David Stuart Davies

A child's body found in woodland. Parents torn apart by grief. But this is only the first victim in a series of apparently motiveless crimes. Detective Inspector Paul Snow, heading the enquiry, must discover the pattern and reveal the chilling truth as a cunning and violent murderer becomes desperate and even more unpredictable. Haunted by secrets of his own, the complex DI Snow races against the clock, following a murderous trail that leads all the...

This exciting anthology brings together the work of two much admired Sherlock Holmes writers. In these stories Holmes and Watson are engaged in daring exploits applying their razor-sharp intelligence in new cases. By David Stuart Davies: The Reichenbach Secret; The Adventure of the Brewer's Son; The Secret of the Dead; Murder at Tragere House. By Matthew Booth: The Dragon of Lea Lane; The Fairmont Confession; The Mornington Scream; The Riddle of Satan's...

In The Shadows: Weird Tales that Chill and Shock By David Stuart Davies Settle into your easy chair, but be sure to leave the lights on! This collection of twenty-five tales of the macabre and uncanny will keep you up at night. As a child, were you ever worried that someone, or something, was watching you from a shadowy corner of your bedroom? What if that earnest stage magician is more than a mere illusionist? Have you ever been unsettled...

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. This book presents vampire stories, some familiar, some less so.

Following the funeral of John Watson, Sherlock Holmes delves into the darker aspects of his own history, revealing a shocking secret. Realising how lonely and isolated he is, he comes to wonder whether, like Watson, he too has come to the end of his time…

A threat to Holmes's life, murders on Hampstead Heath and a deadly phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken: an encounter which brings them face to face with Count Dracula, the Lord of the Undead.

With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright, madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious poison. Dare you read it? This...

"As the inscription on his tombstone reveals, Wilkie Collins wanted to be remembered as the "author of The Woman in White," for it was this novel that secured his reputation during his lifetime. The novel begins with a drawing teacher's eerie late-night encounter with a mysterious woman in white, and then follows his love for Laura Fairlie, a young woman who is falsely incarcerated in an asylum by her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, and his sinister...

Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of "Dracula", together in one volume for the first time