Contains:

• The Raven
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Fall of the House of Usher

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Cult is about a man's desperate attempt to rescue his brainwashed wife from a religious death cult. In the light of the World Trade Center horror, it provides a timely insight into the dangers posed by these destructive organizations. A thriller with a chilling climax, it shows how the power of sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into weapons of destruction.

In a Berkeley lab, Bruce Banner, a young man haunted by his murky past and the parents he never knew, works intensely day and night. A bright scientist with repressed emotions and few social skil... more »

Here is the uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man -- the basis for the DreamWorks feature film. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conr... more »

The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disease that causes parents to induce illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove th... more »

A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horri... more »

A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ram... more »

A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills plunges psychologist detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and madness as he struggles to solve this most baffl... more »

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip -- lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are ... more »

Dr. Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients anymore, but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo... more »

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-o... more »

The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed a hospital help line for comfort -- and found it in t... more »

It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address -- an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: "Bad love. Bad love... more »

Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific, Alex Delaware is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgis to help solve the murder of a celebrity author. For... more »

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense, the author of ten success... more »

A Stirring Chronicle of Intrigue, Romance, Danger, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Thrilling Triumphs over Fierce Beasts and Fiercer Men in the Mysterious and Exotic Dark Continent, as Recounted by the Dar... more »

Lucifer Jones is back--and Asia's got him! Come along with everybody's favorite con man as he encounters the Oriental Detective with too many sons, the Other Oriental Detective, and (shudder!) the I... more »

Lucifer Jones, everyone's favorite con man, is in danger of running out of continents that will have him. This time he decides to try his luck in Europe. Europe's pain is your gain. Join Lucifer as ... more »

Historian Rebecca Reid comes from Missouri to a replica of a Scottish castle located outside a small town in Ohio. She's cataloging a collection of historical artifacts, among them, supposedly, a sc... more »

Michael Campbell and Rebecca Reid meet again at the excavation of a medieval priory in Scotland. But before they have time to smooth out the wrinkles in their relationship, Michael's former girlfrie... more »

Mark Owen and Hilary Chase, who met at the excavation of a medieval Scottish priory, get back together in Fort Worth, Texas. He's excavating an eerie turn of the century house owned by a prominent l... more »

Eli Paxton is searching for a dog. And before long, people are dying to cover up the loss of a dog that simply isn't worth as much as is being spent on the coverup.

Everyone should spend a year in jail before they send others there.

[A Sam McCain Mystery] The morning of February 4, 1959, brought bad news for Sam McCain, rock and roll fan. His musical idol, Buddy Holly, had perished in a plane crash. But the day also brought bad... more »