John Knowler – The Trap

John Knowler – The Trap (Panther, 1968: originally Jonathan Cape, 1964)

Blurb:
Mary Baxter, young and innocent, an English suburban rose, goes to work for Wilhelm Schmidt, moody and passionate, an antiquarian bookseller who has a flourishing side-line in erotica. The results of their confrontation are electrifying. Mary’s fresh, prosaic and breathless innocence is brought into contact with an alien and forbidden range of experience: sharp practice, lust, incest, and finally suicide …

Roberto Vacca – The Coming Dark Age

Roberto Vacca – The Coming Dark Age (Panther, 1974)

Richard Clifton-Dey

Translated from the Italian by Dr. J. S. Whale

More shocking than FUTURE SHOCK …
More terrifying than THE DOOMSDAY BOOK –
THE COMING DARK AGE reveals how our world is heading inevitably for shattering collapse

In the most disturbing book on mankind‘s future ever written, Roberto Vacca shows how all the major systems on which our civilization depends are hopelessly overloaded . . . and will crack up completely between 1985 and 1995. The result will be massive social collapse, widespread violence. disease and starvation. death on a scale never before known – and a hundred years of darkness unparalleled in human history. . .

* Japan and America will go first, followed by Germany, Holland, Belgium, France. Austria. Italy and Britain – in that order . . .
* There will be no more short-term housing problem once the survivors have cleared the corpses out of the buildings …
* Fortified redoubts with gun emplacements will be the new Ideal Homes
* Vigilantes and the new feudal lords will be the only lawmakers

This is your future, and it’s starting now …

 

Michael Sissons [ed] – In The Dead of Night (1964)

Michael Sissons [ed] – In The Dead of Night (Panther, 1964)

Charles Beaumont – The Hunger
J. B. Priestly – The Grey Ones
Nigel Balchin – The Master
John Gloag – Lady Without Appetite
Evelyn Waugh – Mr. Loveday’s little Outing
Ray Bradbury – The Small Assassin
John Collier – Little Memento
Wilbur Daniel Steele – Blue Murder
Margery Sharp – The Portrait
Marc Brandel – Cast The First Shadow
Gerald Bullett – Dearth’s Farm
James Webb – The Curt Little Mouth In The Brain
John Moore – The Proof
Richard Matheson – Crickets
V. C. Pritchett – A Story Of Don Juan
Margaret Irwin – The Book
C. S. Forester – The Turn Of The Tide

Blurb:

A SPINE-CHILLING COLLECTION OF THE EERIE THE SINISTER THE MACABRE
The most glittering array of names ever drawn together for such a sinister purpose – to frighten you out of your sleep with accounts of the fiendish and fantastic, the subtly beastly and the terrifyingly uncanny …

 

Frank Crisp – The Night Callers

Frank Crisp – The Night Callers (Panther, Oct. 1961: originally John Long, 1960)

Blurb
ONE BY ONE THE VICTIMS VANISHED
When suburban homes are entered at night without reason and offices are secretly investigated — and when attractive young women vanish without trace one after another in identical circumstances — even Scotland Yard find it difficult to take a rational view of the situation.

These are the sinister circumstances of this spine-chilling story of a desperate struggle for man’s survival with the kidnappers from space.