Andrew Hook

The Uneasy

Simon Bestwick

Have you ever been on a train going to a destination you don't want to reach? What about a train travelling through the night, where you are the only passenger in the carriage? Or maybe standing alone on a platform, waiting for a train you hope will come? Have you ever wondered about the history behind a train journey, or a station? How many people have travelled the line, or died during its construction? Has a shiver ever run up your spine as dead leaves scrape across the platform, propelled by a breath of wind on a quiet night? Have you ever wondered whether what you heard was a sigh, or a whisper, or just your imagination? There are many stories involving railroads, trains, stations, junctions and crossings. Stories about people journeying towards unknown futures that may involve life changing events, or death, or revelations. The 23 stories in this anthology play upon those fears and uncertainties. Each one explores the journeys we might take into horrific, supernatural or extraordinary futures. Guilt, unresolved desires and disbelief all play their part in creating vivid and disturbing nightmares from which there is no escape, or from which a frightening lesson is learned. The train awaits, ready to carry you along tracks that disappear into darkness. Somewhere out there are the horrors that we all imagine and hope will never happen. Enjoy the journey... Trevor Denyer July 2021

Railroad Tales

Andrew Morris

Kevin Brown

David Brookes

Adam Bradley

Eric S. Brown

Lennart Svensson

Nicholas Day

Alan Spencer

Barbra Annino

Lee Collins

Kevin Wallis

Tom Cardamone

Adrian Ludens

John M. Radosta

Richard Farren Barber

Christian McPhate

Wayne Summers

Thomas Henry Dylan

Willie Smith

Simon Addams

Aaron Polson

David McGillveray

Colin Meldrum

Craig Hallam

Paul Eckert

Morpheus Tales: The Best Weird Fiction Volume 3 Second Edition

Often seen as a mirroring the contemporary movement of American history itself, Scott Fitzgerald's literary life was a roller- coaster ride from early success in the 1920s to apparent oblivion by the end of the 1930s. This study attempts to account for such a problematic career by focusing on Fitzgerald's struggle to sustain a perilous balancing act between his commitment to a totally involving life on the one hand, and his parallel commitment to the serious business of art on the other.

A Literary Life

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Is There Life After Death? Ex-cop, Mordent, is an irascible, anachronistic PI with a noir sensibility and a bubblewrap fetish. Hired to investigate a missing person case he believes the job to be an easy pay-check, but when the kid turns up dead and appears to have aged beyond death, Mordent finds the mystery is only just beginning. When a second body is found similarly aged, Mordent is pulled into rival gang leaders' quests for immortality, a race where the objective is not to finish. And it becomes personal when Marina, a psychic, disappears after tipping off the police about the second body. Mordent had unfinished business with her. The Immortalists is the first in a series of exciting crime novels putting a neo-noir twist on the genre conventions of bums and dames, corruption and perversion, and cops and informers; all played out on rain-soaked streets amid a shadow-filled city. 'An excellent writer and stylist, reminding me of Raymond Chandler, Malcolm Pryce and Jasper Fforde. Suitably creepy and sometimes laugh out loud funny.' Emlyn Rees, author of 'That Summer He Died' 'Andrew Hook's fiction is always recognisable, but never predictable. He has that rare, lovely ability: to mess with your expectations while entertaining you at the same time.' Mat Coward, Dagger and Edgar shortlisted crime writer

The Immortalists

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