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Canelo Small Mercies: A gripping and addictive crime
Book SynopsisA killer is sending a message. But who is it for?DI Annie Delamere and her colleague DS Zoe Everett are off duty and enjoying a walk on the Peak District’s vast moorlands when they stumble across a mutilated corpse. The victim is unclothed and his tattoos indicate an affinity with the occult.While Annie is put in charge of the case her long-term partner, MP Sheena Pearson, is confronted by a group of far right extremists. Rather than back down Sheena chooses to stand her ground – and almost pays for it with her life.As more bodies are found, Annie is under pressure to prove her worth. But with one eye on her personal affairs can she catch a murderer and still keep her loved ones safe? And are the killings the work of a deranged mind – or a cover for something even more chilling?Don’t miss this first novel in a compelling new detective series that fans of Stephen Booth and Ann Cleeves will love. Praise for Small Mercies ‘Accomplished storytelling and perfectly meshed plot strands combine in this intriguing new series from Alex Walters’ Margaret Kirk, author of Shadow Man‘Small Mercies gets Alex Walters’ new series off to a cracking start with a blend of police procedural and conspiracy thriller set in the atmospheric landscape of Derbyshire.’ Martin Edwards, CWA Diamond Dagger winner 2020'Evocative, well plotted, with interesting characters and three concurrent mysteries. A definite 5 star read.’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐‘The storyline weaves all the seemingly unrelated threads together into a nail biting finale. I held my breath more than once, and couldn’t put the book down in case something terrible happened!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐‘Three plots swirl around each other, intersect and dance away again until the very end of this thriller where everything moves quickly to a totally unanticipated, breath-taking conclusion. I’m looking forward to the next in the series!’ NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Titan Books Ltd Reluctant Immortals
Book SynopsisFor fans of Mexican Gothic, a harrowing, sultry horror novel about the forgotten women in Dracula and Jane Eyre as they combat the toxic men intent on destroying their lives. Los Angeles, 1967. Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason – the forgotten women in Dracula and Jane Eyre – have been existing as undead immortals for centuries, unable to die and still tormented by the monsters that made them. Lucy has long fought against Dracula’s intoxicating thrall, refusing his charismatic darkness and her ensuing appetite for blood. Bertha Mason, the madwoman in the attic, is still pursued from afar by Mr Rochester, who wants to add her to his collection of devoted female followers. Then Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in San Francisco. To finally write their own story, Lucy and Bertha must boldly reclaim their stories from the men who tried to erase them in this harrowing gothic tale of love, betrayal and coercion.
£8.54
Titan Books Ltd A House with Good Bones
Book SynopsisDark and twisted family roots threaten to strangle their home's foundations in this chilling haunted house novel from the award-winning master of modern horror, T. Kingfisher. In this ordinary North Carolina suburb, family secrets are always in bloom. Samantha Montgomery pulls into the driveway of her family home to find a massive black vulture perched on the mailbox, staring at the house. Inside, everything has changed. Gone is the eclectic warmth Sam expects; instead the walls are a sterile white. Now, it's very important to say grace before dinner, and her mother won't hear a word against Sam's long-dead and little-missed grandmother, who was the first to put down roots in this small southern town. The longer Sam stays, the stranger things get. And every day, more vultures circle overhead...
