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Night After Night: Reality Tv... Its Darkest Hours
by Phil RickmanGrimly sinister. Written with blood-curdling aplomb. - Sunday TelegraphLeo Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. But, as the head of an independent production company, he does believe in high-impact TV. Defford hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of Knap Hall, a one-time Tudor farmhouse that became the ultimate luxury guest house... until tragedy put it back on the market. Its recent history isn't conducive to a quick sale, but Defford isn't interested in keeping Knap Hall for longer than it takes to make a reality TV show that will run night after night... A house isolated by its rural situation and its dark reputation. Seven people, nationally known, but strangers to one another, locked inside. But this time, Big Brother may not be in control.A PHIL RICKMAN STANDALONE NOVEL
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by Keith GrayHeaven? Hell? Purgatory? Reincarnation? Ghosts? Buried? Nothing . . .?Some of today's leading writers for teens have come together to ask, what happens after you die? Will you go out with a bang? Or find a peace that only you can see?Is heaven spending eternity reliving your happiest memories? Or is your future in someone else's thoughts?Could it even be that you leave a part of yourself behind?
A New York Nightmare! (Spectre Collectors)
by Barry HutchisonThe second in Barry's Hutchison's very funny series about Denzel and his ridiculous friend, Smithy, full of ghouls, magic and outrageous battles. Denzel and Smithy are summoned to the US by the New York branch of the Spectre Collectors, who turn out to be two kids called Weinberg and Martinez. There's been some weird spectral activity and they need help. Soon Denzel is immersed (literally) in an adventure involving a shark, a massive gorilla and lots and lots of evil ghosts. He's even hearing voices...
The New Watch: (Night Watch 5) (Night Watch #5)
by Sergei LukyanenkoWalking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to one side: the Light, or the Darkness.At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming about a plane that is about to crash. He discovers that the child is a prophet: an Other with the gift of foretelling the future. When the catastrophe is averted, Gorodetsky senses a disruption in the natural order, one that is confirmed by the arrival of a dark and terrifying predator. Gorodetsky travels to London, to Taiwan and across Russia in search of clues, unearthing as he goes a series of increasingly cataclysmic prophecies. He soon realises that what is at stake is the existence of the Twilight itself – and that only he will be able to save it.
The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene (Palgrave Gothic)
by Ruth Heholt Holly-Gale MilletteThis collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections—Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic—The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions across various media. Focusing on non-canonical Gothic global cities, this distinctive collection discusses urban centres in England’s Black Country, Moscow, Detroit, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Dehli, Srinigar, Shanghai and Barcelona as well as cities of the imaginary, the digital and the animated. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the intersections of time, place, space and media in contemporary Gothic Studies. The New Urban Gothic casts reflections and shadows on the age of the Anthropocene.
The New Girl (Downside Ser. #3)
by S.L. GreyDon't mess with the creepy new girl Ryan Devlin, a predator with a past, has been forced to take a job as a handyman at an exclusive private school, Crossley College. He's losing his battle to suppress his growing fascination with a new girl who seems to have a strange effect on the children around her. Tara Marais fills her empty days by volunteering at Crossley's library. Tara is desperate, but unable, to have a baby of her own, so she makes Reborns - eerily lifelike newborn dolls. She's delighted when she receives a commission from the mysterious 'Vader Batiss', but horrified when she sees the photograph of the baby she's been asked to create. Still, she agrees to Batiss's strange contract, unaware of the consequences if she fails to deliver the doll on time. Both Tara and Ryan are being drawn into a terrifying scheme - one that will have an impact on every pupil at Crossley College...
New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft
by Sean MorelandThis collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft’s criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the conception and course of horror and weird literature through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately reveal Lovecraft’s importance for contemporary speculative philosophy, film and literature.
New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature: The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft
by Sean MorelandThis collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft’s criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its psychobiological underpinnings, to its pervasive influence on the conception and course of horror and weird literature through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays investigate the meaning of cosmic horror before and after Lovecraft, explore his critical relevance to contemporary social science, feminist and queer readings of his work, and ultimately reveal Lovecraft’s importance for contemporary speculative philosophy, film and literature.
