Black Hill Books: 78 books

Slowly the snake slithered over his helpless body. Eyes, cold and unblinking, stared into his eyes. The long, long body dragged heavily across his throat. As he gulped in terror he could feel the dry rasp of scales against his Adam's Apple. Then, the sudden searing strike, the teeth sharp in his...

The first victim to die on the Corby estate is a starving poacher, condemned to a terrible end by both man and beast. He is not the last. The mad Earl of Corby’s ancient law has been repealed and blood sports are to be allowed once more on the land. But, the pact with Nature broken, the wildlife...

Four Animal Rights activists break into their local zoo and free all the alligators in the Reptile House. This turns out to be a bad idea as two are soon eaten alive by killer Amazonian caimans, who then make a speedy exit into the nearby countryside. One of the group confesses everything to the...

It's 1746 and the Laird of Ulver maroons his wife and four daughters on remote Ulver Island after she fails to give him a male heir on the fifth attempt. On the island, the youngest girl turns murderess, after meeting Satan himself in a cave. Modern day, and no one has lived on Ulver since a couple...

Rouse suddenly let out a piercing scream releasing him from the paralysis of sheer terror in which those malevolent red eyes had held him. In panic he turned and tried to scamble up the slippery rockface. But his feet could not grip; slowly he began sliding back down, ever closer to the nightmarish...

Professor Brian Newman is researching into a cure for meningitis. Unfortunately, as a by-product, he accidentally creates a lethal mutated version of the disease which is swiftly killing all the bats in his glass test cage. He knows that his experiments have failed and plans to dispose of the bats...

Their claws were strong enough to snap a man in half. Their shells were impenetrable, even by a six-inch naval gun. Their eyes glowed with malevolence, and as they tore their victims limb from limb they seemed to grin with sadistic delight. Never before had the world seen such an army.

In 1978 the Crabs attacked Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with horrendous loss of human life. Amongst the fatalities was Harvey Logan, big-game hunter. The world believed that these terrible crustaceans had been annihilated but Harvey’s son, Brock, was sure that one day they would emerge from...

The Hammerton team are having trouble during preparations for qualifying at California's Riverside. Led by Lee Hammerton, now that her father and brother have been killed, she brings in Mark Slade to be responsible for security. Slade was last year's runner-up at IROC, but lost his nerve and hid...

Another GNS disaster novel finds much of the populace of the western world reverting to primitivism, in body as well as mind...the product of some form of biological warfare caused by USA? Russia? Iraq? The CIA? Jackie Quinn has grown hair and muscle and reverted to savagery, whilst her husband Jon...

Alan Alton and family move into the Shropshire hills to run a smallholding. One item that they take with them is completely forgotten in the hassle, namely a crate of peaches sent by an American relative, which also happens to contain a few Pennsylvanian locusts. Joining these are more locusts which...

For Mike and Holly Mannion, the tumbledown cottage in a quiet country village seemed the ideal retreat from the rat race. But when a team of contractors is hired to drill a water-well, a deadly plague is unleashed – a macabre, terrifying entity that had lurked in the bowels of the earth for centuries. The Festering Death had risen from its burial place …

Ron Halestrom is a new author, one successful book behind him, who moves into a new home with his family, to write more. But naturally, Gabor House has a dark secret which is trying to drive them away. Two hundred years before, it was the old manor house: home to the Mainwarings, owners of much of...

Professor Lowson is searching the Wash for King John's lost treasure. Instead he awakes a reptilian creature buried in the mud, which seems to have arrived on this planet in a meteorite. It starts wandering around, killing and eating anybody it comes across. Lowson wants to capture it alive, his...