Beyond obsession: A mysterious man in a North African prison shares a love-hate relationship with his beautiful adopted daughter, who sells herself to earn money to buy his freedom. The situation is complicated when she is torn between her love for him and for an American engineer who offers her an escape. A killing affair: In 1943, a widow from the isolated backwoods of West Virginia in Appalachia takes in a young drifter who eventually admits he...

A drifter happens into a small town just in time to save the life of an independent, spirited white stallion. He then sets out to bring a bandit to justice, only to face accusations and threats of a hangman's noose when he returns.

A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.

The Thing: In the winter of 1982, a 12-man research team, at a remote Antarctic research station, discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing alien wreaks havoc, creates terror and takes on the appearance of those it kills. Prince of darkness: A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister and inadvertently unleash a strange liquid. As the substance begins to turn their co-workers...

Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.

"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others crowd aboard the riverboat Sultana, which was built to carry cargo, not men. After an unforeseen event occurs, Lucas finds himself further adrift. Returning home to Cape Girardeau,...