Marilyn Ross

Beautiful young Ann Stewart left her doom-haunted ancestral manor of Stormhaven in Scotland--yet the malevolent Stewart destiny seemed to have pursued her to a lonely French chateau. The dazzling violinist who was its master had played a hypnotic song of love on her heartstrings--until he began to torment her nerves in a rising crescendo of suspicion. A handsome English stranger sounded discords of dread in her innermost depths with is warnings, and the hideous spectre of a white-haired fiend in human form appeared like a leitmotif of horror in her life. Friendless and afraid in this alien place where a lovely woman had mysteriously vanished before her, Anne fled through a subterranean labyrinth of treachery and violence, so terribly far from home, so periodically slice to a fate worse than death.

The hideously brutal face of the most vicious rogue in Scotland haunted the nightmares of lovely young Flora Murray laong after the man's huge body swung from the gallows. For it was she who had condemned this monstrous figure to death, and she who had heard his vow to return from beyond the grave and claim her. Flora thought she found sanctuary in the loving arms of aristocratic Ian Stewart, who brought her as his bride to the ancient family manor of Stormhaven. But all too soon the terrified young woman found that this seeming fortress against fear was in reality a prison of peril, with her own beloved husband as her implacable captor, and with an all-hungering horror rising straight from hell....

Ann Stewart had been swept off her feet and plunged into marriage with young Dr. Ian Stewart. Despite the warnings of others about Ian's mysterious ways and violent temper, she was blinded to everything but his virile good looks, his unyielding strength of purpose, his dazzling sharpness of intellect. Only when Anne moved into the great stone mansion high above the city of Edinburgh did she begin to glimpse the dark side of this man who claimed her as his own. What strange rites did he perform in the cellars that Ann was forbidden to enter? What diabolical hold did Ian's satanic mentor, the "mad" Dr. Marsh, have upon him? Was she, Ann, fated to become another hideously disfigured body sacrificed on the altar of unholy science? With every passing day of dread and night of terror, Ann's heavenly dream of love turned into a nightmare straight out of hell....

Ishbel Stewart assured herself that she knew all about the past of the dashing and successful businessman, Henry Davis, who had claimed her as his bride. But with each passing day the man she thought she knew grew more like a stranger to her as she sought to unravel the mysteries of the furtive past which haunted this brooding man and threatened not only her marriage but her own life as well. Had this stranger, her husband, driven his first wife to a violent plunge to her death? Were the voices that Ishbel heard in the dead of night behind the locked doors of her husband’s study simply underworld characters with who he shared an evil vice, or the sounds of phantoms of the past? And was she, Ishbel, fated to become yet another victim in this house of fear where nameless evil lurked in the shadows and pursued her to the edge of the grave…?

WILL ANITA LOSE HER HUSBAND TO THE GHOST WITH THE PORCELAIN FACE? When they inherit an ancient mansion, Anita and her husband Charles move in. From the very moment of their arrival at Shorecliff, Anita notices the change that comes over her husband. Charles turns into a sullen and brooding stranger. He becomes obsessed with the legend of Amanda, a vain and beautiful murderess who kept forever young by wearing a mask of porcelain. Though dead 100 years, Amanda seems to have taken complete control of Charles. When Anita is suddenly confronted by a ghostly figure with a porcelain face, she knows Amanda has returned from the grave to destroy them.

"When the Chicken Squad goes on a family vacation to a farm, there is a looming dark shadow that is pestering Sugar"--

Beneath the surface lay a deadly menace... Trudy Stone received an unexpected legacy - her deceased aunt's villa on the Italian Riviera. But because the villa was closed upon her arrival, she was invited to stay at Benson Steiburn's adjacent Castle Malice. Carl Redman, the young doctor in charge of Steiburn's care, evaded Trudy's questions about her aunt's death. Giuseppe Pascal, the lawyer for the estate, refused to explain why the villa could not be inhabited yet. And Tom Clarendon, a free-lance journalist, made no secret of his distrust of both Carl and Giuseppe. When Trudy became tormented by ghostly apparitions and masked assailants, she tried to unravel the mystery - but whom could she trust to help her?