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Adam Nevill's The Ritual meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in
this atmospheric gothic literary horror. Ten years ago, four young
men shot some elk then went on with their lives. It happens every
year; it's been happening forever; it's the way it's always been.
But this time it's different. Ten years after that fateful hunt,
these men are being stalked themselves. Soaked with a powerful
gothic atmosphere, the endless expanses of the landscape press down
on these men - and their children - as the ferocious spirit comes
for them one at a time. The Only Good Indians, charts Nature's
revenge on a lost generation that maybe never had a chance. Cleaved
to their heritage, these parents, husbands, sons and Indians, men
live on the fringes of a society that has rejected them, refusing
to challenge their exile to limbo.
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts
the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the
pathway to forgiveness. 'The rain pattered dismally against the
panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of
the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the
creature open...' Victor Frankenstein's monster is stitched
together from the limbs of the dead, taken from 'the dissecting
room and the slaughter-house'. The result is a grotesque being who,
rejected by his maker and starved of human companionship, sets out
on a journey to seek his revenge. In the most famous gothic horror
story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the
nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness. Begun when
Mary Shelley was only eighteen years old and published two years
later, this chilling tale of a young scientist's desire to create
life - and the consequences of that creation - still resonates
today.
"An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at
that"- Guillermo del Toro It's Ray's and Sandra's first family
holiday in Greece, on the island of Vasilema. The skies are
cloudier than anywhere else in Greece, and they're intrigued by
local eccentricities-the lack of mirrors, the outsize beach
umbrellas, the saint's day celebrated with an odd nocturnal ritual.
Why are there islanders who seem to follow the family wherever they
go? Why do Sandra and the teenage grandchildren have strangely
similar dreams? Has Sandra been granted a wish she didn't know she
made? Before their holiday is over, some of the family may learn
too much about the secret that keeps the island alive. FLAME TREE
PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing.
Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors
and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original
voices.
THE DRAWING OF THE THREE is the second volume in Stephen King's
epic Dark Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion
picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. In the second
novel of Stephen King's bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of
Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doors
which open - for Roland, and Roland alone - to different times in
our world. He must draw the three who should accompany him on the
road. In 1980s New York, Roland joins forces with defiant Eddie
Dean. The second door leads to the 1960s and conflicted civil
rights activist Odetta Holmes. The final door reveals Jack Mort, a
deadly serial killer, in the 1970s. Mort is stalking Jake, the
young boy Roland met in Mid-World. As titanic forces gather, a
savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies
threatens to bring an end to Roland's journey toward the Dark
Tower... JOIN THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER... THE DARK TOWER
SERIES: THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE
DRAWING OF THE THREE THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK
TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA
THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK
TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL
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It feels like history is repeating itself when out-of-favour
detective Will Harlan gets summoned to a murder scene in the
village of Brackenbrae after a young girl is found hanging in the
woods. Five years ago Harlan headed up the investigation of an
identical killing in the same woods; a mishandled investigation
that effectively destroyed his credibility as a detective. The new
case immediately takes a bizarre twist when the body is identified
as the same girl found hanging in the woods five years ago. The
following day a local man commits suicide and the police find more
dead girls hidden in his basement. It seems an open and shut case.
Until the killing spree begins. Harlan finds himself drawn into a
dark world where murder is a form of self-expression and human life
treated as one more commodity to be used and discarded. The only
clue that links everything is a large oil painting of `Sagittarius
A' - a massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy orbited by
thirteen stars, the canvas daubed in blood with the words - Heart
Swarm.
From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a
major motion picture, a collection of four dark and compelling
novellas about love gone wrong. The young fourth wife of a
prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife
comes to stay. A shy teenager meets a dazzling kindred spirit. But
the first sparks of young love soon take on a darker shade... A
spoiled frat boy decides to murder his parents, only to be floored
by the power of his mother's love; and a fragile woman reveals
deeply buried secrets to her curious lover with devastating
consequences... All of these stories are about love, just not as we
like to think of it. Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates: 'A writer of
extraordinary strengths.' Guardian 'Oates chillingly depicts the
darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express 'Both
haunting and sublime.' Literary Review 'Splendidly chilling.'
Financial Times 'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially
astute.' Booklist
As the winter nights draw in and you settle in front of a cosy
fire, it's the perfect time for a dash of the
supernatural...embrace the gloom with spine-chillers from Charles
Dickens, H.G. Wells, Edith Wharton and many more Do you believe in
ghosts? Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt
the presence of someone - or something - hovering in the darkest
corners of our imaginations. The great writers of the nineteenth
and early twentieth century, from Elizabeth Gaskell to Rudyard
Kipling, also produced some of the most influential ghost stories
ever written, defining the genre for generations of writers to
follow. Gathered in this thrilling collection are some of the most
iconic Victorian ghost stories, from Charles Dickens's 'The
Signalman' to M.R. James's 'A Warning to the Curious', alongside
more unexpected contributions from masters of the form such as J.S.
Le Fanu and H.G. Wells. You may think you don't believe in ghosts,
but these stories will haunt you nonetheless.
"In every respect, Campbell's best." - Kirkus Reviews Isolated on
the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained
faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals
alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn't about to let that
continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a
chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends
into the pit where the ancient being who's been worshipped by the
Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in
Mann's shape, and only the town's outcasts can see that something
is horribly wrong. As the evil spreads, Moonwell becomes cut off
from the rest of the world... FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction
imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings
together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award
winners, and exciting, original voices.
This masterfully crafted horror classic, featuring a brand-new
introduction by Dan Simmons, will bring you to the edge of your
seat, hair standing on end and blood freezing in your veins
It's the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven,
Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds
that a lifetime of change will not break. From sunset bike rides to
shaded hiding places in the woods, the boys' days are marked by all
of the secrets and silences of an idyllic middle-childhood. But
amid the sundrenched cornfields their loyalty will be pitilessly
tested. When a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night,
the townsfolk know it marks the end of their carefree days. From
the depths of the Old Central School, a hulking fortress tinged
with the mahogany scent of coffins, an invisible evil is rising.
Strange and horrifying events begin to overtake everyday life,
spreading terror through the once idyllic town. Determined to
exorcize this ancient plague, Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin
must wage a war of blood--against an arcane abomination who owns
the night...
Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by
master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of
spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all
readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for
those who wish to visit the featured lighthouses for themselves . .
. if they dare.
Monster hunter Erica Slaughter becomes the hunted and faces her
doom alone! With the last person in her corner gone and a ruthless
agent from the Order of St. George closing in, Erica Slaughter
finds herself alone and without a prayer. Can she take on this
horrific new monster plaguing the small town of Tribulation, New
Mexico by herself, or is this the end of her story? Erica is faced
with a choice to reach out to an unexpected source for help, or
find herself dealing with both a monster and her human enemies
alone… Erica Slaughter faces her deadliest challenge yet in the
next volume of the Eisner-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series
from GLAAD Award-winning author James Tynion IV (Department of
Truth, The Nice House on the Lake), artist Werther Dell’Edera
(Razorblades), colorist Miquel Muerto (Radiant Red), and letterer
AndWorld Design (Nightwing, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr).
Collects Something is Killing the Children #26-30.
'A smart, thrilling, utterly unnerving novel' GILLIAN FLYNN on
Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS. It is
only after their father dies that Aaron, Bridge and Franny learn
how wealthy he was. But they must fulfil a request in his will to
get any inheritance: spend a month in a cabin, deep in the
mountains, with no contact with the outside world. Despite their
concerns, they agree. BUT SECRETS CAN BE A REAL KILLER. The
isolation soon makes them question what their father was trying to
tell them. And why they have memories of the cabin, though none of
them have been there before. The only thing they are sure of is
that something is calling to them from the darkness of the woods.
And before the month is through, they will discover just how deadly
secrets can be. For fans of The Haunting of Hill House, Twin Peaks
and Stephen King, Andrew Pyper returns with this gripping novel
about the dark side of family. *** PRAISE for ANDREW PYPER ***
'Brilliant thriller . . . readers will be invested in the
thoughtfully constructed characters. Fans of Josh Malerman's Bird
Box will be pleased' Publishers Weekly on The Homecoming (* Starred
Review) 'One assumes the book was written beneath a full moon . . .
Pyper's petrifying imagination comes through in the details. The
Homecoming creates a battle between the reader's faith in what they
know about their own histories and the leery possibility of
treachery emerging out of nowhere . . . Pyper's craftsmanship knows
no limit when it comes to making the reader confront their own
inescapable fears' Globe and Mail 'Weird, wonderful, audacious . .
