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ISABEL BURNING by Donna Lynch — As a young woman raised in the soot-covered mediocrity of an English industrial town, Isabel has led a common and directionless life. Secretly she yearns to be the center of something, anything, that is momentous and vital. She dreams of making marks on the world. Her new job as housekeeper at Grace mansion is hardly exciting but does surround her with the accouterments of aristocratic lineage while allowing her to observe the habits of the enigmatic Dr. Edward Grace. Captivated by his tales of travel to Africa, Isabel is inexorably drawn into a tumultuous relationship which eventually reveals the Grace family’s dark heritage and lays bare every secret, even the ones she keeps from herself.
THE COMET’S CURSE by Dom Testa — When the tail of the comet Bhaktul flicks through the Earth’s atmosphere, deadly particles are left in its wake. Suddenly, mankind is confronted with a virus that devastates the adult population. Only those under the age of 18 seem to be immune. Desperate to save humanity, a renowned scientist proposes a bold plan: to create a ship that will carry a crew of 251 teenagers to a home in a distant solar system. Two years later, the Galahad and its crew — none over the age of 16 — is launched. But soon after departing Earth, they discover that a saboteur is hiding on the Galahad! If their mission fails, it will mean the end of the human race …
NEVER TELL A LIE by Hallie Ephron — It all started with the yard sale. Ivy was eight months pregnant when she insisted that she and her husband, David, clean out the junk they’d inherited with the old Victorian house they’d bought three years before. Call it nesting, call it nerves — she just wanted it all gone: the old electrical fixtures, the boxes of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICs from the 1960s, the four black wool greatcoats. Neither she nor David recognized the woman at first. But it turned out that the customer asking about the lime-green glass swan dish was none other than Melinda White, a former high school classmate of David and Ivy’s. When Melinda was a child she used to play in their new house, she explained. It looked like they’d been doing some work. Would it be all right if she took a look around? David took Melinda inside. And she never came out.
THE WATCHERS OUT OF TIME by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth — Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion — and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print. A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be. A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather’s estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets. A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created. A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world — and not at all under his control. A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature.
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Wasn’t The Comet’s Curse a bad movie in the 80′s called Night of the Comet?