Last updated 9/14/08

 

GAGLIANI, WILLIAM D.

 

Wolf's Trap  (Yard Dog, 2003, Leisure, 2006.)

 

                A mix of serial killers and werewolves.

 

GAIMAN, NEIL AND TERRY PRATCHETT  (Both authors also write Fantasy.)

 

Good Omens  (Workman, 1990, Gollancz, 1990, Ace, 1993.)

 

                A wonderful, glorious spoof of Armageddon stories with a misplaced Antichrist being raised as a good little boy while demons and angel try to figure out what went wrong.  Filled with puns, farcicial situations, and some unexpected plot twists.  There's a good laugh on every page.

 

GALBRAITH, LETTICE

 

Blue Room and Other Ghost Stories, The  (Sarob, 1999.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GALE, ADELA

 

Angel Among Witches  (Prestige, 1969.)

 

                Gothic romance with ghosts and witchcraft.

 

GALE, COLETTE

 

Unmasqued  (Signet Eclipse, 2007.)

 

                A retelling of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.

 

GALENORN, YASMINE (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

Murder Under a Mystic Moon  (Berkley, 2005.)

 

                Detective story involving a genuine psychic.

 

GALLAGHER, BOB & DIAPER, JOHN

 

Pursuit to Kadath  (Theatre of Mind, 1983.)

 

A Cthulhu Mythos novel.

 

                Not seen.

 

GALLAGHER, DIANA S.  (Also writes Science Fiction and Fantasy.)

 

Bad Bargain  (Simon, 2006.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

Items from a rummage sale begin to affect their new owners.

 

Beware What You Wish  (Pocket, 2001.)

 

A Charmed novel.

 

                One of the three witch sisters begins to be overwhelmed by precognitive dreams of disasters which are somehow linked to a mysterious statue.

 

Dark Vengeance  (Simon Pulse, 2002.)

 

A Charmed novel.

 

                Some mysterious force is affecting the witch sisters in different ways, stealing their powers.

 

Doomsday Deck  (Pocket, 2000.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

                During an art festival, Buffy notices that one artist who specializes in the Tarot has an unusual effect on people, as well as vampires.  As her friends begin to succumb to some dark magic, she discovers that the goddess Kali is intervening in Sunnydale.

 

Mist and Stone  (Simon Pulse, 2003.)

 

A Charmed novel.

 

                The witch sisters have to save a trouble boy from a supernatural evil.

 

Obsidian Fate  (Pocket, 1999.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

                Buffy and her friends battle an ancient Aztec god seeking to return to the world when they find a mirror that was part of a treasure carried by a Spanish galleon.  The mirror allows people to examine their own fates.

 

Prime Evil  (Pocket, 2000.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

                The new teacher in Sunnydale is actually a generations old witch who has marked several of Buffy's friends to be sacrifices in a ceremony designed to enhance her powers.

 

Spark and Burn  (Simon, 2005.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

                The early days of Spike and his battles with Vampire Slayers.

 

Spirit of the Wolf  (Simon Pulse, 2002.)

 

A Charmed novel.

 

                Three witches get caught in the middle of a battle between preservationists and developers when a supernatural force begins to prowl around a vacation resort.

 

Tale of the Curious Cat, The  (Minstrel, 1996.)

 

Are You Afraid of the Dark #10.

 

                A young girl accidentally causes the magical death of a black cat, so now she decides to help it return from the dead.

 

Tale of the Pulsating Gate, The  (Minstrel, 1998.)

 

Are You Afraid of the Dark #18.

 

                The gate to another universe proves more trouble than help to an unhappy youngster.

 

GALLAGHER, STEPHEN  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Chimera  (Sphere, 1982, St Martins, 1982.)

 

                A government research project creates an apeman whose unusual nature results in the deaths of numerous people..

 

Kingdom of Bones, The  (Shaye Arehart, 2007.)

 

In Victorian England, a demonic force sacrifices humans to stay alive.

