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Frank Cotton, a man who has tried every pleasure, solves an antique puzzle box that promises more and summons the beings called Cenobites, and later, when his brother Rory and Rory's wife Julia move into the house, Julia finds that Frank is not entirely gone.
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Books of Blood: Volume One
The first collection of the stories that made Barker's name, framed as tales written in blood on the skin of a fake medium, from a butcher at work on the late-night New York subway to two Yugoslav villages that build giants out of their own people.
The Damnation Game
Marty Strauss, a gambler let out of prison on parole, is hired as bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, a reclusive tycoon who once won a card game against a stranger in the ruins of postwar Warsaw and is now waiting for the stranger to come and collect.
The Great God Pan
A doctor performs brain surgery on a young woman so that she can see the god Pan, and years later a string of suicides among London gentlemen leads back to a beautiful woman no one can quite place.
Hell House
A dying millionaire pays a physicist, his wife and two mediums to spend a week in the Belasco House in Maine, the most haunted building on earth, to prove whether anything survives death; the last group to try it ended in murder and madness.
Haunted
Seventeen people answer an ad for a writers' retreat and lock themselves into an old theatre for three months, where they tell their worst stories and, to make better ones, set about sabotaging themselves.
Audition
A widowed Tokyo film producer holds a fake casting audition to find a second wife, and the quiet young woman he picks turns out to have a basement and a wire saw.
The Troop
Five fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster are camping on a remote island off Prince Edward Island when an emaciated stranger arrives carrying something that begins to get inside them, in Lord of the Flies crossed with body horror.
Uzumaki
In the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho, teenager Kirie Goshima watches her neighbours become obsessed with spirals, starting with her boyfriend's father, as the pattern takes hold of the town in ever stranger and more horrible ways.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A lawyer discovers that his respectable colleague harbours a monstrous alter ego, and the duality between them becomes the defining metaphor for Victorian moral hypocrisy.
Mexican Gothic
In 1950s Mexico a glamorous socialite travels to a decaying mountain mansion after her newly married cousin writes that her English husband's family is poisoning her, and finds the house has designs of its own.
What Moves the Dead
Retired soldier Alex Easton rides to the crumbling House of Usher to help an old friend whose sister is dying, and finds the tarn, the hares and the fungus around the house acting very strangely.
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
A selection of Poe's essential tales and poems, the heart beating under the floorboards, the cask of Amontillado, the raven at the chamber door, the writing that taught American readers to be afraid.