D. M. Mitchell

In November 1974, a young woman called Sylvia Tredwin goes missing. Nobody has the faintest idea where she's gone. She was wearing only a light skirt and T-shirt, didn't take anything with her, no suitcase, nothing. Simply went out one dark evening and never returned. Some say she went off with another man, because there'd already been talk in the small Somerset village of Petheram that she's that type of woman - attractive, flirty with it, dressed too provocatively. But her husband, Bruce Tredwin, doesn't believe a word of the callous whisperings of the locals as they gossip about his outsider wife. So he never gives up searching for her. A fortnight later on a stormy winter's night he finds her. She's naked in a place called Flinder's Field, wandering aimlessly, badly bruised and in total shock. But what she says to him will astound everyone. She says she's been abducted by aliens, and she was never to be the same again, with tragic consequences... Forty years later and George Lee is coming back to Petheram, the village of his birth. His estranged father has died and there are things his mother would like him to sort out. George hates the village, couldn't wait to get out and make a life for himself as a writer of cheap and gory thrillers. He notices that Adam Tredwin, Sylvia Tredwin's son, has also returned to Petheram. As children, the two used to be friends, briefly, before Adam's father was killed in the 1980s by a hit-and-run driver and Sylvia took him away from the village. But it's when George begins to tidy out his father's loft and slowly begins to learn more details about Sylvia Tredwin's disappearance that he starts to uncover dark secrets and hidden truths - discoveries that will peel back the decades to reveal a labyrinthine world of madness, jealousies, deceit, lies and murder. He little knows his idle quest to find out the truth behind Sylvia Tredwin's abduction will have profound and dangerous consequences for all concerned. D. M. Mitchell pens yet anther taut psychological thriller and murder mystery, set in the claustrophobic world of a small Somerset village, with a bevy of believable characters and a plot that twists and turns in Mitchell's inimitable style to a deliciously shocking and unexpected conclusion.

Flinder's Field

Campbell Ramsey

This collection features contemporary visions of cosmic transformation, mutation, and madness. Here the primal beings of Lovecraft's "Cthulhu Mythos" stalk a postmodern landscape of social collapse, ethnic cleansing, genetic engineering, and nuclear devastation.

A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft

The Starry Wisdom

From the bestselling author of 'MOUSE' and 'THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED' Susan and Paul Carmichael's world is devastated when a small-time burglar and drug addict, Eddie Hull, brutally murders their only child, young student Becky Carmichael. Consumed by grief, they both struggle to come to terms with their tremendous loss. Their fragile relationship under mounting pressure, Susan begins to have dreams about her daughter. She is convinced these are not ordinary dreams; Becky is calling out to her for help. But this revelation only serves to drive a further wedge between the grieving couple. In desperation, Susan trawls a number of so-called psychics, but is bitterly disappointed by charlatans and fraudsters. When she finally starts to accept that the dreams are a natural part of the grieving process, she is meets the mysterious Silas Blake. He tells her things no one else knows about Becky. Tells her that Becky's soul is trapped and cannot move on, and that there is an island in the Hebrides called Connalough Point where they will be able to help her. Paul is naturally sceptical, but agrees to go to the island for the sake of their marriage. They discover Connalough Point is a very secretive place, and every precaution is taken to ensure no one outside learns about its existence. Here they meet Helen Blake, Silas's wife, and the dour MacLeod brothers. They also meet the soul fixer... But slowly they discover the shocking secrets of Connalough Point, the real reasons they are there. With events spiralling down into deceit, terror and murder, it quickly becomes not only a battle for survival, but the steep path to a devastating truth... With his acknowledged individual storytelling expertise, D. M. Mitchell pens yet another taught psychological thriller with a difference that twists and turns to its deliciously devious and unexpected conclusion.

The Soul Fixer

Robert E. Howard

H. P. Lovecraft

SKULLCRUSHER is a two-volume collection of classic weird fiction comprising the very best stories by legendary pulp author Robert E Howard. These stories feature all of Howard's most famous creations - Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn - alongside others such as Cormac Mac Art, James Allison, Red Sonya, and Cormac McGeoffrey - in a definitive anthology of sword and sorcery, weird adventure, and occult horror in the vein of H P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. SKULLCRUSHER Volume One contains: RED SHADOWS * MOON OF SKULLS * WINGS IN THE NIGHT * THE SHADOW KINGDOM * THE MIRRORS OF TUZUN THUNE * KINGS OF THE NIGHT * WORMS OF THE EARTH * SKULLFACE * THE BLACK STONE * BLACK CANAAN * VALLEY OF THE WORM Featuring King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, James Allison and others in 11 pulsating tales of horror, black magic, obscene rites, bloody carnage, dismemberment and death.

Selected Weird Fiction

Skullcrusher

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Presents the late author's science fiction works and one of his poems, including the story of a geologist's shocking discovery while investigating an abandoned city covered with hieroglyphs.

And Other Works of "science Fiction"

At the Mountains of Madness

Some secrets will not stay buried... 1880: Stephen Denning is an artist heading for Porthgarrow. It is an isolated Cornish fishing community, largely untouched by the modern, developing Victorian world, hanging onto its old traditions, superstitions and beliefs - a community that lives with a disturbing secret. Denning is a reluctant visitor, and though he is supposedly joining his one-time artist friend Terrance Wilkinson to form an artists' colony it is circumstances that force him there. Denning is still haunted by the brutal death of a young woman in Brittany, and shouldering guilt for the fact that he covered up for Wilkinson when he suspects the man had been involved with the murder. But Porthgarrow is haunted by its own demons. He learns about the savage murder of a woman by her husband Jowan Connoch, and Jowan's son who has returned to Porthgarrow to uncover the truth and to clear his father's name. Yet it is far from over. Before long three more people are destined to die in Porthgarrow before the village gives up its sinister secrets, and Stephen Denning will learn of his own family's mysterious involvement. The house of the Wicked is peopled with larger than life characters - the powerful businessman Gerran Hendra and his beautiful daughter Jenna; the Reverend Biddle who collects photographs of the dead; Benjamin Croker, the journalist; Tunny, the village wise man; and the creature called Baccan - an ancient evil spirit that feeds off the evil of men. From its brooding Gothic beginning to its shocking and unexpected end, 'The House of the Wicked' is D. M. Mitchell at his darkest and most imaginative best.

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