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 …. 

Jack Martin – Videodrome

Jack Martin – Videodrome  (NEL, July 1983)

Blurb:
In the world that lies ahead of us all, reality and hallucination will merge and interchange.

So when Max Renn saw the flesh of his stomach swell and redden as though a giant worm was moving beneath the skin, was that imagination – or reality?

And when the skin split and the flesh parted like giant lips, soft and bloodied. When he could sink his fingers, his whole hand, deep inside, feeling and probing through the wall of his own stomach. As the juices, thick and warm, clung and sucked gently at his finger-tips, drawing him in. As the bile rose, hot with revulsion in his throat…. Was that a nightmare – or reality?

Michael Slade – Shrink

Michael Slade – Shrink  (NEL, 1998)

 Chris Moore

Blurb:

Once your head’s cut off, that’s the worst that can happen to it, right?

Wrong…

Over a decade ago, Michael Slade exploded onto the international psychohorror thriller scene with Headhunter. Now comes SHRINK, his latest soul-searing exploration of the most chilling reaches of perverted lust and multiple murder.

The Special X unit is mailed a shrunken human head by a crazed killer out to taunt them. A grisly campaign of terror in which male victims are hunted down and viciously brutalised before being beheaded is underway. And as the slaughter continues, it becomes apparent that more than one psycho is at work.

Robert DeClereq, Zinc Chandler and other members of the Special X team find themselves embroiled in a complex case of nightmare horror come to dreadful life – a case with its twisted roots in a dark past of obscene, sadistic ritual where the screams of the damned echo eternally through the most labyrinthine dungeon of all; the human mind ….

Guy N. Smith – Thirst

Guy N. Smith – Thirst (NEL, Feb. 1980)

Blurb:

It was the most deadly weedkiller ever invented.

There had already been an accident — an inquisitive child found
foaming at the mouth, clamouring for water, his body a mass of pustulating sores. Now a whole tanker-load had gone astray — crashed into a reservoir feeding one of the most densely populated areas in Britain.
It was too late to cut off the supply. They could only wait for the horror to strike.
Thousands were already doomed to the terrible, lingering death — thousands more would die in the ensuing pandemonium as the people panicked and the authorities declared martial law …