Ramsey Campbell deserves to be as well known to any horror reader – any
reader of any genre really – as Stephen King and yet for some reason he isn’t.
If you are coming to this without having read any of his impressive back
catalogue, don’t worry because there are many, many treats in store for you. The
Lonely Lands is most assuredly one of them and is a great place to start.
This story has echoes of Richard Matheson (in Where Dreams May Come)
in its premise. The main character is dealing with the loss of his dearly loved
wife and must endure the horrors of the other world. There the similarity ends
as The Lonely Lands takes very different twists and turns, transporting
the reader along with it in true Campbell style.
Expect the unexpected in among
the scares and darkness, along with poignancy and themes that ensure you won’t
forget this story in a hurry.
The latest bestseller from the ultimate craftsman of the dark fantastic, Ramsey Campbell. Joe Hunter has begun to adjust to the loss of his wife when he hears her calling from beyond, "Where am I?" His urge to help leads him into her afterlife, which is made up of their memories. Even the best of those is no refuge from the restless dead, and Joe can only lure them away from her. Soon they begin to invade his everyday life, and every journey he makes to find her leaves him less able to return. When her refuges turn nightmarish he…
Daniel Church is a new name in fiction but if The
Hollows is anything to go by, we will be hearing much more from him in the
future. This story is part horror and part crime – taking the best of both
traditions and mixing them together in an unholy and mesmerizing brew. Someone
needs to make a miniseries of this!
Set in the freezing cold of a Peak District winter, the author paints
the scene so vividly we can actually feel the intense cold penetrating our
bones and every fibre of our being as he takes us deep into the world of the
Harpers – a family surely spawned of hell. Local people’s lives are threatened.
First one murder then more. Fear is ratcheted up and so effectively it engages
all our senses. This is not your typical serial killing. Much more is going on
here, as police officer, Ellie, soon discovers.
From the first page to the last, this novel delivers.
Shortlisted for the 2022 British Fantasy Horror Award.
In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die. Stranger still, an odd mark has been drawn onto a stone beside his body. The next victims are two families…
Christi Nogel is a rising star of the horror
genre and The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future brings together
a number of her excellent, intriguing, and tantalizing short stories for the
first time.
The author excels at creating tense
atmospheres – fear, creeping dread (a particular favourite of mine), suspense,
tension, and overall unease. Here are worlds out of synch with each other. Here
are beings searching for something; anything they can make sense of. In these
stories you will meet the Gothic, the haunted, and the dystopian.
There are
twisted personalities – and there are beings who are not nor may ever have
been, human. It’s a real cornucopia – each story unique in itself and destined
to leave its mark on the reader.
"Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart. Don't miss this book; it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023."- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals
The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future collects Christi Nogle's finest psychological and supernatural horror stories.…
At a weekend house party at ancient Canonbury
Manor, Alli is caught between fantasy and reality, past and present, in the
life of Caroline Rand, a famous singer from the late Sixties, who reportedly
killed herself in that house. Alli soon learns that evil infests the once-holy
building. A sinister cabal controls it, as it has for centuries. Before long,
her fate will be sealed, and she will learn about her role in the after-death
of Caroline Rand.
It begins with a chilling greeting:
"Welcome to The Columbine, Miss Sinclair. You are expected."
