4/1/08 News : New horror releases from Virgin Books

Our first press release is from Virgin Books:

The Unblemished
Conrad Williams
Published 10th April 2008, £7.99 paperback original, 978 0753513 514
An epic drama of flesh-eating monsters and hunted survivors that rivals 28 Days Later

‘This is horror literature unabashed and entire, at full imaginative stretch, beautiful and blazing’ Peter Straub

Artfully interweaving the stories of a mother determined to protect her only daughter, and a serial killer who believes he is the rightful heir to an ancient dynasty of flesh eating monsters. The fate of each of them and the survival of the whole human race depends on one man, Bo Mulvey, who possesses the ancient wisdom the monsters need to achieve their full and horrifying potential.

The author
Conrad Williams is the author of over 80 short stories, two novels and several novellas. His work has been short listed for awards by the British Fantasy Society and the International Horror Guild. The Unblemished beat a strong shortlist, which included Stephen King, to Best Novel at the International Horror Guild Awards.

The Grin of the Dark
Ramsey Campbell
Published 8th May 2008, £7.99 paperback original, 978 0753513 811
This masterpiece of sustained paranoia and entrapment is like a scream that never ends

Tubby Thackeray’s stage routines were so deranged that members of his audience were said to have died or lost their minds. When Simon Lester is commissioned to write a book about the forgotten music hall clown and his riotous silent comedies, his research plunges him into a nightmarish realm where genius, buffoonery and madness converge. In a search that leads him to a twilight circus in a London park, a derelict church in northern England and even a hardcore movie studio in Los Angeles, Simon Lester uncovers a terrifying secret about Tubby Thackeray and must finally confront the unspeakable thing he represents . . .

The author
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’. He has been given more awards than any other in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention. He is the president of the British Fantasy Society.