Full Description
"One of the most accomplished and eloquent British horror writers is Simon Bestwick, and here is a feast of his work."-Ramsey CampbellFunny, frightening and moving, the stories in Simon Bestwick's new collection explore how our childhoods mark us, our regrets haunt us, and how our innocence is sometimes lost-and sometimes taken away.A young policewoman is drawn into a dreadful bargain. Murdered girls walk the streets of Manchester beside their still-living friends. Tormented children call on an urban legend for help, and the events of a long-ago summer and first love return with lethal consequences for four childhood friends. All this and more besides, in these fifteen short stories and novelettes from the author of The Faceless and The Feast of All Souls.
Contents
Dermot (previously published in Black Static #24, ed. Andy Cox, 2011, and reprinted in The Best Horror Of The Year#4, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2012)Beneath The Sun (previously published in Acquainted With The Night, ed. Barbara and Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2004)The Moraine (previously published in Terror Tales of the Lake District, ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2011, and reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year#4 ed. Ellen Datlow, 2012)Comfort Your Dead (unpublished)The School House (previously published in Houses On The Borderland, ed. Dave Sutton 2008, and collected in The Condemned, Gray Friar Press, 2013)Left Behind (previously published in Midnight Street #10, ed. Trevor Denyer, 2008)Hushabye (previously published in Inferno, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor Books, 2005)A Small Cold Hand (previously published in At Ease With The Dead, ed. Barbara and Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007)The Proving Ground (previously published and collected in Pictures of the Dark, Gray Friar Press, 2009)Angels of the Silences (previously published as a chapbook by Pendragon Press, 2011; reissued by Omnium Gatherum Media, 2016)...And Dream Of Avalon (previously published and collected in A Hazy Shade Of Winter, Ash-Tree Press, 2004)Winter's End (previously published in Where The Heart Is, ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press, 2010)They Wait (previously published in Shadow Writers 2, ed. Paul Kane, 2003)The Children of Moloch (previously published in Death Rattles, ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press 2011)And Cannot Come Again (unpublished)
