Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Caffeine Nights Publishing Heathen
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Caffeine Nights Publishing Deadhead
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£9.49
Caffeine Nights Publishing Turtle Island
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£9.49
Caffeine Nights Publishing Parasite Crop: Surviving the harvest is the easy
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£9.99
Caffeine Nights Publishing Progeny
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£9.49
Fly on the Wall Press I Wanted to be Close to You
Book Synopsis"“I wanted to be close to you. So I went to the forest…” Gardens, relationships and imaginations run wild in Katie Oliver’s debut short fiction collection. The world is unpredictable and no woman is safe. Boundaries are blurred: between fantasy and reality, technology and nature, autonomy and oppression. The threat of violence simmers throughout as women transform into birds, converse with plants and plot their revenge. These dark, surreal tales will put down roots and stay with you long after reading: how close… is too close?"Trade Review"Katie Oliver’s narrators are often facing a choice between the cold, clean world of technology and the murky darkness of nature, with neither option as the safe one, both posing a threat to the bodies of these women and their tenuous grip on sanity." - The Word Factory"Oliver’s universe is surreal, fetid, and teeming with organic purpose" - The Yorkshire Times
£9.49
Watkins Media Limited The Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales from the
Book SynopsisA selection of Repeater authors choose their favourite horror stories for this new anthology, with each writing a critical introduction for the story of their choice. Edited by novelist and Repeater publisher Tariq Goddard and “horror philosopher” Eugene Thacker, The Repeater Book of the Occult is a new anthology of horror stories that explores the ever-shifting boundaries between the natural and supernatural, between the real and the unreal. As the editors note, “In the grey zone between what appears and what is, lies horror. But horror writing is also a certain disposition, a way of thinking based on a suspicion regarding the world as it is given to us, and a doubt regarding the accepted ways of explaining that world to us – and for us.” The Repeater Book of the Occult includes introductions by Repeater authors such as Leila Taylor, Carl Neville, Rhian E Jones, and Elvia Wilk, and features horror classics by Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as forgotten gems by authors such as W.W. Jacobs, Mark Twain, and Sheridan Le Fanu.Trade Review"A perfect collection of seminal supernatural tales, their crepuscular shadows lovingly illuminated by writers whose fascinating introductions throw surprises out like stars."“A highly recommended and exquisitely curated collection of occult stories that elevate horror to sublime philosophical contemplation.”
£19.66
Whitefox Publishing Ltd The Gift Book 1: Eleanor
Book SynopsisThe North Atlantic, 14 April 1912. Amid the chaos of the sinking Titanic, a young Eleanor Annenberg meets the eyes of a stranger and is immediately captivated. As the ship buckles around them, she follows him down into the hold and finds him leaning over an open sarcophagus, surrounded by mutilated bodies. She catches but a glimpse of what lies within before she's sucked into a maelstrom of freezing brine and half-devoured corpses. Elle is pulled out of the water, but the stranger - and the secrets she stumbled upon - are lost. Unintentionally, however, he leaves her a gift; one so compelling that Elle embarks on a journey that pulls her into a world of ancient evils, vicious hunters and human prey to find the man who saved her that fateful night. From trench warfare at Cape Helles in 1915 to a shipwreck in the tropical shallows off the Honduran coast, from a lost mine beneath the towering Externsteine in a Germany on the verge of war to the gothic crypts of Highgate Cemetery in London, Elle gets closer to a truth she has sought for most of her life. But at what cost? Gifts, after all, are seldom free.
