Best Selling Books by Robert Holdstock

The unthinkable has occurred. The wall of thoughts, barrier against the unknown, had been breached, unleashing a dark force into the world - the Ghost Lords of Uthganaar. These evil creatures had united the northern tribes of the world heart behind them and were set to conquer the world. Only Raven could stop them. Together with Warlock Spellbinder and the valiant tribesman Silver, she undertook an arduous and perilous journey - to the mysterious obsidian tower to learn the secret of the Ghost Lords and their invincible yellow sword - and beyond the Lost Lands to the worlds end itself.

A slave that became a warrior, the flamboyant Raven is back. And the dreaded mage Belthis stands again in her way. Along with the mercenary Spellbinder, the young woman will try everything to make his plans fail - until an old shadow, which she believed to be gone, resurfaces ...

Merlin is almost young, and immortal, one of those born to walk the paths of the world, a man with charm carved into his bones, and enchantment running through his body thicker than blood . . . And this is a time of heroes, centuries before King Arthur is born, men and women who, though not gods themselves, are something more than mere mortals. For decades, Jason has been immured in his ship Argo in a lake in the far north, alive, but not, still traumatised by the murder of his sons by his enchantress wife Medea . . . until Merlin sees through the veil of enchantment and realises the boys were never killed; it was all a trick. Through the mists-shrouded isle of Alba to Greek Land, Merlin leads Jason and his Argonauts, some old, some new, on a quest to find the boys, journey filled with heroism and heartbreak, truth and treachery.

From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes this republication of a trilogy of early, pseudonymous adventure tales by Robert Holdstock, WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning author of MYTHAGO WOOD. The Berserker books are raw, primeval stories of a young Norse warrior, cursed by the gods to a life of savage warfare. Possessed by an animal, ferocious rage - implacable, invincible - Harald Swiftaxe fights his way across the Celtic world in search of release from his curse and, finally, peace. The Berserker omnibus contains SHADOW OF THE WOLF, THE BULL CHIEF and THE HORNED WARRIOR.

She looked like an ordinary Indian girl. But within her she carried a burden of evil, a force that yearned to rend and destroy. And she had travelled 3000 miles, crossing plains, seas and mountains, to bring that force to Arachne. Arachne - the obscene occult power that had seized Dan Brady''s wife and children and still held them in its evil clutches. Its strength was growing, its tentacles reaching out to trap and enslave the innocent and the unwary. And now, in a bleak mountain village, Dan Brady, the Night Hunter, prepared to confront a horror that could finally destroy him and all he held dear.

After the death of George Huxley, his sons take up his life''s work. What they discover goes beyond conception for the wood is a place where myths gain flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams and propel you into terrifing insanity.

Below London, a lost river flows through the ruins of an ancient temple. A group of children unleashes its unholy secret and falls prey to the gruesome wrath of its guardian. But for Dan Brady, their sinister discovery may be a clue to the location of his missing wife and children. Hexed by evil forces, he is prepared to fight to the death. He is . . . the Night Hunter.

''A planet where eerie time displacements, like winds, can dump alien artefacts from the past and future into now, or sweep things away from now into anywhen.'' ''A planet that attracts both scientists and fortune hunters, rummaging among the strangenesses, risking oblivion, carrying with them their own hang-ups, desperations, odd urges and searches. ''You won''t easily forget this haunting, fully-realised world.'' TRIBUNE.

Deep in the sounds, scents and shifting rhythms of the Amazon forest, a family have lost their seven-year-old child, stolen by the mysterious ''Invisible People'', the tribe which has never been seen. Through ten years their agonised search for him takes them beyond the world''s last great natural frontier into the cruel beauty of the Brazilian jungle. When at last father and son do meet - in a dramatic and terrifying encounter - it is in the emerald forest, a place where the mythical and magical powers of primal existence must clash with the cold-hearted greed of modern man.

The wild imaginings of ten science fiction authors are brought to life through color illustrations of artificial worlds, alien earths, planetary cities, and mysterious civilizations