Joseph Sale

Tara Dufrain and Nicola Morgan are eleven year old girls growing up in the '90s, obsessed by Valentine Killshot, a metal screamo band. In particular, they're enamoured by the lead singer, the mysterious yet charismatic Jed Maine who bears the epithet "The Cretin". In Jed's lyrics, he describes a world beyond the Dark Stars that he hopes one day to reach. The girls think it's all just make-believe they share together, until a freak, traumatic incident makes this world very real. As adults, Tara and Nicola try to come to terms with the devastating catastrophe that changed their lives growing up, but to do so they will have to step once more into Jed Maine's world, and confront the man who took everything from them. Dark Hilarity is My Best Friend's Exorcism meets The Never-Ending Story, a fantasy that explores addiction, depression, and the healing power of friendship.

Dark Hilarity

Ross Jeffery

Christa Wojciechowski

Lost Voices is a horror collection of tales left by the wayside: stories recorded on abandoned VHS tapes, horrors found in lifeless towns, voices silenced by the encroaching darkness. Born from a conversation about screwed up stories that?d been rejected from various anthologies, magazines, and callouts for being too weird, freaky, and dark, Lost Voices dredges these lost tales from a past better forgotten. Featuring twelve dark tales by Joseph Sale, Emily Harrison, Christa Wojciechowski and Ross Jeffery, Lost Voices promises to push the boundaries of what horror can be and do. Foreword by Steve Stred.

Lost Voices

"Nothing stays dead. Not the dogs. Not the voices. Not me." Seven Dark Stars: Blackness Absolute is a special hardback edition of the classic collection of dark fiction from the author of The Darkest Touch. This chilling work looks to explore the glowing truth that burns hidden amidst the darkness in our lives. Inspired by the great horror authors of the past and present such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Harlan Ellison, this revised edition includes ten short stories alongside the novella Grim: the six original and acclaimed stories in the collection, three disturbing new stories from Joseph Sale, and the winning story of the 'Blackness Absolute' Short Story Competition by Matthew Blackwell. Experience the darkness like never before.

Seven Dark Stars: Blackness Absolute

“There are those who bow to darkness. And there are others to whom darkness bows.” In 2060 Caleb Rogers and his partner Tom Marvin put away one of the most dangerous serial killers Texas has ever known: Craig Smiley, an ex-infantry mental patient who believes he can summon seven gods through a series of disturbing rituals. Caleb and Tom secured him a life sentence in Mars's toughest prison. They thought the whole thing was finished. But when Smiley escapes the prison seven years later and sets out once again on his insane mission, Caleb and Tom are sent to Mars to track him down. Both cop and criminal are determined to finish what they started. Only the criminal will stop at nothing. Gods of the Black Gate is part thriller, part supernatural horror, part sci-fi blockbuster and at its heart: a journey of spiritual descent.

Gods of the Black Gate

Following on from the events of Four Horsemen, the harbingers of the end-times have been summoned to a mysterious shadow city: Dr Monaghan, The Taking Man, Yin the Dark Magician, and above them all: The Prince. Against each of these madmen stands an opposite, a mirror, but like the illusions cast by Yin, the visions seen by The Prince, the mask worn by Dr Monaghan, and the gifts The Taking Man has stolen: nothing is as it seems. Why these strange beings have been summoned to such a city is as much a mystery as when and where this strange landscape is situated. All anyone knows is that the megalomaniac Prince is now in charge. But not for much longer... The Prince seeks to find a way out of the tormenting city back to the 'real world', but not everyone supports his mad scheme. There are dissenters, voices in the city's stone, souls in the thunderheads, and something terrible beneath the pyramid - which The Prince has made his throne - something which only lunatics dream of. The only hope that remains to save the true and good people in this lost city is in the coming of the Fifth Horseman. But who or what is the Fifth Horseman? And can they really stop the dark alliance of the four?

The Fifth Horseman

“Nothing stays dead. Not the dogs. Not the voices. Not me.” Seven Dark Stars is a new collection of horror fiction from the author of The Darkest Touch that looks to explore the glowing truth that burns hidden amidst the darkness in our lives. Inspired by the great horror authors of the past and present such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Harlan Ellison, this collection features the dark novella Grim: the story of Blake MacTire, a detective in the slums of Birmingham who's confronted by a killer that believes his dead mother is alive again at the bottom of a lake. Blake's sure it's nonsense – only he's seen something in the lake too. Something awful and familiar. And it wants him. Alongside this longer tale are six short stories, each one casting light on things hidden in the abyss of our psyche. This book is sure to frighten, enlighten, and hold you until the final page.

Seven Dark Stars

In the aftermath of a world-wide nuclear conflict, dark forces have taken control in New York City. Gifted with powers beyond reckoning, the Touched have inherited the after world, instating their own notion of order, and killing all who oppose their rule. But rebels are gathering, along with strange voices that sound in the deep, and the dark city is about to go even darker.

The Darkest Touch

'Let me tell you truthfully, there will be combat, and bloodshed, and feud and bitter death today'¦' Enter into the world of the great heroes of the Dark Age and follow Hagen of Troneck on his pathway through terrible deeds and up to his final heroic last stand at the head of the fearsome Nibelungs. This novel is an epic retelling of the original story of the Nibelungs written in a poetical prose that imitates the verse of the former text. Discover the untold legend and learn of the awful destiny of the knights of Worms.

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