Are you brave enough to discover what figures of fear haunt the imagination of the “master of modern horror”From the beginning of history, men and women have been haunted by figures of fear – and now, in his latest short story collection, award-winning horror writer Graham Masterton reveals the figures that haunt his own imagination and keep him awake at night.FIGURES OF FEAR presents eleven stories, introducing eleven new evils, guaranteed to unsettle and disturb.Meet the little girl whose mother is keeping something important from her, with fearful results . . . Tremble at the artist who can see the future and prevent it, at a price . . . Beware of the dark, and the evil that lurks within it . . . Tremble, and hide, at the sound of the jingle-bells . . .Do figures of fear really bring bad luck? Or are they nothing more than stories? Only you can figure out how fearful you are . . .

One of the few survivors of a destroyed human race, Will Santley of the newly emerging Ethical Culture is caught up in the mysterious biopolitical affairs of radioactive immortals and must remember his frightening past in order to survive. Original.

What would happen if the water ran out?Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don’t know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most.But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn’t rained for months, and now, in the height of summer, the taps run dry. And not, as they first suspect, because of a burst water main. In the deprived areas where Martin works, the water’s been intentionally cut off. And it’s his job, he discovers, to tell the families he cares for not to panic.Martin soon has more problems than lack of water. His daughter is sick with fever. And as riots over bottled water start, Martin’s teenage son is framed, and arrested, for a terrible crime. Soon Martin is left with no choice but to take drastic action to save his family, while corrupt politicians try and use the situation to their advantage, with calamitous results . . .

On an isolated farm in southern Ireland, a decades-old grave houses the dismembered bones of eleven women. Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire of the Irish Gardai is used to bloodshed, but these white bones speak of unimaginable butchery. Not far away, a young American tourist is at the mercy of a sadistic killer. His tools are a boning knife, twine, and a doll fashioned from rags, nails and fish-hooks. The murder of his victims is secondary only to his pleasure at their pain. As more and more victims are ritualistically murdered, Katie Maguire finds that she must solve an ancient Irish mystery to catch a terrifying present-day killer.

Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows it’s going to be a bad day. He nearly runs over someone dressed entirely in black – but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway? And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over? But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isn’t going to be merely bad: it’s going to be the day from hell. Perhaps quite literally . . .

John Trenton's attempts to salvage the 'David Dark,' a sixteenth-century puritan ship, from Massachusetts' Lamper Sound unleash a terrifying, grisly horror on the small village of Granitehead

Boofuls, a child movie star who was gruesomely murdered, is rescued from a mirror that is a portal to Hell and plots to turn Hollywood into a bloody offering to Satan--and only a former fan, Martin Williams, can stop him

When the Manitou, the vengeful ghost of a wonder-worker, uses his power to pull the cities of the white man into the land of the dead, con man Harry Erskine teams up with a shaman to save America

Josh Winward arrives in London to discover the truth surrounding the brutal murder of his sister, a bizarre investigation that leads him to Ella, an eccentric young woman whose psychic abilities plunge them into a nightmarish alternate reality filled with unspeakable horror. Original.

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