Brian Ball

Richard Ulrome worked for billionaire recluse Simon Miaolo. At first, Anne Blackwell was pleased for her fiance's career. But then it seemed that Richard was a prisoner at Monteine Castle, Miaolo's headquarters. Anne realized that a master of evil in a satanic ritual of sacrifice and renewal was manipulating Richard and herself. And like others before her, Anne turned to Ruane the Witchfinder. A man who would listen. A man waging a private war against the Devil.

Harry and Jill are chosen by a magic talking sword to rescue a damsel from the Bad Wizard in Mandragora, but the damsel is Harry's complacent fat spaniel and she decides she wants to stay in Mandragora.

There was evil in the air at the seance that would transform their lives. Janice said she had not changed but there were signs Alan could not ignore. Like the strange mark on her hand, the naked wanderings in the moonlight, the blood stains on her clothes ... And so Alan turned to the ex-prieest Ruane, a man drained of self-respect, a drunkard, a reject -- the only man who would listen. A man who knew the reality of the devil.