Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY:   Hastings Hoyt is eager to escape his "murder jinx" after his adventures recorded in the first two books by Max Long. ...

THE STORY: Despite its gruesome deaths by falling and crushing in a Norman castle The Croaking Raven (1966) is very much like a 21st century...

THE STORY:  Lorin Weir is on a walking tour of the West Highlands. He is warned to stay away from his intended hiking paths because of the d...

Hello, there! Remember me? I think eight month’s hiatus is a little too long to have taken for what I thought was going to be “a little br...

THE STORY: Sir John Meredith is off on another adventure involving kidnapping, revenge and another bizarre cult that hints at supernatural ...

"Strange the obsession that an imaginative woman can exercise over an unimaginative man.  It the sort of thing that can follow a ch...

THE STORY: The preposterous plot of Secret Sceptre (1937) reads like a matinee cliffhanger serial overloaded with harrowing incidents, gru...

US 1st edition (Doubleday, 1969) THE STORY: A quartet of unlikely exploring adventurers set out for a little known island off the coast...

US reprint paperback, (Tor, 1982) THE STORY: Not all genies come in bottles. Or djinns either. And not all of these supernatural bein...