UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · HORROR TALES
Michael Marshall Smith
Most acclaimed
Spares
When being fit and beautiful become a health hazard.... When jet-setting playboy Jonathan Rudder's fiancee, Angela Moresby, is hacked to death in what appears to have been a sexual frenzy, Jonathan is himself the principal suspect - his maniacal moods are well known. This death is part of a pattern of horrible crimes and the police are determined to pin the whole series of gruesome murders on Jonathan. He is forced to start his own investigation, to prove his innocence - before he too becomes a victim. But as the Chief Detective-Inspector delves into Angela's murder, and another equally horrific, he slowly becomes aware of wholesale dissection. However, it is Jonathan, and his new friend, American Jennifer Brand - fiancee of another victim - who first uncover the truth about the most diabolical medical plot in history, placing their own lives in imminent danger as they do so.
Everything you need
An aimless driver in the mountains comes upon something that is both more and less than he hoped for. A child discovers why you should always stay in bed if you wake up in the middle of the night. A homeowner unpacks the wrong bag of groceries, and comes to suspect his neighbors might have secrets that he doesn't want to know. A cable shopping channel presenter is confronted with disgruntled customers from a VERY long way out of town... and a man sets himself to rid the world of one of its most famous lies, and winds up destroying himself instead.
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010
Carrie is the debut horror novel by American author Stephen King, released in 1974. Set in the town of Chamberlain, Maine, the plot revolves around Carrie White, a friendless high school girl from an abusive religious household who has telekinetic powers. After a cruel prank pulled by one of her bullies on prom night, Carrie decides to take revenge. King wrote Carrie with the intention of submitting it to be published originally as a short story for the men's magazine Cavalier following the suggestion of a friend that he write a story about a female character. Though King initially gave up on Carrie due to discomfort and apathy, and felt it would never be successful, his wife Tabitha persuaded him to continue writing, and rescued the first three pages of the story from the trash.