£999.99
Flame Tree Publishing American Ghost Stories
Book SynopsisSettling in for a night of spine-chilling entertainment? Here's a gripping collection of classic American ghost tales by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe ('The Masque of the Red Death'), Francis Bret Harte ('The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle'), Edith Wharton ('Afterward'), Mark Twain ('A Ghost Story'), Harriet Beecher Stowe ('The Ghost in the Mill'), O. Henry ('A Ghost of a Chance'), H.P. Lovecraft ('The Outsider') and many more. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
£6.99
Bookvault Publishing The Blood Witch Saga (Books 5-8)
£29.99
Bookvault Publishing The Legacy of a Vampire Witch (Books 1-5)
£29.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shadow Girls
Book SynopsisCombining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie. Manchester, 1960s. Sally, a cynical fifteen-year-old schoolgirl, is much too clever for her own good. When partnered with her best friend, Pamela – a mouthy girl who no-one else much likes – Sally is unable to resist the temptation of rebellion. The pair play truant, explore forbidden areas of the old school and – their favourite – torment posh Sylvia Rose, with her pristine uniform and her beautiful voice that wins every singing prize. One day, Sally ventures (unauthorised, of course) up to the greenhouse on the roof alone. Or at least she thinks she's alone, until she sees Sylvia on the roof too. Sally hurries downstairs, afraid of Sylvia snitching, but Sylvia appears to be there as well. Amidst the resurgence of ghost stories and superstition among the girls, a tragedy is about to occur, one that will send Sally further and further down an uncanny rabbit hole... Praise for Shadow Girls: 'A terrific evocation of a bygone Manchester girlhood, poignant and creepy by turns, by one of the most under-rated writers in England' D.J. Taylor 'Compulsively readable, Shadow Girls is an atmospheric, shape-shifting novel, part coming-of-age, part supernatural thriller. Birch renders the atmosphere of the sixties impeccably, and conveys most brilliantly the taut, complicated relationships between teenage girls with all their neediness, bravado and gullibility' Lesley GlaisterTrade ReviewA terrific evocation of a bygone Manchester girlhood, poignant and creepy by turns, by one of the most under-rated writers in England -- D.J. TaylorCompulsively readable, Shadow Girls is an atmospheric, shape-shifting novel, part coming-of-age, part supernatural thriller -- Lesley GlaisterSlowly and superbly paints everyday life at an all-female school... Utterly gripping * Heat *Probing the effects of buried trauma and the Freudian return of the repressed, Birch's achievement here is to give an authentic, arresting voice to a character who has little insight into the depths of her psyche * Daily Mail *That unhappy girl is what really haunts the delusional and guilt-ridden Sally, through all the "almosts" of this novel. And those bruises are its real "heavy subject", subtly embedded in these clever, unnerving pages * TLS *
£9.49
Creation Books Tokyo Slaughterhouse: Part 2 of the Tokyo Trilogy
Book SynopsisThree ferocious teenaged gangs are fighting for control over the ruins of Tokyo, decimated 1 year earlier by a tsunami. The forces driving the lawless megalopolis are now those of carnage, sex and destruction.
£9.45
Peepal Tree Press Ltd Music for the Off-Key: Twelve Macabre Short
Book SynopsisA middle-aged man with a guilty taste for schoolgirls looks for a way to end his shame; a hotel receptionist begins a sexual adventure with shattering consequences; a young man is troubled by a persistent itch behind his shoulder-blades; a young African boy confronts his bullying class-mates in a surprising way; and a sculptor is asked to make a realistic life-size woman by a Japanese client. In these and the other stories in this collection, there is a delight in the dark, the grotesque, and the uncanny. In each of the stories, most of the characters are Black, and it both does and doesn't matter that this is so. As Courttia Newland's previous books have led us to expect, he is a meticulous, insightful observer of West London's Black communities, of their patterns of speech, fashions, their pleasures and the pressures of racism and exclusion they seek to escape. These are communities (and stories) in which crime, violence and drugs are part of the realities of life. But what is important here is not the sociology, but the form, in particular Courttia Newland's reinvigoration of the classic, popular short story form with its play with narrative twists and the unexpected. Drawing inspiration from everything from traditional horror movies to the contemporary sophistication of Japanese works in this genre, Newland brings together the literary and the popular in a uniquely Black British mix. In an afterword to these stories, Newland writes of his frustration with the narrow limits imposed by mainstream publishing expectations on Black British fiction, trapped between the immigrant 'Windrush' novel and the Yardie gangster novel with its American borrowings. "Music for the Off-Key" is distinctively British in its materials, black in a number of senses, and a thoroughly entertaining and sometimes shocking break-out from limiting expectations.