 

Oktober  (Tor, 1989, New English Library, 1989.)

 

                A recently deceased man is brought back to life by an experimental drug, and finds that the people responsible are unwilling to let him return to his normal activities, preferring to keep him under close observation.  The drug is still active in his body, and is changing him into something that is no longer a human being.

 

Out of His Mind  (PS, 2004.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Plots and Misadventures  (Subterranean, 2007.)

 

Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Spirit Box, The  (Subterranean, 2005.)

 

                A medical experiment leads to the development of psychic powers.

 

Valley of Lights  (New English Library, 1987, Tor, 1988. Telos, 2005, revised.)

 

                A brain‑dead person rises to walk the night and commit a series of murders.  Bodies are discovered in various locations, kept alive at great effort, but with no consciousness.  One policeman concludes that there is a being abroad who can move from body to body, virtually immortal, and who does not want his existence suspected.

 

GALLICO, PAUL  (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

House That Wouldn’t Go Away, The  (?, 1979.)

 

                Not seen.  A haunted house variant.

 

GALLON, TOM

 

Charity Ghost, The  (Hutchinson, 1902.)

 

                Not seen.

 

GANNETT, LEWIS  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Gehenna  (Harper, 1997.)

 

A Millennium novel.

 

                Special operatives try to solve the mystery of piles of human ashes, apparently victims of a bizarre cult that has tapped into a genuine occult power.

 

Living One, The  (Random House, 1993, Plume, 1994.)

 

An ancient family curse involves psychic abilities, all mixed in with international intrigue and a variety of subplots.  Interesting ideas but frequently confusing.

 

GANSKY, ALTON

 

Prodigy, The  (Zondervan, 2001.)

 

                A faith healer senses the presence of a supernatural evil.

 

GARDEN, NANCY  (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

My Brother, the Werewolf  (Bullseye, 1995.)

 

                A young girl discovers that her brother is a werewolf.

 

My Sister, the Vampire  (Bullseye, 1992.)

 

                Two children discover that playing at vampires isn’t so much fun when real symptoms begin to show up and one of them acquires a taste for blood.

 

Mystery of the Kidnapped Monster  (Minstrel, 1994.)

 

Monster Hunters #4.

 

                A youngster is kidnapped by the American equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster.

 

Mystery of the Midnight Menace  (Minstrel, 1991.)

 

Monster Hunters #2.

 

                A group of kids know that someone is a werewolf, but they have to wait for the moon to get full to find out who it is.

 

Mystery of the Night Raiders  (Minstrel, 1987.)

 

Monster Hunters #1.

 

                Something is mysteriously killing livestock on a farm.

 

Mystery of the Secret Marks  (Minstrel, 1993.)

 

Monster Hunters #3.

 

                Kids vs a poltergeist.

 

Mystery of the Watchful Witches  (Minstrel, 1995.)

 

Monster Hunters #5.

 

                The friends travel back through time to the Salem witch trials.

 

Prisoner of Vampires  (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1984.)

 

                Not seen.

 

GARDINE, MICHAEL

 

Lamia  (Dell, 1981.)

 

                A lamia is an unearthly  but beautiful being who resembles a normal human, but who actually preys upon the men she allows to make love to her.  There's an unusual explanation of the lamia's existence along with an above average story of a successful man who falls under the creature's influence.

 

GARDNER, CRAIG SHAW  (See also Chris Blaine and collaboration with Matthew J Costello. Also writes Science Fiction and Fantasy.)

 

Dark Mirror  (Simon, 2004.)

 

An Angel novel.

 

                Exact duplicates of Angel and his friends appear, each intent upon murdering the original.

 

Lost Boys, The  (Berkley, 1987, from the screenplay by Janice Fischer, James Jeremias, and Jeffrey Boam.)

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                  A gang of juvenile delinquents are actually vampires, organized and under the leadership of a respectable businessman.  The novel is a bit more focused than the film, but obviously lacks the visual effects. 

