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Shaun Hutson has had well over 50 books published. He has written these books under his own name as well as 8 different pseudonyms. This page shows the details of every edition of every book I managed to track down. But I need your help. If you have any information about any of the missing books then please get in touch with me.
(From the 1982 paperback)
It had been waiting for centuries, buried in a place they called the evil ground... waiting for just one drop of blood to restore it to life.
Now its chance of has come. First the bones grow a covering of grey flesh... Then a grotesque body appears...
When the hideous monster is complete, it rampages through a flood-stricken village in search for living flesh.
And those who survive its savage attacks confront a fate even more horrifying...
(From the 1999 Paperback)
It had been waiting for centuries, buried in a place they called the evil ground... waiting for just one drop of blood to restore it to life.
But, when Nick Regan discovered the skull on a construction site, he and his archeologist wife Chrissie were more puzzled than alarmed. It was too large to be human, but looked like no animal skull they had seen. Their curiosity soon turned to fear when the bones grew a thin covering of grey flesh... and then to frantic terror when they discovered that it had come alive...
THEY SLIME, THEY OOZE, THEY KILL...
One female slug can lay one and a half million eggs a year - a fact which holds terrifying consequences for the people of Merton. As the town basks in the summer heat, a new breed of slug is growing and multiplying. In the waist-high grass, in the dank, dark cellars they are acquiring new tastes, new cravings. For blood. For flesh. Human flesh...
From the 1983 hardback
From Shaun Hutson, author of the classic horror tale Slugs, comes Spawn - a psychologically complex terror thriller about two disturbed men and the unnatural consequences of their deeds.
Harold Pierce is released from a mental hospital where he has spent all of his adult life. His new job as a hospital porter involves him in the burning of aborted foetuses - an act which brings back nightmare memories of the death by fire of his baby brother Gordon. The trauma is such that the deranged but gentle Harold begins to neglect his duties...
Paul Harvey is a convicted murderer and his escape from prison places the Exham police force under a great deal of pressure. Their vigorous manhunt yields no results but when they begin to investigate a brutal series of murders no one has any doubt that it is Harvey who is decapitating the hapless victims...
From the 1984 hardback
Erebus, mythic country beyond Hell itself, has cast its shade over the small town of Wakely. Wakely is a strange place, a farming town, dependant on its market, its horse studs, its abattoir...
Wakely people are insular folk, they are pale and gaunt, they have abnormally long fingernails and prominent teeth - some of them have hair on the palm of their hands. Wakely animals are ugly and vicious, their offspring are born mutant, expensive mares eat their newborn foals, bullocks rampage in the slaughterhouse and kill their would-be slaughterers...
A young journalist, attractive Jo Ward, is approached by a laboratory technician form the locally based American-owned firm of Vanderburg Chemicals, manufacturers of a revolutionary new animal feed. However, the informant disappears before Jo can talk to him. Jo enlists the help of a new man in her life, Vic Taylor, and together they pool their suspicions of Vanderburg Chemicals, and the food which sustains the animals - and the people - of Wakely. Neither of them eat red meat. And neither will you once you have read Erebus...
From the 1984 paperback
The people of Wakely are pale and gaunt. They have abnormally long fingernails and prominent teeth - and some of them have hair on the palm of there hands. Their animals are ugly and vicious, their offspring are born mutant. Mares eat their newborn foals, bullocks rampage in the slaughterhouse - and kill their would-be butchers.
What is poisoning the life-blood of Wakely town?
What evil force has it in thrall?
From the 1985 hardback
The subconscious. The unexplored part of the human mind. Home of the Shadow, the evil side of every man, woman and child, capable of creating chaos, insanity and death...
In New York, a young English writer David Blake is preparing research for his new book with the help of Jonathan Mathias, an enigmatic and powerful man who claims to have mastered the secret of the Shadow. Revered by millions as a healer and psychic, is Mathias all he seems?
At the Metaphysics Centre in France, Alain Joubert and Michael Lasalle are using hypnosis in an attempt to 'unlock' the hidden areas of the mind, while at the Institute of Psychical study in England investigator Kelly Hunt is also striving to discover the key to the mind through the use of drugs.
The two organisations are supposed to be working together but Joubert is reluctant to share his knowledge with anyone but Kelly's superior, Dr Vernon - a man with his own reasons for needing to know the secrets of the subconscious. Both Vernon and Joubert, it appears, have something to hide - secrets they will stop at nothing to protect. And when Kelly and Blake combine their skills to search for the answers the secret of the Shadow leads to a series of horrific deaths and a shattering climax which threatens the very foundations of society itself.
Trust no one. For nothing is what it seems and the worst nightmares become reality in a world where truth turns to madness, evil and death. That is the power of Shadows...