The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis StevensonThe definitive edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of depraved murder and unrelenting horror, introduced by Joe Hill, annotated by Edgar winner Leslie S. Klinger and illustrated with over 150 colour images.The ultimate tale of good and evil, murder and mayhem, science and slaughter, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has confounded, thrilled, horrified, and enthralled readers since its publication in 1886.It has inspired over a hundred stage, film and audio adaptations, and its titular protagonist has passed into the English language as the definition of a person with two shockingly different sides to their character.Now, in this lavishly illustrated volume, complete with an introduction from bestselling author Joe Hill, Stevenson's classic is presented in full together with extensive notes and analysis by Edgar Award-winning literary expert Leslie S. Klinger.The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the definitive edition of one of the most influential texts of all time: perfect for fans of classic crime and mystery, detective stories, horror, Gothic fiction, and Victorian literature alike.'This will instantly become the definitive edition of this complex and influential piece of literature.' Publishers Weekly'This gorgeous new annotated version provides a captivating reason to go back to the 1886 novel.' New York Times
The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease (Comma Modern Horror #3)
by Alan Beard Bernardine Bishop Ramsey Campbell David Constantine Margaret Drabble Karen Featherstone Saleem Haddad Mark Haddon Meave Haughey Gaia Holmes Matthew Holness Adam Marek Lucie McKnight Hardy Mike Nelson Christine Poulson Sarah Schofield Paul Theroux Lara Williams Gerard WoodwardSOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia Kristeva’s theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and Georges Bataille’s societal equivalent – with visceral stories of modern unease. As we become ever-more isolated by social media bubbles, or the demands for social distancing, our moral gag-reflex is increasingly sensitised, and our ability to tolerate difference, or ‘the other’, atrophies. Like all good horror writing, these stories remind us that exposure to what unsettles us, even in small doses, is always better than pretending it doesn’t exist. After all, we can never be wholly free of that which belongs to us.
Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1)
by Jay KristoffFrom New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff, comes a dangerous new fantasy world and a heroine edged in darkness.
Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle #1)
by Jay KristoffFom New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff, comes a dangerous new fantasy world and a heroine edged in darkness.
Never to Sleep: If I Die; Never To Sleep; Before I Wake (Soul Screamers #5)
by Rachel VincentDon't Close Your Eyes. Sophie Cavanaugh is not going to let her freak of a cousin's strange psychiatric condition ruin high school for them both. Not after all the work she's put into cultivating the right look, and friends, and reputation.
The Never List
by Koethi Zan‘As gripping as Gone Girl’ ElleIncludes the first chapter of Koethi Zan's breathtaking new thriller, The FollowerNEVER GO OUT ALONE AFTER DARKFor years, Sarah and Jennifer kept the Never List: a list of things to be avoided at all costs.NEVER GET IN THE CARBut one night, they broke their own rules – with horrifying consequences.NEVER TAKE RISKSSarah has spent ten years trying to forget her terrifying ordeal. But it seems the killer has not forgotten her…NEVER TRUST ANYONE
The Nesting
by C.J. CookeAtmospheric, gothic, spine-chilling… The new thriller from C.J Cooke will haunt you long after you turn the last page…
Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives
by Sarah E. MaierNeo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives examines the neo-Victorian themes and motifs currently appearing in young adult fiction—specifically addressing the themes of authorship, sexuality, and criminality in the context of the Victorian age in British and American cultures. This book explicates the complicated relationship between the Victorian past and the turn to Victorian modes of thought on literature, history, and morality. Additionally, Sarah E. Maier aims to determine if the appeal of neo-Victorian young adult fiction rests in or resists nostalgia, parody, and revision. Given the overwhelming prevalence of the Victorian in the young adult genres of biofiction, juvenile writings, gothic, sensation, mystery, and crime fiction, there is much to investigate in terms of the friction between the past and the present.
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media
by Sarah E. Maier Brenda AyresNeo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were “mad.” Such portraits demand a “rediagnosing” of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.
Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Theory of Contemporary Adaptations
by Tammy Lai-Ming HoThis Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.
The Neighbour
by Dean KoontzAn original short story from No.1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. A prequel to THE CITY, his gripping and moving new novel.
Nectar of the Wicked: A HOT enemies-to-lovers and marriage of convenience dark fantasy romance! (Deadly Divine duet)
by Ella FieldsA Court of Thorns and Roses meets Rapunzel in this spicy romantasy by bestselling author Ella Fields!For twenty years, I've been an unwanted changeling. I have no name, no family, and no answers.Until an irresistibly wicked faerie begins a seductive game of cat and mouse. I am his prey. His treasure.A perfect pet.He offers a trade: he will take me to the faerie realms to assist in my search for the truth of who I am. In return, I must agree to marry him.But things are not as they seem, and soon after arriving at his wintry manor, I begin to unravel a dangerous web of lies.Far deadlier still, I'm falling in love with a monster who has no heart.FEATURED TROPES: Enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience, fated mates, spicy, erotic, unhappily-ever-after, cliffhanger ending! 'I don't even know what to say. Ella Fields is fast approaching as one of my favourite fantasy auto-buy fantasy authors. There's not a single fantasy book she's written that I didn't love!' 5* Goodreads review 'This is my third Ella Fields novel and I am pleased to say that once again, I am obsessed.' 5* Goodreads review 'Ella Fields coming in HOT, once again, with a release that solidifies her as my queen of filthy, smutty, plot-heavy romantasies.' 5* Goodreads review
Necroscope V: Deadspawn (Gateway Essentials #5)
by Brian LumleyHigh tide in a sea of blood!...And for Harry Keogh, Necroscope, the tide has finally turned. Always the champion of the living and the dead alike, now Harry is shunned by all men. Always a hunter of the evil that stalks the night, now he in turn is hunted. Always the hero, now he is the plague-bearer, the menace - the monster!But yet his greatest battle will be with himself, with the Thing Inside. For the Necroscope is now a vampire.Forsaken by the teeming dead pursued by the espers of E-Branch, Harry has a choice: to be banished, hounded right out of this world...or to release the plague which he carries within himself upon all humanity!
