Nakata's ghosts won't stay dead…A chambermaid's seemingly innocent request is granted, an act of kindness that has dire consequences for a guest…An unearthly light in an abandoned bungalow resolves the mystery of a missing child…An invitation to a clifftop graveyard leads to a harrowing chase by things that remain unseen…In an abandoned hotel, work is underway to upgrade the building but something is stalking the residents…There is a hidden agenda to paranormal researcher Richard Nakata's investigations into these houses. A commission that witnesses cattle lowing in the cow-sheds of Stack's Farm long after they've been slaughtered, and a reckoning in the showhouse of 24 Glasshouse as he and his colleagues pay the price for creating their own ghost…Simon Kurt Unsworth reinvents the classic English ghost story with a portmanteau collection that takes the haunted house genre and makes it scream… quietly.The houses are quiet, it's the residents who are screaming.
A man seeks revenge for his dead wife's murder, while another finds himself being tortured for information he doesn't have. One woman's job at a check-out is starting to take its toll, while another imagines all kinds of horrors during a blackout. An urban nightmare called Graffitiland is the location for a deadly hunt, but a thief finds more than he bargains for upon breaking and entering one particular property. And as a stalker tracks his latest victim, an altogether different kind of serial killer called The Gemini is rising… Here in these pages you'll find gathered together all the tales of crime and psychological terror from award-winning and bestselling author and editor Paul B. Kane (Beyond Rue Morgue, Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell), plus three new novelettes - including a serial killer reworking of Cinderella. Complete with an introduction from the award-winning Paul Finch (author of the bestselling Sergeant 'Heck' Heckenberg novels, including Stalkers, Sacrifice and Hunted, as well as the Sunday Times bestseller Strangers), this is one collection of thrilling Nailbiters fans of the genre will not want to miss…
Includes the four chapbooks published by Knightwatch Press in 2015 and 2016, by Gary McMahon, Sean T Page, Jasper Bark and Lily Childs; as well as a fifth, previously unpublished, story by James Everington.
In Aid of Birmingham Dogs HomeThe grey wolves howled and scratched at our doors until we let them in. We fed them, tamed them and made them our companions. For millennia they were hunters at our side. We evolved together and survived with each other. We built myths and religions on their backs. From lycans to dog-headed gods like anubis. Yet we were always the master, they the servant. That is until recently when evolution has played a horrifying trick. Now our roles are reversed. but some of us are fighting back. The story of the mankind is far from over and the story of the new dog masters has only just begun. Though one thing is certain... Man's best friend has become Mankind's worst enemy.
THERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVEROnly pick up a stranger if you can face your demons…and hersOnly stay with your lover if you can give yourself body and soulOnly sell your flesh if you can bear humiliation, pain and the deepest darknessOnly play God if you can endure the unutterable loneliness of the DivineTHERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVERThirteen excursions into the shadowlands that border the known and the terrors that lie beyondTHERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVER by Terry GrimwoodAuthor of Deadside Revolution, Bloody War and The Exaggerated Man
Come forward, view this body, where choices bring or force people to the brink.Mind Over Matter: eight stories examine dark obsessions, consuming lust and the consequences of choices that can twist the mind to its own desires or bring release.Under the Skin: eight stories where the quest to master devices, environment or worlds leads to battles of survival that devour or shape into something new.Savory teeth, sentient insects, deadly automatons, VR worlds, ensorcelled blades, nanotech healing, possessive fungus, gingerbread people, prophetic soap bubbles and more: this Body of Work is a stitchery of tales, a strange creature that is alluring, disturbing and thought-provoking.
