Publisher Night Shade Books
A novel of chilling suspense, apocalyptic beauty, and fine ales.
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Six months have passed since the end of the world, leaving a handful of survivors holed up in a Welsh manor with little to do but survive. They’ve made the best of things, planting food, drinking their way through the cellar’s wine and ale, and reminiscing about the way life used to be. But with supplies running thin, everything is about to change…
“This book is beautifully written, it is scary, thought provoking, fun and different.” – Famous Monsters of Filmland
The arrival of a stranger named Michael sheds new light on their circumstances. If the survivors can reach Cornwall, a few days’ journey south, they will find a safe haven, called Bar None, quite possibly the last bar on earth.
“…a fun, engaging, exceptionally strange and refreshingly original tale for fans of postapocalyptic fiction.” – Publishers Weekly
As they make their way across the Briitish countryside, the survivors will experience a world gone strange, where frightening beings fly high overhead, where flora and fauna press in to fill the void left by the fall of man, and, in the wreckage of civilization, where less fortunate survivors, twisted by plagues, hunger, and fear, stalk human prey.
“It’s a book I will be reading again (and again), there are so many layers here, it’s impossible to dig through them all on a first reading. No, like the beer it so beautifully describes this is a book to savour time and time again to get all the subtle nuances. Tim Lebbon goes from strength to strength in my mind, this isn’t horror writing of the highest order, this is writing of the highest order.” – Highlander’s Book Reviews
Published by Bantam Spectra/Allison & Busby
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Kel Boon was once an agent of the land’s most secret organisation, tracking and eliminating the Strangers from beyond Noreela. But then one horrifying encounter left his superior officer–and lover–dead, along with many innocents. Kel has been running ever since, hiding out as a simple wood-carver in the fishing village of Pavmouth Breaks. When when a mysterious island appears during a cataclysmic storm, sending tidal waves to smash the village, his training tells him to expect the worst. How can he warn the surviving villagers that the visitors may not be the peace-loving pilgrims they claim to be? That this might be the invasion he has long feared … and that he may be Noreela’s last chance?
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” .. gripping adventure … (a) solidly constructed tale.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“this stand-alone story is a pulsepounding adventure with visceral thrills and Lebbon’s signature moral ambiguity.” – Booklist
“a uniquely terrifying horror fantasy that contrasts the homey comforts of a small seaport town with horrors that come from the realm of nightmares. A tandout choice for most dark fantasy readers.” – Library Journal
Published Dark Horse, April 2009
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Hellboy is called to Amalfi, Italy, by Franca, a young member of the Esposito family. She fears that a dark curse on her family is about to claim her cousin as its next victim. Hellboy makes his way to their large home, and he encounters a flaming demon – a fire wolf – which he successfully fights off. Hellboy and Franca make their way to Pompeii, where Franca remembers seeing an image of the fire wolf whilst on an archaeological dig. Hellboy unearths the shriveled corpse of a demon hunter who was buried during the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius, and it tells him of the fire-demon that escaped the grip of the volcano leading to that devastating eruption. Attacked again by the fire wolf, Hellboy and Franca have to make their way back to Amalfi to confront Adamo Esposito, the family elder. But already the volcano is rumbling again, and an eruption even more devastating than that historical catastrophe looks very, very close!
Published Bantam Spectra, January 2009
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What if you were given a map to a magic that could change the worst moment of your life…for a price?
From two all-stars of dark fantasy, Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon, coauthors of Mind the Gap, comes this terrifying new thriller of magic and dangerous passions, where an ordinary man searches the magical landscape of an extraordinary city for the chance of a lifetime.
Barely six months after leaving New Orleans, history professor Max Corbett is returning to a place he hardly recognizes. The girl he’d loved—and lost—is dead, and the once-enchanted city has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Max has not thought much beyond Gabrielle’s funeral—until a strange old man offers him a map, and an insane proposition . . .
“Forget all the stories about magic you think you know. . . .”