£18.04
Ross Griffin The Haunted Wind: A pulsating supernatural
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£13.49
Gallic Books The Bone Flower
Book SynopsisA deliciously Gothic and atmospheric novel, one for fans of Susan Hill and Andrew Michael Hurley 'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of Weather On a November evening in Victorian London, the moneyed but listless Edward Monteith stokes the fire at his local gentlemen's club, listening to stories of supernatural experiences and theories of life after death. His curiosity leads him to a seance, where he falls under the spell of a beautiful flower seller. But Victorian society does not look kindly on love between a gentleman of means and a Romani girl, and when he faces being cut off by his family, Edward makes a decision with horrifying consequences. Two years later Edward is married and anticipating the birth of his first child, in a beautiful house lined with orange blossom trees. But the wrongs of the past are not so easily forgotten, and the boundary between the living and the dead begins to thin... A deliciously chilling Gothic novel, The Bone Flower is a deeply human story about guilt, betrayal and the cruelty of social expectations. A dark, uncanny love story from the author of Polari prize-shortlisted Prodigal and The Children's Home, The Bone Flower will delight fans of Edward Carey and Essie Fox.Trade Review'An exquisitely eerie and sophisticated Victorian ghost story, with echoes of Poe and M. R. James' Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist Praise for Charles Lambert 'More delicate than Dickens and stranger than Snicket' Nuala O'Connor, author of Miss Emily 'Lambert is undoubtedly a very skilled writer and the reader is immediately engaged and drawn into this family's world' TripFiction 'A visceral novel about a family suffering under the weight of secrets, lies, and things left unsaid' Foreword Reviews 'Lambert is a writer full of wit and poignance, especially in portraying the toxicity of White middle-class British society' Kirkus Reviews 'A writer who never ceases to surprise' Jenny Offill, author of Weather 'Charles Lambert is a terrific, devious storyteller' Owen King, author of Double Feature 'Charles Lambert writes as if his life depends on it. He takes risks at every turn' Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief 'Honest, sharp and beautifully written - rare, truthful writing' Ann Cleeves, OBE
£13.49
Gallic Books Orpheus Builds A Girl
Book SynopsisBased on a true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is a novel of sisterly love, sinister obsession, and the battle for control of the story. A dark, chilling debut novel from award-winning writer Heather Parry. German doctor Wilhelm Von Tore shares with the reader the story of his one true love; a love written in the stars, decades in the making, a love so strong it transcended death itself. When Wilhelm emigrates to America he carries with him a vision of a dark-haired beauty, presented to him in his dreams by his beloved late Grandmother. In Key West, Florida, a beautiful young woman is taken to him in the grip of illness, and he recognises her immediately as his promised bride. Despite his efforts, the sickness takes hold and his beloved slips away from him. But Wilhelm will not be kept from his destiny, not even by death. Using research compiled over decades, he sets about attempting to restore his love to her body, so that they might be together forever. But there's another voice in this story: Gabriela, and she will not let this version of events go unchallenged. From between the cracks in Wilhelm's story Gabriela recounts her own memory of her sister Luciana, a fiery and difficult young woman, and the madman who robbed her from her grave.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2016 Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer Cove Park's 2017 Emerging Writer Resident 2021 Hawthornden Fellow
£15.29
The Book Guild Ltd Gothic Ghost Stories: An Excercise in Horror
Book SynopsisWhether it is the resuscitated corpse that visits a hotel gust in The House of the Dead or the maleficent returning warlock cocooning a tomb robber in Mad Allen, or the taking shape of a vague apprehension in A School Story, or a human sacrifice in Blood of the Lamb, Bell knows that what we fear most is the sensation of being afraid and that it is the reader’s imagination which conjures up the true phantoms of terror.
£8.54
BOTH Press The House on the Old Cliffs
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BOTH Press Ultrasound Shadow
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BOTH Press The Wasp Factory
£14.24
Candy Jar Books Lethbridge-Stewart: Haunting of Gabriel Chase,
Book SynopsisAn officer has been lost, and it is believed he may be in the house. The only way to find out is to investigate within the house, but once you''re inside, you''ll be lucky to leave. And heaven help anybody still inside after dark...
£10.52
Sparsile Books Ltd Kindred Spirit: A dead man with unfinished
Book SynopsisGeorge Viviani has it all, a publishing contract, a feisty mistress and a loving family waiting for him at home. It''s a pity he''ll be dead before the day is done. But it doesn''t stop there. Soon it seems that anyone with a connection to George is experiencing strange and frightening phenomena. Gradually, a widening group of desperate people find themselves drawn together, as they are taken over by a creeping sense of unreality. Events begin to spiral out of control and only one man-Cheyne Tully, ghost hunter-has a chance of discovering the truth before it''s too late.
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Hobeck Books Limited Wayland Babes
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Charco Press Fresh Dirt from the Grave
Book SynopsisShipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science—this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.In Fresh Dirt from the Grave , a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness and tenderness that animates Giovanna Rivero’s short stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violence) can take away from the gentleness she shows all violated creatures. A mad aunt haunts her family, two Bolivian children are left on the outskirts of a Metis reservation outside Winnipeg, a widow teaches origami in a women’s prison and murders, housefires, and poisonings abound, but so does the persistent bravery of people trying to forge ahead in the face of the world. They are offered cruelty, often, indifference at best, and yet they keep going. Rivero has reworked the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism, and found in the wound their humanity and the possibility of hope.Trade Review"Rivero confidently and credibly gives voice to characters in harrowing situations." —Publishers Weekly"These are visceral tales of betrayal both personal and societal, some of which cross over into the realm of the uncanny.”" —Words Without Borders"An intriguing and discomforting set of stories, each with its own particular bite, and more than a twist or two along the way." —Tony's Reading List************Praise for Giovanna Rivero
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Charco Press Tierra fresca de su tumba
Book SynopsisNáufragos, origami, posesión y ciencia: estos cuentos encarnan el punto de encuentro entre los horrores contemporáneos y los terrores antiguos.Seis relatos de una belleza oscura que laten con temáticas perturbadoras: la legitimidad de la venganza, el incesto como medio de supervivencia, brujería indígena versus tradición japonesa, el cuerpo como la víctima fatal que habitamos. Los cuentos de Rivero perforan al lector como una herida, ofreciendo también posibilidades de amor, justicia y esperanza. Narrados con un lirismo frágil y feroz, los cuentos de Tierra fresca de su tumba punzan los abismos del alma humana, y a la vez reforman los límites del gótico para incorporar ritos precolombinos, leyendas, ciencia ficción y erotismo.Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science—this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.In Fresh Dirt from the Grave , a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness and tenderness that animates Giovanna Rivero’s short stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violence) can take away from the gentleness she shows all violated creatures. A mad aunt haunts her family, two Bolivian children are left on the outskirts of a Metis reservation outside Winnipeg, a widow teaches origami in a women’s prison and murders, housefires, and poisonings abound, but so does the persistent bravery of people trying to forge ahead in the face of the world. They are offered cruelty, often, indifference at best, and yet they keep going. Rivero has reworked the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism, and found in the wound their humanity and the possibility of hope.Trade Review"Rivero confidently and credibly gives voice to characters in harrowing situations." —Publishers Weekly"These are visceral tales of betrayal both personal and societal, some of which cross over into the realm of the uncanny.”" —Words Without Borders************Praise for Giovanna RiveroAlong with Mariana Enríquez, one of the most creative and intense voices in the so-called New Latin American Gothic Realism.