 

Return to Chaos  (Pocket, 1998.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

                An ancient order of Druids arrives to help Buffy watch over the Hellmouth, and perhaps close it at last.  Just as it seems relief is in sight, however, Buffy discovers that someone is stalking her friends.

 

GARDNER, JOHN  (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

Mickelsson’s Ghosts  (Knopf, 1982.)

 

                A man’s efforts to restore an old, decaying farm run into resistance when the ghosts of previous tenants try to prevent the project from being completed.

 

GARDNER, MATT

 

Curse of the Quintana Roo, The  (Popular Library, 1972.)

 

                The discovery of a fabulous treasure in Mexico is a decidedly mixed blessing.  Gigantic undead creatures emerge from under the earth, intent upon avenging the violation of ancient holy places.  A powerful supernatural being directs the monsters until the protagonists find a way to turn the tables.

 

GARDNER, TONITA S.

 

Angriff Technique, The  (Lynx, 1988.)

 

                A new doctor in a small town finds that a plague of senseless violence is tearing the community apart.  She seeks a rational explanation but is slowly led to the conclusion that witchcraft is being used to work out a carefully planned vengeance against the entire community.

 

GARFIELD, HENRY

 

Moondog  (St Martins, 1995.)

 

Moondog #1.

 

A series of brutal killings appears to be the work of a maniac, but a reclusive writer and a burglar suspect the truth, that there is a genuine werewolf living among the townspeople.

 

Room 13  (St Martins, 1997.)

 

Moondog #2.

 

                A bus driver who claims to be a werewolf helps a teacher deal with a haunted classroom.

 

GARFIELD, LEON

 

Ghost Downstairs, The  (Longman, 1972.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Mister Corbett’s Ghost  (Pantheon, 1968.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Mr. Corbett’s Ghost and Other Stories  (Longman, 1969.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Restless Ghost, The  (Pantheon, 1969.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GARMON, LARRY MIKE

 

Blood Moon Rising (Scholastic, 2001.)

 

                A group of teenagers figure out that a series of attacks in their Florida town is the result of a rampaging werewolf.

 

Return of Evil  (Schoalstic, 2001.)

 

                The police believe that a recent murder was the result of a vampire cult, but a group of teenagers believe it was actually the work of a real vampire, perhaps Dracula himself.

 

GARNER, SHELIA BRISTOW

 

Night Music  (Zebra, 1992.)

 

                A band is held together by more than personal loyalty.  Their success has much to do with the satanic nature of their leader and the awful pact he has made with the supernatural.  When a nurse tries to help, she becomes a potential victim of the cult.  A rock 'n' roll horror story.

 

GARNETT, BILL

 

Crone, The  (Sphere, 1984, St Martin's, 1987.)

 

                Witchcraft creates a hideous monster which kills and absorbs everything living which it touches, growing until it can move to accomplish its supernatural mission of revenge.  Invulnerable to conventional weapons, it refashions its body when attacked, always ready to strike again.  Rival magic may be the only defense.

 

Down Bound Train  (Doubleday, 1972, Popular Library, 1973.  Revised and reprinted by St. Martin's Press in 1988 as Helltrain )

 

                 Five individuals, each of whose personal background is far from exemplary, board the same train, to set off on a journey unlike any they have ever experienced before.  Some truly nasty characters.

 

Helltrain.  (See Down Bound Train.)

 

Shadow, The  (Sphere, 1982.

 

                Not seen.

 

Unbegotten, The  (Hamlyn, 1982.)

 

                Not seen.

 

GARRETT, SUSAN M.

 

Intimations of Mortality, Boulevard, 1997.)

 

Forever Knight #2.

 

The reluctant vampire hero is given a doll that supposedly will help him to become mortal again, but instead it sends strange dreams of another world where the vampires rule.

 

GARRIS, MICK

 

Development Hell  (Cemetery Dance, 2006.)

 

An affair with a ghost.

 

Life in the Cinema, A  (Gauntlet, 2000.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories not all of which are horror.

