Horror & Dark Fantasy 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Horror & Dark Fantasy Titles 2002

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Stephen King The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three Pbk published August 2003 by NEL at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0-340-82976 1

With an new introduction by the author
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower
The Drawing Of The Three
On his journey across the Mid-World to reach the Dark Tower, errant knight Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors - each leading to New York. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And must confront deadly serial killer Jack Mort.
As the titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies threatens to bring an end to Roland’s quest for the Dark Tower...
Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and gritty realism, The Drawing of the Three propels readers towards the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer...
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

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Carrie - UK 1st Edition

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. He won a scholarship award to the University of Maine and later taught English, while his wife, Tabitha, got her degree.
It was the publication of his first novel Carrie and its subsequent film adaptation that set him on his way to his present position as perhaps the bestselling author in the world. Carrie was followed by a string of bestsellers including The Shining, It, Misery, Bag of Bones and On Writing (A Memoir of the Craft).
He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist, Tabitha King.

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Stephen King The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Pbk published October 2003 by NEL at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0-340-82978 8

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With an new introduction by the author
Join the quest for the elusive Dark Tower
Wizard And Glass
The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. In a terrifying journey where hidden dangers lie at every junction - a malevolent runaway train, Roland’s staunch enemy and the temptation of the wizard’s diabolical glass ball - they narrowly escape one world and slip into the next.
It is here that Roland tells them a long-ago tale of love and adventure involving a beautiful woman named Susan Delgado.
With driving narrative force and exciting plot twists, Wizard and Glass will leave readers clamouring for the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer..
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

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Carrie - UK 1st Edition

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Stephen King The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Pbk published August 2003 by NEL at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0-340-82975 3

Revised and expanded throughout
With an new introduction and foreword by the author
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The Gunslinger
This newly revised and expanded edition of The Gunslinger, for which Stephen King has written a special introduction and foreword, is the mesmerising first book in his spectacular, epic Dark Tower series.
In The Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.
In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.
Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer...
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

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Carrie - UK 1st Edition

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Stephen King The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands Pbk published September 2003 by NEL at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0-340-82977 X

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The Waste Lands
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares.
Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, a scarred urban wasteland. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward. A blend of thrilling action and powerful drama, The Waste Lands leaves readers breathlessly awaiting the next chapter.
And the Tower is closer...
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is Stephen King’s most visionary piece of storytelling that may well be his crowning achievement.

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Carrie - UK 1st Edition

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Stephen King Everything's Eventual Pbk published March 2003 by NEL at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-340-77074 0

A compelling and captivating collection - the first volume of stories from the bestselling author in almost a decade.
In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book `Riding the Bullet’. Terror becomes déjŕ vu all over again when you get `That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French’. ‘LT’s Theory of Pets’ will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn.
Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.
`King is blessed with an apparently inexhaustible imagination and a talent for storytelling. . . In his hands, at least, the art is far from being lost’ Daily Mail
`Still on top of his game ...An unusual and disturbing mix that no other modern writer could pull off’ The Times
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Robin McKinley Sunshine Pbk published October 2003 by Bantam at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0-593-05102 5

There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it’s unwise to walk. Sunshine knew that. But there hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years, and she needed a place to be alone for a while. Unfortunately, she wasn’t alone. She never heard them coming. Of course you don’t, when they’re vampires...
They took her clothes and sneakers. They dressed her in a long red gown. And they shackled her to the wall of an abandoned mansion - within easy reach of a figure stirring in the moonlight.
She knows that he is a vampire. She knows that she’s to be his dinner, and that when he is finished with her, she will be dead. Yet when light breaks she finds that he has not attempted to harm her. And now it is he who needs her to help him survive the day...
'Astonishing… a perfect work of magical literature' Neil GaimanR Previous acclaim for Robin McKinley:
`Rich inventiveness, good characters and real stylistic skill and flair’ Sunday Times
`Extraordinarily imaginative... genuinely enchanting’ Guardian
`Refreshing - haunting... Utterly engrossing’ New York Times

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J.M. Morris Fiddleback Pbk published March 2003 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-48762 0

When Ruth Gemmel’s younger brother Alex fails to return her calls, she sets off to check up on him. Unable to find him in Greenwell, the town where he has been living and teaching, she begins her tentative enquiries. She soon discovers the locals to be frustratingly unhelpful, while the eerie town holds more questions than clues. Why are the police so uncooperative? Why is Greenwell so dark and lonely? And who is the `grey man’ the schoolchildren saw Alex with not long before he went missing?
As Ruth becomes concerned that something terrible has happened to her brother, events escalate mysteriously, dangerously out of control. Too late, Ruth realizes that her worst fears haunt her still, and that she is at the centre of a far darker nightmare than she could ever have imagined . . .
‘Eerie, assured and utterly compelling, this is a novel you will not forget’ Michael Marshall Smith
`Nightmarish . . . [Morris] writes superbly about a small town’s subtle gathering of menacing forces’ Time Out
About The Author
Fiddleback is J.M.Morris’s first psychological thriller. The author lives in north Yorkshire.