From the 1985 paperback
The subconscious. The unexplored corner of the mind. Home of the Shadow, the evil side of every man, woman and child. The domain of chaos, insanity and death...
In Oxford and Paris the psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathan Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box. To unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within us all. To plunge the world into - Shadows.
From the 1993 paperback
Enter the domain of chaos, insanity and death... In Oxford and Paris psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York, writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathan Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box. To unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within us all...
From the 1985 paperback
Deep in the sewers of London there is a BREEDING GROUND. The slugs have returned...slowly...silently...they slither along dank, fetid tunnels into the City in search of human flesh. Their insatiable needs know no bounds.
With them they bring a new horror...a plague which spreads insanity and death, transforming its victims into grotesque crazed killers.
Caught in this maelstrom of Horror is Dr Alan finch - the only man capable of destroying the BREEDING GROUND forever.
The mind-numbing sequel to THE SLUGS
From the 1986 Hardback
From the relics of the past comes a new nightmare. A force so powerful, so obscenely evil that it threatens to reach across the centuries and engulf mankind...
An archaeological group excavating a previously undiscovered site find evidence of a once powerful Celtic settlement. But amidst the valuable relics young archaeologist Kim Nichols also discovers horror - a hidden chamber beneath the ground filled with the skulls of children. The chamber holds the key to a devastating secret, a secret which triggers off a series of murders in which the victims are mutilated in the most repulsive manner. It is the responsibility of Inspector Stephen Wallace to discover why.
Working together, the policeman and the archaeologist face the horrors which surround the town of Longfield, as they search for the mad killer. But who is to blame for this brutality? The sadistic thug who organises the barbaric sport of dog-fighting? Or the mysterious recluse who holds Black Mass orgies with heroin-addicted teenagers? Or must they confront an evil which stretches back into the mists of time and now threatens to drown the present in a flood-tide of blood?
Relics. Something evil is waiting. Something monstrous is loose...
From the 1987 hardback
From the relics of the past comes a new nightmare. A force so powerful, so obscenely evil that it threatens to reach across the centuries and engulf mankind...
When a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children is discovered by an archaeologist horror is unleashed on the town of Longfield. Black Mass orgies with heroin-addicted teenagers, savage dog-fights, mutilated corpses...
From the 1986 hardback
In the latter years of the sixteenth century the village of Medford was at the centre of a bizarre cult dedicated to blasphemy, necromancy and witchcraft, and led by a feared master of the black arts known simply as Mathias. Now, four hundred years later, the peaceful hamlet rests in the certainty that its unholy past is buried with the dead, and cannot return.
But when a workman accidentally unearths a mysterious medallion in an overgrown graveyard, he unwittingly revives the source of Mathias' awesome powers and unleashes a centuries-old nightmare. That night the village is paralysed by the discovery of two horribly mutilated bodies, the first in a series of gruesome killings that threaten to make Medford once again the focus of an unimaginable evil...
For as the insane butchery continues and the ranks of the dead begin to swell, Mathias' rotted bones begin to stir in their secret burial place. And soon it will be time for the evil one to reclaim his heritage...
From the 1992 paperback
BEWARE THE GOLDEN DISK. IT BRINGS DECAY, DESTRUCTION, DEATH...
Four hundred years ago, a woman died in agony to keep it's secret and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake...
That night the village of Medford is plunged into a nightmare of terror by the discovery of a double murder and mutilation - the first in a series of shocking killings. Wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil - hideous, powerful and vile - is once again reborn...
From the 1987 hardback
For Frank Miller violent death had always been a subject close to his heart. As a photographer he built his reputation by taking pictures of murder victims for the police, becoming an avid connoisseur of human carcasses. But he found his true vocation as the creator of prosthetic special effects for horror films, using his intimate knowledge of death's handiwork to fashion perfect replicas of charred limbs, rotting corpses and severed heads. No one, it seems, could do it better than Frank Miller.
But suddenly Miller finds he has a rival - and this time the artist is using live flesh to sculpt his masterpieces. A vicious psychopath is carving out a career for himself as the most brutal killer of the century, leaving a trail of corpses in his wake - each one butchered in a different way as if the killer is trying to recreate famous murders of the past as part of some gruesome game.
As the body-count rises and the police become increasingly baffled by the apparently unstoppable carnage, Miller comes to realise that the key to the killings may lie in his own morbid visions. But to stop the bloodshed he will have to come closer to death's foetid embrace than ever before...
From the 1988 hardback
Violent death had always been a subject close to Frank Miller's heart.
As a special effects man for horror films he made his name creating perfect replicas of charred limbs, rotting corpses and severed heads. But now Miller has a rival, and this time the artist is using real flesh to sculpt his gruesome masterpieces - a vicious psychopath is at work, leaving a trail of butchered corpses in his wake.