. Brilliantly constructed and absolutely mesmerizing, this could
very well be [Pyper's] best book yet' Booklist 'Genuinely
terrifying, don't-read-late-at-night stuff. Thrilling, compelling
and beautifully written' SJ Watson, bestselling author of Before I
Go to Sleep 'Pyper's style flips back and forth from gallows humour
to Grand Guignol horror...you'll want to keep all the lights on as
you read this one' Independent on Sunday on Lost Girls 'With
impressive skill and confidence...Pyper has created an intricate
puzzle, playing with elements of the courtroom drama, the detective
story and country Gothic...As a debut novel, Lost Girls is
remarkable and compelling. But more than that, it is a novel that
goes some way towards reinventing the literary ghost story as a
modern-day going concern' The Times on Lost Girls 'Sentence by
sentence there's little to fault: the moody unease of small-town
Canada is maintained and a creeping horror revealed' Guardian on
Lost Girls 'A best-seller in the author's native Canada...it's easy
to see why...extremely compelling' Sunday Telegraph on Lost Girls
'This is an excellently written novel, brilliant in its evocation
of an atmosphere which, at first mildly sinister, progressively
thickens and darkens' Evening Standard on Lost Girls
Tower of Fear is a lost horror film starring Karloff and Lugosi. A
film historian who locates a copy dies while fleeing something that
terrified him. His friend Sandy Allan vows to prove he found the
film. She learns how haunted the production was and the survivors
of it still are. It contains a secret about Redfield, a titled
family that owns a favourite British food, Staff o' Life. The
Redfield land has uncanny guardians, and one follows Sandy home. To
maintain its fertility Redfield demands a sacrifice, and a band of
new age travellers is about to set up camp there... 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.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young
woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy
named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her
child. The two seem anxious and, at David's ever more insistent
prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently
recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has
landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of
horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is
brought into shocking focus. One of the freshest new voices to come
out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of
strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this
cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and
desperation of family.
An atmospheric Gothic ghost story, where The Silent Companions
meets Daphne du Maurier in South America and a woman faces the
darkness bestowed by vengeance. "A phantasmagoric mixture of M. R.
James, The Shining and The Turn of the Screw set among the
otherworldly Argentinian Pampas." - EDWARD PARNELL, author of
Ghostland Winter 1913. Ursula Kelp, a young English gardener, has
come to Argentina to restore the gardens of Las Lagrimas. The
long-abandoned estate lies deep in the Pampas, the vast empty
grasslands of South America where the wind blows without end.
Despite warnings from the locals of terrible things that once
happened there and the evil that lingers, Ursula sets out to her
new post full of hope. Yet when she arrives, all is not as
promised. The garden is an untameable wilderness, the staff
hostile. Setting to work, Ursula is disturbed by the crunch of
footsteps on empty gravel paths, while from the nearby forest comes
the frenzied chop of an axe when no one is there. But it is only as
she unlocks the secrets of the place that Ursula comes to
understand the true horror she is facing. For lurking in the trees
- watching her, waiting for her - is a malevolent force that wants
Las Lagrimas for itself.
For two generations, the rural hill town of Grendel, Kentucky has
honored its Faustian bargain with the monster living in its
abandoned coal mine: a human sacrifice every season in return for
agrarian prosperity the likes of which this rocky region had never
before seen (including its greatest cash crop: the dankest weed in
the land). When one town elder breaks this pact, Grendel's only
hope is that its prodigal daughter will return home to face down
the creature of her nightmares-and bring her all-female biker gang
with her.
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Algernon Blackwood, one of the founding fathers of modern ghost and
horror stories, inspired generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft
to Shirley Jackson and our very own Ramsey Campbell. Blackwood's
'The Empty House' is one of the most famous haunted house stories
in the English language, with its carefully crafted gathering of
tension and dread inference of terrors lurking at the end of every
corridor, around every corner, through every half-opened door. This
edition includes 'A Haunted Island', 'The Wood of the Dead',
'Skeleton Lake' and several other ghoulish tales. FLAME TREE 451:
From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to
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. Each book features a brand new
biography and a new glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian
terms.
The Horror Writers Association Presents
" BLOOD LITE "
...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into
dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper
the jagged edge.
Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a
quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a
gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore..".In an all-new Dresden
Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly
paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a "Day Off" for the
Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon
turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting
seraph with one hell of an afterlife in "Where Angels Fear to
Tread..".Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out
seance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone
to pick, in Kelley Armstrong's "The Ungrateful Dead." Plus tales
guaranteed to get under your skin -- in a good way -- from
Janet Berliner Don D'Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A.
Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn
McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric
James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch
So let the blood flow and laughter reign -- because when it comes
to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long
way
THE DARK TOWER is the seventh volume in Stephen King's epic Dark
Tower series. The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring
Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. The final book in King's epic
The Dark Tower series, sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster
ride of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting
quest to reach the dark tower. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have
journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across
multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland,
Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the
Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own
endings and beginnings and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence,
and discovery. And as he closes in on the Tower, Roland's every
step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. Finally, he
realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone... JOIN
THE QUEST FOR THE DARK TOWER... THE DARK TOWER SERIES: THE DARK
TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGER THE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREE
THE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDS THE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND
GLASS THE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLA THE DARK TOWER VI: SONG
OF SUSANNAH THE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWER THE WIND THROUGH THE
KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL
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