Shaun Hutson

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Title: Deathday: Description:
Beware the golden disk-it brings death. Four hundred years ago a woman died in agony to keep its secret and went to her grave with it hung round her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake.....

Title: Purity: Description:
Amy Watson hears the twisted morality of the masses every night on her Lndon talk-radio show. Whenever their idle chat spills over into something more threatening, she flicks a switch and laughs 'You're history'. Two prostitutes, a pimp, a drug addict and a tramp, have all been identically strangled in the city, and the phone lines are buzzing. Just as it seems a morally righteous serial killer is cleaning up the streets, an arson attack at a Camden hospice takes eleven patients to their deaths earlier than exected, and every atrocity becomes united by a chilling bond. Someone out there is not only very sick. They are killing the sick. Is the voice that warns Amy she is the next to die just another late night loser? Why does she dread the man who has become her neighbour and, so easily, her lover? When Amy discovers she may have contracted breast cancer, her darkest fears are realised. She is now a target. She is no longer protected by flicking a switch. She's history................

Title: Renegades: Description:
Men had always sought the secret of immorality - men like millionaire arms dealer David Callahan, well versed in death but now hunted by hired killers. Two British counter-terrorists must reach him first, before the fanatical group whose murderous rampage has threatened a long-awaited peace

Title: Hybrid: Description:
The good times for writer Christopher Ward are over. Struggling to complete his latest novel, he finds himself sucked into a vicious spiral; the further into the book he gets, the harder it becomes; the harder it becomes, the quicker he slides towards depression and alcoholism. Then the incidents begin. How is it that he rarely works and yet, day after day, he finds whole chapters of his novel completed? And what of the things he sees at night? Are they dreams or apparitions? Alone in his house, and within the decaying confines of his own mind, Ward is pushed to the very edge of sanity. As a writer Ward has always explored the darker side of the human mind. Now it's time for him to experience that darkness for real. For when the final revelations begin, Ward discovers a truth more terrifying than anything dredged from the most twisted imagination...

Title: Shadows: Description:
Enter the domain of chaos, insanity and death ... In Oxford and Paris psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathon Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box. To unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within us all...

Title: Captives: Description:
Detective Inspector Frank Gregson must investigate a series of savage and apparently motiveless murders. Moreover, they are carbon copies of killings committed years earlier - committed by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain's maximum security prisons. How could this be?

Title: Renegades: Description:
David and Laura Callahan will stop at nothing in their perverted quest for immortality, but Callahan, a multi-millionaire gun-runner, is being hunted by both British counter-terrorists and hired killers. A trail of horror leads from France to London and ancient powers in strife-torn Ireland.

Title: Nemesis: Description:
After the brutal murder of their young daughter, Sue and John Hackett retreat to the small, peaceful town of Hinkston. But Hinkston isn't peaceful anymore. It's being torn apart by a series of horrific unexplained murders. And it holds a fateful 50-year-old secret.

Title: Relics: Description:
A series of murders in which the victims are horrifically mutilated is triggered by the archaeological discovery of a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children. Investigations reveal the possibility of an even greater evil. The author's other novels include "Shadows" and "Death Day".

Title: Shaun Hutson Omnibus: Description:
Two blood-curdling stories in one volume, from horror writer Shaun Hutson. The book contains "Lucy's Child" and "Slugs".

Title: Assassin: Description:
A reissue of a novel originally published in 1988 which has been unavailable for almost 12 months, in which London men, women and children are in danger of being slaughtered by a fanatical group of killers sworn to fight a class war.

Title: Spawn: Description:
A horror novel originally published in 1983 which has been unavailable for 12 months, in which an ex-mental patient, working as a hospital porter is reminded of his accidental killing of his baby brother years before, and he and an escaped convict, both disturbed, unleash a terror beyond belief.

Title: Stolen Angels: Description:
Catherine and Phillip believe that the suicides of three men, the desecrations of a number of children's graves, and the suspected child abuse of a number of school pupils, are connected in some way. It soon becomes apparent that the spectre of child abuse is merely the tip of a terrifying iceberg.

Title: Assassin: Description:
A reissue of a novel originally published in 1988 which has been unavailable for almost 12 months, in which London men, women and children are in danger of being slaughtered by a fanatical group of killers sworn to fight a class war.

Title: Slugs: Description:
One hot summer, a new breed of slugs begins to multiply with terrifying consequences for the townsfolk of Merton. The author also wrote "Assassin", "Death Day" and "Spawn".