Only Miller holds the key to the carnage. But can he stop it before he too falls victim to the madness?
From the 1988 hardback
"We've got a bunch of lunatics running around chopping up anyone with more than twenty quid in the bank, and gangland's about to explode. You could say we have a few problems."
Police Commissioner Frederick Harvey knew all about problems. London was in the grip of its bloodiest bout of gang warfare for two years. Shootings in the street. Car chases and torture.
For two years Frank Harrison had ruled gangland, but now it looked as if that reign was going to end in blood. Someone was out to get him, to destroy him and his men. To wipe out everyone associated with him.
But who? Was it the fanatical group of killers sworn to fight a class war involving the slaughter of all those men, women and children they considered enemies? Was it another gang? Or maybe even someone inside his own organisation? Harrison had to know, but the answers, when they came, would push even his sanity to the limits.
Into this world of corruption, violence, madness and death came the Assassin. A force more powerful than vengeance, more lethal than a lorry full of high-velocity weapons and more terrifying than any nightmare...
From the 1992 hardback
London was in the grip of its bloodiest bout of gang warfare for two years. Shootings in the street. kidnappings and car chases. Until now, Frank Harrison had ruled gangland but it looked as if that reign was going to end in blood. Someone was out to destroy him and his men. To wipe out everyone associated with him. But who?
Into this world of violence, corruption, madness and death came the Assassin. A force more powerful than vengeance, more lethal than a lorry full of high-velocity weapons and more terrifying than any nightmare...
From the 1989 hardback
AUGUST 1940: while Hitler's bombers are busy reducing London to rubble, biologist George Lawrenson is nearing the climax of Project Genesis - a daring experiment aimed at breeding a super-race to combat Hitler's armies. But the results of his work are so appalling in their implications that Churchill personally orders Lawrenson silenced and all traces of his experiments destroyed.
Almost half a century later Jon and Sue Hacket are contemplating the ruins of their marriage. A relationship already under strain now seems to have been destroyed by the savage murder of their baby daughter, Lisa, and the couple retreat to the small town of Hinkston to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.
But Hinkston is a town with a secret. A series of horrific and unexplained murders has brought terror to the area, and when Sue approaches Dr Edward Curtis - a man famous in Hinkston for his treatment of infertile women - to help her conceive another child, past and present evils give birth to a new nightmare...
Immortality - the ultimate secret. David and Laura Callahan, like others before them throughout the ages, will stop at nothing in their perverted quest for it. But for Callahan, a multi-millionaire gun-runner, eternal life has never looked less likely: he is being hunted by two British counter-terrorists. And nobody knows who hired the killers - or why...
In a race against time, a trail of violence and terror leads from a desecrated church in France, to London, and on to strife-torn Ireland where modern terrorism battles against ancient powers and a terrible secret is revealed. A long-forgotten secret that will threaten the lives of those involved. And when the final confrontation comes, the living will envy the dead...
'Two murderers commit motiveless crimes then burn themselves to death with one mile of each other in the space of a week. You're telling me there's no connection?'
But there is a connection - with practices so vile that not even the hardened, street-wise Detective Inspector Frank Gregson can imagine. And unless he can find some answers, London's streets will be streets no longer: they will be rivers gushing with deep, red blood...
The answers lie behind sealed doors of the hospital wing of Whitely Prison. Deep in the bowels of the building Dr. Robert Dexter is working at his own methods of solving prison overcrowding. Methods that link Whitely to London's brutal, seedy underworld of Soho sex-shows and drug barons. And methods that will turn ordinary men into raving psychopaths, screaming for vengeance, destruction and death...
From the 1993 paperback
Donna Ward was shattered when her husband was killed in a car crash, devastated to learn that another woman had been with him, and disbelieving when the police informed her that the crash has been no accident. How could her beloved Chris, a best-selling author, have any enemies.
How long had he had a mistress? And who are the mysterious men in the photographs she finds? Suddenly Donna has to face up to the fact that she knows less about her husband than she thought.
But as she searches for the missing answers to her questions, Donna moves ever closer to danger, for she herself is being stalked by people who have killed before
and will do so again. She will come face to face with those who call themselves the Sons of Midnight...
From the 1994 paperback
A sickening series of murders in London have left 5 homeless kids mutilated, and the capital is in shock.
Nick Ryan, private detective, has seen the reports, but it's not his problem. No one's paying him to find the killers. He doesn't care. In fact, since his wife and daughter left him, he hasn't cared about a lot, least of all himself.
Suddenly there's another victim. She's not homeless and so far she's not dead. But when Ryan sees the videotape of his own daughter and her masked, male captors, he begins a desperate, obsessive hunt for her and he will not stop. He can't. Time is running out for both of them...
