Conrad Williams is one of the masters of
modern British horror, the author of seven novels, four novellas and two
collections of short stories and also the editor of one anthology. He is the
winner of the 2010 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, “One” (reviewed here on my blog), the 2007 International Horror
Guild Award for Best Novel, “The Unblemished”,
the 2008 British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, “The Scalding Room”, and the 1993 British Fantasy Award for Best
Newcomer. The first two novels published by Conrad Williams are available for
free download until February 17th, so if you fancy a copy of “Head Injuries” (Amazon US/UK) and “London Revenant” (Amazon US/UK) you
can grab one by following the link of your choice.
David has been summoned to Morecambe, a place he
hoped he'd never see again. It's winter and the English seaside town is dead.
David knows exactly how it feels.
Empty for as long as he can remember, he depends
too much on a past filled with the excitements of drink, drugs, and emotionless
sex. The friends – Helen and Seamus – who sustained him are here now, and
together they aim to pinpoint the source of the violence that has suddenly
exploded into their lives.
They drive each other further into a territory of
fear, suspicion, and threat as old bitternesses are rekindled, ancient haunts
are revisited.
The phantoms of the past are coalescing and something
is coming home to roost.
A madman is pushing people under Tube trains...
Adam Buckley thinks he knows who it is, but has
problems of his own to deal with. Damaged from a recent break-up, his
narcolepsy worsening, he learns that his friends have become suicidally
obsessed with finding insane, unexplored parts of London.
He glimpses figures in the subterranean gloom, half
recognised faces at parties to which he can't recall being invited, indications
of a life lived yet never remembered. As his confusion deepens, so too does the
threat of violence. In peeling back so many of the city's faces, he fears that
the skull beneath the skin might well be known to him.
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