 

GARTH, G.G.

 

Bad Dog  (Bantam, 1995.)

 

A young adult horror novel about a vampire menacing a small town where a genetically engineered dog attacks people by having his fleas dissolve their bodies for easier consumption.  Wacky, sometimes funny, sometimes gross.

 

Nightmare Matinee  (Bantam, 1994.)

 

A very unusual young adult horror novel.  A magical horror movie causes physical changes in the bodies of its viewers, some of them pretty disgusting.  Written in an interesting style and with a pretty complex plot line.

 

Party Till You Scream  (Bantam, 1995.)

 

A late night beach party turns into a carnival of terror when a group of teens stumbles into a torture chamber inhabited by malevolent ghosts.  For younger readers.

 

GARTON, RA(See also Joseph Locke. Also writes Science Fiction and Fantasy.)

 

Crucifax  (Pocket, 1988.)

 

                A mysterious stranger appears in a California community, his arrival coinciding with the rise of a strange, almost cult‑like phenomenon in the community.  Only two people foresee the horrible consequences which might result, endangering every teenager in the area.  An unexpurgated version appeared in a limited edition hardcover.

 

Crucifax Autumn  (Dark Harvest, 1988.)

 

                A variant version of Crucifax with parts edited out by Pocket books.

 

Dark Channel  (Bantam, 1992.)

 

                The charismatic leader of a New Age cult is actually possessed by a demonic creature.  In a secret cavern, human sacrifices take place routinely, and converts are bound my more than just the power of religious fervor.

 

Darklings  (Pinnacle, 1985.)

 

                Evil creatures invade the bodies of humans.

 

Folks, The  (CD, 2001.)

 

                A disfigured young man finds his life complicated by a family each of whose members is physically deformed in some fashion, and one of whom is a serial killer.

 

Invaders from Mars  (Pocket, 1986, from the screenplay by Richard Blake, Don Jakoby, and Dan O’Bannon.)

 

                A young boy sees a spaceship land and bury itself in the ground, and shortly thereafter the people he knows begin to change, as though they were being controlled by another force.  The discovery of a buried Martian base forms the climax, after which the protagonist wakens from a dream into the same story he just dreamed.  This is taken from the second movie version of this story.

 

Live Girls  (Pocket, 1987, CD Publications, ?)

 

Vampires #1.

 

                A lonely man seeking entertainment finds himself in a club that offers live girls.  But the woman he meets there is more than he bargained for, a vampire whose allure traps him in a nightmare world of death and undeath.

 

Lot Lizards  (Ziesing, 1991.)

 

                A blizzard traps a group of people at a truckstop where the local prostitutes are actually vampires.

 

Loveliest Dead, The  (Leisure, 2005.)

 

                A family moves into a new house and become subject to ghostly manifestations.

 

Methods of Madness  (Dark Harvest, 1990.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

New Neighbor, The  (Charnel House, 1991, CD, 2003.)

 

                A succubus plays people against one another after moving into a small town.

 

Night Life  (Subterranean, 2005, Leisure, 2007.)

 

Vampires #2.

 

A man who killed many vampires is hunted down by the survivors.

 

Pieces of Hate  (Cemetery Dance, 1996.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Ravenous  (Leisure, 2008.)

 

A small town battles a plague of werewolves.

 

Resurrecting Ravana  (Pocket, 2000.)

 

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel.

 

                Willow is feeling left out of the gang as they try to find out what force is responsible for a wave of mysterious violence at Sunnyvale High School, but her talents will prove crucial to the final battle.

 

Seductions  (Pinnacle, 1984, Subterranean, 1998.)

 

                Living secretly among us are a group of creatures which appear to be extremely beautiful women, but are actually something else entirely.  There is an unsuspected presence living hidden in the ground which views human beings as fair prey and uses the women to lure men to their doom.

 

Warlock  (Ace, 1989, from the screenplay by David N. Twohy.)

