William Roberts

In Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs were in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. Sold to a group of inexperienced gold hunters, he is eventually saved by John Thornton, with whom he forms a deep bond.

The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares – premature burial, ghostly transformation and words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.

Elvis Cole is a private eye taken on by 15-year-old Teri Hewitt to find her missing father. The search reveals an unemployed drug addict mixed up with the Russian mafia and involves Cole in more trouble than he had bargained for.

The differing facets of H P Lovecraft's strange world - where science fiction is laced with horror and fantasy - is no more strikingly evoked than in this collection of three of his most popular shorter stories.

When LA lawyer Mickey Murphy's ex-wife isn't pretending she is going to throw herself off his ledge, she is threatening him for more money. His son is living with a fem-nazi, his friend the cop suspects him of murder and his friend the bodyguard keeps threatening to kill him.