The hijack of an army weapons convoy in Northern Ireland; a severed head on the railings of London's Leicester Square, and a series of murders in Soho. Violence is on the increase throughout the British Isles. The old enemy, the IRA is responsible for some of it - but now there are new enemies that nobody in Britain knows how to deal with. Enemies who have codes of their own, a currency of their own, who already have Hong Kong wrapped up in their tentacles and who are now moving to Britain. They are the deadly Triad gangs, and their currency is in demand all over the world. It's called heroin...
Sean Doyle knows all about violence. A member of the Counter Terrorist Unit, he's been after the IRA for years. And now, investigating the hijack of the weapons convoy, he finds a chance to infiltrate the organisation. He also makes other discoveries - the body of an IRA informer stuffed with smuggled heroin, and an IRA safe house full of Triads.
The IRA, drugs and the Chinese. It doesn't add up. Only when Doyle connects it to the killings of the Chinese in London and Hong Kong does it make sense. The Triads are at war with each other, and one gang has the support of the IRA. But why? The carnage itself is only just the beginning - and will escalate to unheard-of heights unless Doyle can find the missing convoy of deadly ammunition...
Beth Parker returned home one day to find a nightmare on her doorstep - in the form of her younger sister Lucy.
After the mysterious fire that killed their parents five years earlier, Lucy had disappeared from Beth's life in a twilight world of drugs and violence. But now she was back, needing somewhere to stay. There is no love lost between the sisters and the tense atmosphere is strained further by the repeated references to Beth's inability to bear children. Lucy knows how much it hurts - but she likes to hurt people. Perhaps that's why she carries a knife.
But if Beth thought having Lucy to stay was a nightmare, having her gone was much, much worse. A tragic accident takes her away, but leaves a legacy behind. Lucy's child. And Beth's only chance at motherhood. But there are forces abroad that cannot permit what Beth sees as her right. Forces that will stop at nothing to prevent Beth from getting what she wants.
And she wants Lucy's child...
From the 1996 hardback
Three suicides. Sudden and unexpected. One a surveyor, another an accountant, the third an architect. What has driven three ordinary men to such a desperate act? Chief Inspector James Talbot knows all about despair, but what he doesn't know is whether these three deaths are linked.
Journalist Catherine Reed is convinced they are, but she is also concerned about a series of grave desecrations in Croydon Cemetery. Every grave belonged to a child. As she investigates these outrages, her brother discovers that a number of children at the school where he teaches appear to be exhibiting signs of abuse. Appalled, he calls in the police who swoop on houses in the area. It would appear that what everyone had feared is becoming a reality. A full-scale child abuse ring seems to be in operation.
However, as this series of seemingly unrelated incidents begins to unfold, all concerned discover that the spectre of child abuse is merely the tip of a terrifying iceberg. As the race to discover the truth becomes increasingly more urgent, Catherine and Talbot find that something much darker could be responsible. Something which threatens not just sanity but life itself. The unthinkable is about to become the unspeakable...
Psychological horror and edge-of-the-seat thriller collide in a powerfully disturbing and gripping pageturner. Nothing you have read before will prepare you for Stolen Angels...
'You know what bombs can do...'
When Sean Doyle receives his first message from Robert Neville, he has only seven hours in which to save London - and the Northern Ireland peace process - from disaster.
Neville is an explosives expert in the British Army, but peace in the Province has ripped a hole in his life. His demands are simple: to be re-united with his daughter, Lisa. His threats are terrifying: a series of bombs to be detonated in the centre of the capital every hour until he has the girl. Already responsible for a string of callous attacks on Irish public figures on both sides of the political divide, it's clear to all concerned that Neville is deadly serious. And Military Intelligence wants him stopped before the cease-fire is dealt a fatal blow.
As a member of the Counter Terrorist Unit, Doyle knows his own days are numbered by the cessation of The Troubles. He's close to understanding Neville's mind - closer, in fact, than it is safe to be. Doyle also knows he could be signing his death warrant if he observes orders, but whatever the fighting has taken from him - it has not destroyed his duty to fight terrorism. It's his job.
But this day's work has only just begun. Forced to toy with the life of an innocent girl and trust the words of a cold-hearted assassin, Doyle must find Neville before London is reduced to rubble - and before his own violent instincts propel him towards self-destruction...
From the 1999 paperback
Amy Watson hears the twisted morality of the masses every night on her London talk-radio show. Whenever their idle chat spills over into something more threatening, she flicks a switch and laughs: 'You're history.'
Two prostitutes, a pimp, a drug addict and a tramp, have all been identically strangled in the city, and the phone lines are buzzing, Just as it seems a morally righteous serial killer is cleaning up the streets, an arson attack at a Camden hospice takes eleven patients to their deaths earlier than expected, and every atrocity becomes united by a chilling bond. Someone out there is not only very sick. They are killing the sick.