£8.54
The History Press Ltd The Fires and the Shadows: A Collection of the
Book Synopsis'The Fires and the Shadows' is a collection of some of the world's finest tales of the supernatural, from some of the literary world's most darkly glittering imaginations. Including works from Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce (The Devils Dictionary), Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling, this compilation is a volume that will terrify and delight, and ultimately to treasure.Table of ContentsWashington Irving - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart Conan Doyle - The Silver Mirror Ambrose Bierce - The Secret of Macarger's Gulch Daniel Defoe - The apparition of Mrs Veal Nathaniel Hawthorne - An Old Woman's Tale M.R. James - Number 13 J.S. Le Fanu - Green tea Sabine Baring-Gould - The Red-Haired Girl Rudyard Kipling - The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
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Poetry Wales Press Sing, Sorrow, Sorrow: Dark and Chilling Tales
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Oneiros Books Crawling Chaos: Selected Weird Fiction 1917-1927
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£9.45
Oneiros Books Crawling Chaos, Volume Two: Selected Weird
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Oneiros Books Skullcrusher, Volume One: Selected Weird Fiction,
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£9.45
Association for Scottish Literary Studies As It Was Told To Me: Three Short Stories by Sir
Book SynopsisSir Walter Scott (17711832) is chiefly remembered as one of the great historical novelists, with his best-known works including Waverley (1814), Ivanhoe (1819), and Redgauntlet (1824). His experiments in short fiction, however, began before he published his first novel and throughout his career he returned to the short story form, writing tales which often contained elements of Scottish supernaturalism or the macabre.As It Was Told to Me, introduced by Daniel Cook, collects three of Scott's short stories in one volume. My Aunt Margaret's Mirror', mixes a tale of reckless romance with supernatural theatrics; The Two Drovers' offers a slow-burn exposé of national conflict; and Wandering Willie's Tale' weaves a yarn around the grisly death of a despotic laird and a trip to hell.
£9.33
Dog Horn Publishing Terror Scribes
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£12.34
Dog Horn Publishing No Monsters Allowed
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£8.99
Sparkling Books Ltd Lynnwood
Book SynopsisWho wouldn't want to live in an idyllic village in the English countryside like Lynnwood? With its charming pub, old dairy, friendly vicar, gurgling brooks, and its old paths with memories of simpler times.But behind the conventional appearance of Lynnwood's villagers, only two sorts of people crawl out of the woodwork: those who hunt and those who are prey.Trade Review'A dark horror story set in a picturesque village. I would recommend this to fans of classic English horror as well as fans of Stephen King.' - Lucy O'Connor, Waterstones "A quintessentially British folk horror chiller, with an escalating power of dread that is rendered deftly. A new voice in British horror, that you'll want to read, has entered the field." - Adam Nevill "The plot line is new and exciting ... I was surprised more than once at what was happening. If you are looking for a good book, definitely pick up this one." - Alison Mudge, Librarian, USA " A dark journey not only of the mind, but of the soul. Mr. Brown's extraordinary talent is evident as he paints a virtual feast for the reader with eloquently chosen prose in this powerfully engaging novel." - Nina D'Arcangela "An exciting, on the edge of your seat gothic that will have readers begging for more." - Rosemary Smith, Librarian Philip Hoare "This book was great! I loved the author's writing style - the words flowed perfectly. Reading this was less like reading a book and more like watching the movie in my mind's eye. Fantastic!" - Laura Smith, Goodreads Reviewer.
