Toby Litt

Sex, death, drugs, Satanism, voodoo - when things start to go wrong at hospital, who knows where it will end? This is a journey to hell and back.

In the tradition of THE CEMENT GARDEN and THE WASP FACTORY, this is a compelling and shocking journey into the dark heart of boyhood, as four boys play war games deep in the English countryside. With the death of one of the Gang (as they call themselves), the war games escalate, directed now against the adults they hold responsible for the loss of one of their soldiers. Like Toby Litt's previous novel CORPSING, DEADKIDSONGS is unputdownable, highly original and deeply thought-provoking.

Kumiko saw it first. A heart - a human heart - slithering down outside the window of a train travelling between London Bridge and Blackfriars. Someone must have thrown it out from a carriage in front. Kumiko is determined to find out who - and why. But Skelton was sitting next to Kumiko on the train and he saw it too, so he also wants to get to the bottom of the mystery. Or he says he does, but really he just wants Kumiko back, because she's walked out on him, just like that, and left him heartbroken. Each for their own reasons, Kumiko and Skelton set out - separately - on a bizarre trail of discovery. Darting between dingy student pubs, the roofs of Borough Market and the corridors and car-parks of Guy's Hospital, they become embroiled in the seedy world of young medical students, until eventually the gossip and the stories lead them both to the hospital's infamous dissection lecturer - known behind his back as "King Death"...

When Jamal knocks over a dusty old book, he doesn't know it holds more than words. Ghostwriter has been let loose. What is that strange glowing light? And is it really possible that this ghost is lonely? There are a lot of unanswered questions. For now the kids will have to trust Ghostwriter. Something weird and scary is happening in the neighborhood, and they need his help. There are masked backpack thieves on the loose. Soon the team is on to the thieves, but what will happen when the thieves are on to the team?

Stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran.

"In these stories from issues #1-6, Charles and Edwin begin to unravel the mysteries of their own demise while trying to protect tech-savvy sleuth Crystal from a similar fate. Also includes the short stories 'Run Ragged' from WITCHING HOUR #1, GHOSTS #1 and TIME WARP #1."--