"Too late she would discover the terrifying truth of her twin sister's death!
THE LIVING DEAD…
Deborah had reluctantly agreed to the bizarre masquerade. Now it was too late. She knew the obsessed Angus Raven would make her go through with his plan.
In her dead sister's dress, she slowly made her way down the winding stairs. Everyone gasped! "You could be Judith!" Angus exclaimed.
Fearfully, Deborah went to Simon's room. There her dead sister's husband, unable to move or speak, stared blankly ahead. Then he saw her! And in his eyes she plainly read the one emotion she had not expected -- pure, cold hatred!"
"WAS MOORWOOD MANOR TO BECOME HER PERMANENT PRISON?
After the death of her husband, Simon, in an accident which rendered her unconscious for a time, Katherine Greene inherits Moorwood Manor. She also becomes a prisoner there.
Katherine is accused of murdering her husband during the accident. His cousin, Richard Greene, demands that in exchange for his silence about the murder, Katherine marry him and turn over the estate. If she refuses, he will turn her over to the police.
Katherine is completely under Richard's power. Everyone knows she and Simon quarrelled often over his drinking and gambling. And because she has no memory of the accident or its aftermath, she cannot defend herself.
How can Katherine protect herself from the court's vengeance when she doesn't even know for certain that she is innocent? Yet how can she agree to marry a man she truly fears?"
"Karin will risk anything to save her marriage - including her life?
Recovering from her grief over the mysterious death of her first love, Peter Allison, Karin marries Walter Bell, Peter's best friend. At first they are happy but soon Walter changes. He becomes silent and forbidding, and absurdly jealous of Peter.
Hoping to prove that she truly loves her husband and not a dead man's memory, Karin returns with Walter to Greece and the home he shared there with Peter and their friend, Simon Ward. But from the moment they arrive, Karin realizes she has made a terrible mistake.
The house is haunted by Peter's ghost. Simon confides to Karin his suspicion that Walter murdered Peter - and will try to kill her. She scoffs at the idea, and to prove her husband's innocence, begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Peter's death. But the more Karin uncovers, the clearer it seems to become - her own husband is a murderer and she is to be his next victim!"
"Weird Wedding Night
Iris Mills should have been divinely happy. She had met the handsome, wealthy man of her dreams, and he had asked her to marry him. But from the moment Iris entered the old chapel where the wedding would take place, her fears mounted.
Why did dust and cobwebs cover this so-called holy place? Why was the minister so furtive? Why were the guests so hideously disfigured? Why did the bridegroom himself behave so strangely?
And Iris was possessed - not by joy but horror - as she realized the satanic evil about to embrace her...."
"The mysterious "White Lady" of Trent Towers - was she a lovely vision or a deadly menace?
As soon as Stella came to the strange house on gloomy Fog Island, she became the victim of a series of unexplained "accidents". And each time she narrowly escaped death, the unearthly "white lady" appeared on the scene.
Someone in that spider's web of hate, greed, and jealously kept secrets, wanted Stella out of the way. But who? And why? Would Stella's unknown pursuer one day finally accomplish her murder?
Suddenly the "white lady" appeared once more, beckoning Stella toward the sinister tower, dark except for one lighted window at the top. Stella followed, sure that her future - or her fate - would be decided by what lurked on Fog Island."
"Heiress Emily and Gale Garvis wait in terror as the Ouija board begins to reveal who will die next....
Emily Garvis is sure that their dead father is sending them messages through the Ouija board. Her sister Gale, more practical, believes that they come instead from Emily's troubled subconscious.
In either case, the warnings are horrifying: madness and danger and death.
Then Emily is brutally murdered in her own bedroom. Heartbroken and terrified, Gale realizes that her occasional mental blackouts may be the first symptoms of insanity - and that she too is doomed by the message from a ghost."
"WHAT WILL LAURA FIND AT CAMERON CASTLE -- LONG LIFE OR SUDDEN DEATH!
Despite warnings from her friends that he is only a fortune hunter, beautiful heiress Laura Coles marries Donald Cameron. Fighting her fear, Laura agrees to settle at bleak Cameron Castle, her husband's ancestral home.
But there is no welcome for Laura in that brooding mansion. Donald's relatives treat her as an intruder. Donald suddenly becomes cold and withdrawn. Laura's fear turns to horror when an attack is made on her life by a man who resembles her husband!"
"Voodoo drums beat out terror in this place of masked evil and perilous passion.
So far from home, so close to hell
The lush vegetation and burning sun of Haiti was a world away from Agnes Woodridge's New England home. Despite herself, the lovely young woman felt a tremor of fear of the unknown when she entered the great mansion of Seacrest to take care of a mysterious disturbed little girl, Germaine Dodge.
Agnes would have trembled still more if she knew of the curse that hung over this place of so much evil and so many secrets…of the giant black zombie that haunted its nights…of the woman who had been shattered on the sea rocks below…of the torment that scarred the handsome face of its master with pain…of the hatred and violence directed at any stranger who dared cross its threshold.
Haiti was an island paradise to some. But for Agnes, it soon was an inferno of horror…"
"The speaker is too high on LSD to explain what he means, but at one time he had been in love with Ruth's sister, Mary, whose sun sign is Aquarius. And it is Mary's disappearance that brought Ruth to Cranston House, a sinister run-down hotel occupied by Dr. Eric Palmer and his youthful drug cultists. --
Ruth is told that Mary is "away for a while." But no one will say where, or for how long. Suddenly Ruth herself becomes a virtual prisoner. The more she learns about the dangerous drug experiments Palmer sponsors, the more terrified Ruth becomes. What really happened to Mary? And if Ruth finds out, will she suffer Mary's fate?"
"Was a noose tightening around a horrified Deborah Foster?
It was the night of evil ritual. The worshippers of the devil danced around the ruined abbey, now transformed into a temple of terror. Deborah had come there hoping to unmask her sister's killer.
Suddenly against her will, Deborah felt herself succumbing to the unholy spell woven by the frenzied witches. Relentlessly they began to encircle her. Panic gripped her for she knew they had chosen her as their next victim."
"The desperate summons could not be ignored . Stephen Briar's note was more than the grief-stricken missive of a newly widowed brother-in-law. Since Ann's untimely death, evil had settled over Briarcliff, and Stephen was fighting for his survival. Jessica Rice sought to uncover the truth about the accident that had claimed her sister's life, but the mystery only deepened. Intrigue wove around intrigue, casting all the occupants of Briarcliff under the gloom of suspicion. No one could be trusted-including Stephen. Jessica had never felt so alone, or so gravely in danger."