It looks like an ordinary tourist map, but the old man claims that it is marked with a trail of magical moments from New Orleans’s history that just might open a door to the past. But it is a journey fraught with peril as Max begins to uncover dark secrets about both his dead love and the city he never really got to know. How is Gabrielle linked to an evil group from the city’s past? And can Max evade them long enough to turn back the clock and give Gabrielle one last chance at life?
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‘Urban realism meets dark fantasy in this spine-tingling second collaboration between authors Golden and Lebbon (after 2008’s Mind the Gap) as they merge the repercussions of Hurricane Katrina with New Orleans’ terrifying ghostly past.’ Publishers Weekly, starred review
‘A haunting, yet inspirational novel that could resonate very strongly with readers, “The Map of Moments” is undeniable proof that Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon make a great team together…’ Fantasy Book Critic
Published: Spectra, April 2008 / Allison & Busby Aug 2008
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From award-winning author Tim Lebbon comes this harrowing tale of an epic journey, crossing the forbidden boundary separating us from all we fear the most…
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Published: Bantam Spectra, May 2008
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You never know when you’ll find yourself falling through one of the cracks in the world….
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Publisjed September 2008, Humdrumming
Due to the publisher Humdrumming’s recent demise, this Limited Edition Hardback is now SOLD OUT
Daniel is ten years old when his mother dies. She dies young, and with so much left to give. He does not understand. He cannot let her go.
After the funeral, his father begins talking to a large wooden box that suddenly appears beneath his bed. And when Daniel whispers to the box one day when his father goes out … it answers back.
It’s a voice he does not know. But this voice knows so much.
“Lebbon has written one of the best and most emotionally convincing stories about death that I have ever read” – Michael Marshall Smith
“…a precisely written and moving account of love and redemption” – Black Static
“…emotional and thought-provoking…” – Interzone
“With The Reach of Children, (Lebbon) has exceeded even his former astounding works.” – Horror World
“This is an important book, it will win things. This is a given. More importantly though – and I honestly think Lebbon would share my opinion on this – this is a book that people will get evangelical about. They will insist their friends read it. They will get increasingly frustrated by people who claim to have not had the time or the money.” – The Hub
Published: Necessary Evil Press, December 2007
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In the Hell of World War Two, in the grisly chaos and ruin of Singapore, Gabriel at last sees a chance to discover more about the origins of Temple, and the demon’s sinister purpose… and perhaps a way to finally put an end to Temple’s existence and the carnage that follows him like a shadow.
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Published: Subterranean Press, December 2007
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Two novellas set in Tim Lebbon’s signature world of Noreela.
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Published: Pocket Star, September 2007
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A New York Times bestselling novel!
In the sleepy and secluded town of Barrow, Alaska – the northernmost settlement in North America – its citizens are preparing for the annual coming of the Dark, when the sun will set for more than thirty consecutive days and nights.
But this year, the Dark will bring something else.
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Published: Necessary Evil Press, March 2007 / Leisure Books May 2007 / Allison & Busby 2008
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30 years ago…
Sixteen-year-old Scott sees his first ghost.
Where is the Chord of Souls? it demands, then abruptly flees, leaving the horror of that fateful day indelibly tattooed on his Scott’s young mind.
He will never forget that day. Because the ghost was his grandfather’s friend… and his grandfather had murdered his friend just ten days before.
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Thirty years after his grandfather’s suicide, Scott is stunned to suddenly receive a letter from the old man which talks of an ancient book of apocalyptic power: The Chord of Souls.
The letter’s arrival quickly heralds a deluge of supernatural events that has Scott teetering on the precipice of sanity and salvation: his wife is kidnapped, ghosts besiege his home and his mind, and immortality dons the guise of a beautiful woman…
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Published: Bantam Spectra, March 27th, 2007
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Noreela teeters on the brink of annihilation, but its last survivors will not go quietly into the never-ending darkness. The final battle for the land has begun.
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Published: Pocket Books, 2006
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Hellboy, a blood-red, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
He questions the unknown – then beats it into submission.
