Book 1 of The Stewarts of Stormhaven Flora thought she had found sanctuary in the loving arms of aristocratic Ian Stewart, who brought her as his bride to the ancient family manor of Stormhaven. But all too soon the terrified young woman found that this seeming fortress against fear was in reality a prison of peril, with her own beloved husband as her implacable captor, and with an all-hungering horror rising straight from hell... Marilyn Ross is one popular pseudonym for the prolific author W. E. D. Ross. Possibly best known for Gothic novels including The Stewarts of Stormhaven and novelizations of the TV series Dark Shadows, Ross also wrote romance, historicals, nurse and horror novels. Many of the books are set in New England, particularly coastal Maine.

Beautiful young Ann Stewart left her doom-haunted ancestral manor of Stormhaven in Scotland—yet the malevolent Stewart destiny seemed to have pursued her to a lonely French chateau. The dazzling violinist who was its master had played a hypnotic song of love on her heartstrings—until he began to torment her nerves in a rising crescendo of suspicion. A handsome English stranger sounded discords of dread in her innermost depths with is warnings, and the hideous spectre of a white-haired fiend in human form appeared like a leitmotif of horror in her life. Friendless and afraid in this alien place where a lovely woman had mysteriously vanished before her, Anne fled through a subterranean labyrinth of treachery and violence, so terribly far from home, so periodically slice to a fate worse than death.

Beautiful young Sophie was heiress to the Stewart pride and passion - but now she had a far more fearful legacy. Her grandfather had left her his life's dream - a fairy tale into which he had poured his fortune. And Sophie was determined to rescue this place from the nightmare horror that possessed it. Sophie refused to heed warnings about the beast-man lusting after all who ventured into this dark domain. She tried to still her doubts about the handsome suitor who made so many glowing promises and told so many chilling lies. She refused to believe her own eyes as she saw the dead come to lethal life and the living plunged into hellish death. But there was no escape from the closing jaws of the truth - this village was the Devil's playground, and she was his toy....

The ancient Scots city of Glasgow, so calm and peaceful on the surface, had become a night-time jungle of bestial horror and screaming terror for beautiful Ardith Ross. Only a short time ago, she had been the adored star of the London stage - until a nightmare fire turned her dreams to blackened cinders. Now in this city of strangers, Ardith was haunted by a fiend from beyond the grave that only she could see...she was courted by a man she was desperately afraid to love...and she was threatened by a fate that made death seem sweet. Ardith had fled this far from the demonic force pursuing her, and now she could flee no more. She could only helplessly wait, steeling herself as best she could against evil's ultimate assault...

THE ULTIMATE TERROR Lovely Edna Stewart was far from her ancestral home when she wed handsome and commanding Boston banker William Smith - but she had not escaped the evil that shadowed the Stewart clan. All too soon her happiness dissolved in horror as she viewed her husband’s mangled corpse. Stripped of love and property, alone and defenseless, she was forced to come to the grim mansion of Cliffhurst as companion to a blind old lady who saw will too clearly things not of this world. In this domain of deviltry, one person only offered Edna sanctuary from the satanic circle closing in around her. His name was Thomas Janney, master of Cliffhurst, his face masked in black silk, his past shrouded in deepest secrecy, his passion a dark fire consuming anyone it touched....

Sally Stewart was going to be a star. The beautiful, headstrong young woman was willing to risk hardship and heartbreak to conquer show business. The only things standing in her way were the odds, and Frank Mills, her loving but conservative fianc? Sally was even willing to trust Karl Neuman, a mysterious "star-maker" who guaranteed her success at the price of total artistic obedience. But that was before Sally heard about the other girl he had fostered, the girl who killed herself. That was before Neumann looked at her with those piercing eyes and said, "I've been waiting for just the right girl. You might say I've been waiting for you…"

Awake to Terror continues the tremendously exciting new series of gothic romances by world-famous author Marilyn Ross. Set in a family of dark mysteries and tumultuous passions, this spellbinding saga will appear exclusively in Popular Library editions. Beautiful Sophie Davis was all too aware of the Stewart strain in her blood, the Stewart curse hanging over her head. But now she believed she had escaped all that amid the gorgeous splendor and dazzling society of Edwardian London - until she discovered that she had fled so far only to enter the very jaws of danger. In the house of a man who claimed supernatural powers, she heard evil speaking from beyond the grave. In the arms of the handsome and mysterious man who had won her heart, she felt herself losing her soul. In a maze of deception and dread that led from a macabre marriage to a forbidden passion, Sophie desperately searched for safety - only to find her most terrifying nightmares coming true...

When lovely young American Elizabeth Janney first set foot in the Scotland of her Stewart ancestors, she felt as if she were entering a realm of enchanted romance. But all too soon that enchantment turned to evil as the burning fires of passion yielded to the icy blasts of fear. Too late Elizabeth learned that the vows she made in marrying the charming but iron-willed Lord Arthur Covington bound her forever to the grim and isolated mansion of Covington Towers. Too late she learned that a curse she had mocked was real enough to turn her laughter into screams. Too late she learned what it meant to love a man with violence in his touch, and to live in a place where the undead ruled supreme. Too late Elizabeth tried to flee - as a nightmare key locked shut the doors of doom....