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Andrew Neiderman Curse Pbk published January 2003 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 7434 5039 6

Murder in the Catskills
When miserly landlord Henry Deutch is found dead from an apparent heart attack, no one is happier than Anna Young. It was Henry who evicted Anna’s mother from his Catskill tenement, which eventually led to her death. Anna swore a blood oath of vengeance, but her alleged attacks were purely metaphysical. Yet some claim them mortally effective: those who frequent her tiny shop for love charms and protective amulets attest that Anna Young is a master of black magic.
Now a politically ambitious prosecutor has filed first-degree murder charges against Anna, contending that her spell casting literally frightened old Henry to death. And though the public remains divided between those who believe in Anna’s powers and those who think her a murderous fraud, Del Pearson, her court-appointed lawyer, is about to discover the truth: whether Anna Young is a harmless charlatan, a cold-blooded killer . . . or something quite different.

About The Author
Andrew Neiderman is the author of numerous novels of suspense and terror, including Pin and The Devil’s Advocate, which was made into a major film. He lives in Palm Springs with his wife, Diane.

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Phil Rickman The Lamp of the Wicked Published April 2003 by Macmillan at Ł10.00 ISBN: 0-333-90805 8
Overshadowed by high-voltage power lines, the unlovely village of Underhowle is on the brink of a new prosperity after half a century of decay. But the community is also home to a man the police have identified as the killer of several young women.
Had it not been for the Revd Merrily Watkins, Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, and her gravedigger, Gomer Parry, the truth might never have emerged.
But is it the whole truth? As the police search for more bodies, Merrily worries that the detective in charge might have become blinkered by personal ambition. And when, after the horrific climax to a very public confession, she is asked to conduct a controversial funeral, she becomes exposed to hidden tensions in Underhowle, as volatile as the 400,000 volts passing overhead. For is there really a connection with the most sickening series of murders recorded in Britain in the past century?
Meanwhile, in her home parish of Ledwardine, Merrily has more intimate problems: the need for discretion over her new relationship with the musician Lol Robinson; and the alleged angelic visitations on which even her usually impressionable daughter heaps scorn.
Battling his own demons to face an audience for the first time in nearly twenty years, Lol follows an unexpected path into the mind of the confessed murderer - while Merrily tries to quell her own revulsion in an effort to scrub away the psychic stain left by a dead monster.
This fifth – and most devastating – Merrily Watkins mystery takes Phil Rickman’s endearingly fallible heroine from the wilder shores of millennial spirituality to the darkest hinterland of human depravity. The Lamp of the Wicked is disturbing, resonant and quite literally electrifying.
'A cracking mystery - characters drawn with such realism that they step out of the pages and perform for you in your mind's eye' Professor Bernard Knight, Tangled Web
‘The book that will mark his final, well-deserved breakthrough into the very first rank of thriller writers’ Daily Mail
`A highly sophisticated crime novel. Its complex narrative grips like a clamp. Rickman makes us care about his characters . . . is brilliant at dialogue. As no other novelist does, he deals with an area where belief and religion intersect with crime and justice. Let's just hope the television series is half as good as the books’ Andrew Taylor, Crimetime
'Subtle… chilling… The underlying themes of change, conflict, hidden worlds and inexplicable evil are a reminder that good fiction based on unsettling ideas can be as illuminating as any number of earnest documentaries' Sunday Mercury
'Monumentally ambitious… Merrily links criminal, psychological, moral, sociological, spiritual, and supernatural realms to dig deeper into evil-doing just when most fictional sleuths would be calling it quits' Kirkus Reviews
Acclaim for the Merrily Watkins series
`Does the supernatural stuff with élan . . . entertaining, with shivers’ Guardian
‘Rickman has virtually created a new genre, combining crime with nicely judged supernatural elements. Highly entertaining stuff, delivered with a panache we have come to expect.’ Publishing News
‘Rickman writes mysteries in the classic sense, cleverly combining the supernatural and criminal elements to illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations.’ John Connolly

About The Author
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his highly acclaimed earlier novels are Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December, The Chalice and The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.