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Published Cemetery Dance Publication, 2009
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They’ve invaded before, sending their best and brightest to transform popular music for all time. This time, they’re leaving the music behind and focusing on words. The British Invasion has begun again, in a collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories of horror and the dark fantastic.
From the birthplace of horror fiction, the land where writers first dreamed up the icons that shaped the field we know today — Frankenstein’s monster, Count Dracula, the vile Mr. Hyde and more. You think you know desperation? Discover a literary tradition born from centuries of violence, pain, and suffering, distilled through the veneer of civility, and twisted by the reign of tyrants and kings.
You think you know fear?
From creeping dread to hideous humor, from quiet terror to brutal horror, from mad speculation to unspeakable truth, the twenty-one tales here represent the best that the U.K. has to offer. The rising stars and the masters of British horror have joined together.
The British Invasion has begun.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Stephen Volk
“Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers” by Gord Rollo
“Respects” by Ramsey Campbell”
“Farewell to the 21st Century Girl” by Mark Chadbourn
“At One” by James Lovegrove
“The Nowhere Man” by Sarah Pinborough
“The Spaces in Our Lives” by Allen Ashley
“The Crazy Helmets” by Paul Finch
“Slitten Gorge” by Conrad Williams
“Birchiam Pier” by Tony Richards
“Beth’s Law” by Joel Lane
“Black Dogs” by Gary Fry
“The Misadventure of Fat Man and Little Boy, Or, How I Made a Monster” by Philip Nutman
“The Goldfinch” by Nicholas Royle
“Never Go Back” by Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis
“Mutiny” by Kealan Patrick Burke
“British Horror Weekend” by Anonymous
“King of the Maggots” by John Travis
“Leaves” by Peter Crowther
“Puppies For Sale” by Mark Morris
“Yellow Teeth” by Adam Nevill
“The Vague” by Paul Meloy
Afterword by Kim Newman
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“From Gord Rollo’s transcendentally eerie tale of a comatose young boy’s revenge (”Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers”) to Mark Morris’s cautionary tale about a pair of unorthodox vampires (”Puppies for Sale”), the 21 original stories in this anthology establish the strength of British horror writers. Contributors include Ramsey Campbell, Sarah Pinborough, Conrad Williams, Peter Crowther, and other veterans and new authors. A strong collection of contemporary horror from across the pond…”
— Library Journal“The British may not have invented the modern horror story, as the editors of this all-original anthology claim, but the 21 stories they’ve selected prove that contemporary U.K. writers are infiltrating American publishing markets with some of the most provocative horror fiction written today. Refreshingly devoid of genre clichés, these subtle tales offer ambiguously supernatural horrors from the dramas and traumas of everyday life. Nicholas Royle, in The Goldfinch, gives chronic illness an unsettling spin by objectifying a man’s cancer as a relentless shadowy stalker. Mark Morris’s Puppies for Sale presents a nuclear family’s gradual implosion as a consequence of a malignant supernatural influence that may be a complete figment of the distraught father’s mind. In Conrad Williams’s Slitten Gorge, the disconnect between the unpolluted natural world and the protagonist’s industrially despoiled environment achieves an aura of otherworldly horror. The book’s title notwithstanding, there’s nothing peculiarly British about these stories, but their authors are exceptionally articulate in the universal language of horror.”
— Publishers Weekly
Published: Necessary Evil Press 2005, Leisure Books 2006
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Tom’s son died ten years ago… so they say. Killed in a military training accident on Salisbury Plain and sent home in a sealed coffin. But when Tom gets wind that there was more to the accident than was first revealed, his suspicions are aroused once more.
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Published: Bantam Spectra 2006
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Winner of the 2007 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Dusk is set in the fading world of Noreela, where magic has withdrawn and nature itself is winding down.
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Published: Necessary Evil Press, 2005
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For centuries Gabriel has been pursuing the assassin Temple, part-demon, part-man, seeking revenge for the slaughter of his family.
