Alexander Peters – The Devil in Suburbia

Alexander Peters – The Devil in Suburbia (NEL, April 1972)

Blurb:

They reject all that is good and honourable; For the Devil Worshippers any ends justify the means.
There is complete abandon under the watchful eye of the horned devil; a revival of the pagan tradition of glorifying evil for debased personal satisfaction.

Look at the man sitting opposite you in the railway carriage; look at the faces who pass in the street; look at your next-door neighbours — they could be the Brothers and Sisters of Midnight.

Michael R. Linaker – The Touch of Hell

Michael R. Linaker – The Touch of Hell  (NEL, 1981)

 David McAllister

Blurb:

Winter wasn‘t gripping the village of Shepthorne so much as strangling it with a blanket of snow and Arctic temperatures. A massive pile up on frozen roads … A fireball of exploding petrol as a truck collided with a tanker in the garage forecourt. then from the sky, a huge military transport with its cargo of devastation crashed through the village, Hell was just beginning to touch Shepthorne …. 

Stephen Laws – Spectre

Stephen Laws – Spectre  (NEL, 1994, originally Souvenir, 1986)

Jon Blake

Blurb:
They’d called themselves the Byker Chapter ….

They were inseparable:  six boys and one girl who’d grown up together in the back streets of Newcastle. Now the terraces are long gone, but Richard Eden has his memories – and one special photograph. All that is left of their joy – and betrayal …

Suddenly, impossibly, one by one the images begin to fade, as if his friends had never existed.

Something is stalking the Chapter – closing in for the kill. With each hideous death, another image fades from the photograph. Some spectre from the past, some horror they have unwittingly released, is out there on the darkened streets.Hunting them down.
They can run, but this time there is nowhere they can hide .. .

 

Cyril Donson – Draco The Dragon Man

Cyril Donson – Draco The Dragon Man   (NEL, Oct. 1974)

Blurb:
Damon Draycot had won world renown as a historian and archeologist. He made many television appearances and his athletic exploits were no less eagerly followed. He was well-known and respected on all sides.

His latest nine-month expedition was potholing in Texas. There were many miles of underground passages to explore for mineralogical, medical and historical facts — and simply to conquer. This proposed feat captures the public imagination, and many are there to wish Draycot luck.

What happens to him underground would not be wished on any other man. Thereafter his life was never to be the same; dogged by an unfathomable curse that led him to shun his fellow creatures, this innocent expedi­tion brought a nightmare of horror and evil into the light of day.

See also Draco the Dragonman thread on the Vault forum

Stephen King – The Running Man

Stephen King – The Running Man (NEL, 1993)

Blurb:
THE RUNNING MAN
Every night they tuned in to the nation’s favourite prime-time TV game show:
They, all watched, from the sprawling polluted slums, to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to beat, not the clock, but annihilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive thirty days and win the billion dollar jackpot –that was the promise. But the odds were brutal and the game rigged. Best score so far was eight days.

And now there was a new contestant, the latest Running Man, staking his life while a nation watched.

The Running Man  is also available as part of the one volume edition  The Bachman Books by Stephen King