Is the voice that warns Amy she is the next to die just another late-night loser? Why does she dread the man who has become her neighbour and, so easily, her lover? When Amy discovers she may have contracted breast cancer, her darkest fears are realised. She is now a target. She is no longer protected by a flicking switch. She's history...
Lucy's Child
Lucy was her sister's worst nightmare waiting to happen...
After the mysterious death of their parents, Lucy had disappeared from Beth Parker's life into a twilight world of drugs and violence. But now she was back. Lucy likes to hurt people; perhaps that's why she carries a knife. But if Beth thought having Lucy around was a nightmare, having her gone is much, worse. A tragic accident takes her away, but leaves behind a terrifying legacy - Lucy's child.
Slugs
They slime, they ooze, they kill...
One female slug can lay one and a half million eggs a year - a fact that holds terrifying consequences for the people of Merton. As the town basks in the summer heat, a new breed of slug is growing and multiplying. In the waist-high grass, in the dank, dark cellars, they are acquiring new tastes, new cravings. For blood and flesh...human flesh.
Fame? Some people will go to any lengths to achieve it. Whether to be revered or reviled, the lure of notoriety is strong for those without it.
When five-year-old Becky goes missing in a crowded shopping centre, it seems her mother's worst nightmare has come true. But Hailey Gibson's nightmares are only just beginning...
After Becky is safely returned by Adam Walker, Hailey finds her initial gratitude turning to something more potent. With her marriage close to ruins, she is tempted to begin an affair with this likeable, attractive newcomer who rescued her child. Besides, Hailey wants revenge against her husband and his mistress. Revenge that may well see violent fruition with the help of a willing accomplice. And Walker seems entranced by her. Only too happy to please.
But maybe he has his own agenda?
Then, as she tries to end their budding relationship, Hailey begins to wonder if Adam could be responsible for the acts of minor vandalism committed against her home and family. Or is someone else seeking revenge? Someone else she has not yet encountered.
When petty harassment turns to open violence, Hailey finds herself caught in a spiralling vortex of suffering and death. The truth, when it comes, will be shattering - forcing her to make the most horrendous decision of her life.
Perhaps becoming part of the fulfilment of Warhol's prophecy...
A new breed of criminal is loose on the streets. They are the future of crime, and the police seem powerless to stop them.
Chased out of Jamaica by his rivals, Yardie leader 'Papa' Ernie Codling arrives in London determined to wipe out any competition. But his ambitions bring him into conflict with the capital's most powerful crimelord, William Parker. Though gang warfare seems inevitable, an unlikely and uneasy alliance is formed.
Meanwhile, small-time villain Frank Newton gathers his men for one final robbery that will bring them the financial security they all dream of. Once the job is completed, however, they discover that their haul belongs to Parker. They assume their days are numbered - till Parker makes them a surprise offer.
In return for their lives they must eliminate the merciless Yardie who is carving such a bloody swathe through the city underworld. With no choice but to agree, and constantly hunted by an obsessive and vengeful police officer, they must risk their lives in pursuit of the money and freedom they so badly need.
To Newton and his men, the Yardies represent a savage and ruthless future in which they themselves have no place. Their two criminal worlds are now doomed to collide. And when that happens, the streets will run red with blood...
A gang of kids from an overcrowded council estate is running riot on the streets. Break-ins, car theft, vandalism - these under-age criminals know they can continue without fear of lawful retribution. The neighbourhood police are at their wits' end, while terror, hatred and frustration have become part of life for local residents. Then, just when it seems things can get no worse, the gang turns its full attention on Shelby House, a nearby old people's home.
The supervisor, Veronica (Ronni) Porter, her two staff, and the nine elderly residents in their care become sitting targets as the youngsters mount a hate campaign involving abusive mail, obscene graffiti and shattered windows. As their intimidation escalates, Ronni's own father is dragged into the horror when, disturbed by a burglary inside his own home, he is mercilessly beaten into a coma.
Apparently helpless, and unable to count on police protection, Shelby House's senior citizens make a fateful decision. Summoning up all their courage and guile, these seemingly easy victims plan their own campaign of retribution. And when the young thugs launch their most violent attack yet, Ronni finds herself trapped between two equally determined and ruthless forces... in a conflict escalating towards an unimaginable and nightmarish outcome.
For fifteen years Christopher Ward has known only success as a writer. Fame, money and recognition have been his. Now though, the good times are over. These days, no one even wants to publish his work. Struggling to complete a new novel, Ward finds himself sucked into a vicious spiral: the further into the book he gets, the harder it becomes; the harder it becomes, the quicker he slides towards depression and alcoholism.
