“Every village has a story it doesn't tell its children. Beasts of England is a field guide to those stories.”
Beasts of England is an event anthology — eleven new short stories from some of the most distinctive voices in British weird, folk and horror fiction. Each writer was given one rule: pick a place you know and search the shadows.
The result is a national bestiary. A book that maps the country by its monsters, from a Cumbrian wood-thing with a hundred mouths to spring-heeled Jack outside a Surrey post office to whatever moves under the still water of Gormire Lake. Together they form a portrait of merry Albion that your tourist board would rather you didn't read.
A most accursed hardback.
This first edition of the Beasts of England Bestiary is a coveted tome to be locked away in your personal library where it can gather dust and an impending sense of dread. Cover-red sprayed edges reserved solely for the first-printing. Eleven full-page plates by Michael Lacey, threaded through the stories.
Ramsey Campbell - Wallasey, Wirral
Britain's most decorated horror writer; the dean of weird fiction.
Adam Nevill - Devon
Author of The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive.
Author of Sealed and Exit Management.
Author of the mechanic Weird novels Lamb and Wrecks.
Folk-horror voice from the lake country. Author of The Lamb.
Rural English gothic from the author of He’s The Devil.
Dan Coxon - Ewell, Surrey
Editor of Tales from the Shadow Booth, Come Sing for the Harrowing, and Unquiet Guests.
Jessie Elland - North York Moors
Actress and author of the ‘sapphic femgore’ novel The Ladie Upstairs.
Matt Wesolowski - Northumberland
Author of the Six Stories series and Faber Academy tutor.
Leigh Radford - East Anglia
One Yellow Eye author, broadcaster, and Screen Producer.
Dionne McCulloch - Somerset
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