Between 1975 and 1978, Larry 'Pigface' Travers terrorised Camp Diamond Creek, killing more than a hundred horny, stoned teens, hacking them to death with his axe (the machete was already taken by some hockey guy over in New Jersey), and making a general nuisance of himself. Life couldn't have been better for a psycho slasher. But in '78, after being outwitted by that year's 'final girl', Pigface found himself trapped (and a little bit on fire). Presumed dead, Larry Travers disappeared, but his legend lived on. It's 2014. Now living in the woods with his overbearing - and slightly antique - mother, Larry's old enough to play bingo and enjoy jigsaw puzzles without feeling guilty. But the urge to kill has returned, and Larry thinks he still has what it takes to be a homicidal lunatic. Pigface is back. Trouble is, he's not as young as he used to be...
Amsterdam. The sex and drugs capital of the world. Where weed is legal and smoked alongside coffee in one of the city's many koffiehuises. It's Mike's stag-do; one final weekend of debauchery before marrying - and along with four of his friends, he intends to paint the town red. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones eager to paint the town red; six evil hamsters escape the delivery-truck and stumble upon a contaminated batch of space-cake. With the euphoria they experience comes a side-effect none of them could have anticipated. The hamsters start to grow. Hamsterdamned! is the action-packed and comical tale of gigantic rodents and sex-midgets; of one-legged prostitutes and inept Dutch policemen; of camaraderie and one man's fight to stay alive so he can marry the woman of his dreams.
Sunnyville Residential Home, the final resting place of Sunnyville's geriatric population. Where mint bonbons and Fixodent abound, and where Maisie Bruce's semi-antique grandmother yearns for more visitors - just one would be nice. Then, when life couldn't possibly become any more tedious, they wheel him in. A strange and crinkly old man named Drake, a man professing to be a famous count from Transylvania. But vampires aren't real, are they? And if they are, why is this one setting up home alongside Sunnyville's elderly residents? Who is the mysterious stranger known as Vannel Singh and why would he want to kill a seemingly harmless old man? Everyone's favourite teenage zombie returns in this action-packed and downright silly sequel to Peter Crombie, Teenage Zombie. Can Peter, Maisie, and Maximus put an end to Dracula once and for all? Before he turns everyone over sixty into bloodthirsty curmudgeons?
“I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now,” financier Howard Ahmanson told visual artist Millard Sheets, offering him complete control of design, subject, decoration, and budget for his Home Savings and Loan branch offices. The partnership between Home Savings—for decades, the nation’s largest savings and loan—and the Millard Sheets Studio produced more than 160 buildings in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri over the course of a quarter century. Adorned with murals, mosaics, stained glass, and sculptures, the Home Savings (and Savings of America) branches displayed a celebratory vision of community history and community values that garnered widespread acclaim. Banking on Beauty presents the first history of this remarkable building program. Drawing extensively on archival materials, site visits, and oral history interviews, Adam Arenson tells a fascinating story of how the architecture and art were created, the politics of where the branches were built, and why the Sheets Studio switched from portraying universal family scenes to celebrating local history amid the dramatic cultural and political changes of the 1960s. Combining urban history, business history, and art and architectural history, Banking on Beauty reveals how these institutions shaped the corporate and cultural landscapes of Southern California, where many of the branches were located. Richly illustrated and beautifully written, Banking on Beauty builds a convincing case for preserving these outstanding examples of Midcentury Modern architecture, which currently face an uncertain future.
Warning: This book contains - A sadistic mortician, demonic teddies, murderous sparrows, sentient robots, scenes of the apocalypse, feeders, lycanthropes, serial-killers, war, jealous housewives, cannibalism, creepy-ass neighbours, suicide, flesh-eating parasites, zombies, cowboys, mothmen, Nyogtha, Appalachian folklore, cancer, asteroids, invisible crocodiles, and voodoo. A collection of previously published and brand new macabre and weird tales from bestselling British author, Adam Millard.
Volume three of this award-winning horror series packs international star power. Featuring the legendary Guy N. Smith, Adam Millard, and Nicholas Paschall, the ten stories in this collection are certain to keep you up at night. Take care as you reach into these dark places, for the things here bite, and you may withdraw a hand short of a few fingers.
As the stranger rides into Jonestown, hoping to forget his past and forge a future worth living, he discovers that not all things are that simple. A terrible virus has taken over the town, turning most of the residents into flesh-eating zombies. Blaine, the mysterious drifter, has nothing more to lose. The west is about to get bloodier.
Simian Knight PI had been shot at once before. Well, not technically shot at, but the bullet had gone past his head. Well, not really past his head, inasmuch as it went past his office building and embedded itself in someone's car. It didn't so much embed in the car as bounce off, as it was one of those foam bullets kids stuff in the end of play guns and run around going, "Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da" with. But the whole unsavoury episode had unsettled Simian Knight PI so much that he became a recluse, took to drinking herbal tea and watching reruns of Downton Abbey until he dreamed of butlers.That was a long time ago, and he got over it. Now he must face his biggest challenge, whena beautiful blonde dame waltzes into his office asking for his help. The trouble is, Simian Knight PI can never say no to a beautiful blonde dame, even if helping her means going up against the mob. Not to mention all the Greek Gods knocking about the city, too.It's his toughest case yet, and it just might be his last, which would be a shame asthere's plenty of potential for a sequel.
