For Karyn it was the howling... the howling that had heralded the nightmarein Drago... the nightmare that had joined her husband Roy to the shewolf Marcia and should have ended forever with the fire. But it hadn't. Roy and Marcia were still alive ... and deadly...and thirsty for the most horrifying vengeance imaginable....
Private investigator Herald Childe watches a snuff movie of his partner being brutally murdered. The subsequent pursuit of his killers takes him through the LA smog and into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality: the most extreme and disturbing case of his career. Here presented with the sequel, Blown, The Image of the Beast is award-winning sci-fi writer, Philip Jose Farmer at his best.
This is a 3 in 1 compendium containing "Guily Pleasures", "The Laughing Corpse" and "Circus of the Damned". Put out by Guild America Books.
From the dust jacket:
I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. Vampires call me The Executioner.
What I call them isn't repeatable.
Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think
vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I've seen their
victims. I carry the scars…
In my job- I'm an animator; I raise the dead - I've seen just about everything.
I've dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves and been wooed, but not
won, by Jean-Claude, the most powerful bloodsucker in St. Louis. When a serial
killer started murdering vampires, it was Jean-Claude who wanted me to
find the killer.
Later, a rogue vamp named Alejandro hit town and wanted to make me his human
servant. A war of the undead had begun. Over me. I'd have been flattered, if
my life weren't at stake.
Speaking of life…and death… every animator worth her salt knows that the older
the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it. After a few centuries,
the only death "big enough" is a human sacrifice. Now I'm no assassin - sure
I kill vampires - and I don't do it for the money - but I don't kill
people. Like I said, working for Animators, Inc. is just a job, like
selling insurance. But all the money in the world wasn't enough for me to take
the job Harold Gaynor was offering. Somebody else did, though- an insane animator.
And he wasn't just raising the dead… he was raising Hell.
And it was up to me to stop it…
Cooper Falls is a small, quiet New Hampshire town, the kind you'd miss if you blinked an eye. But when darkness falls and the full moon rises, an uneasy feeling filters through the air; an unnerving foreboding that causes the skin to prickle and the body to tense.Because faintly, from across the water, a low moaning howl begins to rise and a massive black shadow with burning green eyes stalks the night. It is part man, part beast-a victim of the past, a creature of evil-who hungers for flesh, thirsts for blood and lives to kill ...again and again and again...
This book is out of print.
Back cover synopsis:
A memory was clawing its way to the surface
He was a poor lost mutt, wandering the streets of a great city, driven by ravenous
hunger, and hunting a quarry he could no define.
But he was more.
Something in the depths of his conciousness was tormenting him, refusing to
let him rest.
Was it the memory of what he had once been?
A man…?
FLUKE
Is he a dog who thinks he's a man…or a man who thinks he's a dog…?
This book is out of print. Caution: contains extreme violence, drug use, snuff sex, cannibalism, and torture
Front cover blurb: From the primeval rain forests an uncontrolled substance- never intended for consumption by the civilized mind
back cover synopsis:
The jungle has its own truth: lyric, violent, erotic, primeval
To the warroir-priests of the Venezuelan forest people, the drug is a sacred
substance: part pain, part pleasure. Skullflush is psychic whiplash, an exhilerating
gateway to an advanced conciousness beyond time and species. For millenia the
primitive tribe has kept its secret safe from civilization. Until a ruthless
drug lord skips with a stolen six-kilo stash- intending to peddle his prize
in the nighclubs of Florida.
Tampa's thrill seekers are eager to sample the pale green powder. But generations
of urbanized decadence have left them jaded, shallow, and weak…too weak to handle
the drug's mystic high. The ancient rain forest chemistry warps bone, muscle,
and sinew in their city-soft bodies, setting free the fierce power of man's
basic nature.
Furry content involves sentient (but not talking) animals, and humans with animalistic traits, primarily mental.
From the back cover:
Christopher Snow is different from all the other residents of Moonlight Bay,
different from anyone you've ever met. For Christopher Snow has made his peace
with a very rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to
light. His life is filled with the fascinating rituals of one who must embrace
the dark. He knows the night as no one else can- its mystery, its beauty, its
terrors, and the eerie silken rhythms that seduce one into believing anything
- even freedom - is possible.
Until the night Christopher Snow witnesses a series of disturbing incidents
that sweep him into violent mystery only he can solve, a mystery that will force
him to rise above all fears and confront the many layered secrets of Moonlight
Bay and its strange inhabitants. A place, like all places, that looks a lot
different after dark.
This is the sequal to "Fear Nothing" but there's sufficient recap in the book that you don't have to read the first one. Furry content involves sentient (but not talking) animals, and humans with animalistic traits, primarily mental.
From the back cover:
At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely
then the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing.
From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do
about it. Because in Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to conceal
crimes and silence victims. No matter what happens at night, their job is to
ensure that nithing disturbs the peace and quiet on Moonlight Bay…
Christopher Snow isn't afraid of the dark. Forced to live in the shadows because
of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the night world better than anyone. He
believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected
to the town's most carefully kept, most ominous secret- a secret only he can
uncover, a secret that will force him to confront an adversary at one with the
most dangerous darkness of all. The darkness inside the human heart.
From a top-secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose. Bestselling author Dean R. Koontz presents his most terrifying, dramatic and moving novel: The explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of mankind's darkest creation
Summary from backcover:
D-Day is threatoned. But one man could rip the heart out of the Nazis-with
his bare claws...
