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How to Make Monsters

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:39:41 +0200

Hungry Hearts

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:53:17 +0200

IN A WORLD TORN APART BY HUNGER, THE ONLY THING COLDER THAN DEATH IS LOVE... Rick Nutman is a rookie policeman. When the city of Leeds erupts into blood-spattered chaos he must fight through hungry hordes of the living dead to return home and protect Sally, his new wife, the only woman he has ever loved. Daryl lives with his dying mother, and views the apocalypse as the perfect opportunity to put his long-held plans into action. Daryl has always wanted to be a serial killer. Tonight he will achieve that dream, and Sally will become his first victim. As the world runs down and the streets burn with the rage of the undead, Rick flees with his reanimated wife across a ravaged landscape, and Daryl chases them with his own agenda - to be the only serial killer in history to kill the same victim twice. Murder, obsession and desire collide in this dark tale of love and death... and the things that lie beyond.

Different Skins

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:34:09 +0200

How can I describe the emotions that this book invokes? Let's try a bit of telepathy and see if that works. Picture a razor blade (remember this is virtual, I don't recommend trying this with a real one!)...none of your fancy, new-fangled safety blades, oh, no....picture a good old fashioned, stainless steel razorblade. Now raise it up to your eye level and look at it very closely. See how shiny it is, how very, very sharp it is......now stick out your tongue and slowly, very slowly imagine running the sharp edge of the blade down that fleshy surface. Two novellas make up the bulk of this book, topped and tailed by an excellent introduction from Tim Lebbon and author notes on the stories. In Even The Dead Die, we travel to London to meet Mike Angelo. Forget everything you have heard about the cosmopolitan, splendor of the city. Here McMahon brings his own experience as a former inhabitant to show us its darker side. This is a story full of despair and depravity which successfully counteracts the deification of London. All that is fairly mild however when compared with the second story, In The Skin. A last minute business trip takes a father away from his family for a few days. When he returns things have changed, including his infant son. It's a brilliant portrayal of paranoia, schizophrenia and downright confusion which concludes with the most visceral scene I have read in a long time. This is the razorblade licking moment I mentioned previously, don't say I didn't warn you. Two outstanding stories which focus on the darker side of human nature and which, like all the best horror, address some of the most personal issues. Any fathers out there, anyone who has experienced loss, anyone in a difficult relationship will relate to these stories but everyone else can just enjoy them as master classes in dark emotional fiction. Highly recommended. -- The Black Abyss

The Concrete Grove

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:30:56 +0200

Nightsiders

Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:39:43 +0200

Keep repeating, it’s only a story, it’s only a story, it’s only a story…

Welcome to Number One Oval Lane, the last house at the top of the hill. Robert Mitchell thought he lived there with his wife and children, but he doesn’t. Not anymore. A new family—the Corbeaus—has taken up residence, and they are on a deadly mission for mischief.

Soon Robert will understand the true nature of ownership, and he will discover that real life is nothing more than a story…a horror story.

We're playing games now. We're just beginning.

Dead Bad Things

Sat, 16 Nov 1996 03:30:56 +0200

HE SOUGHT TO FLEE HIS TRAGIC PAST, but when Thomas Usher hears a clockwork voice on the phone, and sees ever-more disturbing visions in a derelict warehouse, Usher realizes that he has to return home - for the sake of his own sanity.

Meanwhile, a deadly figure from Usher's past threatens to undermine the very fabric of reality.

File Under: Horror [ Serial Murders | Hellish Visions | Closet Skeletons | Pilgrim's Progress ]

e-book ISBN: 9780857661289

From the Paperback edition.

It Knows Where You Live

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:39:42 +0200

The modern world is a place ripe with fears. The city, the suburbs, and even the fringes of the countryside: all present opportunities for unease. The way people act when they are together, or when they are alone; the beats, the pauses, and the words we use to communicate reveal a primal darkness at the heart of the modern human experience. And whatever this darkness is, it knows where you live . . . In these fifteen tales, acclaimed horror author Gary McMahon casts a light into the shadowy corners of contemporary life, and brings those fears to the page. - g f p - This book will only ever appear in a limited hardcover signed edition. Each copy will include a unique message handwritten by the author on the title page, making each numbered copy additionally distinct. TABLE OF CONTENTS Author's Foreword Just Another Horror Story Hope is a Small Thing Dying in a Bin Behind an Abandoned Kebab Shop Barcode Among the Leftovers When One Door Closes The Chair The Table Nine Lives Truth Hurts Down Sounds Weird The Row The Sheep Small Things It Knows Where You Live Author's Story Notes PUBLICATION DATE: September 2011 Jacketed hardback; limited (100 copies); ISBN 978-1-906331-24-5; SOLD OUT flat-signed by Gary McMahon **

The Bones of You

Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:39:43 +0200

Beyond Here Lies Nothing (The Concrete Grove Trilogy)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:30:56 +0200

The Grieving Stones

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:39:42 +0200

A small therapy group arrives at Grief House hoping that a combination of isolation and hard work will help them begin the healing process each of them so desperately needs.

But their presence has awakened something in the old dwelling. Something linked to the ancient stone megaliths at the rear of the property and a terrible crime, committed centuries before.

Before the weekend is over, the group will learn the secrets of the Grieving Stones, and come to understand the true meaning of transformation.

Silent Voices

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:39:42 +0200

Silent Voices cg-2

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:28:32 +0200

Twenty years ago three young boys staggered out of an old building, tired and dirty yet otherwise unharmed. Missing for a weekend, the boys had no idea of where they’d been. But they all shared the same vague memory of a shadowed woodland grove… and they swore they’d been gone for only an hour. When Simon returns to the Concrete Grove to see his old friends and unearth painful memories from his childhood, things once buried begin to claw their way back to the surface. The hummingbirds are flying again, bringing a warning of something terrible. Bad dreams take on physical form and walk the streets of the estate. A dark, hideously patient entity is calling once again from the shadows, reaching out towards three terrified boys who have now grown into emotionally damaged men. And the past is about to catch up with them all, staining their lives with a darkness they could never truly escape. Welcome back to the Concrete Grove. The place you can never really leave…

Pretty Little Dead Things

Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:39:43 +0200

In the Skin

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:12:06 +0200

Award-nominated author Gary McMahon takes us “In the Skin” of a man who is losing his sanity, and in the tradition of films like “Memento", “Taxi Driver”, and “I Stand Alone”, shows us the derioration of a human mind in intimate detail. And when that mind finally snaps, there will be blood. So much blood. Gary McMahon is the author of several award nominated novellas, novels and short story collections. His latest mass market novels are published by Angry Robot and Solaris Books. FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem