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The lush island of Jamaica is a wonderful vacation spot--but Mark Donner's not on vacation. He's running for his life from the Disciples of Dread, an international terrorist organization whose leader wants to use Mark to trap his psychically gifted twin brother, Vincent, an American espionage agent.

Concealed on Jamaica, Mark should be safe but the island holds dangers he cannot imagine. Somehow Mark has attracted an enemy far more deadly than the terrorists. Obeah magic--dark, evil magic--is used against him in supernatural attacks that grow ever stronger.

Running out of time, stalked by human killers and things unknown, Mark Donner must tap his hidden psychic talents to save himself--and the woman he loves.

Gary Connoway had heard rumors of a mysterious Cult of Death even before he arrived in San Mario, but nothing could have prepared him for the unspeakable evil that stalked him now. He had come to the primitive Caribbean island for rest and instead found love in the arms of Juana, a beautiful island girl. Now in the jungle they both faced a relentless, oncoming horror that only the awesome power of voodoo could have raised and only the power of voodoo could stop.

Long before he became the author of polished romances for the slick magazines, of best-seller novels and firsthand-researched travel books -- Hugh B. Cave wrote some of the most grisly and chilling horror stories ever to appear in the pulps. Crawling forth from the Depression years -- from the haunted pages of Strange Tales, Weird Tales, Ghost Stories, Spicy Mystery Stories, Black Book Detective Magazine, Thrilling Mysteries, and elsewhere.

Be warned. This is a collection of Horror Tales.

Murgunstrumm and Others abounds with haunted houses, ravenous vampires, slobbering monsters, fiends human and inhuman, nights dark and stormy, corpses fresh and rotting. These stories exemplify the gothic horror thrillers of the 1930s -- no-holds-barred lurid chillers of violent action and scream-in-the-night terror. Like a vintage horror movie, Murgunstrumm and Others is an experience to be savoured best on a stormy, lonely night.

Contents include:

• Foreword
• Murgunstrumm
• The Watcher in the Green Room
• The Prophecy
• The Strange Death of Ivan Gromleigh
• The Affair of the Clutching Hand
• The Strange Case of Number 7
• The Isle of Dark Magic
• The Whisperers
• Horror in Wax
• Prey of the Nightborn
• Maxon's Mistress
• Dead Man's Belt
• Boomerang
• The Crawling Curse
• Purr of a Cat
• Tomorrow is Forever
• The Ghoul Gallery
• The Cult of the White Ape
• The Brotherhood of Blood
• The Door of Doom
• The Death Watch
• The Caverns of Time
• Many Happy Returns
• Ladies in Waiting
• The Grisly Death
• Stragella

In the all-too-immediate future, the day has finally come when crime, drugs, and pollution have made the cities of the world virtually uninhabitable. Gangs roam the streets at will, the police have nearly surrendered, and the air and water are slowly killing the residents who remain. But one small group of survivors has decided to escape the madness. Packing what they can carry, they head off to what they hope will be the unspoiled wilderness of northern Canada, intent on making a new start, a new life. But nature isn't that forgiving. For far too long mankind has destroyed the planet, ravaging the landscape and slaughtering the animals. At long last, nature has had enough. Now the Earth is ready to fight back, to rid itself of its abusers. A new day has come. But will anyone survive...

In Dame Marie, sleeping villagers walk in the dead of night--they return without memory, naked and soaking from the sea--when they return at all...

Dr. Stephen Spence is new to the village, but he has seen Evil before--when the darkest rites of Voodoo nearly cost him his life.

But Voodoo has two faces; and the Doctor is beginning to see that only the village Houngan - Voodoo priest - may have medicine strong enough to defeat the forces calling from the cove. Now, Spence must convince the rest of the villagers that unimaginable horrors await them all in The Lower Deep.

Nebulon, a sleepy little Florida town. It had never known trouble, never expected it from its smallest, most innocent residents--the children. But something awful was growing in the youngest minds. It began with a child's brutal attack on her mother's lover. A pet obscenely mutilated. A baby drowned in the lake. A man blinded, then savagely stabbed to death. As the small, familiar faces turned away without feeling, the clues lead to old Gustave Nebulon's house and a door that, if opened, may release all the hate the world could hold...

A curse lingers over the Eversol mansion--a voodoo curse, born of evil, steeped in blood. The tormented family who lives in the house of horrors is beset by insanity, visions... and death. They have shut themselves off from the world, allowing no one to trespass on their blighted property. No one except Jeff Gordon, a university professor with a special knowledge of voodoo and the occult. Reluctantly, in desperation, the Everol family has permitted Gordon to enter the mansion. But all Gordon's experience could never prepare him for the unearthly creatures that await him there--or the ultimate terror of the mysterious caves beneath the house.