Once again, multi-award-winning editors Stephen Jones and David Sutton take you on a terrifying journey into the dark heart of modern horror fiction.Firmly established as the world's premier horror anthology series, this latest volume is twice the size, presenting almost a quarter of a million words of new fiction by some of the hottest names and most talented newcomers in the field. Contributors to Dark Terrors 5 include Peter Straub, Poppy Z. Brite, Ramsey Campbell, Mick Garris — Stephen King's director of choice — Gwyneth Jones, Michael Marshall Smith, Kim Newman, Gahan Wilson, Christopher Fowler and many, many more.

In dem kleinen Ort French Landing verschwinden Kinder. Einige von ihnen werden später ermordet und auf grauenvolle Weise verstümmelt aufgefunden - offensichtlich das Werk eines Serienkillers.Doch Jack Sawyer, der ehemalige Cop aus Los Angeles, ahnt bald, dass der Mörder nur ein Werkzeug ist für die Mächte jener anderen Welt, in der er als Junge, vor zwanzig Jahren, den »Talisman« berührt hat.Sein eigentlicher Gegner ist der Scharlachrote König, und der Weg in dessen Reich führt durch das Schwarze Haus.Stephen King ist einer der bekanntesten amerikanischen Autoren. Er hat zahlreiche Bestseller geschrieben, darunter »Christine«, »Shining«, »Es« und die monumentale Saga vom Dunklen Turm. Stephen King lebt in Bangor/Maine.Peter Straub gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Erneuerer der fantastischen Literatur und erhielt für sein Werk zahlreiche Preise. Er lebt in New York City.Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel BLACK HOUSE bei Random House, New York

One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly….“Some of the best suspense writing in years”— Bari Wood, co-author of TwinsThe erupting nightmare of murder after murder cannot stop him. The crazed townspeople cannot stop him. Miles has returned for a reason.Now he holds the photograph. He and Alison, hand in hand. As they must have been seen by all, their spirits flowing toward each other, more one than two drops of blood in one bloodstream. This is not what he expected. It is what must be.And now he knows what has drawn him into the horror which surrounds him — horror at the hands both of the living and the dead!“A snapping story of the occult, suspenseful to the last”— New Haven Register“Compulsive reading. It has marvelous atmosphere, suspense, and a truly grand Guignol ending.”— Dorothy Eden

An anthology of stories edited by Otto PenzlerThis is a collection of 12 original stories by such crime writers as Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, Eric Lustbader, Philip Margolin, David Morrell, Joyce Carol Oates and Peter Straub.