Man has often wondered about the birth of his world. Our remote ancestors told strange tales of parental deities who gave birth to planets, and people.

Primitive religious thought regarded inanimate Nature as teeming with terrifying psychic life. It is a trend which persists in the dark recesses of the modern mind. There is reason for this persistence.

Were the ancients entirely wrong?

Science has unlocked many mysteries that terrified our forebears, but there are others which remain just as enigmatically sealed as before.

What strange astrological influences do the dark stars exert as they speed through the heavens on their evil courses? Like a cosmic combination lock their turning unleashes timeless forces of evil

The Pantheon of Old Gods rides again to bring hideous terror to the 20th century.

An itinerant French mercenary stumbles into the Valley of the Kings; driven by thirst and crazed by the eastern sun crawls through a crevice in an ancient wall....

The papyrus roll he found contained weird heiroglyphics, an owl, a bolted door, an eagle, an axe and, strangest of all, Xerefu and Akeru - the lions of Yesterday and Today. The scroll found its way to Paris. The year was 1798. The Terror was born. Behind the welter of blood that was the revolution, older, darker, more sinister forces were at work. The Revolution was only a means to an end .... only a symptom of a deadlier peril, a terror behind the Terror.

Ancient Egyptian power was stronger than the guillotine....

Dead mouths whispered in shadowy places .... "The Strange Ones" is a sophisticated masterpeice of the macabre, by one of today's leading authors. It will appeal to every connoisseur of the weird and grotesque.