This author has been dedicated to writing from a young age, crafting their first proper short story and a novel at the age of fourteen. Since 1993, they have sold over seventy short stories, two collections, and three novels. An avid and broad reader, they also confess a fondness for reality television, suggesting that intellectual conversation may not always be on the menu.
In a unique town, a colossal metal figure serves as both a grave and a source of sustenance. The deceased are disposed of by being carried up a winding staircase and deposited within him, while the Bitters, a vital liquid that flows from his toe, nourishes the living. This intriguing setup intertwines themes of life and death, showcasing how the community thrives on the very essence of their giant guardian. The juxtaposition of mortality and prosperity shapes the town's identity and its inhabitants' reliance on this extraordinary being.
STEVIE IS A KILLER.But she brings her victims back to life to demand of them: "WHAT DO YOU SEE?P"Now she's about to find out for herself...After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people - everyone she's ever annoyed. They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her. But she finds herself drawn back to this place, again and again, determined to unlock its secrets. Which means she has to die, again and again. And Stevie starts to wonder whether other people see the same room... when they die.The most disturbing novel of 2010... read it if you dare.
A dark and magnificently inventive upmarket thriller about the lengths a lone
woman will go to protect her home, and the family history it hides within its
walls.
People come to visit my home and I love to show them around. It's not the original house of course. That was destroyed the day my entire family died. But I don't think their ghosts know the difference.Pera Sinclair was nine the day the pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family's grand home, killing everyone inside. She was the girl who survived the tragedy, a sympathetic oddity, growing stranger by the day. Over the decades she rebuilt the huge and rambling building on the original site, recreating what she had lost, each room telling a piece of the story of her life and that of the many people who died there, both before and after the disaster. Her sister, murdered a hundred miles away. The soldier, broken by war. Death follows Pera, and she welcomes it in as an old friend. And while she doesn't believe in ghosts, she's not above telling a ghost story or two to those who come to visit Sinclair House.As Pera shows a young family around her home on the last haunted house tour of the season, an unexpected group of men arrive. One she recognises, but the others are strangers. But she knows their type all too well. Dangerous men, who will hurt the family without a second thought, and who will keep an old woman alive only so long as she is useful. But as she begins to show them around her home and reveal its secrets, the dangerous men will learn that she is far from helpless. After all, death seems to follow her wherever she goes...Sinister and lyrical, The Underhistory is a haunting tale of loss, self-preservation and the darkness beneath.
