Horror

BANSHEE by Michael Scott

Dr Michael Cullen is the American historian on holiday in Ireland with his wife, Karla, and their two children. They rent the large and secluded Blacklands House for its tranquility and convenience for Cullen to complete his research on Irish folklore.

Troubled by persistent dreams of a strange woman dressed in white who combs her hair and screams, Cullen blacks out completely when he seems to meet her for real in the broad light of day. Retrieving only an ancient comb carved from bone, he puts the experience down to an hallucination of his fatigued imagination.

But Maeve Quill, the expert on Celtic myth and language who is Cullen’s research assistant, suspects too late that he and his family are being haunted by the supernatural creature whose unearthly cry is the harbinger of death. For when Karla is apparently frozen stiff on a hot summer night, she is merely the first casualty in the horrifying spiral of death and destruction that follows.

THE THIN EXECUTIONER by Darren Shan

In a kingdom of merciless tyrants, Jebel Rum's family is honored as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement. And when he goes, there will be a contest to determine his successor. It is a contest that thin, puny Jebel has no chance of winning. Humiliated and ashamed, Jebel sets out on a quest to the faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers so that he can become the most lethal of men. He must take with him a slave, named Tel Hesani, to be sacrificed to the god. It will be a dark and brutal journey filled with lynch mobs, suicide cults, terrible monsters, and worse, monstrous men. But to Jebel, the risk is worth it. To retrieve his honor . . . To wield unimaginable power . . . To become . . . The thin executioner
Inspired by the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, international bestselling master of horror Darren Shan takes readers on a thrilling, fast-paced journey into a nightmarish world where compassion and kindness are the greatest crimes of all.

A PRELUDE TO THE VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE by Derek Gunn 


PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE is a series of five works of short fiction written in Derek Gunn's VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE universe. Each is a diary entry written from a vampire's point of view and set in five different periods in history.

From the author:
The main kernel of my VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series of books came from the proliferation of 'nice' vampires that are so popular in fiction today. I never saw the vampire as an aristocratic figure, noble to a fault and lonely for a good woman's, or man's love. I always saw them as creatures who had moved on from being human over the centuries. They do not consider themselves human, most have probably forgotten they ever were. They are creatures ruled by base hunger. For all their power they are slaves to a gnawing hunger that rules there very existence.

I have written some diary extracts recently as part of a back story to the VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE series. Over the course of the centuries we can see the changes going on inside the head of a vampire, how his thoughts of humanity, religion and his place in the world change him. I have tied this into the 'real' history of the world, offering a different view of how some of history's events actually happened, and the impact this had on the mindset of the vampire.