£12.57
Istros Books Seven Terrors
Book SynopsisAfter nine months of self-imposed isolation following his wife's departure, the hero of Seven Terrors finally decides to face his loneliness and join the world once more. However, when the daughter of his old friend Alex appears in his flat one morning with the news that her father has disappeared, he realises that his life is again about to change. As the two search for clues in Alex's war diary, unearthed in a library in Sweden, they come upon tales of unspeakable horror and mystery: meetings with ghosts, a town under siege, demonic brothers who ride on the wings of war, and many more things so dangerous - and so precious - that they can only be discussed by the dead.Trade Review`'It's quite unlike anything I've read before, but it has all the consistency and force of something major and assured."; "It's a sideways look at the Bosnian war, with the divisions of the country mirrored in the divisions of life: between madness and sanity, the real world and the supernatural one, presence and absence, speech and silence.''; Nick Lezard in his Best Paperbacks 2014; "For all its wry humour and playfulness, this is a deeply serious exploration into the legacy of the Bosnian War, in which the fantastic elements are representative of an historical trauma too awful to describe directly." David Evans - The Independent; "...spine-chilling Gothic tale which involves mythological demons and rather hilarious observations about women's fashion magazines, alongside a terrifically compelling discourse on war, violence and humanity's dark heart." Ali Alizadeh, Sydney Review of Books
£8.54
BackPage Press Limited The Ghost of Helen Addison
Book SynopsisLeo Moran connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions sets out from the splendid isolation of his Glasgow apartment to solve the murder of a young woman at Loch Dhonn in the Argyll countryside.
£10.16
BackPage Press Limited The Mystery of the Strange Piper
Book SynopsisWelcome to the world of Leo Moran - connoisseur, private investigator, seer of visions. Asked by an old acquaintance to investigate a curse which is said to haunt the beautiful Scottish Isle of Sonna, Moran finds himself drawn into an extraordinary drama of envy, shame and vengeance.
£10.97
Sandstone Press Ltd The Harlequin: Winner of the Novella Award 2015
Book SynopsisThe armistice is months past but the memories won't go away. 'A harlequin, leaning against a tree stump and with a goblet of ale clasped in one outstretched hand. Beaumont felt chilled suddenly, in spite of the fire...Most likely it was the thing's mouth, red-lipped and fiendishly grinning, or maybe its face, which was white, expressionless, the face of a clown in full greasepaint.' Dennis Beaumont drove an ambulance in World War One. He returns home to London, hoping to pick up his studies at Oxford and rediscover the love he once felt for his fiancee Lucy. But nothing is as it once was. Mentally scarred by his experiences in the trenches, Beaumont finds himself wandering further into darkness. What really happened to the injured soldier he tried to save? Who is the figure that lurks in the shadows? How much do they know of Beaumont, and the secrets he keeps?
£7.99
Influx Press The Stone Tide: Adventures at the end of the
Book Synopsis'The problems started the day we moved to Hastings...' When Gareth E. Rees moves to a dilapidated Victorian house in Hastings he begins to piece together an occult puzzle connecting Aleister Crowley, John Logie Baird and the Piltdown Man hoaxer. As freak storms and tidal surges ravage the coast, Rees is beset by memories of his best friend's tragic death in St Andrews twenty years earlier. Convinced that apocalypse approaches and his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history and to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels and unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust? THE STONE TIDE is a novel about grief, loss, history and the imagination. It is about how people make the place and the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world.
£9.49
Snowbooks Ltd Bones of Empire
Book SynopsisThe only magic left comes from consuming the dead.Long ago, Ritakhou was a flourishing empire filled with light, life, and magic. Then came the Schism. Now the kingdom is called Rimbaku and is a pale shadow of its former self, a land stripped of its glory and its power. The only magic left comes from aitachi, the Relicant Touchthe ability to absorb skills and memories by consuming the bones of the dead. Throughout the land, status and success are based on one's aitachi and theaishone or relic bones one can attain, and the so-called Relicant Empire has grown stale and stagnant as a result.The young emperor, Hibikitsu, recognizes this but feels powerless to change centuries of habit and reliance. His finest warrior, Misataki Shizumi, also feels stifleddespite her prowess she is a commoner and can never rise above the rank of sergeant in the elite Honjofu, even though her commanding officer is a nobleborn fool. Seikoku, a koshitsu or graverobber, wrestles with the horror of what she does and the need to survive, while Chimehara, a beggar turned killer, has no compunctions against using every weapon at her disposal to attain her goals. And all the while Rimbaku's enemies are circling, testing the nation's borders. They know the empire is weak, and are determined to push it over the edge and then strip its bones as it has done to its dead for so long.Meanwhile, the brothers Kagiri and Noniki set out from their small village with a handful of aishone and a great deal of hope. They soon find the world a bigger, darker place than they imagined, and are forced to accept a dangerous proposal, one that will put both of them at risk for not only their lives but their very soulsbut that may change the Relicant Empire forever.
