Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
For ten years, Captain Peter Knowles has been at the front line of Britain’s defence against the wolf threat. Attacks have been on the decline and wolf sightings have decreased.
However, a botched mission in London reveals a new threat. This wolf pack has information Knowles has tried to keep secret.
They know Jack Stadler is alive. And they know where to find him … Available now in eBook and paperback editions, you can grab your copy here.
So here we are, at a strange, sprawling place called Mistletoe farm, nestled in the lows of rural Hampshire. Six adults, three small children, and one baby.
It is one week prior to Christmas. The children scramble enthusiastically through thick furrows of mud, headed towards a large white canvas marquee that sits at the top of a wide, empty field boxed in by twisted hedgerow. The adults trail somewhat less enthusiastically behind.
The air is damp, the landscape curiously minimal in terms of colour. It’s just brown and grey, brown and grey, as far as the eye can see. England is like that, a lot of the time. Different shades of mud and sky that lean on each other. The marquee is ugly, discoloured, and offers little relief on the eye.
But we’re going anyway, because this, we have been told, is where we’ll find Santa’s Grotto. And who doesn’t want to meet Santa at Christmas time? Available now in eBook and paperback, you can pick up your copy here.
For a family as wealthy and powerful as the Montgomerys, secrets are as simple as syrup. But there was never anything simple about Ida. First, there were violent tantrums. Then, the drawings of dismembered bodies. Then the things she did to the animals. The Montgomerys didn’t just need to hide what their nine-year-old daughter did; they needed to hide what she was. Enter Ella and Susan-Eva. Two little girls the Montgomerys challenged to act as Ida’s conscience. It worked. Until the three of them got abducted by a serial killer. They survived, but the real story of how is one they agreed never to tell.
Sixteen years later, they still live together in one of the Montgomerys’ historic mansions. They’re fine. Ida is engaged, Ella works at the university, and Susan-Eva is getting her PhD. Sure, Ella’s boyfriend is kind of a jerk, and for reasons no one understands, Susan-Eva broke up with the love of her life, but Ida’s life seems perfect.
No one would guess that one of them was assaulted a few months ago, one of them committed a felony, or that one of them is dying. On top of all that, there are rumors a copycat killer is on the loose. Secrets surface, love triangles abound, and things get bloody in the first book of the Scared trilogy. Available for pre-order now in eBook and paperback, you can guarantee your copy here.
KEV HARRISON