Looks like we're missing a dedicated 2017 thread for all things spooky and uuurggh!!!
Anyway, I've just noticed that all three novels in Michael Avallone's
Satan Sleuth series from the 1970s are currently going free at Amazon UK. The middle one is a repeat from sometime last year.
#1: Fallen Angel
Quote:
"From the single, indelible, for-all-of-his-lifetime moment that he stared down at what was left of Dorothea, no more than a lumpy mass which a bucket could hold all too easily, he was transformed into something else. Something not quite human or real."
Ritual murder! They had come upon her in the dead of night, and when it was all over Dorothea St. George was dead. The beautiful actress wife of millionaire playboy Philip St. George had been violated, mutilated and dismembered by a Manson-like cult of Satan worshippers. For months St. George mourned… and then he emerged, a man with a mission: to avenge Dorothea’s death and to save others who, like her, were fated to be sacrificed to the Devil himself. He became the Satan Sleuth.
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#2: The Werewolf Walks Tonight
Quote:
“Fletcherville seems to have a wolfman, Sidney. A wolfman who’s already killed four people. And there’s a young girl who’s disappeared. She may be dead by now. In any case, Fletcherville is calling. For me.” Philip St. George, The Satan Sleuth
Deacon Williams’ corpse hung upside down from the limb of a gnarled juniper tree, his throat ripped out. Murder: brutal, vicious, inhuman… the work of a mad dog, a wolf, a monster. Was the legend of the Fletcherville Werewolf a reality? By the time whatever it was had killed again, and a beautiful girl had disappeared, Philip St. George decided to intervene. There was work once more for… the Satan Sleuth.
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#3: Devil, Devil
Quote:
“Who breaks the chain, who disrupts the glory of the circle, must be punished. One who accepts our hand in the Ritual of the Ring and does not truly believe -- that one must die.” -- Sister Sorrow
Black Mass in Manhattan: thirteen naked figures writhed on the penthouse roof in the pale moonlight. It’s a coven in the heart of New York City, practicing the rites of the Devil. Sister Sorrow, the Bride of Lucifer, led them. Her hypnotic eyes were luminous in the deadly night: black eyes that could change man into beast and command her subjects to commit murder. Five beautiful young girls had met death at her behest. Five beheaded corpses, their bodies scarred with demonic markings. Philip St. George vowed there would be no more. Sister Sorrow would meet her match in the Satan Sleuth.
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