L. P. Davies

In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.

A bizarre other world occupying the same space as ours... a place shrouded in pulsating nightmarish mists that lived and killed... where thoughts could become realities and realities were irrelevant... where primitive Toparians battled telepathic Vorteds for survival... and where three desperate aliens from earth raced against time that had no meaning to save the future...

A narrow winding lane and a scattering of stone cottages, somewhere in the heart of the Cumberland mountains. That was Kirdale. A ghost village now, with only a handful of people still remaining — the few diehards who were determined to live on in their homes until the very last moment, until the mountains were blasted apart and the valley became filled with the water of the new reservoir. They were an oddly assorted group: the gentle, kindly old couple; the over-officious ex-army major and his son and daughter; the sultry beauty and her swarthy, quick-tempered lover. Seven isolated and strangely lonely people. And to join them one stormy night came the two young men whom fate had not intended to be in Kirdale. So it was to nine people — not seven, as the newspapers were later to report — that disaster came... The catastrophe was swift, sudden and complete in the early hours of that horrifying morning. But the seven villagers and their two unexpected visitors were nevertheless to awaken to a new day... A new day, in another time, in a familiar yet bewildering place.

A psychiatrist who by chance guilds his house on a barrow, an ancient burial ground, begins to dabble in black magic and to use it, in combination with hallucinogenic drugs, to blackmail rich and credulous old ladies. His manservant, who is a true practitioner of the black art and a Magister of the First Degree, turns the doctor's play acting into the real thing, and, at the story's end, manages to conjure up the very flames of Hell.

A string of paper dolls go on a fantastical adventure through the house and out into the garden. They soon escape the clutches of the toy dinosaur and the snapping jaws of the oven-glove crocodile, but then a very real pair of scissors threatens.

Science fiction novel about a student who is transported five years into the future in London.