Books published by Black Shuck Books

Great British Horror 5 continues the annual series showcasing the best in modern British horror. Every year, the series features ten British authors, plus one international guest contributor, telling tales of this sceptered isle.The 2020 edition, Midsummer Eve, features another eleven original stories from eleven authors at the very top of their game.

A man suffering from extreme grief finds that pieces of himself are going missing, while another attempts to cheat death in a very unusual and dangerous way...One woman gets more than she bargained for during her pregnancy, while another is the target for a unique killer who must feast to survive...And as one prisoner attempts to escape not only his pursuers but this reality, an unhinged individual attempts to build the perfect family bit by bit...In this collection of thirteen tales from award-winning and #1 bestselling author Paul Kane (the BFA-Nominated Monsters, Before, The Storm), you'll find every conceivable kind of Body Horror. This very special book also contains Kane's first published story 'Façades', a novelette set in his PL Kane crime universe (Her Last Secret, Her Husband's Grave) featuring a brand new PI, the scripts for the theatre version of 'The Torturer' (recently turned into a short film starring current Pinhead Paul T. Taylor) and the comic adaptation of 'The Disease', plus it comes with an introduction by John Llewellyn Probert (The Compleat Valentine, Made for the Dark) and stunning cover art by Les Edwards (Nightbreed, The Thing).Get ready to be traumatised!

"You never know which ideas will stick in your mind, let alone where they''ll go. Roth-Steyr began with an interest in the odd designs and names of early automatic pistols, and the decision to use one of them as a story title. What started out as an oddball short piece became a much longer and darker tale about how easily a familiar world can fall apart, how old convictions vanish or change, and why no one should want to live forever.It''s also about my obsession with history, in particular the chaotic upheavals that plagued the first half of the twentieth century and that are waking up again. Another ''long dark night of the European soul'' feels very close today. So here''s the story of Valerie Varden. And her Roth-Steyr."

In an alternative 2017 where computer viruses are still taking down businesses and social media algorithms are still programmed to profile everybody, join Aurora - the social platform that shines a light for everyone - in watching new user, Siward Walls, watching back.

A young man joins a circus where the mysterious ringmaster is more interested in watching him fail. An immigrant worker forms an unlikely alliance with his housing estate''s foxes. A fraudulent accountant goes on the run, but loses herself in the dry heat of Australia.This debut collection from Dan Coxon unearths the no man''s land between dreams and nightmares, a place where the strange is constantly threatening to seep through into our everyday reality. Populated by the lost and the downtrodden, the forgotten and the estranged, these stories follow in the tradition of Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman and Joel Lane. Because when the dust has settled and the blood has been washed away, Only the Broken Remain.

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and David A. Sutton comes En Vacances, the twenty-fourth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Reggie Oliver comes Stages of Fear, the twenty-third in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Aliya Whiteley comes Fearsome Creatures, the twenty-second in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.

From British Fantasy Award-nominated author Chris Kelso comes the DREGS trilogy, comprising three installments: Shrapnel Apartments Unger House Radicals and Ritual America in a transgressive odyssey that will leave you dazzled, fascinated and shocked in equal measure.

Thirteen stories in which people reach the limits of their known worlds. Stories where ghosts take many forms, where the monsters are sometimes human, sometimes not. Stories where desperate people find out what they’re capable of, and husbands and wives traveling on dark roads discover how lost they truly are. Stories where the discoveries people make come at a cost, and crossing over into the unknown can be both liberating and terrifying.

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Dan Coxon comes Green Fingers, the nineteenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Mark Howard Jones comes Flowers of War, the fifteenth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.

Nakata's ghosts won't stay dead…A chambermaid's seemingly innocent request is granted, an act of kindness that has dire consequences for a guest…An unearthly light in an abandoned bungalow resolves the mystery of a missing child…An invitation to a clifftop graveyard leads to a harrowing chase by things that remain unseen…In an abandoned hotel, work is underway to upgrade the building but something is stalking the residents…There is a hidden agenda to paranormal researcher Richard Nakata's investigations into these houses. A commission that witnesses cattle lowing in the cow-sheds of Stack's Farm long after they've been slaughtered, and a reckoning in the showhouse of 24 Glasshouse as he and his colleagues pay the price for creating their own ghost…Simon Kurt Unsworth reinvents the classic English ghost story with a portmanteau collection that takes the haunted house genre and makes it scream… quietly.The houses are quiet, it's the residents who are screaming.

A man seeks revenge for his dead wife's murder, while another finds himself being tortured for information he doesn't have. One woman's job at a check-out is starting to take its toll, while another imagines all kinds of horrors during a blackout. An urban nightmare called Graffitiland is the location for a deadly hunt, but a thief finds more than he bargains for upon breaking and entering one particular property. And as a stalker tracks his latest victim, an altogether different kind of serial killer called The Gemini is rising… Here in these pages you'll find gathered together all the tales of crime and psychological terror from award-winning and bestselling author and editor Paul B. Kane (Beyond Rue Morgue, Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell), plus three new novelettes - including a serial killer reworking of Cinderella. Complete with an introduction from the award-winning Paul Finch (author of the bestselling Sergeant 'Heck' Heckenberg novels, including Stalkers, Sacrifice and Hunted, as well as the Sunday Times bestseller Strangers), this is one collection of thrilling Nailbiters fans of the genre will not want to miss…

Includes the four chapbooks published by Knightwatch Press in 2015 and 2016, by Gary McMahon, Sean T Page, Jasper Bark and Lily Childs; as well as a fifth, previously unpublished, story by James Everington.

In Aid of Birmingham Dogs HomeThe grey wolves howled and scratched at our doors until we let them in. We fed them, tamed them and made them our companions. For millennia they were hunters at our side. We evolved together and survived with each other. We built myths and religions on their backs. From lycans to dog-headed gods like anubis. Yet we were always the master, they the servant. That is until recently when evolution has played a horrifying trick. Now our roles are reversed. but some of us are fighting back. The story of the mankind is far from over and the story of the new dog masters has only just begun. Though one thing is certain... Man's best friend has become Mankind's worst enemy.

THERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVEROnly pick up a stranger if you can face your demons…and hersOnly stay with your lover if you can give yourself body and soulOnly sell your flesh if you can bear humiliation, pain and the deepest darknessOnly play God if you can endure the unutterable loneliness of the DivineTHERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVERThirteen excursions into the shadowlands that border the known and the terrors that lie beyondTHERE IS A WAY TO LIVE FOREVER by Terry GrimwoodAuthor of Deadside Revolution, Bloody War and The Exaggerated Man

Come forward, view this body, where choices bring or force people to the brink.Mind Over Matter: eight stories examine dark obsessions, consuming lust and the consequences of choices that can twist the mind to its own desires or bring release.Under the Skin: eight stories where the quest to master devices, environment or worlds leads to battles of survival that devour or shape into something new.Savory teeth, sentient insects, deadly automatons, VR worlds, ensorcelled blades, nanotech healing, possessive fungus, gingerbread people, prophetic soap bubbles and more: this Body of Work is a stitchery of tales, a strange creature that is alluring, disturbing and thought-provoking.

New Music for Old Rituals brings together a selection of stories that illustrate the pervasive power of the past in the present. Together they present a strange yet familiar country where cautionary tales still serve a purpose; where sacred sites of sea, forest, valley and forts hold power. Where old legends live, and where new myths are born. Within these pages, bog bodies sleep, contagion fought, ghosts linger, and time stutters, fails and turns back on itself.