£8.54
Cinder House The Castle
Book SynopsisSummer 1972. Jon's adult life is about to begin. While exploring his late-father's study, Jon comes across a strange unpublished novel his father left behind. Fiction and reality blend a little too closely, and when he discovers a hidden appendix he learns that his father's imagination was more terrifying and more powerful than he ever thought.
£7.46
Bitter Lemon Press The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other
Book SynopsisAn impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected by two criminal acts--that allows Solana to explore the darker side of different parts of the city and their seedier inhabitants.
£8.54
Aurora Metro Publications Fix
Book Synopsis"I have lived with these trees and watched them grow. You have been away from here for too long, you don't see it. Or you have simply forgotten..." Responding to a call-out, a repairman finds himself inexplicably drawn to an old woman and her house in the woods. At first it seems like a simple fix, but as a storm starts to close in, he is forced to confront the ghosts from his past. A tale of guilt and childhood memory - can we ever really mend what is already broken?Trade Review‘…that rare beast… a bold theatrical experiment that is also remarkably entertaining.’ – The Times****; ‘…makes a fascinating evening of theatre, full of variety, but circling around a single powerful theme’. – The Scotsman****
£9.99
Inkandescent Kissing the Lizard: Two
Book SynopsisKissing the Lizard is an evocatively set desert gothic―part creepy coming-of-age story, part macabre-comedy, set partly in buzzing 1990s London and partly in barren New Mexico wildlands. When Jamie meets Matthew in Soho, he’s drawn to his new-age charms. But when he follows his new friend across the planet to a remote earthship in Taos, bizarre incidents begin unfolding and Matthew’s real nature reveals itself: he’s a manipulative monster embroiled in a strange cult. And Jamie finds himself at the centre a disturbing psychological nightmare as they seize the opportunity to recruit a new member. Pushed to his limits, lost in a shifting sagebrush landscape, can Jamie trust anyone to help him? And will he ever see home again?
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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
Monsoon Books The Black and White House
Book SynopsisAnna is thrilled to move into a black and white house in Adam Park, confident she will thrive in Singapore, find a job, make local friends. But echoes of footsteps in the hallways make her wonder whether rumours of the house being haunted are true. Overwhelmed and lonely in a new country, Anna slowly unravels.When Salimah, single mother to a rebellious teenager, loses her job, she revisits Adam Park where her childhood was uprooted. A place with a dark history. Anna bumps into Salimah, and their lives intertwine in unexpected ways. Tensions rise as the house''s haunting presence grips both women and threatens to upset an already fragile friendship.
£9.49
Aderyn Press Empty Greatcoat, The
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Severed Press World Of Monsters
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£12.33
Cohesion Press Snafu: Holy War
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£11.35
Two Lines Press Lion Cross Point
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£12.34
Ghoulish Books Rabbits in the Garden
£17.58
Mary Reason Theriot Haunted Visions: Grace's Story
£13.59
Source Point Press No Rest For The Wicked
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£15.29
Source Point Press The Dark
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£8.07
Weirdpunk Books Infinity Mathing at the Shore Other Disruptions
£999.99
Source Point Press The Dead Hand Book: Stories From Gravesend
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£21.59
Source Point Press Rise Of Dracula
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£17.09
Clash Books I Can Fix Her
£18.51
Pocket Books Ruby
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Penguin Adult Hidden Salem
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£999.99
Shadow Work Publishing Pedo Island Bloodbath
£12.29
Undertow Publications Nothing is Everything
£12.99
Mountolive Publishing White Haven and the Lord of Misrule: Paranormal Yuletide Mysteries
£9.49
