Horror & Ghost Stories Books

Book SynopsisWhen six-year-old Jerome Talbot is abducted by the mysterious 'Lady' his disappearance sparks a series of events that will plunge him and his mother into a nightmare of possession and psychic terror from which there seems no escape. During two sweltering summer weeks in an idyllic Sussex cathedral town, police officer Rose Platt and child psychiatrist Sharif Mohammed find themselves fighting for the boy's sanity and their lives during an overwhelming assault by ancient magic seeking bloody revenge. A promise has been broken and powerful dark spirits have risen to protect a secret path that crosses the time worn landscape. The town must pay the price.

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Book SynopsisA witty, wacky satire on the end of the world from Book Award writer Christopher Ritchie. When Marty Molloy goes about his usual business and finds himself drawn into rescuing a young girl from an attack, little does he know she's Earth's last angel on a mission to stop the `false apocalypse' that occurred just over 100 years earlier. Civilisation was all but destroyed following the third world war - the result of political squabbling and growing racial, sexual and religious hate and distrust. Now the angel's mission becomes Marty's: to assemble his own team of Horsemen, to travel back in time to stop the sinister force behind it all, and to save humankind. This bold, hilarious and thought-provoking satire is inspired by the events of 2016-2017 - but its question is timeless: is humanity worth saving? Previously published in episodic format, this novel is the complete collection. Expand your mind - and your vocabulary - and watch out for Red. He's hungry.

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Book SynopsisA thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: there are two sides to every storyLike every other grad student at Miskatonic University, Owen Merrill knows about the Great Old Ones, the nightmare beings out of ancient legend that H.P. Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned into icons of modern fantasy fiction.After a chance discoverya lost letter written by Lovecraft to fellow Weird Tales author, Robert BlakeOwen reveals a glimpse into the frightful reality behind the legends, sending him on a desperate quest for answers that shatters his familiar world forever.As he flees across the witch-haunted Massachusetts landscape toward the mysterious seaside town of Innsmouth, Owen finds himself caught up in a secret war between the servants of the Great Old Ones and their ancient enemies: a war in which yesterday''s friend may be tomorrow''s foe and nothing is as it seems.The history of the world is not what he has been taughtand the tentacles reaching out for him from the shadows of a forbidden past may not only hold his one chance of escape from the terrifying forces closing around him, but the last hope of life on Earth...

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Trade Review2013 INDIEFAB BOOK AWARD FINALIST, HORROR Die britische TV-Moderatorin Juliette Foster schrieb: "Dieser verstoerende Roman von Christopher Ritchie erhielt viel Beifall und dies verdientermassen, da er den Leser auf eine Reise voller Angst und Ungewissheit schickt, die seine Vorstellungskraft fordert und bei weitem die Grenzen des "Normalen" uberschreitet. Eine Welt, in der nichts so ist wie es scheint. Wahrend eines Routineeinsatzes verandert sich die Lage fur Officer Joe Gullidge rasant: Gefangen in einer Verkettung von schrecklichen und unheimlichen Begegnungen, die sich tief in seiner Seele einbrennen, gerat er wiederwillig in eine Suche nach der Wahrheit, in der sein Verstand sich muht, zwischen der Realitat und den Erscheinungen einer Parallelwelt zu unterscheiden. Ist Gullys Reise eine Metapher fur die tiefere, auf eine unentrinnbare Vergangenheit grundende Realitat oder gibt es eine einfachere Erklarung als zunachst gedacht? Der Roman Der Schatten der Schweine fallt angesichts der Komplexitat der Ideen und der Vielschichtigkeit in der Interpretation sicherlich nicht unter die Kategorie "Leichte Lekture" - aber dies sind seine Starken und keine Schwachen. Es ist ein ergreifender, surrealer Roman voller Spannung und filmischer Sequenzen, die an Stephen Kings Shining erinnern." HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS schrieb: "Erst nach der Lekture wird man in der Lage sein, Ritchies Ideen im Ansatz zu begreifen. Seine standig wechselnden Welten ... katapultieren auch Sie in eine unterhaltsame Schleife." REBBIE REVIEWS schrieb: "Dieses Buch wird Sie mit einigen tatsachlich schonungslosen und blutrunstigen Passagen erschaudern lassen ... Ich liebe diese Bildersprache und das Tempo."

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