Horror

“Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz” – READERS FAVORITE

It has been a year since a night out on the moors changed the lives of the survivors, some more than others. Now Clay and Saffy are living their lives quietly far away from the rest of the world for everyone’s safety, but their peaceful existence can’t last forever. Soon the knock at the door that Saffy has been dreading arrives and despite her best efforts they are about to get dragged back into the darkness again.

Lulu has set about regaining her grandfather’s crown as the kingpin of the city’s underworld. While Clay views the dark gift that they were given as a curse, she has used it to build her own enforcers tasked with taking one bloody street at a time. But she’s not the only one with eyes on the grand prize.

There are innocent victims falling during the gang war as Lulu’s Dogs are embroiled in a bloody battle against the Highlanders biker gang and Clay’s sense of honour won’t allow him to sit on the sidelines, especially when the authorities have no idea what they’re up against.

Soon the city is plunged into death and bloodshed where everyone known and unknown has their own agendas and no one is safe. The battle lines are drawn but this is far from black and white, this is a war full of grey where nothing is what it seems and where a deepening mystery beats in the dark heart of this city.

Clay has spent the past year learning to control the beast inside him, now in order to save the people he loves he’s going to have to let it off the leash and pray that only the guilty die.

Selected other works by Matt Drabble:

ABRA-CADAVER – The 2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction. Winner of a prestigious Indie Book of the Day Award, a 2015 Kindle Book Review Award Finalist and is the 2016 Book Excellence Awards winner for Horror Fiction.

THE ASYLUM TRILOGY – an Amazon US Horror Chart #5 best seller, voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review’s Top 10 Books of 2013 and is a 2014 Readers Favorite Gold Medal winner, a 2016 Readers Favorite Silver Medal winner for Anthology Fiction.

THE GATED TRILOGY – 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Horror Fiction & 2014 Full Moon Awards Horror Book of the Year.

THE LAST RESORT – The 2019 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction & The 2019 Kindle Book Review’s Winner for Horror/Suspense.

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A deadly puzzle. A closing trap.

My name is Nadia, and I’m a Marshal of the High Queen of the Elves.

That means it’s my responsibility to broker a peace deal between the dwarves and the Elven commoners…and there are lots of Elven nobles who would like to see the deal fail.

So when the Lord Inquisitor Arvalaeon arrives on my doorstep, critically wounded and missing the last week of his memory, things have just gotten even more complicated.

One false step and the embers will become an inferno…

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It’s coming for all of us.

Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Award-winning author Brian Evenson has become one of the defining voices of contemporary horror. His sparse, inventive and intimate style has left a permanent impression on the landscape of dark fiction. Praised by Peter Straub for placing himself “furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice”, heralded by legends such as George Saunders and R. L. Stine, and beloved by readers of literary fiction and horror alike, there are few authors who bring so much to the table.

This brilliant collection contains twenty of his most spectacular short stories never put into a collection before and includes three brand new tales. In trademark Evenson fashion, one can feel a palpable connection to the yearnings, fears, and losses that his characters suffer. From the terror of being stalked by a man you thought you’d killed, to the desperate hope for the return of a loved one, each story is woven from deep imagination, sincere emotion, and the unblinking examination of everything dark that surrounds us.

These stories will enthrall you. They will leave a bit of themselves within you, and you will leave a bit of yourself within them. No one is safe from the web Evenson weaves, and none of you shall be spared.

Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (2021) and the Weird West microcollection Black Bark (2023). His collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019) won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. Previous books have won the American Library Association’s RUSA Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and have been finalists for the Edgar Award. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.

Table of Contents

Knock, Knock
In the Nursery
Gyr
I Cannot Remember
Waiting for Mother
The Train’s Path
Lancaster
Garnier
Stricken
Dominion
Whet
All Those Lost Days
The Teeth
The Wilcox Remainder
And Yet
Lost Dog
A Bloody Hand to Shake
Homecoming
The Fourth Scene
Leaving Leeds

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