 

                  Just as a powerful warlock is about to be burned at the stake, he is supernaturally moved through time by his Satanic master and lands in the middle of the Twentieth Century.  There is no rival to his power, no one who even understands what is happening, until a witchhunter from the past also travels through time, toward a final, magical confrontation.

 

Zombie Love  (Subterranean, 2003.)

 

                A man brings his lover back from the dead with the usual consequences.

 

GASCONE, A.G. 

 

Eye of the Fortune Teller  (Minstrel, 1996.)

 

A Ghosts of Fear Street novel.

 

For younger readers.  A teenager learns from a fortune teller that she is under a curse that involves jellyfish and other slimy creatures.

 

If He Hollers  (Avon Camelot, 1996.)

 

Kids are disappearing mysteriously, leaving only a baseball behind.  For younger readers.

 

Mirror Mirror ???

 

GASKELL, ELIZABETH  (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

Dark Night’s Work and Other Stories, A  (Oxford, 1992.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GASKELL, JANE  (Also writes Science Fiction and  Fantasy.)

 

Shiny Narrow Grin, The  (Hodder, 1964.)

 

                Not seen.  A vampire novel.

 

GATES, R. PATRICK  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Fear  (Onyx, 1988.)

 

                An inhuman lifeform which feeds on human terror uses its mental powers to possess and control members of a small New England community, turning them into psychopathic killers and worse before a psychic boy recognizes the existence of the creature.

 

Grimm Memorials  (Onyx, 1990, Pinnacle, 2005.)

 

Grimm #1.

 

                A family runs into trouble when they move next to a witch who kidnaps children for use in her bizarre rituals, directed at restoring her brother’s life.  Sounds pretty tame and unoriginal but is actually quite inventive in execution.

 

Grimm Reapings  (Pinnacle, 2006.)

 

Grimm #2.

 

                A dead witch seeks to possess the body of a child.

 

Prison, The  (Pinacle, 2004.)

 

                The spirits of dead asylum patients begin to influence living prisoners when the building is turned into a prison.

 

GAUTHIER, BILL

 

Catalysts  (Dark Discoveries, 2007.)

 

Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GAVIN, RICHARD

 

Omens  (Mythos, 2007.)

 

Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GAWSWORTH, JOHN  (See also T.I. Fytton Armstrong.)

 

Crimes, Creeps, and Thrills  (Samuel, 1936, Grant, 1937.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Masterpieces of Thrills  (Daily Express, 1936.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Strange Assembly  (Unicorn, 1932.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Thirty New Tales of Horror  (Hutchinson, 1935.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GAYLIN, ALISON

 

Heartless  (Obsidian, 2008.)

 

Murder mystery about a cult, a serial killer, but with a touch of the supernatural.

 

GEAR, KATHLEEN O'NEAL & GEAR, W. MICHAEL (Kathleen also writes Fantasy and Science Fiction. W. Michael also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Bone Walker  (Forge, 2001, Tor, 2002.)

 

Anasazi Mysteries #3.

 

                An ancient Anasazi witch has sent his spirit forward through time.  A pair of archaeologists are pitted against him without knowing which body he has occupied.

 

Summoning God, The  (Forge, 2000, Tor, 2001.)

 

Anasazi Mysteries #2.

 

                The spirit of an Anasazi serial killer who specialized in children is still active.  Two archeologists must discover the identity of the killer in order to protect the living.

 

Visitant, The  (Forge, 1999.)

 

Anasazi Mysteries #1.

 

                An archaeological dig in the Southwest is plagued by strange phenomena which are linked to an Anasazi mass murder of centuries before who was searching for knowledge about the human brain.

 

GEAR, W. MICHAEL  (See collaboration above with Kathleen O'Neal Gear.)

 

GEARE, MICHAEL & CORBY, MICHAEL

 

Dracula’s Diary  (Beaufort, 1982, Buchan & Enright, 1982.)

 

                Just exactly what the cover would lead you to expect.  Pokes fun at the Stoker story, and is mercifully short.

