Michael Marshall Smith’s One of Us was set in a world where dreams and memories could be accessed, a group of survivors confronted an ancient evil released from the Chasm by Stephen Laws, a horror writer discovered where he got his bizarre ideas from in Straker’s Island by Steve Harris, and the myths behind the Arabian Nights and the secret history of Tut-ankh-amen’s tomb were explored by Tom Holland in The Sleeper in the Sands.

Terror was the third in Graham Masterton’s series about Jim Rook, a teacher with supernatural powers, while House of Bones was a young adult novel in the Point Horror series from the same author.

After his success in 1997 with the mainstream thriller Bad Karma (under the “Andrew Harper” pseudonym), Douglas Clegg’s The Halloween Man marked a return to the horror field for the author. It was set in the quiet New England town of Stonehaven, which was filled with secrets of both natural and supernatural origin, including the terrifying figure of the title.

William Browning Spencer’s Irrational Fears followed Jack Lowry, an alcoholic ex-professor trying to dry out. After witnessing the bizarre death of a fellow inmate in a hospital ward and being introduced to The Clear, a group of clean-cut young men who are the sworn enemy of Alcoholics Anonymous, Jack was transferred to a rural retreat where everyone gave thanks to H. P. Lovecraft’s Elder Gods.

Greg Kihn’s Big Rock Beat was a sequel to the author’s Horror Show, also featuring director Landis Woodley, who this time became mixed-up in the production of a bizarre teen/monster beach movie.

Andrew Neiderman’s In Double Jeopardy was about a female medical student who found herself involved with a man who behaved just like her brother-in-law, who had been executed for the brutal murder of her sister. The Good Children by Kate Wilhelm strayed into V. C. Andrews and Shirley Jackson territory with its tale of four young people trying to keep their family together in the face of lies, love, insanity and possible murder.