He is Michael Gallatin, master spy, lover- and werewolf. Able to change shape
with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury, he proved
his talents against Rommel in Africa. Now he faces his most delicate, dangerous
mission: to unravel the secret Nazi plan known as Iron Fist. From a parachute
jump into occupied France to the lush corruption of Berlin, from the arms of
a beautiful spy to the cold embrace of a madman's death machine, Gallatin draws
ever closer to the ghastly truth about Iron Fist. But with only hours to D-Day,
he is trapped in the Nazis web of destruction.
Content warning: this contains non consensual sex between human women and animals
Front cover blurb: "Enslaved by blood lust, they sacrifice their victims to
a nameless god"
From the back cover:
Beware the sign of the ram
They came to the shore of New Guinea, a team of scientists eager to discover
if there was any truth to the rumors that a "missing link" in the chain of human
development actually existed on mysterious Satyr Island.
They found an incredible tribe, half man-half beast, whose bodies bore the spiral
brand marking them as followers of an ancient cult of lust and blood.
They died one by one, powerless to save their women from the creatures hideous
rituals.
Would anyone survive to tell the truth to a horror-stricken world?
I am a monster Listen and I will tell you how the wereing began, and how
I was raised by wolves, and what happened hi a place called Fox Hollow. Something
terrible crept into the town and changed the people there. Something so monstrous
so terrifying, that you may never sleep again.
Me.
Now that the wolf-boy has been "saved" by a family of humans, they think he'll
be just like them. He'll use a fork and knife, go to school, watch TV. But the
boy is nothing like them. They'll see. Just wait for the next full moon.
The boy likes the humans, though. Good thing-he's the only one who can save
them. Because the werewolves have come. And they want the children. Every last
one.
I am a monster Listen and I will tell you how the wereing began, and how
I was raised by wolves, and what happened hi a place called Fox Hollow. Something
terrible crept into the town and changed the people there. Something so monstrous
so terrifying, that you may never sleep again.
Me.
Abandoned as a child, then taught by wolves, the boy lives by the rules of the wild. But the rules are changing. Werewolves have invaded the forest. The night creatures want the boy to join them. To stalk. To prey. The boy resists. But when the full moon rises, the terror begins. The boy loses control ...and no one can stop him. Not even himself.
No full physical transformation, more mental and spiritual, more therianmorph.
From the back cover:
A telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for single mother
MaryAnee Carpenter: her friends the Wilkinsons are suddenly, inexplicably dead,
their only child, MaryAnne's godchild, abruptly orphaned. But as MaryAnee rushes
to embrace her young charge, disturbing questions mount. Was it merely a chance,
tragic mishap that took these lives? Or murder?
Soon MaryAnne will begin to suspect an even more sinister force at work, for
Joey Wilkinson, a sad and quiet adolescent, seems to harbor secrets beyond her
most nightmarish imaginings. As winter transforms the beautiful, lonely Wilkinson
ranch into a forbidding place of blinding storms and dangerous darkness, a series
of horrific murders- killings that suggest a raging animal or worse and defy
solution by a desperate police force- draw ever closer to her young family.
Alone in the howling winter whiteness, MaryAnne Carpenter must guard her children
against an unseen, ever more insatiable killer - a killer who is closer than
she thinks. Now MaryAnne begins to know the true meaning of terror…
This book is out of print.
Front cover reads: "When the bloodlust rises, the most savage beast is man…
Back cover synopis:
They came form the wilderness to the heart of the city…a man, a wolf, and
a woman- hungry for revenge
It began in the windswept Canadian tundra. A hunting party led by a man of unique
cruelty, a pack of wolves slaughter, a man and a wolf- survivors…
It turned into an odyssey of vengeance, in the seething jungle of the city.
Somewhere in the night, with the woman who shares their obsession, Dane and
the wolf are stalking the man who hunted them…the man who thirsts to fight them
to the limites of human savergery…
A string of mutilation murders has shocked New York City. Now nothing will stop
the killing. The black wolf has tasted blood…and the final hunt begins…
There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible.
It started with the strange howling at night Then there was the rabbit, torn
to shreds. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks
just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side.
But Grady knows his dog is just a regular old dog. And most dogs don't howl
at the moon. Or disappear at midnight Or change into terrifying creatures when
the moon is full.
Or do they?
Danielle Verona can't believe the band picked her to be their new lead singer.
She's on the road, performing at all the hot clubs. The adoring fans, the bright
lights-it's a dream come true!
But when nighttime falls, Danielle can feel the terror in the darkness. There's
eerie howling outside her window. And then a band member is killed-ripped to
shreds by a wild animal. Danielle knows something is out there, lurking in the
moonlight. Something savage... and hungry.
Back cover reads: They can stare into our souls. They know the color of our fears, the hidden weakness of our bodies. In the darkness...they can see we are blind. They can tear the scream form your throat.
-NEITHER MAN NOR BEAST...
Something stalks Lugar Island. Something so vile, it defies human imagination.
Something so intoxicated by the fullness of the moon, it revels in the joy of
mutilation. A savage, relentless enemy filled with a rage as ancient as evil
itself, it stalks its human prey, its powerful, man-wolf body pulsing with one
insatiable desire-to kill ...
NEITHER ISLANDER NOR MAINLANDER...
Dr. Ian Sanders has returned to his childhood home on Lugar Island seeking escape
from the loneliness haunting him, only to be caught between two worlds, belonging
to neither. When Honey Adams disappears on her wedding night, Sanders begins
a search which will lead him to the terrible truths about Luna Coven ... and
what the full moon means for him.