Nightcrawler

FROM THE AUTHOR OF ‘THREE DOZEN TERRIFYING TALES’ AND ‘CLASSIC PAN & FONTANA HORROR’ … A BRAND NEW BOOK OF DARK AND CHILLING FICTION, OUT EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON KINDLE AND IN PAPERBACK.MEDUSA – There it was on the early evening local news. Another drowning off our coast. Which made – if I was not mistaken – seven in the past five weeks. Seven, in so short a space of time? Seven recent drownings and not one recovered corpse.AEGEA – His first thought when he saw their bodies lying on the shore was ‘seals.’ The darkness of their skin, the way that they were evenly spaced out, the way that all their heads were pointed in the same direction. But then he removed his sunglasses, cupped a hand above his eyes and took a closer look. And could see that they were people, each of them apparently young.SADIE – The upper half of his office door was frosted glass. And when a dim figure appeared behind it and there was a sudden knock, Michael Hale glanced sharply up. And was surprised by what he found himself looking at. He’d already taken a cursory flick through Elizabeth Mitchell’s file, and knew that her offence involved some violence. Quite a lot of that, in fact. And yet the figure off behind the glass could be no more than five foot three and looked terribly slim.BENEATH THE SHROUD – He’d never seen a fog like this. Not one that stretched for hundreds of miles, the way that this one seemed to do. Buck had first run into it a couple of hours after he had crossed the border into Kansas. And now he was just starting to head up through Nebraska, and it was still with him.MIKEY – Central Park was a churning storm of broken trees and swirling leaves and debris up ahead of us. No one knew what had happened to the people who’d been in there, because no one dared to go in past the borders of the place. But he was smiling gently when he turned around to look at me, and his voice was almost placid when he spoke. “There’s no need to be scared,” he told me. “This is just the way that it’s supposed to be.”And there’s more, with 6 new stories never seen in print before and written specially for this collection – MEDUSA, THE PEOPLE IN THE GLASS, SADIE, THE EMPTY ROOM, WHAT DONNIE WANTS, and the title story, NIGHTCRAWLER.“A master of the art” – Black Static magazine.“Once again Richards confirms his superb storytelling skill” – SF Site.“A hell of a writer, one of today’s masters of dark fiction” – Horror World.NIGHTCRAWLER & OTHER TALES OF DARKNESS is available on Amazon Kindle, through Kindle Unlimited or as a paperback.


Genre: Horror