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King and Chizmar join forces again with a powerful stand-alone
novel that is also the final chapter in the Gwendy trilogy. When
Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave
her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage
coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured
buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box
re-entered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising
political star, she was once more forced to deal with the
temptations that the box represented - an amazing sense of
wellbeing, balanced by a terrifyingly dark urge towards disaster.
With the passing of time, the box has grown ever stronger and evil
forces are striving to possess it. Once again, it is up to Gwendy
Peterson, now a United States Senator battling the early symptoms
of Alzheimer's Disease, to keep it from them. At all costs. But
where can you hide something from such powerful entities? Gwendy's
Final Task is a wildly suspenseful and at the same time deeply
moving novel in which 'horror giants' (Publishers Weekly) Stephen
King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to
another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where
Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe,
all worlds.
This radical, masterful series from internationally bestselling
author Darren Shan is perfect for fans of The Walking Dead. The
undead have hit London, and they're taking over. Brain by brain.
But how many people survived the zombie apocalypse? B Smith thought
escaping from the underground prison was a step towards salvation,
but life above ground is another kind of hell. The zombie clown is
coming for her. Can B find shelter in a city of the damned? And who
can be trusted in a world gone mad? Death is not the end . . .
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Dracula
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Bram Stoker; Illustrated by James Pyman
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Truly a "Dracula" for both art and book lovers, this new edition of
the most famous of vampire tales completely overhauls the notion of
how a literary classic might be creatively revisited. James Pyman
is already famed for his eerily exacting and hallucinatory
draftsmanship, as well as for his relish for the exploration of
book formats such as cartoon or children's books, and is therefore
ideally suited to the illustration of this volume. Herein, Pyman
returns to the original text, illustrating a line or phrase from
each of the novel's 27 chapters in a series of wonderfully sinister
and weirdly clinical pencil drawings. The book, which Bram Stoker
composed as a series of diaries, letters and newspaper cuttings,
has been typeset by designer John Morgan with a different typeface
allocated to each character--each font being based on those in use
at the time of the book's original publication. As a final
flourish, the striking bright yellow clothbound cover, with its
vivid red lettering, is based on that of the first UK edition.
The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of
travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark
and twisted has taken root at the Bender Inn . . . At first the
townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and
her family. Kate's messages from the Beyond give their tedious
dreams hope and her mother's potions cure their little ills-for a
price. No one knows about their other business, the shortcut to a
better life. And why shouldn't their family prosper? They're
careful. It's only from those who are marked, those who travel
alone and can easily disappear, that the Benders demand their pound
of flesh. But even a gifted seer like Kate can make a misstep. Now
as the secrets festering beneath the soil of the family orchard
threaten to bring them all to ruin, the Benders must sharpen their
craft-or vanish themselves. ________________ Praise for Camilla
Bruce - 'Extraordinary' The Times - 'Dark glee and tragedy - you'll
gobble this up' Laura Purcell - 'An amazing book, riveting,
heart-breaking and intense. I couldn't put it down' My Favourite
Murder Podcast
Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction. Removing the
bonds of time on a story allows for many interesting possibilities,
but it also presents complicated problems and paradoxes. In this
collection, featuring stories from the 1880s to the 1960s, we are
taken to the remote future and back to the distant past. We are
trapped in an eternal loop and met with visitors and objects from
the future. We come face to face with our past selves, and
experience the chaos of living out of sync with everyone else in
the universe. These are just some of the thrilling narratives to
discover as we unwind the constraints of time.
Dare you crack open the TerrorTome? (Mind the spine) When horror
writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the
terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions
inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his
escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain - Nick must
defend the town of Stalkford from his own fictional horrors,
including avascular-necrosis-obsessed serial killer Nelson Strain
and Nick's dreaded throppleganger, the Dark Third. Can he and Roz,
his frequently incorrect female editor, hunt down these incarnate
denizens of Nick's rampaging imaginata before they destroy
Stalkford, outer Stalkford and possibly slightly further? From the
twisted genius of horror master Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman,
Darkscribe, Doomsage (plus Man-Shee) - come three dark tales from
his long-lost multi-volume epic: TerrorTome. Can a brain leak?