Necroscope®: The Möbius Murders (Necroscope)
by Brian LumleyHarry Keough, aka the Necroscope, has always considered himself a master of the Mobius Continuum - a dimension existing parallel to all space and time and his personal instantaneous gateway to anywhere in the multiverse. But this is hardly overweening conceit on Harry's part, for to his knowledge he is not unique; two other intelligences, with powers similar to his, do indeed exist. One such is the long-dead August Ferdinand Mobius himself, the German astronomer, mathematician, and discoverer of the eponymous Mobius Strip which led him to explore, posthumously, his previously conjectural Continuum; and the other is Harry's son, who has not only inherited his father's mathematical skill but also the metaphysical talent by means of which the Necroscope converses with dead people in their graves! Picture Harry's confusion, then, on returning home via the Mobius Continuum from an adventure in Las Vegas, as he witnesses however briefly a flailing figure hurtling conscious but uncontrolled through the endless midnight of the Continuum. Who could this be - how can it be? - that a helpless, silently protesting other is rushing meteor-like across the Continuum's Stygian vault? Moreover, if he hasn't arrived here voluntarily, then what vile murderer has sent his victim on this monstrous journey to the end of life itself? For Harry is sure that this is neither his son's nor Professor Mobius' doing. Who and where is he, this Mobius murderer? It is a mystery that only the Necroscope can ever hope to solve - but at what risk to his own life?
Necroscope The Lost Years Vol 2 (Necroscope)
by Brian LumleyHarry Keogh, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead, the Earth's greatest vampire hunter, has been searching for his wife and infant son, gone missing during Harry's war against the vampires. This obsession has left him open to subtle influence by an ancient vampire, Radu. Entombed in amber, trapped in undeath, Radu plans for his resurrection and plots the destruction of other vampires who might challenge his supremacy. Thus, Radu's enemies are now Harry's - and Harry cannot properly defend himself. His powers - his deadspeak and his ability to transport himself through the Mobius Continuum - are locked away in the recesses of his vampire-clouded mind. But Harry is not without allies, living and dead. E-Branch, the psychic spy organisation, is worried about Harry. So is Harry's long-dead Ma, and the ancient philosopher and prophet Nostradamus, whose centuries-old quatrains make eerie sense in the modern world. Right now, Harry Keogh doesn't even know he's the Necroscope. But Earth's teeming dead won't let him forget them for long - and won't let him forget that Radu and his vampire kind are humanity's deadliest enemies.
Necroscope The Lost Years Vol 1: The Lost Years (Necroscope #1)
by Brian LumleyVAMPIRES NEVER REST And neither does Harry Keogh, the world's greatest vampire hunter, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead. Right now, he's desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry's war against the undead monsters that plague mankind. Others will have to carry on that fight until the Necroscope has been reunited with his beloved family. But it's not that easy to leave the vampire war behind. The bloodsuckers know that the Necroscope is their deadliest enemy and will do anything to destroy him. Harry struggles to locate his missing family, not realising that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has slain the other, the Necroscope will be the next to die!
Necroscope IV: Deadspeak (Necroscope #4)
by Brian LumleyWhen vampires stalk among us . . . Robbed of his supernatural powers, Harry Keogh is back from Starside, the vampire sourceworld. A mere man again - denied access to the metaphysical Möbius Continuum, no longer able to communicate with the dead - now he must rebuild his life in a world made safe only through his efforts. But safe for how long? E-Branch, Britain's mindspy organisation, wants Harry back with his invaluable talents intact. Likewise the Great Majority, his countless dead friends across the world, who know that he's needed as never before. For the old thread has risen anew! Crumbling in their graves, the teeming dead fear for Harry. If the ex-Necroscope can't find and destroy the last of the Ferenczys, that nightmare vampire dynasty, they know that the vampire will find him. He must regain his powers - or risk becoming a vampire himself, undead for ever . . .