 

GEARY, PATRICIA  (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

Strange Toys  (Bantam, 1987.)

 

                A contemporary novel in which voodoo and other magic exists alongside modern, mundane values.  A woman spends her life as a kind of living ward against supernatural evil.

 

GELB, JEFF

 

Specters  (Bart, 1988.)

 

                A brutal and mysterious double murder sets the tone for this story of a demon seeking to expand its influence on Earth, while a young psychic boy struggles to understand his powers and convince other people that he really can see evil influences at work in the world.  The second half of the novel pits him against a possessed politician seeking the Presidency.

 

GEMS, JONATHAN

 

Mars Attacks  (Signet, 1996, based on his own screenplay by Jonathan Gems, based in turn on the trading card series.)

 

                Spoof of invasion stories with big brained, tiny bodied Martians destroying much of the world before they are destroyed by yodeling.

 

GENTILE, ANTHONY

 

Judas Seed, The  (Dell, 1982.)

 

                Innocent people are marked for a pivotal role in the machinations of an evil society.  The police struggle futilely to combat a power that makes others willing to sacrifice their own children in return for abilities not available to normal people.

 

GENTILE, GARY  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Lurking, The  (Charter, 1989.)

 

                A tale of the New Jersey devil.  The mysterious creature emerges from the forest, foraging for dead flesh, killing when there is no other alternative.  A secret society which worships the creature performs even more cruel ritual sacrifices in its name.

 

GENTRY, CHRISTINE

 

When Spirits Walk  (Critic's Choice, 1988.)

 

                 A string of brutal and unlikely murders mystifies the police, eventually causing the protagonist to investigate the legend of a spirit who lives in a pit, emerging to stalk and kill its victims.  The cover gives away the fact that the spirit resembles a rabid rabbit.

 

GEORGE, SARA

 

Fatal Shadows  (Berkley, 1976, Macmillan, 1976.)

 

                A psychic woman capable of out of body experiences becomes involved with a man who doesn't believe them possible.  Together they begin to explore the possibilities, placing themselves in deadly danger before embracing a new type of existence.

 

GEORGE, STEPHEN R(See also Jack Ellis.)

 

Beasts  (Zebra, 1989.)

 

                A bizarre new virus causes people to erupt into uncontrollable rages.  The transformations seem to be a new epidemic, but it might also presage the advent of a newer, more violent strain of humankind.  An interesting variation of the werewolf theme.

 

Bloody Valentine  (Zebra, 1994.)

 

An occasionally confusing mix of psychic phenomena and serial killing as a misguided experiment leads to the creation of a larger than life murderer who can only be controlled if defeated on his own terms.

 

Brain Child  (Zebra, 1989.)

 

                A secret research institute guarded by the military is the site of dangerous investigations into the power of the human mind.  The children under treatment there aren't being cured so much as encouraged to use their unusual powers, and the results soon get completely out of control.  Not really surprising.

 

Dark Miracle  (Zebra, 1989.)

 

                A demonic force manifests itself initially in benign fashion, curing the ill, but always with unpleasant side effects. Eventually a hideous monster emerges to terrorize the countryside, and the fairly original plot turns into a standard monster hunt from there on.

 

Dark Reunion  (Zebra, 1990. )

 

                New arrivals in a small town become convinced that the older residents are united in a plot against them.  Eventually a supernaturally generated monster emerges, author of all the problems, renewing its own existence by killing innocent people.

 

Deadly Vengeance  (Zebra, 1993.)

 

                A young boy's new dog is a bit more than your ordinary pet.  Not only does he protect the boy from a gang of bullies, he hunts them down secretly and exacts the ultimate in revenge.  Apparently the dog is possessed by the soul of the protagonist's dead brother.

 

Forgotten, The  (Zebra, 1991.)

 

                A supposedly secure housing project actually has a mysterious new tenant, a half human creature which lurks in the secret passages beneath the buildings, imprisoned until a young boy sets it free.  Marginal.

