Jack Stone thinks he knows all about fear. After all, he's a successful horror writer. But when a death in the family sends him back to his childhood home, he encounters things that even he could not have imagined. The house and town are much as he remembers them, yet there's something wrong, som...
It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Autumn leaves litter lawns and sidewalks, paper skeletons hang in windows, and carved pumpkins leer from stoops and front porches.The Doctor and Martha soon discover that something long-dormant has awoken in the town, and t...
They were sitting on the far side of the big, empty dining room with its crisp white tablecloths and immaculate silverware, the autumn sun shining on their window table and gleaming on Abe’s pale turquoise skin. Despite turning up at the hotel at two a.m., filthy and blood spattered, Abe looked n...
He had waited until full night before venturing forth, knowing that his familiarity with the forest would enable him to remain undetected. He crouched in a clump of bushes between two trees, watching in disgust as two of Tubal-cain’s soldiers, arguing drunkenly, set animal traps in the undergrowt...
There’s Holland Park (I’ve taken Kate to the adventure playground there a few times because it’s not far from Chiswick), Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. The rest of the space is taken up by streets and squares lined with big and generally well-kept houses. In one of these lived Barnaby McCallum...
Slaves wove through the unruly crowd, fulfilling the drunken guests’ every demand, but although everyone seemed to be having a good time, Batiatus had begun to fret that the two people he most wanted to attend might not make an appearance at all. As soon as they entered, therefore, he swept towar...
I thought. I was cold, wet, exhausted, and the way I saw it I had two choices: either I could go on or go back. But in truth, those two choices were only one choice. If I went back, I might lose the heart forever, because who knew when I’d get chance to look for it again, and where it might end u...