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Phil Rickman The Lamp of the Wicked Pbk published October 2003 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-49032 X

Overshadowed by high-voltage power lines, the unlovely village of Underhowle is on the brink of a new prosperity after half a century of decay. But the community is also home to a man the police have identified as the killer of several young women.
Had it not been for the Revd Merrily Watkins, Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford, and her gravedigger, Gomer Parry, the truth might never have emerged.
But is it the whole truth? As the police search for more bodies, Merrily worries that the detective in charge might have become blinkered by personal ambition. And when, after the horrific climax to a very public confession, she is asked to conduct a controversial funeral, she becomes exposed to hidden tensions in Underhowle, as volatile as the 400,000 volts passing overhead. For is there really a connection with the most sickening series of murders recorded in Britain in the past century?
Meanwhile, in her home parish of Ledwardine, Merrily has more intimate problems: the need for discretion over her new relationship with the musician Lol Robinson; and the alleged angelic visitations on which even her usually impressionable daughter heaps scorn.
Battling his own demons to face an audience for the first time in nearly twenty years, Lol follows an unexpected path into the mind of the confessed murderer - while Merrily tries to quell her own revulsion in an effort to scrub away the psychic stain left by a dead monster.
This fifth – and most devastating – Merrily Watkins mystery takes Phil Rickman’s endearingly fallible heroine from the wilder shores of millennial spirituality to the darkest hinterland of human depravity. The Lamp of the Wicked is disturbing, resonant and quite literally electrifying.
'A cracking mystery - characters drawn with such realism that they step out of the pages and perform for you in your mind's eye' Professor Bernard Knight, Tangled Web
‘The book that will mark his final, well-deserved breakthrough into the very first rank of thriller writers’ Daily Mail
`A highly sophisticated crime novel. Its complex narrative grips like a clamp. Rickman makes us care about his characters . . . is brilliant at dialogue. As no other novelist does, he deals with an area where belief and religion intersect with crime and justice. Let's just hope the television series is half as good as the books’ Andrew Taylor, Crimetime
'Subtle… chilling… The underlying themes of change, conflict, hidden worlds and inexplicable evil are a reminder that good fiction based on unsettling ideas can be as illuminating as any number of earnest documentaries' Sunday Mercury
'Monumentally ambitious… Merrily links criminal, psychological, moral, sociological, spiritual, and supernatural realms to dig deeper into evil-doing just when most fictional sleuths would be calling it quits' Kirkus Reviews
Acclaim for the Merrily Watkins series
`Does the supernatural stuff with élan . . . entertaining, with shivers’ Guardian
‘Rickman has virtually created a new genre, combining crime with nicely judged supernatural elements. Highly entertaining stuff, delivered with a panache we have come to expect.’ Publishing News
‘Rickman writes mysteries in the classic sense, cleverly combining the supernatural and criminal elements to illuminate the darkest corners of our imaginations.’ John Connolly
About The Author
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his highly acclaimed earlier novels are Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December, The Chalice and The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.

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Phil Rickman Midwinter of the Spirit Pbk published October 2003 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-37401-X