 

Grandma's Little Darling  (Zebra, 1990.)

 

                A young girl is adopted into a new home, but has second thoughts about the matriarch of the family, who seems determined to find a way to escape her aged and dying body.  Even if it means dispossessing someone else of their own.

 

Near Dead  (Zebra, 1992.)

 

                A businessman is plagued by visions of his dead wife, and a medium is visited by the ghost of his child.  Both were murdered years before by a psychopath who is still active, and they have returned to guarantee that he will be stopped.

 

Nightscape   (Zebra, 1992.)

 

                Strange, frightening creatures invade a young boy's dreams, while a bitter man seeks the killers of his brother.  Their two worlds intersect as the dreams become real and inhuman creatures threaten the lives of both.

 

Torment  (Zebra, 1994.)

 

A particularly nasty child dies in an accident, then returns from the dead to possess the soul of another child.  The father of the latter suspects the truth, but can he find a way to save his daughter before her true identity is lost forever?

 

GEROULD, KATHARINE FULLERTON

 

Valiant Dust  (Scribners, 1922.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories, not all of which are horror.

 

GERRARE, WIRT  (Pseudonym of William Greener.)

 

Rufin’s Legacy  (Hutchinson, 1892.)

 

                An evil woman uses the occult, drugs, and a cult to launch a campaign of death and destruction.

 

GHOSE, ZULFIKAR.  (See collaboration with B.S. Johnson.)

 

GIBBS, SIR PHILIP

 

Out of the Ruins and Other Little Novels  (Hutchinson, 1927,Doubleday, 1928.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GIBSON, JO

 

Dance of Death  (Scholastic, 1996.)

 

                A pair of shoes are cursed, and each teenager who wears them has an accident shortly thereafter.

 

Dead Girl, The  (Z-Fave, 1993.)

 

A teenager has waking and sleeping dreams in which she assumes the personality of another, now dead.  This leads her to investigate the circumstances of that other personality's death.  Somewhat ambiguous in its resolution, but clearly some element of the supernatural is involved.

 

GIBSON, WALTER B.  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone  (Tempo, 1965.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Revisited  (Tempo, 1967.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GIDEON, JOHN  (Pseudonym of Lonn Hoklin.)

 

Golden Eyes  (Berkley, 1994, Headline, 1994.)

 

                An historian returns to his home town after many years and discovers that it has long been dominated by vampires, to which he has a special link.

 

Greely's Cove  (Jove, 1991.)

 

                A small town is host to a series of supernatural events, some seemingly benevolent such as miraculous cures, but there are also deaths, and the stirrings of evil.  Heavy on atmosphere and an air of mysteries never quite seen, light on action and rationalization.

 

Kindred  (Jove, 1996.)

 

A Vietnam veteran who lost his legs discovers that he has supernatural powers, and that he has become a kind of vampire.  As his senses strengthen, he realizes there are others of his kind in the area, and that they are less fastidious than he about claiming human victims.

 

Red Ball  (Headline, 1995.)

 

                Not seen.

 

GIDEON, NANCY

 

Midnight Kiss  (Pinnacle, 1994.)

 

Vampire #1.

 

A vampire romance novel featuring a dashing, handsome bloodsucker and the beautiful woman who falls for him despite his nature.  Heavy on romance, light on action and plot.

 

Midnight Surrender  (Pinnacle, 1995.)

 

Vampire #3.

 

A turn of the century reporter tries to track down a vicious serial killer, aided by her vampire lover, and discovers there are creatures even more evil than the undead.

 

Midnight Temptation  (Pinnacle, 1994.)

 

Vampire #2.

 

More vampiric doings in post Revolutionary Paris, more romance than horror despite the supernatural element.

 

GIFT, THEO  (Pseudonym of Dorothy Henrietta Havers.)

 

Not for the Night-Time  (Sarob, 2000.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

GIFUNE, GREG

 

Bleeding Season, The  (Delirium, 2003.)

 

                A reunion of childhood friends leads to suicide, murder, and the discovery of a demonic force.

