East Anglia - a drear, flat land of fens and broads, lone gibbets and isolated cottages, where demon dogs howl in the night, witches and warlocks lurk at every crossroads, and corpse-candles burn in the marshland mist . . . The giggling horror of Dagworth The wandering torso of Hippisburgh The vile apparaition at Wicken The slavering beast of Rendlesham The faceless evil on Wallasea The killer hounds of Southery The dark guardian of Wandlebury And more chilling tales by Alison Littlewood, Reggie Oliver, Roger Johnson, Steve Duffy and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre. TABLE OF CONTENTS Loose by Paul Meloy & Gary Greenwood The Most Haunted House in England Deep Water by Christopher Harman Murder in the Red Barn The Watchman by Roger Johnson The Woman in Brown Shuck by Simon Bestwick The Witchfinder-General The Marsh Warden by Steve Duffy Beware the Lantern Man! The Fall of the King of Babylon by Mark Valentine The Weird in the Wood Double Space by Gary Fry The Dagworth Mystery Wicken Fen by Paul Finch Boiled Alive Wolferton Hall by James Doig The Wandering Torso Aldeburgh by Johnny Mains The Killer Hounds of Southery Like Suffolk, Like Holidays by Alison Littlewood The Demon of Wallasea Island The Little Wooden Box by Edward Pearce The Dark Guardian of Wandlebury The Spooks of Shellborough by Reggie Oliver
Author
Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist, now full-time writer. Having originally written for the television series THE BILL plus children's animation and DOCTOR WHO audio dramas, he went on to write horror, but is now best known for his crime / thriller fiction. He won the British Fantasy Award twice and the International Horror Guild Award, but since then has written two parallel series of hard-hitting crime novels, the Heck and the Lucy Clayburn novels, of which three titles have become best-sellers. Paul lives in Wigan, Lancashire, UK with his wife and children.
