Raine's Landing, Massachusetts, can't be located on any map. On the surface it appears an ordinary New England small town, but anyone who stumbles in wants to leave immediately . . . and once gone, they forget they were ever there. Real magic pervades this village of shadows, practiced by powerful adepts descended from the original Salem witches. But a curse has made it impossible for any resident to step beyond the town line. Those born here must die here as well.
Ross Devries and Cassandra Mallory saw their worlds destroyed by magic run amok, and dedicated their lives to keeping supernatural catastrophe at bay. But now a being more terrible than anything they've ever encountered has just crossed over the border—a powerful entity no known magic can defeat; a fierce, ancient god who feeds on terror . . . and blood. A new nightmare is descending upon Raine's Landing—and for Ross, Cass, and the entire trapped population there can be no escape . . . not even in death.

Dark Rain

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Richards, Tony

Fantasy

Harper/Voyager

“Man, can this guy write.” —Ed Gorman, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: City of Night
Fans of Jim Butcher, Kim Harrison, and Simon Green won’t want to miss Night of Demons—author Tony Richards’s second spellbinding trip to Raines Landing, Massachusetts, a hidden town of secrets and magic populated by descendants of the Salem witches. Following on the heels of his sensational series debut Dark Rain, Bram Stoker Award-nominee Richards delivers another masterful dark fantasy, pitting his all-too mortal heroes ex-cop Ross Devries and partner Cassandra Mallory against a supernatural serial killer who is causing bloody chaos in their mysterious village. Night of Demons is a night no true fantasy lover will want to end.

Night of Demons

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Harvest Bride

Tom Doherty Assoc Llc

It may look like a perfectly ordinary New England town, a little larger than most. But Raine's Landing, Massachusetts, holds some very dark secrets. The real witches of Salem fled here just before the Trials of 1692, and the place has been full of magic - the good and the bad kind - ever since. And a curse hangs over the whole population ... there are so many people because nobody born here can ever leave.It's late December now. People are getting ready for the holidays, scarcely guessing what is coming their way next. Because a psychic beggar girl in the town's Victorian past has gotten hold of a magical jewel that massively expands her powers - she has reached out with her mind through time itself, making contact with Raine's Landing in the present day. The only problem is, she's warped the fabric of reality by doing that. Rows of houses begin vanishing, with their occupants still inside. Bizarre creatures, some of them extremely dangerous, start to roam the streets. And if Ross, Cassie, and Doc Willets are going to stop their hometown from disappearing altogether, then they're going to need an awful lot of help."When it comes to fiction for me, characters are first and foremost the most important factor in drawing me into the story, and Mr. Richards' characters are absolutely wonderful. The action is fast and furious, with plenty of witchcraft, magic, and supernatural beings. His writing is atmospheric and spooky, once you start you will find it hard to put down" - The Monster Librarian."Richards is a master at combining horror, fantasy and humor in a way that will mesmerize readers from cover to cover" -- RT book reviews."Worth the price? You bet. We are talking about Tony Richards!" - Amazon reviews."The Raine's Landing novels are page-turners. Not a boring part in the whole series" - Amazon reviews.

Deadly Violet: The Fourth Raine's Landing Novel (The Raine's Landing Supernatural Series)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

There it stood beside the pebbled shore, a massive old Victorian hotel out on the edge of Birchiam-on-Sea. And it was late October when author Alex Morland took a room ... the place was way off-season and extremely quiet. But that was fine by him, since he was hoping to complete his latest novel.As the weeks slipped by, though, he began to realize he was not quite so alone as it had first appeared. There were brief but strange encounters in the gardens and the hotel bar. There were sounds of running in the corridors at night, and then loud screams.And then there were the dreams he kept on having about The Grange's night manager, Mr. Jakes, all leading him toward the hotel's dark and deadly secret."A terrific story teller" - Graham Joyce."A master of the art" - Black Static magazine."A hell of a writer, one of today's masters of dark fiction" - Horror World."Richards has immediately established himself as a favorite in my mind" - Matt Molgaard, Horror Novel Reviews.

