SHAUN HUTSON

Segregan mucosa, se deslizan, matan... Una babosa hembra puede poner un millón y medio los huevos un año, un hecho que tiene consecuencias terribles para la población de Merton. La ciudad se encuen

When investigative telejournalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a community divided A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension and open hostility and violence The African newcomers are particularly targeted, regular victims of vandalism and even fire-bombing...Cuando el periodista audiovisual de investigacion Nick Pearson es enviado a Darworth, en Hethfordshire, lo que encuentra alli es una comunidad dividida Un constante flujo de inmigrantes ha conducido a tensiones raciales y abierto el camino a violencia y a las hostilidades...

During an archaeological dig, a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children is discovered. At first glance they seem to have been there for thousands of years but closer examination reveals a more shocking secret.The opening of the chamber triggers a series of horrific murders, each victim mutilated and their entrails used to form a different letter of the alphabet. Who is behind this outrage? And how is it linked to a subterranean chamber thousands of years old? Inspector Stephen Wallace must unmask this crazed killer. Is it the sadistic thug responsible for organising a series of barbaric dog fights? The mysterious recluse who holds Black Mass orgies for drug addicted teenagers? Or is it, in fact, something much worse? An evil so old, so vile and so powerful that it threatens to engulf everyone who comes near it. For Wallace, and possibly for the whole human race, time is running out fast.Something evil is waiting. Something monstrous is loose..."Britains greatest living horror author."Dark Side"An expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages."Time Out"Hutson writes grippingly."SFX MagazineThe one that writes what others only dare imagine. SUNDAY TIMES

¿Qué ha podido empujar a tres hombres normales y corrientes —un topógrafo, un contable y un arquitecto— al desesperado acto del suicidio? Esa es la cuestión a la que se enfrentan el inspector jefe J

When investigative telejournalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a community divided. A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension and open hostility and violence. The African newcomers are particularly targeted, regular victims of vandalism and even fire-bombing.The Africans seem unwilling to fight back, until the arrival of a mysterious, powerful man who many of them know - and fear. Nick begins to wonder if there might be some kind of connection between this newcomer and the desecration of a local cemetery - an event followed by the disappearance of a number of corpses and a series of bizarre, ritualistic murders. In each case, the victims bear the same marks on their bodies. Scars that Nick has seen before, five years earlier in Africa.Ancient religion and modern prejudice are about to collide, and when they do, there may be no survivors. At least not human ones . . .

"She glanced out over the churning waves, thinking how dark and forbidding the sea looked tonight. She could hear it lashing against the pier and, more than once, she fancied she felt the structure beneath her move slightly. She reached down slowly and unzipped the holdall. Inside there were towels and pieces of rag. Inside those was a baby. No older than six weeks, the child was crying softly and it continued to do so even when Polly picked it up and held it before her. She swallowed hard and held the child higher, advancing again towards the wooden rail that surrounded the walkways of the pier. The only thing that separated her from the sea. She held the child over the rail for a second, its cries lost beneath the raging sound of the waves. Polly dropped the baby.." There is something here for everyone. Monsters in train tunnels. Savage attack dogs loose in a luxury building. Wishes made that can cripple and kill. Children kidnapped to appease a monstrous entity from the sea. A psychotic Virtual Assistant that turns a house into a chamber of horrors. The terrifying aftermath of a robbery. A horrifying game designed to welcome new residents to a village. A reminder that you should never, ever pick up hitchhikers. These are just some of the stories youll find in this collection. All kinds of tales to send shivers down your spine. Stories to be read with the lights on and the curtains drawn. Go onwe dare you

Christopher Ward signed up with a literary agency on 12th December 1984 wanting to be SO rich it would be obscene. And he IS a success - but there is a price to pay. Nothing lasts forever . . .As his writing ability begins to decline and publishers reject his books, he starts to drink. Sleeping badly, pacing around day and night, he gets a breakthrough. But is it? Pages of a novel pour out every night from the computer hes sure hes turned off and he doesnt remember doing the writing. He sets up a video to see what is going on - and sees ape-like shapes shuffling around. And the video shows HIM murdering a prostitute. What IS going on?Then his literary agent comes round and shows that his life is the price he pays for previous success . . .

