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BAFTA-winning writer Stephen Volk outraged the critics with his first screenplay, Ken Russell's Gothic, and shocked an unsuspecting nation with his notorious BBC TV Halloween hoax Ghostwatch. His new, gripping supernatural drama series Afterlife was called "Terrific television" (The Guardian) and "Unmissable" (Mail on Sunday). This first collection of his short fiction, like his best work for the screen, combines scenes of intense physical and psychological horror, with moments aching sadness and poignancy. Not without occasional stabs of black humour. Whether exploring traditional ghost stories reminiscent of the past, disturbing crimes of the present, or the wild imaginings of a far flung future, Volk delights in the dark corners of haunted houses and haunted people alike.

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Stephen Volk

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BAFTA-winning writer Stephen Volk outraged the critics with his first screenplay, Ken Russell's Gothic, and shocked an unsuspecting nation with his notorious BBC TV Halloween hoax Ghostwatch.  His new, gripping supernatural drama series Afterlife was called "Terrific television" (The Guardian) and "Unmissable" (Mail on Sunday).  This first collection of his short fiction, like his best work for the screen, combines scenes of intense physical and psychological horror, with moments aching sadness and poignancy.  Not without occasional stabs of black humour.  Whether exploring traditional ghost stories reminiscent of the past, disturbing crimes of the present, or the wild imaginings of a far flung future, Volk delights in the dark corners of haunted houses and haunted people alike.

Volk, Stephen

Take a Diploma in Fear.. Four secretaries working a late shift in a deserted office block.. A young man who sees the ghost of his dead father in wet glass.. The British underworld boss who will do anything to restore his tortured wife's good looks. The old cottage in the Wye Valley whose walls are soaked with blood. An art gallery where patrons become part of the paintings.. A shop where you can buy anything your heart desires, but at a terrible price.. When music graduate Paul Dearden accepts an invitation to dinner at his old university the last thing he expects is an evening of the macabre. Over the finest food and drink he learns that the institution has a history steeped in blood. Paul cannot believe that the tales he is told by his dining companions are true, even though none of them are as cruel or as terrifying as the story he needs to tell. In the tradition of classic British anthology horror films like 'The House that Dripped Blood', 'Asylum' and 'From Beyond the Grave', John Llewellyn Probert's 'The Faculty of Terror' offers six tales of terror linked by a framework story, the climax of which will earn all who survive it a first class degree in spine tingling horror!

The Faculty of Terror

Probert, John L.

Stain: Stigma; blemish; a discolouration by foreign matter; an ugly blot; an indelible mark; a dark reminder of something unpleasant. From the pen of Paul Finch, nine flights of tortured imagination to see you through the long winter nights: The fictional curse that became a mind-shattering reality ... The ancient entity that roamed the desolate wood ... The maniac who liked to melt womens' faces ... The movie-makers who sought the most blighted town they could, and found it ... Tales of chilling horror set in a contemporary and recognisable world. That is Paul Finch's speciality. In his own words, he likes to describe hideous events that could be taking place in the very next street to your own. He draws on his real-life experience as a police officer and journalist to portray a modern society literally plagued by evil. Sometimes it's the evil to be found in Man, but most often it's evil of a far less common-garden variety. In this latest collection of his stories (which includes three brand-new novellas), the supernatural is at least as prevalent as the everyday. At any moment the calamitous past might invade the powder-keg present; around ordinary corners may lurk the most extreme horrors of myth and magic; everywhere his characters look - down road and path, in town and country - there's something different, something not quite right, something that's less normality and more an aberration. Yet this isn't grue, these aren't chills of the in-yer-face variety. That's not Finch's style at all. In this book heads will roll and the blood will run red, but the enemies of mankind are often only heard or half-glimpsed. It's his quest to keep you wondering, keep you guessing, keep you nervously turning the pages. Read on, we dare you ... Paul Finch, a TV and movie script-writer by trade, is no stranger to prose. To date, he has had nearly 300 stories published on both sides of the Atlantic, most in the horror, fantasy and sci-fi genre. His first collection, Aftershocks, won the British Fantasy Award for 2001.

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Paul Finch

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Poe's Progeny

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The Faculty of Terror

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