school and meet the girl of his dreams. But something is happening deep inside of him: a powerful force is struggling to escape. His sleep is disturbed by dreams of a past world that seeks to control him.
Penelope Daenam is smart and pretty and trying to be normal, despite her unusual family. Since birth she has been cared for by a sisterhood of women who own a local Napa winery. It is here that Dion and Penelope will meet their true fate. Not as lovers, but as catalysts for a reign of incredible terror. A new dominion has risen.
Reviews: Erick Scheck
Death Instinct (US) (Available)Synopsis: The house was dark as she pulled into the driveway. She got out of the car and looked across the street at the Lauter place. The removal van had gone, and sheets had been put over the inside of the windows. From behind the sheets came a soft glow. The idea of someone actually living in the Lauter house made her shiver. It seemed strange for people to be there, wrong almost. She had only been six when Keith Lauter had killed both himself and his wife....Many years later that same quiet street in Phoenix, Arizona is blighted once more by the smell of death. For Cathy Riley, now living alone with her bitter, disabled father, is like an old nightmare reborn. What kind of devil could devise a new and intricate method of killing each time - turning each horrifying death into an act of creative genius....Caught in a closing web of terror, Cathy is thrown together with Detective Allan Grant, who has so far been chasing one false scent after another. But unless they uncover a secret no rational mind could suspect, the grisly slayings will move ever closer. (Source: Richard Laymon Kills - Same Vein)
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Disappearance, The (Available)Synopsis: When Gary's girlfriend Joan vanishes, calls to her parents' home yield only dead air. Her school records are gone. There is no longer any evidence that she even existed. Most disturbing of all is what Gary does find: a warning and a tantalizing clue, leading to a mysterious backward cult known as the Homesteaders. Now Gary may be the next to disappear.
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Dispatch (Available)Synopsis: Blessed with a gift for the written word, Jason Hanford has everything he needs: a pen, stationery, and a prestamped envelope. His complaints yield complimentary meals and free hotel rooms. His correspondence with secret crushes makes fantasies come true. Letter to the editor spark citywide debates and inspire change. His letters are powerful, angry, hearfelt, sometimes obscene - and always persuasive.
The one day someone sends Jason a letter: This is for you. It leads to an offer to write letters for a living. A whole new world is opening up for Jason.
He should have asked a few more questions about the job.
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Dominion (US) (Available)Synopsis: Dion Semele is a teenager trying to make friends in a new school and meet the girl of his dreams. But something is happening deep inside of him: a powerful force is struggling to escape. His sleep is disturbed by dreams of a past world that seeks to control him.
Penelope Daenam is smart and pretty and trying to be normal, despite her unusual family. Since birth she has been cared for by a sisterhood of women who own a local Napa winery. It is here that Dion and Penelope will meet their true fate. Not as lovers, but as catalysts for a reign of incredible terror. A new dominion has risen.
Reviews: Erick Scheck