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Finishing Touches

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:46:01 +0200

Beneath The Streets of London, Desire and Terror Caress ...

On a quiet holiday in London, Dr. Tom Sutherland befriends the genial but mysterious Dr. Nordhagen and falls into a wild love affair with his assistant, the exotic Lina Ravachol. Bewitched by her sexual sorcery, Tom follows her into every fantasy and forbidden pleasure, deeper and deeper into a swirling vortex of erotic cruelty ... into the cellar-crypt of Nordhagen's laboratory, a secret chamber of living human horrors.

This new edition of Thomas Tessier's acclaimed Finishing Touches (1986) features a new introduction by Will Errickson and the original cover painting by Chris Moore.

"Thomas Tessier can find the unexpected poetry and subtlety in horror." - Peter Straub

"One of the most terrifying novels I have ever read." - Ramsey Campbell

"A decidedly adult horror novel that deserves a wide audience." - Library Journal

Shockwaves

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:46:17 +0300

Beware the Blade...

Jackie is lost. A college student stuck in a loveless marriage, she feels she cannot escape the monotony of her life.

Then along comes Brooks, a mysterious but successful lawyer with political ambitions. He's passionate, a true lover.

But someone else has come to town.

Brooks, Jackie discovers, is tracking a serial killer known as The Blade, whose victims are exclusively teenage girls.

The killer is on a rampage, pursuing several women. Soon, many turn up dead – brutally murdered by the Blade.

As he goes on however, he begins to get carried away with the killings and makes mistakes.

Soon, the situation rises above boiling point. As Jackie has a confusing encounter with the man who appears to be the murderer, she is forced to decide:

With the intensity of both the murders and her relationship hotting up, will she be able to keep her head?

Will she be able to control herself?

Or will the Blade...

The Nightwalker

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:46:16 +0300

Bobby Ives doesn't mean to kill. When his first victim ends up beneath the wheels of a London city bus, he almost succeeds in convincing himself it was an accident. Until the day he sees the jogger and a strange and uncontrollable sensation begins to course through his limbs. An animalistic urge to run, to chase, to hunt ... and to kill. Soon the city is gripped by a reign of terror, and night after night the beast will silently stalk the streets, its bloody jaws and tearing claws leaving only death in its wake.

Thomas Tessier's first novel The Nightwalker (1979) is a contemporary horror classic and is recognized as one of the finest werewolf novels ever published. This new edition includes an afterword by the author.

'The Nightwalker is very likely the most unusual occult novel I have ever read, and not just because of its unusual excellence.... I think it will be read for a long time.' - Peter Straub

'I've been telling people for years that the werewolf...

Wicked Things

Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:46:19 +0300

The small town of Winship seems so perfect ... on the surface. But as investigator Jack Carlson is finding out, appearances can be deceiving. He's looking into a rash of mysterious deaths in the town, but the more he pokes behind the picture-postcard facade, the more frightened her becomes. How could someone disappear in an open meadow, as if swallowed by the earth? Why does the ground seem to glow in spots? Why is no one able to stop the gangs of young thugs who roam the streets at will? Local residents are afraid to answer his questions—with good cause. They know that Winship's tranquil exterior hides some truly ... WICKED THINGS.

Rapture

Thu, 19 Nov 1987 09:14:41 +0300

From an International Horror Guild Award winner comes a shocking novel of twisted love. Jeff has loved Georgianne since they were kids and he doesn't think there's room in Georgianne's life for anyone else but him. Now he's ready to kill everyone in her life.

Father Panic's Opera Macabre

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:14:42 +0200

Book by Tessier, Thomas **

From Publishers Weekly

Bizarre events, heinous violence, vigorous sex and gruesome gore crowd this slim, grotesque opus set in and around an old farmhouse amid the luxuriant landscape of eastern Italy. Neil O'Netty, an author of historical fiction, is stranded when his car breaks down while he's sightseeing, leaving him at the mercy of an intense attraction for Marisa Panic, a beautiful woman who comes to his aid. She offers him overnight shelter (and much more) within her family's dilapidated, creepy mansion, where eerie colors glow in the moonlight, and dead bodies seem to appear and disappear from sight. Neil's mounting obsession with Marisa dulls his fear of the eerie, cavernous condition of the manor and of its inhabitants comprising Marisa's eccentric, elderly relatives, all part of a retired troupe of traveling puppeteers. Neil's initial concern about his car is hushed by his overwhelming desire for Marisa, culminating in several over-the-top sex scenes such as are rarely found in a horror story. Tessier intermingles this erotic overindulgence with several stereotypical haunted house effects, including echoed whispers in the darkness, cauldrons of peculiar soups and a tour of a dank, labyrinthine cellar, though this part of the narrative seems like an afterthought to the passion play. Anton Panic, Marisa's priestly uncle (the "Father Panic" of the title), like the rest of the family, becomes a frightening catalyst in the book's thrilling, time-and-space-shifting crescendo. Waking up in a concentration camp, Neil fights for his life at the hands of military guards who commit shocking acts of brutality for sport. Tessier reveals in the book's notes that he derived these final scenes from real-life events perpetrated by barbaric Croatian "Ustashas" in the 1940s. This distinctive fusion of fact and fiction is sure to garner attention as horror-with-a-conscience. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Fog Heart

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:14:40 +0200

Two couples, both skeptical and desperate, are drawn together by a medium named Oona, a fragile, beautiful young woman who knows things that no other living person should know. Is her gift real, or is it the sign of a consuming madness? Can she lead them all to important truths, or will they be trapped in the tightening web of terror and death?
Fog Heart by Thomas Tessier was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, and awarded the International Horror Guild's honors for Best Novel.

Phantom

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:14:41 +0200

Phantom, by Thomas Tessier, was published in 1982. It is the story of Ned Covington, a ten-year-old boy, who explores an abandoned building near his home and what he finds there. Nominated for a World Fantasy Award it has been called: “A touching, scary book (Horror Literature: A Reader's Guide); and a compelling humanist ghost story (Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural).

The Fates

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:14:42 +0200