Then the incidents begin. Strange, unexplainable events that combine to push Ward to the very edge of sanity. How is it that he rarely works and yet, day after day, he finds whole chapters of his novel completed? He has no memory of what has been written. He isn't even sure if he is the one who has written it. But if it isn't him, then who is it?
And what of the things he sees at night? Are they dreams or apparitions? Alone in his house, and within the decaying confines of his mind, Ward struggles to make sense of what is happening around him. His memory is going, that much he sure of. But if he can write in this state, what else can he do? What might he be capable of?
As a writer Ward has always explored the darker side of the human mind. It appears the time has come for him to experience that darkness for real. But when the final revelations begin, Ward finds there are depths even he would rather not discover: his descent leading to a truth more terrifying than anything dredged from the most twisted imagination...
Captives
The murders had been savage and apparently motiveless. Carbon copies of killings committed years earlier and by men currently incarcerated in one of Britain's top maximum security prisons. How could this be? Detective Frank Gregson must find the answers. Answers that will bring him into conflict with two very dangerous men...
Breeding Ground
Deep in the dirty sewers of London there is a Breeding Ground... The slugs have come back... But now they bring a new horror - a plague which spreads insanity and death, transforming its victims into grotesque, crazed killers...
Death Day
Four hundred years ago, a woman died in agony to keep the secret of a golden disk and went to her grave with it hung around her neck. Now, in a desolate graveyard, a workman has unearthed the amulet by chance and decides to keep it. His first mistake... wherever the amulet is found, ancient evil - hideous, powerful and vile - is once again reborn.
Renegades
Immortality - the ultimate secret. David Callahan needs to find the answer - he's being tracked down by hired killers... In a race against time, a trail of violence and terror leads from a desecrated church in France, to London, and on to Ireland where modern terrorism battles against ancient powers and a terrible secret is revealed...
A serial child killer. A couple tens of thousands of pounds in debt. And a young girl with a mysterious, terrifying illness...
When the body of a boy is discovered on the shores of Kingsfield reservoir, Detective Inspector Alan Fielding knows he is up against it. Like the killer's previous two victims, there is no sign of violence, no fingerprints left behind, nothing but two small puncture marks where the overdose of heroin was injected. Whoever is carrying out the attacks is careful, methodical and clever. Fielding is frantic to find the killer before another child is taken...
In a run down house on a nearby estate, Nikki Reed knows only too well what the ominous knock on the front door means - the loan sharks want their money back, and they don't get it, they're going to get nasty. But Nikki and her husband Jeff can't pay up... Until Nikki's brother John comes up with a dangerous and high-risk scheme that could make all of them rich...
Roma Todd's relationship with record company boss David is rife with deceit and deception, but the one thing that holds them together is their daughter Kirsten. And though Kirsten may seem like any other child, she suffers from an extraordinary illness, one that without her medication can unleash a bizarre and deadly trail of horror...
All desperate people running out of time. When their worlds collide, there'll be hell to pay...
Relics
When a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children is found by an archaeological dig, the discovery triggers a series of murders in which the victims are horrifically mutilated. Something evil is waiting. Something monstrous is loose...
Spawn
Released from the mental hospital where he has spent all his adult life, Harold Pierce is given a job as a hospital porter. But that job involves the disposal of aborted foetuses, something which brings back nightmare memories of Harold's accidental killing of his baby brother years before...
Shadows
In Oxford and Paris, psychic investigators are attempting to probe forbidden areas of the mind. In New York, writer David Blake is studying the methods of miracle healer Jonathan Mathias. Driven by their own desperate motives, these researchers are about to unlock Pandora's Box - to unleash the horrifying forces of destruction hidden deep within us all...
Purity
A morally righteous serial killer seems to be cleaning up the streets - two prostitutes, a pimp, a drug addict and a tramp have all been strangled. But the violence escalates and when London radio talk-show host Amy Watson is phoned on air to be told she's the next to die she is no longer protected by being able to flick the off switch and say to an unwelcome caller - you're history. She might be history herself...
Deadhead
A sickening series of murders in London have left five homeless kids mutilated, and the captial is in shock. Then Nick Ryan, private detective, is sent a video of his own daughter and her masked, male captors. He begins a desperate, obsessive hunt for her, but time is running out for both of them...
It was to be a routine job. Matt Franklin and his companions would rob the Securicor van. Simple. Until the job turned into a nightmare. Two of his men are shot dead and another is fatally wounded. But who is trying to wipe them out, killing not just them but their families too? How are the Government and the British army implicated? What lurks within a secret research establishment in the English countryside? Franklin has to find out. Finally, the only one left alive, he tires of being the prey and decides to become the hunter.
His quest will bring him into conflict with forces he cannot begin to imagine or understand, but he is driven by a need for revenge that overrides his fear.
