Elusive online journalist Scott King examines the chilling case of a young vlogger found frozen to death in the legendary local 'vampire tower', in another explosive episode of Six Stories…***Winner of the Capital Crime Award for Best Independent Voice***'Matt Wesolowski brilliantly depicts a desperate and disturbed corner of north-east England in which paranoia reigns and goodness is thwarted … an exceptional storyteller' Andrew Michael Hurley'Endlessly inventive and with literary thrills a-plenty, Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction' Benjamin Myers'Beautifully written, smart, compassionate – and scary as hell. Matt Wesolowski is one of the most exciting and original voices in crime fiction' Alex North____________________A frozen girlA haunted townA deadly challengeSix StoriesWhich one is true?In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old Vlogger, Elizabeth Barton, had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', where she was later found frozen to death.Three young men, part of an alleged 'cult', were convicted of this terrible crime, which they described as a 'prank gone wrong'. However, in the small town of Ergarth, questions have been raised about the nature of Elizabeth Barton's death and whether the three convicted youths were even responsible.Elusive online journalist Scott King speaks to six witnesses – people who knew both the victim and the three killers – to peer beneath the surface of the case. He uncovers whispers of a shocking online craze that held the young of Ergarth in its thrall and drove them to escalate a series of pranks in the name of internet fame. He hears of an abattoir on the edge of town, which held more than simple slaughter behind its walls, the tragic and chilling legend of the 'Ergarth Vampire… Both a compulsive, taut and terrifying thriller, and a bleak and distressing look at modern society's desperation for attention, Beast will unveil a darkness from which you may never return…____________________Praise for the Six Stories series'Frighteningly wonderful … one of the best books I've read in years' Khurrum Rahman'Disturbing, compelling and atmospheric, it will terrify and enthral you in equal measure' M W Craven'First-class plotting' S Magazine'A dazzling fictional mystery' Foreword Reviews'Readers of Kathleen Barber's Are You Sleeping and fans of Ruth Ware will enjoy this slim but compelling novel' Booklist'Insidiously terrifying, with possibly the creepiest woods since The Blair Witch Project … a genuine chiller with a whammy of an ending' C J Tudor'Bold, clever and genuinely chilling' Deidre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror'A genuine genre-bending debut' Carla McKay, Daily Mail'Impeccably crafted and gripping from start to finish' Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue'The very epitome of a must-read' Heat'Wonderfully horrifying … the suspense crackles' James Oswald'Original, inventive and dazzlingly clever' Fiona Cummins'A complex and subtle mystery, unfolding like dark origami to reveal the black heart inside' Michael Marshall Smith'Haunting, horrifying, and heartrending. Fans of Arthur Machen, whose unsettling tale The White People provides an epigraph, will want to check this one out' Publishers Weekly

Seventeen times he has scraped the face of Judas off the wall. Seventeen times it has come back wrong.Milan, 1497. Leonardo da Vinci cannot finish The Last Supper. The plaster will not keep the traitor's face. The pigment dries wrong overnight. And something on the far side of that wall has learned to speak in his own voice.Then a letter arrives from Vinci, in his grandfather's hand, written a month after the old man was buried.It calls Leonardo home to a box that went into the ground with Antonio da Vinci: seven pots of pigment that should not exist, a half-finished portrait wearing the wrong smile, and a journal naming every keeper who came before him.Seven names. Seven cities. Seven deaths.Antonio was the eighth keeper. Leonardo is the ninth.The colours work. That is the horror of them. Ground from things taken out of unconsecrated ground, they hold more than light and shadow. They hold a presence. They can build a prison a soul cannot leave.But every pot has a price, and the price is never money. It is a memory. A face. A colour a boy will never see again. Something a man loves and will not miss until the moment he reaches for it and finds a warm and empty space where it used to be.And whatever is taken leaves a room behind.Something is already learning how to live in it.Some colors were never meant to exist.Now a full novel. Expanded from the original novella with five new movements and more than twenty thousand new words.Free, always. Start the Painted Souls series here, then step into The Mona Lisa Cage.Read it slow. Read it at night. Trust nothing in the corners.

The Library of the Dead is an anthology of literary fiction inspired by Chapel of the Chimes, a crematory and columbarium founded in 1909 in Oakland, California, and one of the area's most beautiful historic buildings. Thousands are entombed in golden books (urns) shelved from floor to ceiling in a glowing labyrinth of nearly countless rooms. The stories within The Library of the Dead represent a few of those golden books, and when opened, reveal the stories of those inside.

RIYL: Sinners and GRIMM.When Marcella Leones relocates her family of aswang vampires from the Philippines to Portland, Oregon, she raises her grandchildren under strict rules so humans will not expose them. Her only wish is to give them a peaceful life, far away from the hunters and the Filipino government that attempted to exterminate them.Before she dies, she passes on the power to her eldest grandchild, Percival. He vows to uphold the rules set forth by Leones, allowing his family to roam freely without notice. After all, they are aswangs.However, when the aswang covenant is broken, the murder rate in Portland rises drastically. Who is behind the murders? And who is behind the broken covenant? Along with sensie Penelope Jane, Percival must find the truth.It's then they discover that there are other breeds of aswangs—werebeasts, witches, ghouls, and viscera—who have been residing in Portland for years.Based on Filipino folklore (aswang), "Vampires of Portlandia" is a fantastical tale of different monsters coexisting in the weirdest city in America.

Many years ago, magic prevailed in Britain. It was a time when women were chosen by Mother Nature herself; a time of witchcraft, of the brotherhood of the Gwithiaz and of the terrifying Creatures. It has become a piece of forgotten history.Now, magic has returned and Kiera is the first witch the world has seen in centuries. Jack has been chosen to learn the ways of the Gwithiaz. Together they must master their crafts and overcome their differences if they are to survive the dark enemy lurking in the shadows.In the rugged Cornish landscape where it all began, with the help of their eccentric mentor, Kitto, they have face the dreaded Kasadow: an ancient evil that has awoken and is thirsty for the taste of witch's blood.Praise:????? - "A well-rounded novel, set against a backdrop of the beautiful Cornish landscape."????? - "Fabulous book, written in a way that you can't help but admire."????? - "Kudos to Norwood for enticing a new fan of the fantasy world! I'm a sucker for anything with witches, but this took it to a whole new level."

Each time the globe turns, murder strikes…1597, London. When Beatrice’s husband returns from exploring the New World, he comes home with unexpected company: a mysterious woman, and an enormous painted globe.As Hugh refuses to explain who their female guest is, Beatrice’s foreboding grows. The unwieldy globe now strikes her as sinister – a reminder of the world of secrets pervading her household.Then one night, the great, hulking globe begins to turn of its own accord. Terrifying new illustrations appear on its face – and when untimely deaths ensue, Beatrice is convinced that the drawings are connected.Desperate to prove that she is not paranoid, Beatrice risks everything to uncover the truth. What sinister force is behind these killings? What really happened on Hugh’s excursion to the Americas? Who is the strange woman who won’t leave her house? And on this otherworldly map of murders, who will be painted as the final victim?***‘Deliciously gothic and twisty’ LUCY ROSE‘Will make your head spin’ ANNIE GARTHWAITE