Barbara Shelley
1) The gorgon
Series
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The gorgon: In middle-Europe, villagers are literally becoming petrified. The authorities try to hush the matter up, but it becomes apparent that at the full moon, Medusa leaves her castle lair and anyone looking on her face is turned to stone. When this fate befalls a visitor, experts from the University of Leipzig arrive to get to the bottom of it all. Scream of fear: After narrowly surviving an accident in which she nearly drowned, Penny is left...
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Midwich, a rural English village, is cut off from the outside world, and its inhabitants rendered unconscious, for several hoursNine months later, several of the town's female citizens give birth to strange, emotionless children with formidable psychic powers . The product of alien invasion via artificial insemination, the children intend to take over the world. Can they be stopped?
Six psychically gifted children of unknown origin are gathered in...