Tilly-Rose, a young mother from Oxford, flees a difficult and abusive relationship, but her escape doesn't go according to plan.Her desperate attempt ends in a tragic accident.Years after this, a grizzly murder in a quiet part of town shocks detectives. A corpse is found - body twisted and eyes missing. DS Shepherd, a young woman with a tortured past, must overcome her inner demons, and connect the dots before the killer claims another life.

Liminal Horizons as a series is about exploring beyond the walls that bind us and breaking the borders of the "proper" world to find the one that is right for us. This first anthology brings us home and shares the many reasons it isn't the place we expect to find. We discarded and lost a lot along the way, and it often made the journey lighter and easier. There are monsters back among our discards. It's probably best to let them lie.The monsters around us aren’t always the...

This second volume of The Rabbit Hole is every bit as flumbiferous as the first. Which is just as Alice likes, because weirdness abounds and the warren never ends. Are you out for revenge? You'll need the right app. Or perhaps you've done something foolish? Never mind – it can be undone. Would you like to be in a video game? That too can be arranged - at a cost.All this and more in 29 stories to leave you pondering realms beyond our perception. Unless, perhaps, they've been there a...

"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for ReproductionDouglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local mall.After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for several weeks, splitting his time b...

A young novelist "turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher . . . enthralling and ultimately sobering" ( Kirkus Reviews).Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong—even evil. But when the perpetrator is a ...

Collected short fiction from the master of terror that "showcase[s] Campbell's gift for a sense of understated, slowly growing menace . . . Ghosts and Grisly Things is grim, grown-up horror" ( The Washington Post ).Ramsey Campbell's novels have justly won him acclaim as one of the best writers of the age. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and an eight-time winner of...

The Lighthouse meets My Cousin Rachel in this gothic horror in which Morgan and her ex-con father are stalked by a mysterious stranger after taking up residence in an old tower.Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother. She has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. Finally, mid-pandemic, Owen is set free, but the debt-riddled pair can no longer afford (or bear) to live in the family home- a house la...

Mongrel Trilogy: Book OneHunzinger's Mechanical Circus, a rollicking seaside carnival where imagination meets machinery, shines as the only bright spot in the dreary city of Purinton. A shadow is cast there one day when a tall, cloaked figure approaches the stand of Will Marchman, a young patent-medicine salesman. Fanule Perfidor, commonly known as the Dog King, isn't welcome at the Circus. No resident of Taintwell is; they're all Branded Mongrels, officia...

Lillie has come a long way from the shimmering heat, big skies and rocky mountains of her home. A long way not just in terms of distance, but in terms of experience. For it is here in England, a land of cold, scuffed and tumbling streets, that she finds the love she has needed for so long.Lovesong is a romance, but it is also a tightly woven thriller, a sumptuous and truly extraordinary work. Drawing on the themes of displacement and home that threaded through her previous...

On a journey from the Jersey Shore to the Pacific Ocean the driver crosses an America twisted beyond all recognition, pursued by ghosts of his traumatic past, and by the police, who have discovered the horrifying secrets of his basement.On and off the road, we glimpse the lives of people who are touched by the driver in one way or another - a porn star who can no longer perform; a widower looking for love; two parents who return day after day to the spot where their son was killed....

I am Death. I know who you are...There is darkness and madness in each of us. We must do battle with our own demons.But...What if those demons opened the door in the back of your mind and stepped out. What if they became real? If the night, the shadows, the reflections and Death himself walked among us? And what if they were watching you? Waiting? Thirsting...?Dark Places. Thirteen stories. Thirteen poems.Thirteen doorways.-Praise for...

The leash is broken. The reckoning begins.In the aftermath of catastrophe, the world reels - or it should. Instead, he alone remains standing, left to bear the silence of absolute absence.Grief, regret, and guilt sharpen into rage. The leash that once dragged him down is gone, but its mark still burns. Now he walks through the ashes with only one purpose: vengeance.But in a land where monsters reign and even the laws of nature twist without warning,...