Chillers

Edward Skipperton is a wealthy, hard-working businessman presently recovering from a recent divorce and quintuple bypass open-heart surgery. He is living in and renovating a beautiful old chateau in the Normandy region of France but has become determined to buy up the surrounding lands and river owned by Hubert De Gastine, his neighbor.

Michael and Gladys Herbert are a quiet, respectable, married couple who live in a large house with a garden somewhere in the English countryside. They are enjoying a game of Scrabble one Sunday afternoon with their friend, Colonel Eddie Phelps, and niece, Phyllis, when in walks the family cat carrying a pair of human fingers in its mouth.

Waiting for the phone to ring, waiting to hear a longed-for voice, waiting for a letter to arrive -- waiting can be a terrible thing, especially if what one is waiting for never arrives. In this story a young man falls in love with a beautiful woman and waits day and night for her to respond to him in some way.

This story revolves around the secret obsessions of a mature married couple, a husband and wife, neither of whom would admit to being in any way obsessed except by the possible loathing they feel for each other. He once loved and lost someone else and has never forgotten; she knows this and has never forgotten either.

He had been working at another area of the farm when he heard Susan's cries for help, but he could not dig fast enough to save his daughter. Choked with tears and feelings of guilt, Ernie rushes out of the room after describing what happened, Susan goes into shock and John is left numb and helpless, unable to fathom the meaning of this horrible event.

Sylvia and Luc Thomas are husband and wife journalists who have never had children, so they decide to adopt and shelter an elderly couple that they have selected from the neighboring nursing home. Rose and Fred Berck, the elderly couple, arrive one afternoon with all their belongings and are welcomed with open arms by Sylvia and Luc.

Harry Thompson is a young, energetic bachelor who lives in Paris and works at the French office of an American advertising agency. He leads a rather normal life except for one detail Harry is in love with two very different women and cannot decide which one he prefers. Living in the fast lane has its rewards for Harry but it also makes his life extremely complicated.

Everyone knows what it's like to crave something that cannot be readily obtained or to have a need that is not so easily fulfilled. Often times, people find substitutes, such as food, to satisfy a deeper hunger that somehow during the course of one's life never gets fully sated. Longings that go unsatisfied for too long eventually become obsessions which in turn can be damaging to one's health.

Buying a new house is an experience that has a variety of meanings for different people a change of scene, a step up in the world, a different way of life or even the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. This is the story of Jessica and Stanley, a married couple for whom the dream of buying a new house at last comes true, but unfortunately for them, this dream turns into a nightmare.

Christopher and Penny Waggoner are a well-off married couple living outside of London who both suffer from what might be called childish obsessions. Christopher works as a solicitor often living in a fantasy world where he dreams of "Louise", a woman he hasn't seen for twenty years, but whom he still loves.

Andre Delarue is a man in his forties who works in his small apartment as a proofreader for the New World Encyclopedia. He shares this apartment with his wife, Juliette, and his fourteen-year-old daughter, Michele. To supplement his modest salary, he draws a disability pension from an accident he was in that left him incapable of satisfying women.

Lee Mandeville is a middle-aged man who has traveled to his hometown in England, to settle some family business. He works as an antique dealer in Chicago and uses a large amount of the money he makes to pay for the costs of keeping his elderly mother in a nursing home here in England.