Aided by a desperate detective, Franklin becomes embroiled in a series of events that lead to a terrifying climax in the London Underground, where he comes face to face with the answers he has sought.
Like all of us, Franklin was told monsters don't exist. He's about to find out that someone was lying...
Imagine your worst fear. A fear that eats away at you - a fear of death, of illness, of needles, of fire. Even of feelings themselves.
The people in the small Derbyshire town of Roxton know what it's like to live in fear but some of them have no choice.
In London, Emma Tate has lived with her owns fears for more than two years. Her job is in jeopardy, her parents have been killed in a car crash that she blames herself for, her husband's business is failing. Emma's life is collapsing around her.
Seeking some kind of respite, Emma, her husband and two of their friends hope to find some temporary peace in a luxury house in the countryside close to Roxton. But Emma and her companions have secrets that are best kept hidden. During the course of their stay they will discover things about themselves and about each other that will bring undreamed-of horrors...
Roxton is a place of secrets. What was the reason for the closure of the mine that had been the life-blood of the town? What riddles are hidden in the stained glass of the church? What mysterious force is at large? Emma's desire to uncover these things will lead her and her companions into a nightmare from which there will be no waking and to a meeting with their own most twisted and vile desires...
Is it true that creative people who have been given great gifts by God have to pay a terrible price for them?
Giacomo Cassano, a thirteenth century writer and philosopher, thought so. He held other beliefs too. Beliefs that the Catholic Church found so abhorrent they had Cassano blinded and his tongue cut out to silence him forever.
However, Cassano's teachings have now reached across the centuries. Bestselling biographer Megan Hunter's new book about Cassano looks set to be as successful as her other books about Caravaggio and Cassano's contemporary and pupil, Dante. But as she embarks on a publicity tour, Megan finds her book attracting attention for the wrong reasons when her editor is found horrifically murdered.
For Detective Inspector David Birch, the murder is puzzling. There is no evidence of forced entry. No fingerprints. Nothing to link another human being with the death. The crime scene divulges only a destroyed copy of Megan's book about Cassano. Pieces of her book are everywhere, along with the pulverized pages of the latest blockbuster by horror writer John Paxton.
Logic dictates that the police establish whether there are any links between the two writers, but DI Birch begins to suspect there is more evidence elsewhere. Somewhere not normally connected with murder investigations. As he sifts through the meagre evidence and struggles with the mounting death toll, he begins to find links he could never have imagined. Secrets he would never have dreamed of and answers beyond not just belief but sanity itself...
When investigative journalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a town divided. A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension and open hostily and violence. The African newcomers are particularly targeted, regular victims of vandalism and even fire-bombing.
The Africans seem unwilling to fight back, until the arrival of a mysterious, powerful man who many of them know - and fear. Nick begins to wonder if there might be some kind of connection between this newcomer and the desecration of a local cemetery - an event followed by the disappearance of a number of corpses and a series of bizarre, ritualistic murders. In each case, the victims bear the same marks on their bodies. Scars that Nick has seen before, five years earlier in Africa.
As local police attempt to prevent open racial warfare, Nick conducts his own investigation. What he discovers is almost beyond belief. As Nick tries to convince the police that what he's saying is the truth, the death toll mounts and the horror threatens to engulf the town.
Ancient religion and modern prejudice are about to collide, and when they do, there may be no survivors.
At least not human ones...
(writing as Attila The Hun)
Forget everything you have ever read or were taught in school.
Recently discovered in the attic of a 15th-century house in Lower Silesia, this manuscript was bought at auction by the best-selling horror writer Shaun Hutson. During translation from the original Latin into English, Hutson uncovered the true identity of the author: none other than... Attila the Hun.
Like Nostradamus, Attila the Hun was able to foresee the advent of modern life and technology as we know it today. Covering everything from wars and nature to washing machines and spelling, here is the alternative history of the world!
(also written under the name of Wolf Kruger)
From the 1983 paperback
HERZOG'S WAR 1944. The German armies are collapsing on all fronts. In a sealed church in a remote French village, 250 women and children are ruthlessly slaughtered by desperate Germans acting under orders they dare not obey. And for Sergeant Herzog, awarded the Iron Cross for his part in the massacre, it is the beginning of another war...
A war of principle as he faces court-martial for his refusal to wear the Cross.
A war of strength and courage when, humiliated and stripped of rank, he is sent to the Eastern Front to fight in the bloodiest retreat in history.
A war of pride when he finds himself confronting the arrogant Captain Ritter - an enemy as ruthless as the approaching Russians.
(also written under the name Wolf Kruger)
Russia, 1941. Hitler's forces are driving across the steppes, smashing all resistance aside. But the advance is suddenly halted by thousands of enemy tanks arriving via a massive railhead. Sergeant Rolf Kessler's section is ordered to destroy it. Under the command of the ruthless Captain Weiss they set off. But their objective is 150 miles inside the seething hell of the Pripet marshes, an almost primeval expanse of endless swamp.