Kelly, horrifiée, le regarda enfoncer les pointes métalliques de la fourchette jusqu’à la rétine. Il poussa un hurlement de douleur et parvint à s’arracher l’autre œil qui glissa sur le sol. Grant, t

Kelly, horrifiée, le regarda enfoncer les pointes métalliques de la fourchette jusqu’à la rétine. Il poussa un hurlement de douleur et parvint à s’arracher l’autre œil qui glissa sur le sol. Grant, t

He was halfway up the stairs when he heard the banging on his front door. John froze for a second, wondering who would be knocking his door at this late hour. He turned and headed slowly down the stairs, moving right up to the front door, straining his ears to see if he could detect any sounds from beyond the partition. He was inches from it when there was more banging.John jumped back, his heart thudding harder now. He saw that the chain was on but he hesitated as he reached for the handle, finally opening the door a crack.There was no one on the doorstep. He opened it a little further and peered out into the night, only the streetlamps offering any illumination. John was about to duck back inside the house when something loomed at him from the side of the porch... More stories to haunt your dreams are presented here within these pages. Tales of a neighbour with a terrible fear. Of an artist who uses the most unusual objects to make his craft come alive. Stories about strange beliefs and a desperate desire to know that there is something beyond death. A couple lost in a forest discover what they think is salvation from their plight but much more besides. Is a baby monitor as innocent as it appears? What if it picks up more than the sound of a child? A hitman hired to kill a recluse discovers that this is one deal he really shouldnt have taken on. A woman afraid of Witchcraft finds she has good reason to fear a new arrival in her village. These are just some of the stories within this volume. Stories of revenge, terror, the unknown, creatures beyond belief. Stories that will make you think, make you shudder but, above all, make you want to leave the light on after reading them...

It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of them are shot dead and another fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but their families too? How are the Government and the British army implicated? What lurks within a secret research establishment in the English countryside? Franklin has to find out. Finally the only one left alive, he tires of being the prey and decides to become the hunter. His quest will bring him into conflict with forces he cannot begin to imagine or understand but he is driven by a need for revenge that overrides his fear.Aided by a desperate detective, Franklin becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a terrifying climax in the London Underground where he comes face to face with the answers he has sought.Like all of us, Franklin was told monsters dont exist. Hes about to find out someone was lying . . .

Killers never retire. Sean Doyle thought he had.Once a CounterTerrorist operative, Doyle now lives behind a deskolder, slower, and certain his violent past is over. Until a 25 million offer drags him back into the field.A millionaires wife has been abducted and taken to New York by a powerful art dealer whose obsession is spiralling into something far darker. Doyle joins a specialist team: a brilliant exsoldier, an explosives expert with a vendetta, and a disgraced priest whose purpose becomes terrifyingly clear as the mission descends into bloodshed.What begins as a highrisk rescue turns into a confrontation with something beyond reasonand beyond anything Doyle has ever faced.Some horrors cant be killed.Some truths should never be uncovered.Hollow Point delivers Shaun Hutsons trademark brutality, breakneck tension, and a plunge into supernatural terror.

As a member of the Counter Terrorist Unit, Sean Doyle thought hed seen it all.Every violent act, every depraved action man could perpetrate against man but he is to discover that there are much worse things in this world than even he has encountered.Tracking a group of renegade terrorists from London to the Republic of Ireland, Doyle and his partner must discover who is funding these men and why. What he discovers is beyond even his experience and threatens not just his life but his sanity too.The trail of terror leads not just across Britain but to France as well where the monstrous deeds of a murderer who died four hundred years earlier still cast a dark and horrific shadow. In the grisly frames of a stained glass window taken from the home of this vile killer lay the secret sought by so many for so long. The secret of immortality. And one man will stop at nothing to get it. Sean Doyle is about to meet that man. Modern terrorism meets Medieval madness in a jaw-dropping climax that will make the living envy the dead..."Britains greatest living horror author."Dark Side"An expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages."Time Out"Hutson writes grippingly."SFX MagazineThe one that writes what others only dare imagine. SUNDAY TIMES

Harold Pierce didnt mean to kill his baby brother all those years ago.He didnt intend to incinerate him in a fire but he did and he has spent most of his adult life in a psychiatric hospital because of that. Upon release he is given a job as a hospital porter but that job involves the burning of aborted foetuses and the memories of what happened to his brother begin to torment Harold. In the small town where he lives the terror is mounting because of the escape from prison of psychopath Paul Harvey. Within days of his escape a horrifying series of murders begins but there is much worse to come. Pierce and Harvey, both disturbed and guarding terrible secrets, are about to unleash a terror beyond belief..."Britains greatest living horror author."Dark Side"An expert in the art of keeping the reader turning the pages."Time Out"Hutson writes grippingly."SFX MagazineThe one that writes what others only dare imagine. SUNDAY TIMES