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Leamington Books Pagan's Pilgrimage
Book SynopsisWith nascent love abandoned and the recurring presence of the creeping 'wrinkled-nosed' laundry man of a traumatic childhood, the stagnating life of Pagan must be revived by the discovery of a somewhat questionable raison d'etre the assassination of an aristocrat. The spleenful nature of Herdman's titular protagonist and a selection of odd experiences perfectly sets up a strife deep within himself: can and how can Pagan commit to his partially bookfound life-calling, tangled into his pilgrimage? In these partnered publications, Pagan's Pilgrimage and A Truth Lover, John Herdman expertly demonstrates his capacity to evoke complicatedly moralising characters with haunting effect. In both works, the protagonists toil and struggle with the brutal world that birthed them, leading to quivering encounters - equal parts absurd and ephemeral.
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Selfmadehero Bone Broth
£15.29
Influx Press Engines Beneath Us
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Influx Press Where Furnaces Burn
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2013 WORLD FANTASY AWARD Episodes from the casebook of a police officer in the West Midlands: A young woman needs help in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to waking life. Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to watch a puppet theatre of love and violence. Why do local youths keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the Black Country? A series of inexplicable deaths uncover a secret cult of machine worship. When a migrant worker disappears, the key suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own. Among the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an archaic god seeks out his willing victims. Blurring the occult detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial landscape. First published in 2012, Joel Lane’s World Fantasy Award-winning collection is a true modern classic of weird fiction that cemented his place as one of the most important and distinctive British writers of the weird.
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Influx Press Human Sacrifices
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in her latest short story collection. An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over popular boys drowned while surfing, and two girls suspect sinister behavior from the missionaries lodging in their home. Simultaneously terrifying and exquisite, Human Sacrifices is “tropical gothic” at its finest. Ampuero considers the decay and oppression beneath the surface of our humid and hostile world, where those on the margins must pay the price for the comfort and safety of the elite. These twelve stories contemplate the nature of exploitation and abuse, illuminating the realities of those society consumes and leaves behind.
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Sandstone Press Ltd Dracula Park
Book SynopsisIn post-Communist Romania, on the border with Transylvania, the sleepy little town of B. is losing its young people to the West. A young painter returned from Paris and her eccentric great-aunt seem unconcerned with the decline of the town, until a mutilated corpse is found in the family crypt of Prince Vlad the Impaler, better known as Dracula. As the world’s attention turns to B., the mayor and his son take advantage and turn the town into a vampire-inspired theme park. Tourists flock, but beneath the surface ancient horrors live on. Dracula Park by Dana Grigorcea is a breathtaking, atmospheric tale of revenge, extremism and the longing for a strong leader, for a strict, cruel judge - like Dracula.Trade Review‘An incredible writer.’‘A dreamy and rock-hard horror story.’ * Frankfurter Rundschau *‘An artistic Dracula story, an artist novel, a farce, and it’s all told with great eloquence.’ * SWR 2 *‘Topical and worth reading far beyond Romania.’ * SRF 2 *‘As dizzying as it is poetic and entertaining.’ * Die Presse *
£11.69
Chronos Publishing All Fall Down
Book SynopsisMichael Hegessay, proud father, loving husband and pillar of the community is the first Floater. Without explanation a mysterious force takes him to the sky, leaving him hovering above his house. In his hand, his briefcase containing a dirty secret that could bring his world crashing down. As the day wears on it’s not long before the skies are full of people, each with a story to tell. On the ground, fighting their own demons, a group of unlikely misfits come together in this explosive tale of Armageddon. Stunningly visual, All Fall Down takes you on a journey through the lightest and darkest parts of humanity’s collective soul.
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