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A new collection from critically acclaimed author Terry Grimwood. A Devil's Dozen of stories that move effortlessly between science fiction and horror, touching upon the modern world and the 20th century and then taking us beyond... In contemporary London an office worker receives a hand-delivered invitation to a mysterious burlesque cabaret... A private eye is brought in by the police when an old army buddy is reported missing, a buddy he w...

Beware god-like aliens bearing gifts Stasis and inorganic self-repair, new spacefaring technologies for humankind, yet more gifts from its closest extra-terrestrial ally, the Iaens. There are, it seems, no limits to humanity's outward journey. Then Lana Reed, Mission Commander of the interstellar colony seeder, Drake, awakes from her own stasis to discover that all but three of the vessel's other tanks are dark, their occupants suffocated, ...

The grubby dance of politics didn't end when we left the solar system, it followed us to the stars The god-like Iaens are infinitely more advanced than humankind, so why have they requested military assistance in a conflict they can surely win unaided? Torstein Danielson, Secretary for Interplanetary Affairs, is on a fact-finding mission to their home planet and headed straight into the heart of a war-zone. With him, onboard the Starship K...

Terry Grimwood is an author who has made a name for himself with his very powerful, human and wide-ranging fiction, covering horror, speculative, dystopian and other styles. This mini-collection gathers together some of his more innovative and experimental short fiction from all across that range. The title story is a grotesquely hilarious, absurdist and very British tale of love, intrigue and the exchange of hearts that reads like a post-mode...

Terry Grimwood is an author who has made a name for himself with his very powerful, human and wide-ranging fiction, covering horror, speculative, dystopian and other styles. This mini-collection gathers together some of his more innovative and experimental short fiction from all across that range. The title story is a grotesquely hilarious, absurdist and very British tale of love, intrigue and the exchange of hearts that reads like a post-mode...

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life." Job 2:4 Troublesome priest Eve Clements is exiled from her North London parish to remote St Jude's, miles from the nearest village. Carrying childhood demons with her, broken relationships and addiction, she becomes an unwilling pawn in a supernatural battle that keeps her confined within the parish grounds, with a congregation that is no...

Time We Left - A lonely vigil aboard a vast space station orbiting a dying planet. A poignant tribute to one of the first living beings to leave Earth. A deadly planet where sentience is not as humanity understands it. A race against time to save the crew of a starship lost in the depths of Bastard Space. Time We Left - A cast of dreamers, rogues, adventurers and colonists who answered the call. Time We Left - Stories and poetry for the outwar...

THERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVEROnly pick up a stranger if you can face your demons…and hersOnly stay with your lover if you can give yourself body and soulOnly sell your flesh if you can bear humiliation, pain and the deepest darknessOnly play God if you can endure the unutterable loneliness of the DivineTHERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVERThirteen excursions into the shadowlands that border the known and the terrors that lie beyondTHERE IS A WAY TO ...

The fighting may be over, but the horrors of the Great War still cast a deep shadow over the lives of those who survived and the people they love.In the village of Abbotsfield, hope has arrived the person of Henry Williams, the new Baptist minister who has brought a message of salvation and renewal to its grieving, war-worn inhabitants. But Williams has made an enemy who threatens to tear open his past and destroy both the man of God and his f...

This may be The Monster Book for Girls, but everyone is welcome, so come inside and lose yourself for a while. Be careful though, because here be horror, humour, heartache, the dark, the deep, the distressing, the serious, the sad, the strange... And monsters all. Featuring stories and poetry by Allen Ashley, Rachel Kendall, Farah Ghuznavi, Gary Fry, Marc Lyth, Ian Sales, Kat Fullerton, Shay Darrach, Samantha Porter, Rosanne Rabinowitz, Stuart...

Bloody War. Always on the news, from somewhere around the world. War seems to be something humanity just cannot get out of its system. And yet, for most of us here in the UK, war is little more than a spectacle where we sit comfortably, tut-tutting over horrors taking place in far off and unknown lands, before returning to our grumbles about the spending cuts or immigration or whatever else it is that sets you off. That's as far as it goes, sa...

Bloody War. Always on the news, from somewhere around the world. War seems to be something humanity just cannot get out of its system. And yet, for most of us here in the UK, war is little more than a spectacle where we sit comfortably, tut-tutting over horrors taking place in far off and unknown lands, before returning to our grumbles about the spending cuts or immigration or whatever else it is that sets you off. That's as far as it goes, sa...

And now the time has come, take my hand, if you dare, and I'll take Tom's, and together we'll let him lead us down a dark alley and into the shadows...A secret that must never be passed on, a tube journey into madness, a demonic terror concealed in the green hell of the wartime jungle, a deadly sea mist, monsters, hallucination, loss and vengeance, these are a few of Tom's favourite things. "The Dark Heart of Peeping Tom", stories torn from th...

Whited sepulchres Whitewashed and gleaming in in the sun. Whited sepulchres The politician's smile The deceiver's handshake The freshly painted house of secrets Whited sepulchres We know where to find them So take our clammy, tremulous hands, as we lead you inside and deep into their rotten hearts.

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Shreds remain&hellip, The dead are ascendant while The Living hide like rats in the dark corners of their cities. For some there is the hell of the flesh farms that supply their Masters with live meat and fresh skin For others, the Vitally Skilled, there is servitude, slavery, And survival. dr Robert Lewis, cosmetic surgeon, clings to life as a Vitally Skilled repairer of dead flesh. He is a survivor, a shadow, and plans to remain that way, un...

Shreds remain&hellip, The dead are ascendant while The Living hide like rats in the dark corners of their cities. For some there is the hell of the flesh farms that supply their Masters with live meat and fresh skin For others, the Vitally Skilled, there is servitude, slavery, And survival. dr Robert Lewis, cosmetic surgeon, clings to life as a Vitally Skilled repairer of dead flesh. He is a survivor, a shadow, and plans to remain that way, un...

...the most important thing I know about Terry Grimwood - the thing I want everyone else to be aware of - is that he writes one hell of a tale of dark fiction." Gary McMahon, author of the British Fantasy Award nominated novella "Rough Cut". Come on, take my hand, don't be frightened, along the way we'll descend deep into the earth, visit worlds where breathing is banned. We'll find out what really happened when the fat lady sang, the Liberato...