The Night Manager: A Ghost Novel

Independently published

Horror World has called Tony Richards "one of today's masters of dark fiction." Now's your chance to find out why. Because this 'tour guide to terror' is going to take you on a whistle-stop journey through the world's most frightening places. And the most alarming thing is that they look completely harmless till you get too close. What could be so bad about a golden Greek beach with scores of beautiful young people lying on it? Where could be the danger in a perfectly normal-looking southern English seaside town? Or an even more ordinary town out in the Nevada desert? An old, abandoned building on a rocky shore ... what could be awful about that. Discover the truth behind the origins of Abraham Van Helsing. Find out how a decrepit old man continues to attract beautiful young women. Learn about the real link between crows and the Grim Reaper. Travel a few decades into the future and see a fresh and modern Africa ...and the menace that still lurks there. Here are twelve new stories, five of them previously unpublished and unique to this collection, that will open your eyes to the hidden terrors in the world around us. Read them at your peril.

The Universal and Other Terrors

Bergmann, F.J.

Tony Richards' stories first started appearing in three classic long-running British series, The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and the legendary Pan Book of Horror. And it was the editor of the ghost series - Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean practitioner of dark fiction himself - who was most vocal of his praise. "I have no hesitation in saying," he wrote in the introduction to the first tale he published, After Dark, "that this is a brilliant story, told in a crisp, even elegant style. I regard Mr. Richards as a very welcome addition to my growing stable of authors." 
Since then Tony's fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Midnight Street, Cemetery Dance, The 3rd Alternative, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Black Static, Dark Terrors and Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, as well as in a slew of top anthologies including Best New Horror.\nA young boy creates an invisible friend. A dying man visits a faith-healer. Three friends on a fishing trip set up camp beside a jet-black lake. While out there in the ocean something waits.\nWhat is going on beyond the barbed wire fence at Trevon Point Research Facility? Why are the inhabitants of a small Spanish town attending a bullfight at the stroke of midnight? Are the secretive rulers of old Paris coming back. Just how dangerous can it be, searching for new love on the internet?\nAnd in the freezing icy waters off the coast of Scandinavia... do men who are dead stay that way?\n26 tales of terror from the supernatural dark including six in Tony's fictional town of Birchiam-on-sea.

After Dark: The Best Horror Fiction of Tony Richards

Weird House Press

AN AWARD-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR TAKES YOU ON A TERRIFYING, STARTLING TOUR OF LOVECRAFT COUNTRY 
And they are all here … the Great Old Ones, the Deep Ones, Dagon, Gol-goroth and the Shoggoth, half-human mutants, horrific marine beasts and all the other chilling denizens of the Cthulhu Mythos, brought to life again in one story and four short novels. 
The Death of Vanessa Fell 
A wealthy publisher heads north to help console a grieving friend from college days, little knowing he is on a journey out beyond the very gates of Death, into a realm occupied by ancient beings and cruel gods, where madness, terror and betrayal reign. 
The Darkness in the Harbour 
An infantry captain from the First World War finds himself marooned while traveling through the Far East, abandoned on a tramp steamer that lies moored in the waters off Hong Kong. Except he soon suspects that he is not alone, and his investigations lead him to a tragic tale of loss and to a truth far deadlier than any he has known before. 
The Orphanage at Trellaree 
In a sleepy little Irish coastal town, a huge dark building – the Menningdale Orphanage – hangs above the rooftops like some threatening cloud. And when the newly-arrived local doctor tries to find out more about the place, he finds himself plunged into a world where human beings have no place and timeless forces are at work. 
The Shadow Out of London 
In the near-future, that great capital city lies in ruins and is viewed with dread. But when two neighbors start to realize that a new danger has sprung up in the place, they set off to confront it, never once guessing at the true appalling nature of the horror that has now arisen there. 
…and then there is THE HOWLING TERROR.

The Howling Terror and Other Lovecraftian Horror Stories

The Slaves of Cthulhu

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