This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights v...

An enthralling anthology of 19 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan.Featuring bestselling authors such as Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid.NINETEEN CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE BEST IN CRIME FICTIONLegendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-go...

"Devilishly clever" Val McDermid on Strange TideShe sees everything, but can never tell anyone… a wickedly compulsive thriller from the bestselling author of the Bryant & May series.At a beautiful villa near Nice in the south of France, Hannah Carreras works as a maid. Under strict instructions never to speak to the guests, she blends into the background – but she sees everything. Including the mistress Summer, lounging by the pool...

It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie...In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a shock.The Romans are long forgotten. It is now King Scarabold who rules what little remains of the city, together with his over-entitled daughter Giniva, her effe...

It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie...In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a shock.The Romans are long forgotten. It is now King Scarabold who rules what little remains of the city, together with his over-entitled daughter Giniva, her effe...

'The most consistently brilliant, entertaining and educational voice in contemporary British crime fiction, the utterly fabulous Christopher Fowler.' Cathi Unsworth, CRIMESQUADIt's a Sunday morning, and the outspoken Speaker of the House of Commons has just been crushed under a mountain of citrus fruit . . .Bizarre accident or something more sinister? The government needs to know because here's a man who knows a thing or two that c...

Heh, Heh, Kiddies! They say that you can always tell a GOOD BOOK by its COVER! Well, after you BONE UP on the front of this first BEST OF volume of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY by legendary artist NORMAN SAUNDERS, you ll be left SPELLBOUND by some of the most SIZZLING fiction ever published in this AWARD-WINNING series. Between these covers are DEVILISHLY GOOD STORIES by RAMSEY CAMPBELL, HARLAN ELLISON, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, NEIL GAIMAN, CAITLIN R. K...

“It’s a strange thing, nyctophobia. You’re not born with it. It can start at any time. It comes and goes, and it’s one of the only phobias you can transmit to other people.”Newly-married architect Callie and her wealthy husband Mateo move to Hyperion House, a grand old home in southern Spain. It’s an eccentric place built in front of a cliff: serene and beautiful, but eerily symmetrical, and cunningly styled so that half the house is flooded with light, and half – l...

A collection of twelve darkly disturbing, twisted stories from the author of Roofworld, Spanky and the acclaimed Bryant and May novels. But don't expect to read about vampires, werewolves, or ghouls or ghosts, or dolls coming to life or brain-eating zombies. And as for lake-dwelling demons, malevolent spirits, misogynistic slashers or children locked in attics, you can forget them...Instead, here you have twelve stories of desperate people in seemingly ordinary sit...

Beyond City Limits...there are no eyeless, crawling things in this town, no vampire slumbers unseen behind the rusting rails of the city necropolis.Here are only car parks, and nightclubs, and taxi cabs. The pavements are bright and thronging, people laugh and telephones ring.But there is another world within the city, where reality may suddenly skip a heartbeat, where for a moment there is no recognition of the face in the mirror.For in the very ordinarines...

A popular businessman awakes one morning to discover that everyone hates him. A young woman must surrender her virginity to a grotesque enemy in order to fulfil her family's destiny. An extraordinary chain of events is set in motion when a cocktail cabinet falls out of the sky and kills a farmer. A depressed man decides to make his suicide the most exciting thing that's ever happened to him...Oozing paranoia, black humour and a certain amount of old-fashioned gore, this is a collec...

'Vicious, funny, sad, scary and provocative, Spanky is one of the great modern horror novels of our time' PETER JAMESMartyn Ross had a miserable life until he met Spanky, a tuxedoed charmer who's diabolically handsome, successful and ruthless. He's willing to share his wild world of wine, women and wealth - but at a price. And it has nothing to do with Martyn surrendering his soul.Quite the reverse...