Charles L Grant

BEWARE OF MIDNIGHT PLACE

At first it seems like an ordinary street in an ordinary neighborhood. But kids sense there's something different about Midnight Place. It's nothing tangible—just an eerie sensation that won't go away. Walk down the street, a street like Midnight Place, and all too soon the terror is real.

Fifteen-year-old Tara Fraiser is scared. Lately it seems that everyone she is close to has been the victim of a mugging.

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When a late-winter blizzard closes the road beside Maclaren's Food and Lodging, the three employees prepare to entertain their customers, unaware they are being watched.

THERE WAS ONE THING WORSE THAN LOVING THE CHILDREN, AND THAT WAS...TRUSTING THEM.They came to the toy shop in the tiny New England village in a steady stream-children somehow older than their years, money clutched in their little hands, buying a bizarre and unsettling selection of games, then vanishing to play with them in a world that no adult could enter.Still, there seemed nothing to worry about. After all, children would be children.Then the townspeople...

Gideon Sunday, an ex-semi-professional American Football player, goes to his pantry to retrieve an awful bottle of his (dead) sister's fruit preserves. When he gets there, he discovers a meadow in his pantry. He closes the door, takes a few breaths, and begins to investigate with as much sanity and candor as Sherlock Holmes. Upon discovering that A) no one is playing a trick on him, B) there really IS a meadow in his cupboard, and C) there is something...

A LONG-LOST FRIENDBlack Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor, who has just received a cryptic message from an old friend of his father. Proctor is being asked to look into a series of disappearances and brutal mutilations in the swampy woodlands northwest of Atlanta, Georgia. Some think the culprit is a real-life wolfman.A LONG-HIDDEN SECRETWhat Proctor doesn't know is that the terror in the...

A PAIN IN THE NECKHe turns into a bat. Drinks the blood of the living. And never pays income taxes. He's the Vampire Lamar, and since he's come to New England, the body count's been rising every time he rises.But even eternal nightlife can take on a chill without companionship. The unholy fiend-in-need seeks a down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood girl who's hiser type for a very long-term relationship.But where there are vampires, there are vampire hunters....

DEEP SPACE, DEEP TROUBLE.The man they call Diego was a tough hombre looking to escape a jam. But the time machine he found took him out of the frying pan and into the future. Now he's gone from the wide-open spaces to outer space--in the 26th century, as the starship Angus goes to warBefore you can say, "Beam me up, Scotty," Diego's risking his neck against a female terrorist known as the Space Avenger--and the weirdest life-forms he's ever seen outside...

At first it seems like an ordinary street in an ordinary neighborhood. But kids sense there's something different about Midnight Place. It's nothing tangiblejust an eerie sensation that won't go away. Walk down the street, a street like Midnight Place, and all too soon the terror is real.What's happening to the teenagers in Ashford? Suddenly crimes are being committed by the nicest kids. Honor-roll students have become juvenile delinquents and petty...

He's out of sight and out of his mind!Don't look now, but a mad scientist has discovered the secret of (temporary) invisibility. He's not planning to sneak into the movies, either. He's mad, remember? He wants revenge!It doesn't take a genius to see right through the faded fiend's transparent scheme: a festival of murder, destruction, and cheap practical jokes.But only one man can clean those unsightly stains on the fabric of societyKent MontanaHe's...

In Oxrun Station, the wind carries dark musics and dark magics and summoning the wind can call you to your doom. The spectral sound of folk music was a sound not everyone could hear. Only those desperate for love heard the haunting notesand had their lives forever altered.