Mark Cookson is a successful real estate agent who has sold his share of homes. But this one might just kill him. After speaking with the current owner, whose cryptic remarks and anxious demeanor unnerve Mark to the point of hallucinating, he reluctantly agrees to put the house on the market. When Mark's pregnant ex-wife, their only son Lewis, and her new husband unexpectedly buy the property out from under him, Mark begins to suspect his visions are more real than he ever imagined. Lewis's strange behavior and tales of the Blood Boy lurking within the house's walls only amplify his paranoia, and Mark is determined to save his son…even if it costs him his life. Are houses truly haunted, or are we? Welcome to the House of Canted Steps. **

Jane Marlow is a successful model with a London home and a bright future. But now she has a problem: after a night of unbridled passion with a TV actor, she’s pregnant. After taking on a mysterious modeling project in the northeast of England, Jane finds herself growing increasingly attached to her unborn child. But other changes are also underway. Something is dogging the development of her baby, something that casts long shadows across her. Before her child is born, can an engagement with a best-selling novelist help identify what menaces her?

Harry Keyes hasn't seen his brother Dexter for over ten years, but during his daughter's seventh birthday party, he gets an unexpected call claiming that Dex has found something which may change their dysfunctional family forever. Asking for Harry's help to locate his mother, what is Dexter trying to achieve? Is it anything to do with the dark experiments he'd practiced as a boy? And will it really involve terrible entities rumored to occupy different underground parts of the country? So begins a chilling investigation into their childhoods, growing up in a rural village with a cruel father and possibly worse monsters. Harry learns about many terrible things, including kidnappings, torture, and attempts to summon undead creatures from the earth's ancient past. And all that's needed to waken them is a siren...a siren of depravity.

When George Cox chances upon a disused foghorn station on the English coast, he wonders what could have been big enough to cause so much damage to it. His investigations take him and his wife all around the world, tracking down stories about an ancient creature rumoured to have occupied the planet hundreds of thousands of years ago.   Even if such a creature existed, it had to be dead now, hadn’t it? At any rate, it couldn’t be haunting George’s dreams. It couldn’t be summoning him from its immense grave. But the closer George comes to the truth, the more he learns that all the travel guides lack one vital piece of information: In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

Following the death of his wife, Jack lives alone on the northeast coast of England. But this year, something worse than isolation and loneliness stalk the bay in front of his home. When his grandson Paul comes to stay, they find intricately crafted cones of sand jutting from the beach, and a tautness in the air affecting their sleep patterns. And then something else arrives...something that may want to trouble much more than their dreams. EMERGENCE...they're closer than we fear. **Review "This is an intriguing story, one in which Fry explores themes of language and the ways in which everything is connected, with words and letters as the atoms of understanding. The strange events which seem to threaten man and boy are possibly the attempts of an alien consciousness to comprehend what is unknown to it, and not necessarily harmful, or at least not deliberately so... Another strength of the story is in the relationship between Jack and Paul, two generations held together by a very obvious bond of love, while Jack himself is a nostalgic figure, grieving for dead wife Christine and a way of life, traditions and ways of doing things, that he feels is endangered. There is a lot going on in this novella." -- Peter Tennant, BLACK STATIC

Driving home one day from a conference, Daryl seeks a shortcut through a barren countryside. He chances upon a mysterious village whose residents seem rather odd. But they have something to show him—a creature so strange he can hardly believe it exists. And that's only the beginning of Daryl's problems, as he seeks to escape something far worse than he can ever imagine. Something utterly horrific and extremely savage.

The village of Deepvale has a sinister past. Built in the 1400s, it has been home to a number of sordid characters, including Peter Suman, known locally as 'The Conjurer' due to the diabolical experiments he was rumored to have conducted during the 19th Century, in a dark old house beside a lake. In the 1990s, after a bet with his elder brother and three friends, seven-year-old Simon Mallinson goes missing inside the now derelict Conjurer's House. Fifteen years later, his brother Anthony is back in Deepvale, following the brutal deaths of his parents. And strange events have begun to occur in the village again, including the apparent return of young Simon and his creepy new friends. Worse still, Peter Suman appears to be back, too, bent on achieving what he failed to do over a hundred years earlier... Conjure House, a novel of cosmic terror from Gary Fry.

Gary Fry’s new collection elicits terror from almost nothing at all. What could be less sinister than a walk on the moors, a holiday in Spain, a party with neighbours, or a short working trip?Why, everything, it appears.Seventeen frightening and enigmatic stories.Out of TimeAbolisher of RosesThe LurkerFragment of LifeThe Jilted Bride of WindermereMother’s PrideBehind the ScreenThe PincersThe Demons of New StreetAdam in AmberKeeping it in the FamilyThe Way of the WorldDouble SpaceBiofeedbackStrings AttachedWith Friends like TheseThe Careless Companion