Off-duty Police Constable Arthur Root is playing a round at Wolvers, his local golf club. However, he soon finds himself back on duty when a JCB driver working there digs up the body of a man. Root protects the excavated area as a crime scene. The man had been murdered, and is identified as Roger Hancock, a former member of the club. When there is a second brutal murder, involving many members of the golf club – Root himself becomes implicated…
"Stranded in a High Peak transport café during a freak snowstorm, Jerry Howard finds himself in a vortex of Satanism. <P> Brenda was a motorway girl with a strange scar on her back. The Mark of the Beast. She knew the history of the Brindley legend. And she alone knew the rites. <P> She had been on Devil’s Peak before. Now it was Walpurgisnacht and the horned goat was expected. Events moved to a horrendous climax…"
When elderly Mrs. Peters appears to suffer a stroke at her Nursing Home, only Diana Knightson realizes the truth. Her young colleague Marguerite Friend deliberately terrified the old woman! For the beautiful girl is working toward her own evil agenda… <P> Amongst their office colleagues, only Diana believes that Marguerite is not as she seems. And when Diana's fiance Phil Walsh is seduced by Marguerite and turned against her, she knows she is in mortal danger. <P> But after...
Something goes drastically wrong at a séance, and suddenly Alan's wife Janice experiences a major personality change. These are signs that her husband just can't ignore: the strange new mark on her hand, the naked wanderings in moonlight, the blood stains on her clothes, not to mention the strange company she now keeps. Alan turns to an ex-Roman Catholic priest, Ruane, a man drained of self-respect, a drunkard, a reject–but the only one who seems to understand what's going on–and...
When Richard Ulrome is offered the chance to work for billionaire oilman Simon Miaolo, Anne Blackwell is pleased for her fiancé’s career. But as time goes by, Richard almost becomes a prisoner at Monteine Castle, Miaolo’s feudal headquarters. Slowly, Anne begins to realize that Richard–and she–are being manipulated by a master of Evil in a hideous satanic ritual of sacrifice and renewal as old as time. Like others before her, she finally turns to Ruane the Witchfinder, a defrocked priest who...
The commemorative brass plate in the abandoned Derbyshire village church showed Sir Humphrey and Lady Sybil de Latours standing together. At the side of the man is a lion, and beside Sybil a fanged dog. <P> Strangely, the face of Sybil has been obliterated, despite the clear detail elsewhere. But young artist Sally Fenton takes a rubbing nonetheless, to sell to tourists from the shop that she and her paramour, Andrew Thomas, share. She hangs it in their bedroom, but at night the...