(Yes, it can) ------------------------------------------- 'Reads
like Garth's classic oeuvre of paperback horrors crossed with the
X-Files, Faustian myth and bits of Manimal. Plus the cover is
embossed with genuine foil at his insistence and at your expense'
Ken Hodder, Head of Hodder 'These three tales of terror by Garth
Marenghi are... quality' Queen Fang, NosFor(at)um.com 'A strong
beginning, deepening intrigue and a knockout ending' How to Write
Magazine
'Highly recommended' Nuala Ellwood 'Tense and creepy . . .
brilliant' Harriet Tyce 'Hooks readers in and keeps them dangling
will the very last page' Daily Mail 'Without a doubt the best book
I've read this year' Reader Review ***** 'Spine-chilling in its
intensity, addictive and twisty, this was quite simply an AMAZING
read' Reader Review ***** 'Utterly addictive and impossible to
second guess' Claire Douglas 'Dark and thoroughly compulsive, a
definite up-all-nighter' Kate Hamer 'Extremely sinister . . . had
me frantically turning the pages' Reader Review ***** 'I literally
could not put it down' Reader Review ***** 'Taut, tense and
brilliantly gripping' Simon Lelic 'Immersive and eerie' Heat
_____________________ For Tess, her older sister Bella is her whole
world. She's smart and beautiful and popular - everything Tess
isn't - and since the death of their mother it's just been them and
their grieving father. But now a new family has moved into the
empty house on the edge of the woods, bringing with them a world of
boys and alcohol, and Tess can feel her sister slipping away from
her. Until the bodies of two local schoolgirls are found in the
woods, and Tess is convinced that this new family has something to
hide. As events threaten to destroy everything they hold dear,
Bella and Tess determine to bring the truth to light. So the two
girls go into the woods . . .
The Stoker Award-winning, taut and propulsive twist on home
invasion horror, packed psychological suspense. Soon to be a major
film, Knock At the Cabin, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are
vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake, with
their closest neighbours more than two miles in either direction.
As Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger
unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man
Wen has ever seen but he is young and friendly. Leonard and Wen
talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologises and tells Wen,
"None of what's going to happen is your fault". Three more
strangers arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing
objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls
out: "Your dads won't want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We
need your help to save the world." So begins an unbearably tense,
gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that
escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a
loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are intertwined.
The Cabin at the End of the World is a masterpiece of terror and
suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul
Tremblay. Soon to be a major film. Knock at the Cabin, directed by
M. Knight Shyamalan and startting Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff,
Rupert Grint and Nikki Amuka-Bird.
Jade Daniels faces down a brutal serial killer in his pulse-punding
tribute to the golden era of horror cinema and Friday the 13th from
the New York Times-bestselling, multiple-award winning Jones. Four
years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released
from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is
overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as
she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South,
seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes
from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of
Proofrock, Idaho. Dark Mill South's Reunion Tour began on December
12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later,
on Friday the 13th, it would be over. Don't Fear the Reaper is the
page-turning sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw from New York Times
bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones.
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Fellstones
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Ramsey Campbell
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Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green.
It's where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after his
parents died in an accident for which he blames himself. The way
the Staveleys tried to control him made him move away and change
his name. Why were they obsessed with a strange song he seemed to
have made up as a child? Now their daughter Adele has found him. By
the time he discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be
trapped. There are other dark secrets he'll discover, and memories
to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they're about to waken.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame
Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the
horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime /
mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic
new authors and the more established; the award winners, and
exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at
www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.
`This thing has no defined shape. Whatever energy exists within it,
it cannot settle on a shape. The strands of darkness curl out and
then wrap back inwards. The bulk of the shadow becomes concave,
then bulbous, the height building in on itself but lacking any
skeletal structure to wrap itself around. There are no eyes, no
clearly defined head shape. It is creating itself from darkness,
like a swirl of ebony ink dropped into a vat of putrid water,
spreading silently....' Becky Moran has built a career claiming to
talk to the dead. A successful clairvoyant medium, a Cambridge
graduate with her own radio show `Medium Wave' and a team dedicated
to crafting the celebrity myth - because Becky Moran is a fake.
Until, one night, something supernatural, inexplicable, breaks
through live on air as she is broadcasting. Becky Moran discovers
the paranormal is real, the dead can indeed speak and she is being
pursued relentlessly towards a battle for her very survival.
