"REMEMBER WITH FEAR..."
Unmarked spoilers
- The Fog (1975) combines a set of shears and an agonised scream to brutal effect.
- The Dark: In a suburban London house, experimental occultists rouse from humanity's collective consciousness a fathomless tendency to sadism. The house retains a phantom recollection of their murderous orgy. When the house is demolished, its evil escapes to infect patches of darkness, which, across the city, rouse an increasing number of people to sadistic violence.
- The Magic Cottage's titular cottage, initially an idyllically peaceful rural haven, reasserts its earlier state of decay, amidst which the rotted spectral presence of the cottage's previous occupant is hinted to linger.
- Creed: A member of an occult society shape-shifts with shocking ease and lurid variety.
- The Ghosts of Sleath:
- The secluded village of Sleath's history of Ritual Magic and Human Sacrifice lead to a memorably brutal finale.
- The village's thirteenth century governor, a practitioner of Ritual Magic learned from his stint in The Crusades, founded among his descendants a monstrous tradition of ritual Human Sacrifice, which enhanced the village's propensity for troubled spirits. On exiting this monster's crypt, investigating psychic Seamus Phelan has an irrepressible suspicion of being followed.
- Once's magically infinite horde of spiders spring our of their jar in an endless flow to cover nearly every inch of floor, walls and ceiling; attempt to cocoon the protagonist, and even go in his mouth.
- The Secret of Crickley Hall:
- Augustus and Magda Cribben, a fanatically austere brother and sister, terrorise their charges with vicious discipline, which culminates in Magda's assisted murder of a kindly young tutor and Augustus's crazed, fatal attempt to circumcise a five-year-old orphan.
- Sixty-odd years later, eerily subtle indications in Crickley Hall of inscrutable presences include a darkly silhouetted, oppressively malodorous figure which exudes malice and strikes one of the children with a sadistically fashioned cane.
- The ghost of the murdered tutor then appears to her co-murderer as a water-rotted walking corpse.
- Ash (2012):
- Comraich Castle, a remote, expensive retreat for people with incriminating connections houses a psychically conducive inmate who rouses the castle's angry spirits to physically harm and even kill; stir violent impulses in the living, and infest all the food currently being consumed in the castle into maggots - which quickly mature into flies.
- The castle saw a brutal fourteenth century clan dispute, wherein Laghlan Deahan butchered the wife and daughters of Laird Duncan McKinnon, and, with a red-hot knife, put out his eyes.
- Investigating ghost hunter David Ash, on first sight of the castle, is overcome with premonitory dread. Chauffeur Gordon Dalzell then tells Ash of ill-fated medium Moira Glennon: on sight of the castle, she exuded a ghostly chill, and, on the passenger seat right beside Gordon, died.
