19 BRAND NEW TALES TO CHILL YOUR BLOOD AND HAUNT YOUR DREAMS!
“The figure crouched over his mother was… taking something from her, sliding some spidery thing that struggled and screamed soundlessly out of her side and into his leathery dark bag…”
– THE NIGHT DOCTOR by Steve Rasnic Tem
“I saw her skin turn black and erupt in blisters and pustules as in one last mute appeal she stretched her hand towards me over the flames…”
– THE BOOK AND THE RING by Reggie Oliver
“There wasn’t much of a struggle even when Tomas lashed him, limb by limb, to the stakes, although he had plenty to say to Tomas’s back as he walked away.
It was when Tomas reappeared, leading the shaggy, horned thing from the barn, that Mr Sunshine really started to squeal…”
– CURES FOR A SICKENED WORLD by Brian Hodge
Also featuring stories from Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood, Helen Marshall, Gary McMahon, Michael Marshall Smith, Lisa Tuttle, Stephen Volk, Conrad Williams, Tom Fletcher, John Llewellyn Probert, Nicholas Royle, Rio Youers, Alison Moore, Angela Slatter, Stephen Laws, and Robert Shearman,
19 BRAND NEW TALES TO CHILL YOUR BLOOD AND HAUNT YOUR DREAMS!
“The figure crouched over his mother was… taking something from her, sliding some spidery thing that struggled and…
"This will engross and enthrall all Hammer fans and those who adore and revere Cushing. It brings his screen persona vividly to life in a modern context when the monsters are all too real." Tony Earnshaw, author of An Actor And a Rare One: Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes and Beating the Devil: The Making of 'Night of the Demon'
"Elegant, moving and absolutely magnificent" Simon Kurt Unsworth
"Peter Cushing was my first hero, and in my opinion Stephen Volk has done something heroic by putting the man who fought onscreen monsters at the heart of a very human drama. Sad, tinged with a palpable sense of loss, beautifully written, and blessed with an unerring eye for crucial detail, Whitstable is a story to savour. If I may be so bold, I'm convinced that Peter Cushing would have approved" Gary McMahon
"A beautiful, elegant, clever, emotional piece of work" Mark Morris
"A wonderful piece" David Pirie, author of A Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema
"This will engross and enthrall all Hammer fans and those who adore and revere Cushing. It brings his screen persona vividly to life in a modern context when the monsters are all…
“What the monsters used to achieve with claws, they now manage with pens…
Three years ago, Josh lost a lot of money on the unforgiving stock market. Now he’s divorced and living with his teenage daughter in a seaside caravan. Sally wants a tattoo; Josh just needs work.
For solace, he explores Saltwick Bay, a secluded stretch of beach whose cliff-side rock runs back to the ruthless Jurassic periods. There’s also a rotting boat there, leftover from the violent Second World War.
But when eerie creatures appear at night, dancing in the silent bay, Josh’s mind starts turning along unfathomable tracks . . . which may lead right back to the birth of tyranny."
Gary Fry’s new novella channels the spirit of Algernon Blackwood and other great masters of the weird tale, summoning forces from this world and others in a relentless symphony of unease. The signed limited hardcover edition includes an extensively revised version of his Lovecraftian novella WORLD WIDE WEB, in which a young boy must make sense of his parents’ divorce in a world of buried secrets and inexorable cosmic interventions . . .
“What the monsters used to achieve with claws, they now manage with pens…
Three years ago, Josh lost a lot of money on the unforgiving stock market. Now he’s divorced and…
In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by The Rainy Day Abductor. Local girls went missing and two boys made a terrifying discovery.
Now one of them has come home, to try and lay the past to rest.
"Very strong writing and with a nice evocation of time and place. West conjures the sense of a particular era with skill and the horrors he finds there are universal."
- Gary McMahon, author of “Silent Voices” and “Dead Bad Things”
"Mark West has a knack for making the bonds that bind friends and family tangible and very real. In "What Gets Left Behind" those bonds reach forward from the past to ensnare Mike and draw him back to a place he never wanted to visit again..."
- Ian Whates, author of The Noise Within
In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by The Rainy Day Abductor. Local girls went missing and two boys made a terrifying discovery.
Now one of them has come home, to try and lay the…
"Someone is killing doctors in the style of the murders in Vincent Price movies, leaving the Bristol police baffled. The only man who could possibly be responsible died years ago . . . or did he . . .?" The police in Bristol have been confronted by a series of the most perplexingly elaborate deaths they've ever encountered in all their years of murder enquiries. The only thing which connects them is their seemingly random nature and their sheer outrageousness. As Detective Inspector Longdon and his assistant Sergeant Jenny Newham (with the help of pathologist Dr. Richard Patterson) race against time to find the murderer, they eventually realise that the link which connects the killings is even more bizarre than any of them dared to think...
"Someone is killing doctors in the style of the murders in Vincent Price movies, leaving the Bristol police baffled. The only man who could possibly be responsible died years ago…
“An absence is more terrifying than a presence…
Rob and Becky bought the old place after the death of their son, to repair and renovate – to patch things up and make the building habitable.
They both knew that they were trying to fix more than the house, but the cracks in their marriage could not be papered over.
Then they found the Quiet Room.”
“Gary McMahon’s horror is heartfelt...” –Tim Lebbon
Spectral Press volume 1
“An absence is more terrifying than a presence…
Rob and Becky bought the old place after the death of their son, to repair and renovate – to patch things up and make the building…
