Bernard Taylor

The Godsend

Commissioned to paint a portrait at the Woolvercombe House, painter Tom Rigsby is drawn into the secluded mansion's maze of horror and mystery. Original.

The Reaping

A malevolent force haunts a peaceful cottage deep in the English countryside and preys on the occupants, either killing them outright or stigmatizing them for life

Sweetheart, Sweetheart

Recovering from a terrible loss, Hal and Rowan move to the beautiful village of Moorstone and, becoming aware of several strange phenomena, find their rural idyll turning to a horrible nightmare

The Moorstone Sickness

Christopher Priest

Michael McDowell

Professor of Strategic Management Bernard Taylor

Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin - John Blackburn - Michael Blumlein - Mary Cholmondeley - Hugh Fleetwood - Stephen Gregory - Gerald Kersh - Francis King - M. G. Lewis - Florence Marryat - Richard Marsh - Michael McDowell - Christopher Priest - Forrest Reid - Bernard Taylor - Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting . . . waiting to clutch and claw and savage' - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn 'The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she'd hardly had a chance to utter it' - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor 'The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature - and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ' - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin "

VALANCOURT BK OF HORROR STORIE

The Kindness of Strangers

Charmed Life

John Callow hated the people of Valley Green. For years, Callow waited while the townsfolk spurned him, insulted him, and cheated him. But with an ancient curse, he'd visit misery on everyone who had ever slighted him. And Callow's grim reaping could be stopped only by a power born of the same wicked domain. From the author of Charmed Life.

Evil Intent

Stephen Knight

A Century of Unsolved Homicides

Perfect Murder

The Life and Murderous Career of Elizabeth Berry

There Must Be Evil

Gerald Kersh

Michael Blumlein

Florence Marryat

Hugh Walpole

Richard Marsh

Stephen Gregory

John Blackburn

Francis King

Mary Cholmondeley

Charles Birkin

John Trevena

M. G. Lewis

Forrest Reid

Hugh Fleetwood

In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature​ – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin

The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One

Bernard J. Taylor grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and found himself arrested for murder on his seventeenth birthday.

Feasting With Panthers

John Harrison

Ann Todd

Mahen Tampoe

Supergrowth Companies is based on extensive research following the progress of over 200 businesses, including Anita Roddick and The Body Shop and Alan Sugar and Amstrad. It features interviews with company executives and a collection of over fifty case studies. It also reports on ten years of research involving fifteen researchers in Britain and Germany and producing guidelines concerning new business opportunities, growth strategies, leadership styles, organization expansion, overseas expansion, strategies for service businesses, managing risk and uncertainty. Supergrowth Companies is aimed primarily at managers and entrepreneurs who want to learn from the experience of a wide range of businesses so that theirs may grow faster and more profitably. It will also be of interest to students of business growth and managers on corporate development programmes. Based on original research from Henley Management College Bernard Taylor is the well-known and widely respected author and editor of Long Range Planning (key Elsevier business journal) Medium-sized companies are very much in vogue - as acquisition targets and as having the most growth potential in the future.

Entrepreneurs in Action

Supergrowth Companies

A social evening shared by eight friends ended with an event that was to breed deep and lasting suspicions, but that was eleven years ago and the remaining seven old friends are now getting on with their lives. But now new horrors are taking place, and one by one, those old friends are dying.

Since Ruby

The complete short fiction of a master of modern horror fiction In 'Out of Sorts', things get hairy for a man's wife and his mistress when he begins to feel unwell on the night of a full moon. In 'Travelling Light', a traveller is obliged to share a room with a strange man who seems to know a little too much about a series of bizarre murders in which wives have been slain by their husbands. A tourist fascinated by the serial killer John Reginald Christie undergoes an uncanny and horrific experience on a trip to London in 'Forget-Me-Not'. And in 'Samhain', marital strife threatens to turn deadly when a witch turns to black magic to do away with her pathetic husband. The thirteen stories collected here represent the complete short fiction of Bernard Taylor, one of the bestselling horror authors of the 1970s and '80s, author of The Godsend and Mother's Boys, both adapted for film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart, hailed by Charles L. Grant as the finest ghost story of all time. In these tales, which often feature an unexpectedly cruel or bizarre twist, Taylor offers a clever mixture of horror and black humour that will delight fans of the genre. Critical Acclaim for Bernard Taylor 'I enjoyed every horrid word of it' - Daily Telegraph on The Godsend 'The best ghost story I have ever read ... a potential classic' - Charles L. Grant on Sweetheart, Sweetheart 'Weaves a web that grows tighter with each turn of the page' - Booklist on The Reaping

Stories

This Is Midnight

Constance Kent and the Killing at Road Hill House

Cruelly Murdered

THE PASSION AND THE POISON The year is 1868, the scene a squalid little house in the Lincolnshire village of Stickney. And what exactly happened on that early autumn evening when Richard Biggadike came to die in the most dreadful agony from a massive dose of arsenic? Protesting her innocence to the end, his young wife Priscilla would go to the gallows for the crime, but as many aver to this day, she was indeed innocent, and that the killer was in fact one of the lodgers who shared the single bedroom with the couple and who, we are told, later confessed to his crime. Now, over a hundred and fifty years later, Bernard Taylor, past winner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, has provided an answer to the questions, the mystery, in an absorbing account which will take his readers on paths hitherto untrodden in the case. PRAISE FOR THE PASSION AND THE POISON "Was Priscilla Biggadike unjustly convicted and hanged for poisoning her husband in their overcrowded two-roomed house in Lincolnshire? This masterfully constructed and immaculately researched book addresses and ultimately answers the question, and it is much more, showing how the hardships of the 'underclass' in mid-Victorian England almost made murder a lesser evil. A fine book." PETER LOVESEY, author of the Sergeant Cribb mysteries and many other best-selling novels. "A masterful and compelling analysis of this controversial case." LINDA STRATMANN, author of the Frances Doughty mysteries. "Taylor is a master." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Priscilla Biggadike and the Stickney Murder

The Passion and the Poison

'Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil' Byron

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