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The Monster Club by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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Hidden beneath the streets of London is a dark and dreadful establishment known as The Monster Club, where vampires indulge in a rather different kind of Bloody Mary and ghouls tear into their gruesome repasts. Here, along with the usual monsters - vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and some of Dr Frankenstein's more freakish creations - you'll find other, less familiar ones.
First published as a paperback original in 1976, R. Chetwynd-Hayes's The Monster Club was adapted for a 1981 film starring Vincent Price, John Carradine and Donald Pleasence, and both book and film have gone on to become cult classics. Told in a wry, tongue-in-cheek style, the tales in The Monster Club are simultaneously horrific, comical, and curiously moving.
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The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories of the Supernatural by Robert Westall
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When steeplejack Joe Clarke is hired to repair the stonework at Muncaster Cathedral, he is unprepared for the horror he will encounter. Something unspeakably evil in the medieval tower is seeking victims among the young neighborhood boys ... and Joe's son may be next!
Robert Westall (1929-1993) is one of the best modern writers of ghost stories in the tradition of the great M.R. James, and "The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral", which won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award, is one of his finest. This volume also includes a second ghostly tale, "Brangwyn Gardens", published here for the first time in the United States.
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