Title: Heathen: Description:
Chris Ward is killed in a car accident with a pretty girl. His wife never suspected that Chris was having an affair and her feeling of betrayal makes her want to find out how long it had been going on. But her investigations lead her into danger as she is stalked by the evil Sons of Midnight.

Title: Breeding Ground: Description:
Deep in the dirty sewers of London there is a Breeding Ground ... The slugs have come back ... slowly... silently... they slither along dank, fetid tunnels into the city in search of human flesh. Their insatiable need knows no bounds. But now they bring a new horror - a plague which spreads insanity and death, transforming its victims into grotesque, crazed killers. Caught in this maelstrom of horror is Dr. Alan Finch - the only man capable of destroying the Breeding Ground forever...

Title: Erebus: Description:
Something deadly is affecting a small farming community. A selfish and secretive chemicals group protects its interests regardless of the cost to the local people, or even the rest of mankind.

Title: Deadhead: Description:
For Nick Ryan, private detective, life is all work and no play; his family has left him, and he's been given six months to live. When his daughter is kidnapped by a gang responsible for a series of murders, he begins an obsessive hunt for her and will not stop. Time is running out for both of them.

Title: The Skull: Description:
It had been waiting for centuries, buried in a place they called the evil ground.. waiting for just one drop of blood to restore it to life.

Title: The Terminator: Description:
In the year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created The Terminator.

Title: White Ghost: Description:
There are new enemies in Britain that nobody knows how to deal with. They are the Triad gangs and they deal in heroin. While investigating a weapons hijack, Sean Doyle - a member of the Counter Terrorist Unit - has a chance to infiltrate the Triads. He then discovers that one gang has IRA support.

Title: Victims: Description:
Some people are born to be murder victims. Frank Miller, blinded in a bizarre accident but then given the transplanted eyes of a murderer, finds he can spot potential victims. In the end, Miller himself becomes the target for the slaughterer. Will he stop the carnage or become part of it?

Title: Compulsion: Description:
A gang of teenage youngsters is running riot on the streets. Responsible for a number of burglaries and car thefts, the police are at their wits' end trying to put a stop to the gang's activities. Terror and hatred have become part of everyday life for local residents and, just when it seems things cannot get any worse, the gang targets Shelby House - an old people's home. Supervisor Veronica Porter, her two staff and the nine elderly residents become the gang's most vulnerable victims yet as the thugs conduct a hate campaign against them, sending abusive mail, daubing graffitl on walls and shattering windows. The intimidation escalates until Veronica's own father is dragged into the scene of terror when, disturbing some of the gang members burgling his house he is put into a coma. But enough is enough. The senior citizens of Shelby House decide to take the law into their own hands and fight back...

Title: Shaun Hutson Omnibus:: Description:
PURITY A morally righteous serial killer seems to be cleaning up the streets - two prostitutes, a pimp, a drug addict and a tramp have all been identically strangled. But the violence escalates and when London talk-radio host Amy Watson is phoned on air to be told she's the next to die she is no longer protected by being able to flick the off switch and say to an unwelcome called - you're history. She might be history herself...DEADHEAD A sickening series of murders in London have left five homeless kids mutilated, and the capital is in shock. Then Nick Ryan, private detective, is sent a video of his own daughter and her masked, male captors. He begins a desperate, obsessive hunt for her, but time is running out for both of them...

Title: Lucy's Child: Description:
The tense atmosphere Beth's sister causes when she comes to stay is strained further by Lucy's references to Beth's inability to conceive. When Lucy has a fatal accident, she leaves the legacy of her child, providing Beth's only chance of motherhood. But forces are bent on Beth remaining childless.

Title: Twisted Souls: Description:
Imagine your worst fear. A fear that eats away at you - fear of death, of illness, of needles, of fire. Even of feelings. The people who live in Roxton know what it's like to live like that. But they have no choice. Emma Tate had lived with her fear of losing everything for more than two years. Her job is in jeopardy, her parents have been killed in a car crash, her life is collapsing around her. She, her husband and two friends attempt to seek peace in a luxury house in the countryside close to Roxton for two weeks. But the village of Roxton LIKES fear - it has a force within it which needs fear to sustain it and help it grow. And Emma and her companions cannot avoid becoming fearful...For Emma and the others there will be no waking from THIS nightmare...

Title: Necessary Evil: Description:
They told us monsters did,nt exist-they lied...

Title: Hell To Pay: Description:
Desperate people running out of time. When their worlds collide, there"ll be hell to pay.