THE PRIMAL RANGE OF NOVELLAS
Laudanum Nights
A Novella by
Stephen Bacon
released September 2016
Who are the toymaker, the child-killer, and the magician?
When a young girl is kidnapped from her home, suspicion falls upon one of her neighbours, Leonard Miller, whom the police discover has a cloudy past. In an effort to clear his own name, Miller must investigate the girl's disappearance. It's a journey that will take him from the teeming crowded dosshouses of Blackfold to a crumbling mansion nestling in the remote foggy marshes.
There he will encounter a house full of the horrifically insane and the terrible answers to the child’s disappearance.
Becoming David
A Novella by
Phil Sloman
released September 2016
Richard leads a simple, uncomplicated life in the suburbs of London where anonymity is a virtue. His life has a routine. His cleaner visits twice a week. He works out in his basement, where he occasionally he kills people.
Everything is as Richard wants it until David enters his life. What happens next changes his existence in its entirety and the lives of those around him. Is he able to trust anything to be true? And will he be able to escape David or will David take over Richard’s life completely?
Nominated for the British Fantasy Society Best Newcomer Award 2017
Paupers' Graves
A Novella by
James Everington
released September 2016
In a Nottingham cemetery, hidden away from the grandiose tombs of the city’s rich, are the old paupers’ graves. Katherine and her team have been ordered to create an exhibit based around the lives of those unfortunates buried beneath. But the paupers represent part of the city’s history that Katherine prefers to avoid thinking about… as well as part of her own.
But the dead, having had nothing in life, are enraged that even the truth of how they lived is being taken from them. Buried up to twenty under one stone, they whisper in the dark. Maybe they can show Katherine and her colleagues what their history was really like… and how cheap life was considered.
The Factory
A Novella by
Mark West
released September 2016
Twenty years ago at college, Martin, Paul, Jane, and Gwen were members of the GLUE Club - the Gaffney Legendary Urban Explorers - run by the charismatic Tom. Now, following his mysterious death, they agree to meet up again and undertake one final exploration to honour his name.
Aside from Paul who never left, none of them have been back to Gaffney since and the reunion is awkward, re-opening old wounds. As they begin to explore the long-abandoned Pocock Factory, it seems they might be intruding on something better left alone. As they succumb to the spirits in the darkness, it quickly becomes a battle to see who will survive the night...
Monstrous
A Novella by
Charlotte Bond
released September 2017
Jenny is furious when her mother moves them both to a self-sufficient commune. Jenny is determined to leave but, when she tries, she encounters an unnatural and terrifying presence.
Her new friend, Dan, is aware that there have been sinister goings on in Haven for some time. His home has become a place of unease and stalking shadows.
In the darkness of the surrounding forest, the two of them have to decide just who is more monstrous: whatever lurks in the trees, or the inhabitants of Haven itself.
Perfect Darkness,
Perfect Silence
A Novella by
Richard Farren Barber
released September 2017
After the apocalypse, only the dead are safe.
Once the plague has swept across the world, a small community fights for survival. Hannah leads a crew disposing of the bodies of those who succumbed to the disease. It’s a horrific job – each day spent handling the infected, decaying bodies.
She and the fledgeling community must fight to survive in this stuttering dark new Britain. Will they find a way to live together, or will human nature and the problems of the old world push them to extinction?
Bury Them Deep
A Novella by
Marie O'Regan
released September 2017
As far back as she can remember, Maddie has been running. Following her mother from place to place, believing her when told she was safe; until their pursuer found them again. And he always did find them. Alone now, Maddie’s run enough. She’s ready to turn and face their pursuer, to face down her fear and fight for her life. It’s what she was raised to do, and she won’t – can’t – let her mother down..
Bad Vision
A Novella by
Dave Jeffery
released October 2018
Ray Tonks has the power to see disasters as they happen. But he cannot do anything to stop them. Then comes the worst vision yet. Ray sees terrible future images, that defy logic, ghastly twisted shapes of depravity and torture. Now Ray must fathom if this latest vision is his first real chance to avert a dark and hideous catastrophe or a sign that his fragile mind has finally given in to madness.
Murder can change your mind.
Winterlong
A Novella by
Steve Lockley & Steven Savile
released October 2018
When the snow comes it brings more than just the cold. With the country caught in the grip of a blizzard, the residents of an isolated nursing home can only sit and wait. But only one of them knows the horror of Winterlong.
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"Stories of loss and punishment, but even at his darkest Savile has a flair for finding beauty in the macabre, using usually-subtle horror to deliver a succession of poignant insights into love and humanity....striking and moving..." The Guardian
"Steven Savile has the gift of making the unbelievable completely believable, and leading you willingly into an illusory world that you can touch, feel and smell...but can you trust?" GRAHAM MASTERTON
“Mesmerizing and brilliant short fiction.” Fearzone
“Always reliable, Steve Lockley spins tales to delight, disturb and horrify.” TIM LEBBON
“Good, solid story telling. Steve Lockley is a master craftsman.” SIMON CLARK
Glorious Beasts
A Novella by
Gary McMahon
released April 2020
Cable makes his living tracking down bad men. His young son, Walker is unable to speak, but the boy notices signs and tracks that others fail to see. When they offer to help a woman whose baby was snatched in the night, they realise they might be searching the wilderness for something, unlike anything they've seen before. When men become beasts, something ancient awakes, and things worse than death roam the land.
Matryoshka
A Novella by
Penny Jones
released April 2021
There’s something wrong with her husband, Mark. Lucy had heard all the rumours about him, the whispered warning behind her back. The half-heard Chinese whispers seemed to haunt her, mocking her wherever she goes. Now it appears that whatever’s the matter with Mark is spreading; tainting, infecting both strangers and those that she loves the most. So, Lucy will go to any lengths to protect both her young daughter and her unborn child.
Devils Of London
A Novella by
Simon Bestwick
released 24th September 2021
Devils wear many faces.Britain, in the not too distant future. A new Great Fire Of London breaks out, engulfing the city. Amid the terror and confusion, people look for someone to blame. John is one of a group of undocumented workers, living in a derelict part of the city, who find themselves being scapegoated for the disaster.Being chased through the burning streets by the vicious ‘yellow-scarves’ is bad enough. But when they pass a burning church, a terrifying figure bursts out of the building. Something ancient and monstrous, free at last after centuries of sleep. And for John and the others, the question may now be which of London’s monsters – human or demonic – gets to claim their souls…