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A classic of the horror genre, Dennis Wheatley’s The Devil Rides Out pits the powers of good against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles for the soul of his friend with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata. Mocata has the power to summon the forces of darkness and - as the Duc and his friends will find - is willing to call upon ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Devil Himself.

After sending their only daughter off to boarding school, Cookson Selway and his wife, Ellen, travel to London to escape their empty house. But their quiet hotel has guests other than those on the register, and the vacation turns into a journey not only to another city but to another time. As Selway is drawn into a series of mysterious encounters with a young girl who died in a fall from his hotel window sixty years earlier, the characters of her life become more real to him than those of his own.

I’m an occultist living in a haunted brownstone in upstate New York. The building is a ghostly double-image of itself, like a picture painted brightly over an older, weirder picture. It’s an equinox place, my mother once said, where dark and light things are equally in power. I want to tell you, dear strangers, why I was there and what I found.

När ostindiefararen Götheborg år 1745 närmar sig land så händer något oförklarligt. Trots den erfarna lotsen går fartyget på grund och förliser. I ren desperation gör besättningen sitt yttersta för att rädda den dyrbara lasten. Kaoset gör att ingen märker när båten med de svarta seglen försvinner iväg med ett mystiskt bylte. Vad är det de smugglar iland? Två och ett halvt sekel senare får den ockulta detektiven Maphalda besök av en skärrad klient.