Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their stories in the Valley of the Rocks. For when the women are all gone the rest of your life is all there is for everyone. The men are waiting to pass into the night. The story shall be told to preserve the past. History has gone back to its aural roots and the power of words is strong. Meet Nate, the storyteller, and the new secrets he brings back from the darkness. William rules the group with youth and strength, but how long can that last? And what about Uncle Ted, who spends so much time out in the woods? Hear the tales, watch a myth be formed. For what can man hope to achieve in a world without women? When the past is only grief how long should you hold on to it? What secrets can the forest offer to change it all? Discover the Beauty. This is a bold and striking novella to shake up the New Weird and does contain strong imagery and events. The beautiful and the terrible exist side by side. Encompassing post-apocalyptic setting, science fiction and horror, this is a story you will never forget.

The Beauty

Literature & Fiction

Aliya Whiteley

Genre Fiction

Unsung Stories

Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Award 2015. I was wrong to think that there were floodlights. Nobody's got a torch lit. There's no need. She's difficult to look at. She's too bright. She's lighting the whole damn scene with her blood. Welcome to Vox. A city of perpetual night, existing under a star that burns in darkness. Light-starved citizens shoot up on Prometheus, while the wealthy live in the radiance provided by three Hearts that beat light into the city. Aquila. Corvus. Cancer. When Cancer is stolen, it falls to hero cop Virgil Yorke to investigate. But Virgil has had a long cycle and he doesn't feel like a hero. The unsolved case of Vivian North, a promising student found dead with veins full of unnatural glowing, dominates his thoughts. The possibility of a connection between the lucent girl and the stolen Heart urges Virgil to shed light on the dark city's even darker secrets. Tormented by the ghosts of his past and chased by his addictions, which will crack first, Virgil or the case? Dark Star is hardboiled science fantasy written in syllabic verse, distinctive in form but accessible and immediately compelling.Langmead's tale of a flawed cop in the darkness recreates science fantasy as modern legend, epic verse as Virgil's voice. Steeped in atmosphere, a sensuous linguistic trip, Dark Star will be one of the most striking titles of 2015.

Dark Star

Langmead, Oliver

Metronome

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Oliver-Langmead

Fantasy

Pseudotooth

Literary

Malcolm Devlin's You Will Grow Into Them is a collection of immaculately written tales that deftly mix darkness with a playful imagination. The results are stories that are as entertaining and humane as they are deeply unsettling. We need more stories in the world like these., Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of GhostsDevlin's collection, like Andrew Michael Hurley's The Loney before it, is set to become one of the decade's landmarks of English weird. Nina Allan, author of The Race and The Rift This debut collection of stories by Malcolm Devlin is one of the best I've read in years. By turns subtle, tender and brutal, and full of the sort of beauty one only finds in the hear's darkest corner, You Will Grow Into Them made me both jealous and grateful., Stories like this are exactly why I love to read. Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters You Will Grow Into Them is filled with stories that are deceptively simple and perilously elegant. They look like fairy tales, but aren't really - In fact they are best described as a precise alchemy of language., Perfectly pitched, thoroughly disquieting, You Will Grow Into Them is like a light in the darkness that might lead you home or lure you from the path. Malcolm Devlin is one of our finest voices. Angela Slatter, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Bitterwood Bible & Other RecountingsThe world is a far stranger place than we give it credit for., There, in the things we think familiar, safe, are certain aspects. Our fears and desires given form. Moments that defy explanation., Shadows in our home. In Malcolm Devlin's debut collection, change is the only constant. Across nine stories he tackles the unease of transformation, growth and change in a world where horror seeps from the mundane., Childhood anxieties manifest as debased and degraded doppelgangers, fungal blooms are harvested from the backs of dancers and lycanthropes become the new social pariahs. The demons we carry inside us a

You Will Grow Into Them

Devlin, Malcolm

Short Stories & Anthologies

Something strange is happening on British shores. Britain has a long history of folk tales, ghost stories and other uncanny fictions, and these literary ley lines are still shimmering beneath the surface of this green and pleasant land. Every few generations this strangeness crawls out from the dark places of the British imagination, seeping into our art and culture. We are living through such a time. This Dreaming Isle is an anthology of new horror stories and weird fiction with a distinctly British flavour. It collects together fifteen brand new horrifying or unsettling stories that draw upon the landscape and history of the British Isles for their inspiration. Some explore the realms of myth and legend, others are firmly rooted in the present, engaging with the countrys forgotten spaces. Featuring new stories from: Ramsey Campbell, multi-award winning author of over 40 novels Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney and Devils Day Catriona Ward, author of Rawblood and Little Eve Robert Shearman, World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award winning author of four collections Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell, Cold Light and more Gareth E. Rees, author of Marshland and The Stone Tide Tim Lebbon, screenwriter and author of over 35 books including Dusk, The Silence and Relics Alison Littlewood, author of The Crow Garden, The Hidden People and more Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty, The Arrival of Missives and The Loosening Skin (forthcoming from Unsung Stories) Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author of Whitstable, Monsters in the Heart and more Kirsty Logan, author of The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart James Miller, author of UnAmerican Activities, Lost Boys and Sunshine State Jeannette Ng, author of Under the Pendulum Sun Richard V

This Dreaming Isle

Coxon, Dan

The Willow By Your Side

Peter Haynes

Penelope Greensmith lives a small, dedicated life, collecting plants with the mysterious Vice she inherited from her father. Then the enigmatic and charming Horticulturalist arrives in her garden, asking to see her collection—he tells her it could hold the key to stopping a terrible plague sweeping the universe.\nPenelope is whisked away on an intergalactic adventure by the Horticulturalist, witnessing the vast and bizarre mysteries that lie among the stars. She is thrust into a bewildering life of the strange and fantastic—where string powers interstellar travel, where birds fight terrible wars on the bodies of giants, where plants grow to the size of planets—hoping to help Hort save the day.\nBut as this gentle woman searches for a way to save the universe, her daughter Lily is still on Earth, struggling to survive the terrible plague sweeping the planet. Penelope must fight a way to stop the rot once and for all.

Greensmith

Science Fiction

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