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Published: Leisure Books, 2005
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After years incarcerated by his mad father, Cain is free at last …
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Published: Necessary Evil Press 2004
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Dead Man’s Hand is the first in the Assassin Series from Necessary Evil Press.
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Published: Borderlands Press 2004 / Leisure Books 2004
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A volume of four novellas, two of them British Fantasy Award-winners: includes “White”, “Naming of Parts”, “The Unfortunate”, and “Remnants”.
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Published: PS Publishing, 2003
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A direct sequel to Naming of Parts, this novella takes on from where Jack and his father reach the coast…
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Published: Earthling Publications, 2003
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During the London Blitz, a veteran from World War One goes in search of the author Arthur Machen. He has some questions to ask him…
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Published: Night Shade Books, 2002
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A collection of six novellas, including four reprints (”The First Law”, “From Bad Flesh”, “The Origin of Truth” and the British Fantasy Award-winning “White”), and two new tales, “Hell” and “Mannequin Man and the Plastic Bitch”.
Nominated for a British Fantasy Award!
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Published: Cemetery Dance, 2002
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Andy lives in a quiet little village, enjoying bike rides with his friend Stig, adventures in the woods, wild stories … all too aware that he’s growing up fast. The last thing Andy expected to be doing this summer was fighting witches.
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Published: Night Shade Books, 2001 / Dorchester Publishing, 2003
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A family picks up a hitchhiker in the worst blizzard in living memory. It’s a mistake. Brand is not who he seems, to the mother, the father or the daughter. He is something more, something they fear in their own ways, and soon after the thaw they are all seeing him again….
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Published: Prime Books / Leisure Books, 2001
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One morning, the world does not wake up. People lie dead in their beds, killed by their own nightmares. They’re lucky. For the few remaining survivors, the new world is a confusing, terrifying place. Things are different now. The balance of nature has shifted …
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Published: Night Shade Books, 2000
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A hardback short story collection. Contains over 90,000 words of fiction, including a novella “The Unfortunate”. Also has an introduction by Ramsey Campbell and a cover by Alan M Clark.
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Published: Razorblade Press, 2000
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A novel written in collaboration with Gavin Williams. This started life as a wide-ranging Lovecraftian horror novel, but it took on much more besides. The Matrix meets The X-Files with a bit of H.P. thrown into the mix; it’s a fast-moving action-horror-love-science fiction novel. There, all bases covered there I think.
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Published: PS Publishing, 2000
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A novella that was published in limited hardback and paperback formats, with an introduction by Steve Rasnic Tem and a wonderful cover by Alan M Clark. This is the first in a series of four linked novellas from PS Publishing.
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Published: MOT Press, 1999
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A novella; winner of the British Fantasy Award 2000 for Best Short Fiction, shortlisted for an International Horror Guild Award, SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.
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Published: Razorblade Press, 1998
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A volume of two novellas: The First Law and From Bad Flesh. Runner-up in the Best Collection category of the British Fantasy Awards 1999.
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Published: Tanjen, 1997 / Prime Books 2003
My first novel, shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (losing out to Chaz Brenchley). No longer very easy to get hold of…
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A brand new novella coming soon from CZP Publications. It’ll be launched at the World Horror Convention this March in Brighton, but you can order the limited edition hardback now (which contains an exclusive story Ollie’s Oswald):
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When a father loses his son and his wife leaves him, he cannot tear himself away from the small fishing village where the boy’s memories reside. They’re all he has left.
Thinking that his life is all but over, he takes to wandering the cliffs, carrying broken things that he always promised his son he would fix, but never did. They’re a sign of his failure, and they keep little Toby close.
And then he meets the thief of broken toys, and everything begins to change
Published by Bantam Spectra
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Coming soon from Bantam Spectra in the USA (October 2010)
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Orbit Books in the UK (June 2011)
Coming soon from Corsair (an imprint of Constable & Robinson) in the UK.
In the beginning, our world comes to an end. And after that things only get worse.
Coming soon from Harper Collins in the USA …
