This horror compilation contains four games. The first dark and oppressive offering is The Rocky Horror Show, in which your partner has been turned to stone by the mysterious Dr Frankenfurter. You must explore his mansion in order to find the fifteen pieces of the De-Medusa machine, a device that can turn your partner back into flesh and blood. At the start of the game you are given the choice of being either Brad or Janet. Then all you have to do is wander around, find and collect a component, take it to the theatre room and drop it into place.

As you wander round you'll meet various foes who, when touched, cause your clothes to fall off. If this happens, it becomes impossible to collect anything so you must then go and find your clothes again. The only other hazards are Riff Raff, a creature who fires deadly laser bolts at you, and a time limit. Dodgy controls and very limited gameplay make this one a snooze.

The second spine-chilling foray into the macabre is Nosferatu, an isometric 3D adventure which is split into three levels. In level one, you play the part of Jonathon Harker, a solicitor who's helping Count Dracula buy a house in London. When you realise that the count is up to no good you decide to escape from his castle. As you search for the exit, bats and wolves and suchlike appear and deplete your energy. However, certain rooms contain food which helps keep up your strength.

In level two you can control Jonathon, Lucy (that's his girlie), and Van Helsing (Lucy's brother-in-law and admirer) individually. You have to protect both the town of Wismar and your beloved Lucy from the unwelcome advances of plagued rats and vampiric townsfolk.

Swiftly onto level three and this time you play the part of Lucy. It is her destiny to destroy Dracula but as Jonathon and Van Helsing don't realise this you have to lock them in a room and then lure the Count into your bedroom, keeping him there until dawn - at which time he dies horribly. There you go, a doddle.

The graphics are pretty and atmospheric, gameplay is good, too. But it is slow. If you get into the right mood, Nosferatu is worth the effort and is easily the best offering on this particular compilation.

Our third dark and sinister descent into C64 software is She Vampires. It's basically a poor Gauntlet clone in which you, as the vampire killer, must cleave your way through six levels of the she vampires' mansion armed with a garlic gun (gimme a break). On each level you must collect a weapon which is vital to the destruction of the Great She Vampire herself at the end of the game. Average graphics coupled with appalling gameplay makes this good for only one thing, but I'm not into lavatory humour so I won't say it!

The final step into the realm of the supernatural is N.E.I.L. Android (I suggest that the people at Alternative ran out of horror titles at this point). Again we're faced with 3D isometric graphics. This time you play an android who has to travel round a spaceship decimating aliens who have over-run it. You are armed with a gun that has limited ammo and a smart bomb which you can use once you've collected three energy cells. An oxygen counter tells you how long you have to live (N.E.I.L. is in fact partially human). Again the graphics are only average and the control of your android is so temperamental that you soon come to realise that you'd much rather chew the fat with a six-week old potato salad than play this.

The only horrific thing about this title is the poor quality of three of the games on it. As always, the budget price must be taken into consideration but even then it's not up to much. As frightening as a day out with Mr. Magoo and just as interesting.