Frith Books: 30 books

When two fans of the macabre explore a historic cemetery, a horrific experience leads them down a path of terrifying discoveries and insidious evil.

It sounds like child’s play. Keep Tony’s giant rag doll Mophead in your home for a week and win the £1000 bet. The trouble is, everyone who tries gets scared out of their mind. Maybe they should listen to Tony’s parting advice: “He doesn’t like to be left on his own for too long. It only...

A man returns home for the first time in eighteen years to attend his estranged father’s funeral. But, when he arrives, he finds himself haunted not by the memory of his father, but by what took place in the old stone ruin behind his childhood home. Cody Rugger finds the house he grew up...

Veronica’s first date with Sebastian not only stirs up a powerful attraction, but also a series of supernatural events that will tear them apart. After countless hours of dead end online dating, Veronica meets up with Sebastian at a reportedly haunted restaurant, since he knows she has a...

Late spring in Tolliver, Texas, and Aisha has left college to visit her increasingly frail father, worried by his talk of the ‘horse head tree’ in his yard… but when she arrives, there’s far more waiting for her than she could possibly have imagined. Aisha knows her father has been...

Thirty years after his death, glam rock star Damon Brent is back, trying to avenge his murder with the help of the daughter of his biggest fan. Glam rock star Damon Brent was riding high when he died: fame, fortune... like, the works, baby. But, despite what the papers said, his death was...

Adrift in the underworld of Paris, Esther has an unsettling secret. Michele is drawn into her world against his better judgement, but what monsters lurk in the darkness?

A shy, socially inept art history student becomes obsessed with a painting of Saint Sebastian in the National Gallery, little imagining the effect it will have on him. As Mark finds himself inexorably – and strangely – drawn to the painted saint, his world is changed in more ways than he ever expected.

Ouseman Fahd is unusual. Somewhere along the line between life and death, mortality and the infinite, he walks. And where Ouseman walks, the seraphs watch. This short story was originally featured in the anthology 'The Root Cellar and other stories', as part of the Bloody Parchment literary competition.

Seven tales to intrigue, entice, and unnerve. Black Ice: collected stories is a compendium of dark fantasy, magic realism and horror that blurs the boundaries between myth and reality, imagination and nightmare. In The Red Man, an archaeological dig unearths a secret that should have stayed...

An artist, his model, and the ceaseless call of the sea: a short story about vision, identity, and perception.

Six follows Ren everywhere she goes, but something's following him. It stalks him through the darkness of time and space, and it's hard to tell whether it's his past catching up, or reality giving way to what's really there. A darkly comic, twisted short story about sins, myths, and nightmares.

Jenny is a real homebody. Always more content to stay at home with her cat, she finds herself at odds with one of her closest and oldest friends. Lucia has grown fed up with the nights of staying in and drinking with Jenny and is determined to drag Jenny out on the town, despite Jenny’s reservations....

Night Shades offers a glimpse of the dark in each volume: bite-sized creepy fiction for your coffee break. Each instalment of Night Shades brings a glimpse of a new nightmare from authors both established and new, and this first collection features three stories full of suspense and horror. There’s...