A wildly creative new manga series from the creator of Dorohedoro
in which necromancy, space action, and dark humor collide! Zaha
Sanko's body has great and terrible powers-they say that possessing
his bones will grant you any wish, even the desire to become ruler
of the universe. But Sanko is still a teenage dude with his own
life, and he isn't about to let every monstrous lowlife in the
galaxy rip him limb from limb. He and his skeletal buddy Avakian
will use their dark powers to fend off any murder attempts while
they search space for whomever put this curse on Sanko's
bones...because killing them might end the madness. (And then Sanko
can celebrate with his favorite spaghetti.) Don't miss this
hilariously twisted and gruesome new series from the unique mind of
Q Hayashida, creator of the manga and Netflix anime Dorohedoro!
This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge.
This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street. All these things are true. And yet some of them are lies.
An unspeakable secret binds the family together, and when a new neighbour moves in next door, the truth may destroy them all. Because there's something buried in the dark forest at the end of Needless Street.
But it's not what you think...
From the multiple award-winning author of Little Eve and Rawblood, this extraordinary tale will thrill and move readers. A work of incredible imagination and heartbreaking beauty.
'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes
sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The
Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the
counter. It bit him.' A brush with a killer hornet upends a
reverend's life. A moth wreaks a strange vengeance on an
entomologist. Bees deliver a supernatural dilemma to a
mother-to-be. This new anthology offers a broad range of stories
from the long history of insect literature, where six-legged beasts
play many roles from lethal enemies to ethereal messengers. With
expert notes on how each tale contributed to insect horror
literature, Janette Leaf and Daisy Butcher are your field guides
for a tour through classic insect encounters from the minds of
Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Clare Winger Harris and many more.
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Cold Blood
(Paperback)
Genevieve McCluer
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Witches
- A Novel
(Hardcover)
Brenda Lozano; Translated by Heather Cleary
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Rafael
(Paperback)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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'Horrific and hilarious ... a dystopic vision of an England that
would have given Orwell the heebie-jeebies' Independent 'A
brilliant work of satire' The Quietus A SCARFOLK SANCTIONED BOOK
AUTHORISED EDITION, AS SEEN ON THE RADIO The Scarfolk Annual is the
facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west
of England in August 2018. The shop, and indeed town, do not wish
to be identified as they are keen to "discourage the
'occult-totalitarian tourism' that as afflicted other areas of
Britain" as people hunt for further socio-archaeological traces of
the mysterious, missing town of Scarfolk - Britain's own Brutalist
Atlantis. Apart from the archive of Scarfolk materials which was
sent anonymously to the late Dr Ben Motte and formed the basis of
the book Discovering Scarfolk, this children's annual is, to date,
the only complete artefact from Scarfolk ever to be unearthed 'in
the wild'. It's clear The Scarfolk Annual was not written to
entertain children at Christmastime; its purpose was to
indoctrinate young minds; in fact, one might go as far as to say
destroy young minds, to an end that has been lost to us.
"Tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell... I loved it."
Stephen King Pursued by unknown terrors across the frozen Siberian
tundra, a documentary-maker experiences a nightmare journey into
the icy darkness in the terrifying new novel from the multi
award-winning author. Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered
wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma
Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving
distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face
such challenging conditions as icy surfaces, limited visibility,
and an average temperature of sixty degrees below zero, fatal car
accidents are common. But motorists are not the only victims of the
highway. Known as the Road of Bones, it is a massive graveyard for
the former Soviet Union's gulag prisoners. Hundreds of thousands of
people worked to death and were left where their bodies fell,
consumed by the frozen elements and plowed beneath the permafrost
road. Fascinated by the history, documentary producer Felix "Teig"
Teigland is in Russia to drive the highway, envisioning a new
series capturing Life and Death on the Road of Bones with a ride to
the town of Akhust, "the coldest place on Earth", collecting ghost
stories and local legends along the way. Only, when Teig and his
team reach their destination, they find an abandoned town, save one
catatonic nine-year-old girl and a pack of predatory wolves, faster
and smarter than any wild animals should be. Pursued by the
otherworldly beasts, Teig's companions confront even more uncanny
and inexplicable phenomena along the Road of Bones, as if the
ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them. It is a harrowing
journey that will push Teig beyond endurance and force him to
confront the sins of his past.
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