On a rainy, freezing night, in an isolated lake house, a door suddenly creaks open upstairs-where nobody is supposed to be. So begins best-selling Andrea D''Allasandra''s latest masterpiece of terror and suspense-The Creaking Door and Other Tales of Madness and Horror.

If you dare, journey through these thirteen stories of psychos, zombies and houses that drip blood-where a creaking door is only the beginning of a stream of white-knuckled nightmares. A dead child who returns to haunt her monstrous mother a homicidal hitchhiker who thinks he''s found his new victim a woman who discovers there are prehistoric dragons in her own backyard an old house that swallows up its visitors. Encounter thirteen heroines who you''ll never forget-the evil, the innocent and the doomed.

Andrea D''Allasandra''s other three thrillers-Death House, Horror House and The Master of Hell Mountain-have all become international best-sellers!