New Music for Old Rituals brings together a selection of stories that illustrate the pervasive power of the past in the present. Together they present a strange yet familiar country where cautionary tales still serve a purpose; where sacred sites of sea, forest, valley and forts hold power. Where old legends live, and where new myths are born. Within these pages, bog bodies sleep, contagion fought, ghosts linger, and time stutters, fails and turns back on itself.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Simon Bestwick comes Singing Back the Dark, the eighth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Simon Kurt Unsworth comes The Martledge Variations, the seventh in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Phil Sloman comes Broken on the Inside, the sixth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Gary Fry comes The Death of Boys, the fifth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Paul Kane comes The Life Cycle, the fourth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Thana Niveau comes Unquiet Waters, the third in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Paul Kane comes The Spirits of Christmas, the first in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
"Black Star Black Sun is my tribute to Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, and the haunted fields of Somerset, where I seemed to spend much of my childhood. It's a story about going home and finding horror there when something beyond human understanding begins to invade our reality. It encompasses broken dreams, old memories, lost loved ones and a fundamentally hostile universe. It's the last song of a dying world before it falls to the Black Star." - Rich Hawkins
"I've been told that this is the most elegant thing I've ever written. I can't think how such a dark brew of motifs came together to create that effect. But there's unassuaged longing and nostalgia in here, interwoven with the horror, as well as an unflagging drive towards the final consummation. I still feel more for the story's characters, whether love or loathing, than for any others I've created to date. Tragedy, urban legend, Gothic romance, warped fairy tale of New York: it's all there. And of course, most important of all is the seductive allure of writing and of books - and what that can lead some people to do. You may not like my answer to the mystery of the third book. But I hope you stay to find out." - Paul StJohn Mackintosh
"This book is my love letter to the horror genre. It is about what it means to be a horror fan; about how the genre can nurture an adolescent mind; how it can be a positive force in life.This book is set during a time when horror films were vilified in the press and in parliament like never before. It is about how being a fan of so-called 'video nasties' made you, in the eyes of the nation, a freak, a weirdo, or worse, someone who could actually be a danger to society. I wanted to address that. Show how a love - a pure love - for a piece of art can make a young man want to better himself; how being inspired by a certain film - in this case, The Evil Dead - can propel someone to want to break out of his class, out of his town and out of his limited prospects, and be set on a path of creating a life for himself. A positive, creative, and fulfilling life.This book is partly autobiographical, set in a time when Britain seemed to be a war with itself. It is a working class story about hope. All writers, filmmakers, musicians, painters - artists of any kind -were first inspired to create their own work by the guiding light of another's. The first spark that sets them on their way.This book is about that spark." - Andrew David Barker
In Diseases of the Teeth, the fourth collection of short stories by World Fantasy Award nominated author Simon Kurt Unsworth, you will find pirates facing craft that are prepared to defend themselves, hills awash with rain and blood, phobias that walk and things abandoned and lost and angry. There is also a brand new story featuring Richard Nakata, the hero of his earlier collection, the critically acclaimed Quiet Houses.Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the places of fragility and corruption.
The Compleat ValentineBeing the complete and unabridged, uncensored, unbelievable exploits of the world's most resourceful and flamboyant serial killer, comprising:The Nine Deaths of Dr ValentineSomeone is killing doctors in the style of the murders from Vincent Price movies, leaving the Bristol police baffled. The only man who could possibly be responsible died years ago. Or did he?The Hammer of Dr ValentineSomeone is killing the tabloid journalists who reported the original story, and the deaths are all in the style of Hammer Horror Films. Could Dr Valentine be back?The Last Temptation of Dr ValentineA Hollywood film company has arrived in Bristol to film The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine. When crew members start turning up dead in situations similar to classic British horror films, the Bristol police can reach only one conclusion. Their old nemesis has returned.The Compleat ValentineAll three books in one omnibus edition of the most bizarre, elaborate and startling murders ever committed to paper!
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Andrew David Barker comes Winter Freits, the ninth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.
Have you ever seen figures in the clouds, heard voices in the sound of a detuned TV, recognised faces made by the shadows in the corner of a room? Pareidolia is the phenomenon where the mind perceives shapes, or hears voices, where none apparently exist. But what if what you were seeing was really there? What if the voice you heard really was speaking to you, calling you? Pareidolia contains new dark and surreal stories by Tim Major, G.V. Anderson, Sarah Read and many more. Step inside, and see if you see what they do.
Great British Horror 2 continues the annual series showcasing the best in modern British horror. Every year, the series will feature ten British authors, plus one international guest contributor, telling tales of this sceptered isle.The 2017 edition, Dark Satanic Mills, features eleven previously unpublished stories of urban and suburban horror from eleven authors at the very top of their game.
Great British Horror 1 is the first in an annual series showcasing the best in modern British horror. Every year, the series will feature ten British authors, plus one international guest contributor, telling tales of this sceptered isle.The 2016 edition, Green and Pleasant Land, features eleven previously unpublished stories of small town, rural and folk horror from eleven authors at the very top of their game.
The Hyde Hotel Welcomes You... The Hyde Hotel looks almost exactly as you'd expect it to: a faceless, budget hotel in a grey city you are just passing through. A hotel aimed at people travelling alone, a hotel where you know so little about your fellow guests that they could be anyone... and where, perhaps, so could you. But sometimes things are hiding in plain sight, and not everyone who stays at The Hyde gets a good night's sleep... Featuring stories about the guests and staff of The Hyde Hotel from Simon Bestwick, Ray Cluley, Alex Davis, Cate Gardner, V.H. Leslie, Alison Littlewood, Amelia Mangan, S.P. Miskowski, Iain Rowan, Mark West and the editors. Enjoy your stay.
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