'Exorcism' is a word no longer favoured by the Church of England. Nowadays the preferred term for dealing with cases of possession and paranormal disturbance is 'deliverance ministry'. It sounds less cold, less sinister more caring.
So why shouldn't this be a job for a woman?
When offered the post once styled 'Diocesan Exorcist', the Reverend Merrily Watkins - single parent, rural perish priest, and unashamed nicotine addict - doesn't really see how she can refuse. For hasn't she already spoken out against the Church's reluctance to take a stance on psychic matters! Hasn't she also had inexplicable experiences of her own?
The young and progressive Bishop is keen to see a woman at the spiritual cutting edge. But the retiring exorcist - who strongly objects to women entering the priesthood not only refuses to be of help to Merrily but ensures that she's soon exposed to the job at its most terrifying and distasteful.
And things get no easier. As an early winter cuts through to the bones of the old city of Hereford, a body is found in the River Wye, an ancient church is desecrated and there are suggestions of dark ritual on a hill overlooking the city. Reports of psychic unrest in the Cathedral itself - where the famous medieval shrine of St Thomas Cantilupe now lies in fragments - reflect an undying evil.
Alienated from her teenage daughter, Merrily can only turn for understanding to their friend Lol Robinson, a songwriter and former long-term psychiatric patient. Together they confront an unimaginable darkness lying close to the heart of the Anglican Church itself.
Based on long-established 'deliverance' techniques, Midwinter of the Spirit is the first spiritual-procedural thriller: the electrifying story of a professional woman who must walk in dark places where an often-intangible evil thrives uncurbed by the forces of law and order.
'No shortage of excitement' Ruth Rendell
'Authentic shudders with some wonderful touches of the bizarre’ Kate Saunders
'A massive, ambitious novel tight with atmosphere and thick with latent violence... brilliant' Peter James
‘Wonderfully spooky ... utterly compelling’ Jilly Cooper
'I loved this one. I believed in the characters and relished the wit' Joanna Trollope
'His most effective chiller yet' Christopher Fowler
'Remarkable… something new and creepy. Even my wife enjoyed it ... and she doesn't usually like horror’ Stephen King
'No one writes better than Phil Rickman of the shadow frontier between the supernatural and the real world' Bernard Cornwell
'I emerged shell-shocked and still so completely involved with the story, I was going round in a daze' Barbara Erskine
'Careful accumulation of atmospheric detail… no shortage of spine-chilling frissons. Rickman has undoubtedly created a new genre: the spiritual-procedural thriller. Highly entertaining… delivered with a panache we have come to expect’ Crimetime
'Dark ritual and psychic unrest confront Britain's first female exorcist. Watkins is an endearing fictional creation, fallible and interesting in her own right, and the genre in which she makes her mark is an intriguing one . . . a series and a character to watch’ Publishing News
'Rickman does the supernatural stuff with élan and builds around his heroine a rich hinterland of politicking clerics and mother-daughter growing pains' Guardian
About The Author
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his highly acclaimed earlier novels are Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December, The Chalice and The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.

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Phil Rickman A Crown of Lights Pbk published October 2003 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-48450 8

When a redundant country church is bought by a pagan couple, the local evangelical minister reacts with fury. A modern witchhunt begins and Merrily Watkins, diocesan exorcist, is expected to keep the lid on this cauldron. But when the truth begins to emerge, her loyalty to the Church is seriously tested. Meanwhile, there is the problem of the man who won’t be parted from his dead wife. And the ancient mystery of the five local churches dedicated to St Michael, slayer of dragons. Also, a killer with an old tradition to guard . . .
`Supernatural events subtly introduced… paragraphs like lightning flashes… has you ransacking the English language for adequate words of praise. ‘Faultless’ springs to mind…‘ John Whitbourn, SFX
'A steaming brew that teeters on the edge of serious violence. A cracking read' Tony Heath, Tribune
`A highly sophisticated crime novel . . . Unlike almost anything else in the genre. Its complex narrative grips like a clamp. Rickman makes us care about his characters . . . is brilliant at dialogue’ Andrew Taylor, Crime Time
'Pages that quicken the pulse and chill the room. The Merrily series represents a major talent unfolding before us. To miss out on it would be to deny yourself a rare and exquisite pleasure' John Whitbourn, All Hallows
About The Author
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his highly acclaimed earlier novels are Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December, The Chalice and The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.

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Phil Rickman The Wine of Angels Pbk published October 2003 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-330-34268-1

The Rev. Merrily Watkins had never wanted a picture-postcard parish - or a huge and haunted vicarage. Nor had she particularly wanted to walk straight into a local dispute over a controversial play about a strange seventeenth-century clergyman accused of witchcraft… a story that certain old-established families would rather remained obscures.
But this is Ledwardine, steeped in cider and secrets. A paradise of cobbled streets and timber-framed houses. And also - as Merrily and her teenage daughter Jane discover - a village where horrific murder is a tradition that spans centuries.
The Wine of Angels launches an atmospheric new series about a very singular woman facing the many faces of evil. It is a novel that foresees the sexual harassment of women priests ad confronts the most dramatic and controversial development in the Anglican Church since the Reformation.
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his earlier novels, Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December and The Chalice were highly acclaimed. He is now working on the second Merrily Watkins 'spiritual procedural' Midwinter of the Spirit, which will be published in the autumn. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.
'…rather as if an episode of The Vicar of Dibley or The Archers had suddenly turned into Cracker' The Sunday Times
'Escalates with all the excitement of a good thriller and races breathlessly towards the climax… a wonderful, enthralling read' Daily Express
`Huge tensions . . . woven through is the wonderful web of mysticism and the supernatural we have come to expect from Phil Rickman . . . enthralling.’ Barbara Erskine, Daily Express
'Well, Holmes did say that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside… Merrily wins out’ Jerusalem Post
‘A first-rate thriller with supernatural overtones… deftly illuminates the intrigues of village life. Quirky characters, an abundance of plot twists’ Publishers Weekly
About The Author
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his highly acclaimed earlier novels are Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December, The Chalice and The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.

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