4 iconic, gruesome, Gothic Hammer Horror films novelized by a best-selling author, with a new foreword by author Stephen Laws and a new afterword by screenwriter Stephen Volk. Includes Dracula: Prince of Darkness, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee, alongside The Reptile, Rasputin - The Mad Monk and The Plague of the Zombies. THE REPTILE. From the steaming jungles of Borneo to a remote Cornish village came the fiendish curse that turned a lovely young girl into a nameless horror. DRACULA -- PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Blood mingles with ashes and so becomes a life-giving force to the evil desires of a Vampire. RASPUTIN -- THE MAD MONK. Hypnotist, seducer, libertine and drunkard -- he ruled the Tsar's court like a devil incarnate.

THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES. Infamous Voodoo ritual casts its barbarous shadow over a village of 'the undead'.