 

Deep Night  (Delirium, 2006.)

 

                Marginal story of disturbing dreams.

 

Dominion  (Delirium, 2008.)

 

A man discovers that his dead wife still exists.

 

Down to Sleep  (Goddess of the Bay, 1999.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Heretics  (Delirium, 2001.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

View from the Lake, A  (Blindside, 2006.)

 

                The disappearance of a man is followed by apparitions.

  

GILBERT, STEPHEN  (Also writes Fantasy.)

 

Ratman's Notebooks  (Viking ,1968, Michael Joseph, 1968, Lancer, undated.  Reprinted, Lancer, 1971, as Willard.)

 

                This is the creepy novel that resulted in the movie Willard, and a sequel entitled Ben.  A socially inept young man makes friends with a pack of rats, except that one member of the pack is antagonistic.  And Willard has enemies among his human acquaintances as well...at least for a while.

 

Willard.  (See Ratman’s Notebooks.)

 

GILCHRIST, R. MURRAY

 

Basilisk and Other Tales of Dread, The  (Ash Tree, 2003.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Stone Dragon and Other Tragic Romances, The  (Methuen, 1894, Charon House, 1998.)

 

                Collection of unrelated short stories not all of which are horror.

 

GILDEN, MEL  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Born to Howl  (Avon Camelot, 1987.)

 

                Not seen.

 

How to Be a Vampire in One Easy Lesson  (Avon Camelot, 1990.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Island of the Weird  (Avon Camelot, 1990.)

 

                Not seen.

 

M Is for Monster  (Avon Camelot, 1990.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Monster Boy  (Avon Camelot, 1991.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Monster in Creeps Head Bay, The  (Avon Camelot, 1990.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Monster Mashers  (Avon Camelot, 1989.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Pet of Frankenstein, The  (Avon Camelot, 1988.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Secret of Dinosaur Bog, The  (Avon Camelot, 1991.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Things That Go Bark in the Park  (Avon Camelot, 1989.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Troll Patrol  (Avon Camelot, 1991.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Werewolf, Come Home  (Avon Camelot, 1990.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Yuckers  (Avon Camelot, 1989.)

 

                Not seen.

 

Z Is for Zombie  (Avon Camelot, 1988.)

 

                Not seen.

 

GILES, ELIZABETH  (Pseudonym of John Robert Holt.  See also Raymond Giles.)

 

Children of the Griffin  (Lancer, 1971.  New English Library, 1971, as by Raymond Giles.)

 

                A skeptical woman becomes involved with a coven of witches. Initially she believes that there is nothing really supernatural involved, but then the consequences of her halfhearted vows begin to bother her, and she suspects that Satan might indeed be involved.  Somewhat ambiguous ending, but the protagonist concludes that at least some of the supernatural events were authentic.

 

GILES, RAYMOND  (See also Elizabeth Giles.)

 

Night of the Vampire  (Avon, 1969.)

 

                A man and his wife return to the family home in answer to a strange psychic summons, called to fulfill an ancient vow.  The man realizes the evil nature of the vow, that a strain of vampirism persists within his bloodlines.

 

Night of the Warlock  (Paperback Library, 1968.)

 

                A dead man conjures from beyond the grave, competing with two of the living for influence over the mind and body of a beautiful young woman.  Can she survive the onslaught of these three separate evil forces and escape?

 

GILL, JANET E.

 

When Darkness Calls  (Avon Flare, 1996.)

 

For young adults.  The new kid in school discovers that the local clique has a dark secret.  They're paying homage to a demonic power.

 

GILMAN, CHARLOTTE PERKINS  (Also writes Science Fiction.)

 

Yellow Wallpaper, The  (Feminist Press, 1971, Maynard, 1989.)

 

                Long story published as a book.

 

Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories, The  (Oxford, 1995.)

 

                Collection of unrelated stories.

 

Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings, The  (Pantheon, 1980,  Bantam, 1989.)