Bound in Blood - Mains, Johnny; Cesare, Adam; Larocca, Eric; Katsu, Alma
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Writer Everly Bainbridge's life is left in ruins when her husband takes their child to the supermarket one day and a lorry collides with their car. After the accident, a lawyer appears on her doorstep and tells her her husband was not who he said he was and she is a very rich widow. She retreats to a lonely house in the countryside to recover. But there?s a well in the cellar, a spectacularly cold room, and one night, Everly wakes up with a foot hanging over the emptiness of the well and the echo of her daughter?s voice in her ears? A short, sharp, emotionally layered story of horrific secrets…mehr

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Writer Everly Bainbridge's life is left in ruins when her husband takes their child to the supermarket one day and a lorry collides with their car. After the accident, a lawyer appears on her doorstep and tells her her husband was not who he said he was and she is a very rich widow. She retreats to a lonely house in the countryside to recover. But there?s a well in the cellar, a spectacularly cold room, and one night, Everly wakes up with a foot hanging over the emptiness of the well and the echo of her daughter?s voice in her ears? A short, sharp, emotionally layered story of horrific secrets and dangerous lies, this dark, fierce gem of a novella will keep you turning the pages late into the night?
Autorenporträt
Johnny Mains is a British Fantasy Award-winning editor and genre researcher. He was Project Editor on the 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, created the critically acclaimed series Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians (co-edited with Robin Ince) and has spent the last five years deep in the archives, uncovering 'lost' stories by notable authors such as Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Oscar Cook and Daphne Du Maurier, among others. Adam Cesare is a New Yorker who lives in Philadelphia. He won the Stoker Award for Superior Writing in aa Young Adult Novel for his hit, Clown in a Cornfield, and his other books include Video Night, The Summer Job, and Zero Lives Remaining. He?s an avid fan of horror cinema and runs Project: Black T-Shirt, a YouTube review show where he takes horror films and pairs them with reading suggestions. Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a 2x Bram Stoker Award® finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the ?Writers Shaping Horror?s Next Golden Age? and praised by Locus as ?one of strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction,? LaRocca?s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, and This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances. At Dark, I Become Loathsome has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus. He currently resides in Boston, MA with his partner. For more information, please visit ericlarocca.com. Alma Katsu has been writing novels since 2011. The majority of Alma Katsu?s books combine historical fiction with supernatural or horror elements. Her work has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal; been featured in the New York Times and Washington Post; been nominated and won awards in the US and internationally; and appeared on numerous Best Books lists, including NPR, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon. The Hunger (2018), a reimagining of the story of the Donner Party, was named one of NPR?s 100 favorite horror stories and continues to be honored as a new classic in horror. Her most recent horror novel, The Fervor, has been nominated for the Stoker and Locus awards for best horror and for best hardcover by International Thriller Writers. She also writes spy thrillers, the logical marriage of her love of storytelling with her thirty-plus-year career in intelligence. Red Widow (2021), her first spy novel, was a New York Times Editor?s Choice and nominated for International Thriller Writers? Best Novel. The second book in the series, Red London, was published March 2023 to excellent reviews and has been optioned for a TV series. A.G. Slatter has won a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, three Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards. Most recently, All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Premier?s Literary Awards Book of the Year and the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award; The Path of Thorns won the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the 2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. Angela?s short stories have appeared in many Best Of anthologies, and her work has been translated into many languages. She lives in Brisbane, Australia. Guy Adams trained and worked as an actor for twelve years before becoming a full-time writer. He is the co-author of The Case Notes of Sherlock Holmes, has written several tie-ins to the TV series Life on Mars. His most recently published novel is Restoration, the follow-up to the much-praised horror novel, The World House. Ramsey Campbell has won multiple British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards and several Bram Stokers and International Horror Guild Awards. He is the author of such classic works of horror and dark fantasy as Obsession, The Face Must Die, The Nameless, Incarnate and The Influence, and more recently The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight and The Grin of the Dark. Laura Mauro is a British Fantasy Award-winning author of short stories and novellas, as well as being a Master's student and pro-wrestling journalist. She lives in Essex. Kim Newman is an award-winning writer, critic, journalist and broadcaster who lives in London. He is a contributing editor to the UK film magazine Empire, and writes its popular monthly segment, ?The Cult of Kim Newman?. He also writes for assorted publications including Sight & Sound, The Dark Side and The Guardian. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV, and is the chief writer of the BBC TV series Mark Kermode?s Secrets of Cinema. He has won many awards, including the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Prix Ozone, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and James Herbert Awards. Kim also writes non-fiction books focused on popular culture, film, and television, including a comprehensive overview of the horror film industry, Nightmare Movies (Bloomsbury). You can keep up to date with Kim?s events and writing via his website johnnyalucard.com. Find him on most social media platforms.