Larry 'Pigface' Travers is back in the sequel at least three people asked for. After being dismembered and torched at the end of the first book, Larry returns (don't they always?), and sets out to butcher Amanda Bateman, the final girl responsible for his grisly death a year earlier. The only problem is, she's now living in the city of Haddon, and has developed a strange telekinetic link with the geriatric slasher. Not only that but she has acquired the assistance of Sister Geoff, a butch and drug-addled nun, who might be the only person capable of destroying Pigface once and for all.
Ted Barker has been running Barker's Taxidermy Emporium (We stuff things so you can stare at their dead eyes forever!) for decades. Business is booming, thanks to the busy London roads and the stupidity of cats, but when Don Paparella, a local gangster, arrives at the shop, everything changes. The proprietor is gunned down in cold blood, and with seemingly no witnesses, Don Paparella and his lackeys go on with their plot to run London. But the taxidermy saw it all, and now Buffalo Bill, Vladimir the Unicycling Rat, Jemima/Jessica the two-headed duck, Hooter the racist owl, Gerry the baby giraffe, and Fairfax the posh fox, are out for blood. With the help of a pair of 1980s buddy-cops, Ricks and Murtow, the taxidermy will stop at nothing to avenge their creator. Dead animals never pelt so good...
The world as we know it ended on October 7th 2011. There were few survivors as the virus spread to the four corners of the earth. Those unfortunate enough to contract it joined the hordes of flesh-eating undead. It wasn't long before the dead outnumbered the living a hundred to one. Shane and the rest of the survivors can't live off the museum forever. The food is almost gone; madness is beginning to set in. It's time to go outside, to search for some kind of life, to survive as best they can for as long as possible. The frost has thawed... This is the end of the line.
The places in this book are shunned, abandoned and forgotten. They do not exist, and yet here you will find the stories of people who have gone and survived to tell their tales, complete with photographs. These are the postcards from the void, nightmarish evidence of places that should not be, and that yet exist in our nightmares. Should you dare to venture into these blighted places, remember: don't talk to strangers; don't stray far from home; and never, ever go in alone.
Happily ever after is a thing of the past. As long as there are children in the world, there will be fairy tales. Since the dawn of time, parents have passed down legends and stories to their children, and parents will probably continue telling these stories until the end of time. Of course, the fairy tales of tomorrow won't be the same stories of today. What will these tales of the future be like? Well, there will be dragons, though they may be robotic dragons created to capture a "princess" in a war-torn world. There will obviously be queens, witches, and frog princes, though not like any you've seen before. And of course, as with any fairy tale, there will be magic and mayhem galore. Forget happily ever after... This is Happily Never After - where dystopian science fiction meets the fairy tales of days gone by.
No one is perfect—not even a witch. Witches have amazing power at their fingertips to do unbelievable things. That magic can come in really handy sometimes too. They can make someone fall in love, poison an apple to enact a sleeping curse, banish an enemy to an alternate reality, or just conjure up some Nutella when there is none in the house. But what happens when those spells go horribly awry? SonofaWitch! contains six humorous contemporary fantasy stories of magic spells gone wrong by Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Sara Dobie Bauer, Lissa Marie Redmond, Frances Pauli, Mara Malins, and Adam Millard.
As a prisoner in one of the most brutal facilities imaginable, Shane Bridge thought that he'd seen it all. Surrounded by murderers, rapists, gangsters and paedophiles, Shane had managed to survive his three years in one piece. With parole just around the corner, and his wife and daughter at home awaiting his return, Shane has high-hopes for the future. When a new inmate is brought in, carrying with him a deadly virus, Shane soon realises that his plans, his release, and his very survival are in jeopardy. With the virus spreading, turning guards and inmates into flesh-eating zombies, it's up to a few survivors to figure out how to escape the facility, how to get along... ...and how to stay alive.
Have you got the braaaaaiiiiiins? Do you know your Fulci from your Romero? Are you an expert on Resident Evil? Are you ready to be put to the test? The Ultimate Zombie Quiz Book features 501 questions on the world of the undead. Answer questions on films, TV, and videogames. Play alone, or test your knowledge against friends to see which of you is the Master of Zombie Trivia.
When his mother dies giving birth to him, Oliver is adopted by a wonderful family, The Brownlows, who bring him up to be the best he can. Deciding to go to the cinema to watch the latest superhero movie, the unthinkable happens. Oliver is kidnapped, and taken to a mysterious old man, Fagin. After a series of brutal events, Oliver is forced to learn how to steal, taught by a gang of hooded thugs. He risks everything to escape the sadistic clutches of his captors and return safely to his family, who have their own problems. Bill "Psycho" Sykes is a man on the edge, a pimp with not only the police to worry about. With his girlfriend on the game, and local criminal, Eddie Monks, up to no good, Sykes has enough on his plate... ...And then came Olly.
A packed theatre, a rock concert, a surgery room, half a city suddenly fall unconscious with no explanation. When the afflcited regain consciousness, they are suddenly aware of things that had always been hidden, visions that most of them would rather not see. A ballerina is confronted by the ghost of her father... A rock-guitarist starts to realise that his son's nursery is not the haven it once was... An alcoholic surgeon's nightmares finally come true... Pray to God that you're not one of the unfortunates. One of The Susceptibles.
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