Most Popular Books by Mark Chadbourn

From the team that created Folk Horror short stories, here''s a striking, terrifying, thoughtful and beautiful new book of short stories by award winning authors and new voices too. An impressive new anthology of horror stories exploring what it means to be ‘witch’, including the rediscovery and reclaiming of that power, its links to nature, and witchcraft mythology from around the world. Award-winning anthologists Marie O''Regan and Paul Kane have commissioned and chosen an outstanding selection of tales, with contributions from authors including Ally Wilkes, Eliza Chan, Angela Slatter, Gabriella Buba and Lisa L. Hannett. Five brand new stories have also been selected from a popular open submissions call. The full list of featured authors in this book is: Eugen Bacon, David Barnett, Melissa Bobe, Gabriella Buba, Mark Chadbourn, Eliza Chan, Aveline Fletcher, Helen Grant, Muriel Gray, Kay Hanifen, Lisa L. Hannett, Damien Kelly, Amanda Mason, Alison Moore, Buhlebethu Sukoluhle Mpofu, Angela Slatter and Ally Wilkes. Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis, by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city back from the brink. The famous white city walls have been rebuilt, the once starving inhabitants fed and every day caravans have arrived from the desert wastes, filled with the many riches looted and hidden by the Hyksos. But when the body of a murdered scribe is found sealed inside the newly constructed city vault - the mark of Anubis, god of death, scrawled next to him in his own blood - panic sweeps the city. Only the wisest man in all Egypt can solve this mystery - Piay''s mentor, the great sage Taita.

Comics'' most eccentric anthology returns! Negative Burn is an anomaly, merging genres, pushing boundaries, and allowing the top comic book talent in the world an opportunity to experiment and tell the stories they want to tell.

« Un festin de magie, d''ambiance gothique et de romanesque. » The Times « Je ne connais qu''une poignée d''auteurs dont l''écriture et l''inventivité laissent le lecteur saisi d''étonnement et d''admiration. Mark Chadbourn est l''un d''eux. » Masters of Terror « Un cycle intense et plein de suspens. » Science Fiction Chronicle Londres, de nos jours.L''Angleterre est devenue une terre de légendes, un lieu de magie où le doute et la peur marchent de concert. Balor, le dieu qui a hanté les cauchemars des hommes depuis des millénaires, s''apprète à faire régner la nuit éternelle. Les Frères et Soeurs des Dragons ont été séparés et vaincus. Seul espoir, ils tentent de se réunir une dernière fois pour un ultime assaut. Mais pour avoir une chance de l''emporter, Jack et Ruth doivent s''embarquer pour un voyage sans retour à destination du domaine merveilleux et terrifiant des dieux celtes...

Depuis le retour des dieux celtes de leur exil millénaire, c''est le chaos sur terre : la technologie a disparu, laissant place au mythe et à la magie, et le conflit originel entre la lumière et les ténèbres menace le monde. Entre les forces du bien et celles du mal se dressent cinq Frères et Soeurs des Dragons, bien décidés à utiliser leur pourvoir pour sauver les hommes.

The story of Bill and Liz Rich who experience unexplainable encounters after moving to Heol Fanog, a isolated house in Wales.