And Kessler has other problems. His men are being murdered one by one. With Russians all round and a killer in their midst, survival seems impossible. Kessler must discover the killer in time or the section known as Sledgehammer will be annihilated by one of its own number.
(also written under the name of Wolf Kruger)
From the 1982 hardback
Christmas 1941; In the wake of the German conquests, General Ernst Bucher had pillaged Europe of its art treasures. He possessed some of the world's most valuable artifacts, but there was something else he wanted. However, it lay three hundred miles behind Russian lines in a huge castle. The only men capable of getting it were surrounded by the freezing hell of a Russian winter. They were Assault Section Sledgehammer, men who had learned to live with new enemies like frost-bite, starvation and man-eating wolves.
But when this new mission came, it seemed simple enough. An apparently unguarded castle, a plane to fly them back again. It seemed easy. They got the treasures but, when the Cossacks arrived Kessler's 'simple' mission became a bloodbath from which escape seemed impossible and from which few could hope to survive...
From the 1984 paperback
A TOP SECRET MISSION - OF MADNESS
Christmas 1941: Hitler's dream of conquering Russia lay buried in the bitter winter snows. Men froze where they stood. Everything stopped - dead in its tracks. All the armies could do was wait.
But for Assault Section Sledgehammer there would be no waiting. They must obey a new command: a command matched in a absurdity only by its impossibility.
For the advancement of one scheming Wehrmacht officer, fifteen men were to risk their lives. For the sake of a few forgotten treasures far behind the Russian lines fifteen men would be plunged into a bloodbath. Escape seemed impossible - would any of them return alive?
(also written under the name of Wolf Kruger)
Trucks blown up, German soldiers found with their throats cut...
The Russian Partisans were at work and it was left to Kessler and the men of Assault Section Sledgehammer to strike back. But, their efforts were not enough to satisfy the blood-lust of the German High Command. So, when the S.S. arrived, even the battle hardened veterans of Sledgehammer were horrified at the atrocities they witnessed.
However, the High Command were worried. A massive armoured train carrying eighty tanks and hundreds of men was due to arrive soon and the partisans had marked it for destruction. Kessler and his men were ordered to ride the train, to guard it on its perilous journey across one hundred and fifty miles of enemy occupied territory.
But, somewhere along that route, the partisans were waiting...
No one on the train knew where or when they would strike. The men of Sledgehammer were plunged into their most dangerous mission yet and even Kessler doubted if they'd make it...
(also written under the name of Wolf Kruger)
...It was the bloodiest, most savage fighting the men of Assault Section Sledgehammer had ever seen. Their commanders demanded a breakthrough, no matter what the cost in human life. Death and degradation were no strangers to Kessler but even they were driven to new depths of barbarism as the fighting continued. Then, finally, the breakthrough came but the men of Sledgehammer recovered their senses only to discover that they were alone behind enemy lines.
And it was then that they discovered the Russian Armaments factory and Kessler was left to decide; should he destroy the factory or try to save his men?
The choice, when it came, was to leave the men of Sledgehammer aiming guns at each other...
(also written under the name of Stefan Rostov)
From the 1983 hardback
Winter 1943. The once victorious armies are retreating, burning, slaughtering and destroying everything in their path. Under the command of Captain Josef Kleiser, an S.S. unit massacres the villagers of Prokev.
There is one survivor: seventeen-year-old Anatole Boniak. After seeing Kleiser kill his parents, he flees to the hills, where his survival is ensured by the increasingly obsessive desire he nurtures to take his revenge on Kleiser.
Then the Cossacks arrive, and Boniak sees a chance to meet up one more time with the man he has grown to hate with an almost insane ferocity. Yet in the confrontations ahead, Boniak's knowledge of the atrocities of war will be stretched beyond his comprehension.
From the 1985 paperback
It is winter 1943 and the once victorious armies of the Third Reich are on the retreat, burning, slaughtering and destroying everything in their path. Under the command of Captain Josef Kleiser, an SS unit massacres the villagers of Prokev.
But seventeen-year-old Anatole Boniak survives, and taking refuge in the hills, he conceives a deep and brooding hatred for the SS Captain. It is an obsession that will end in a violent confrontation and colour the Russian snows with the crimson stain of blood.
(also written under the name of Wolf Kruger)
From the 1983 hardback
Spring 1943: The once victorious German armies were being driven back by the Russians. Kessler and the men of Assault Section Sledgehammer knew that they, the most savage and desperate unit in Hitler's army, would bear the brunt of the fighting. What they didn't expect was the intervention of the ruthless Major Schrodek, a man whose hatred for Kessler seemed as great as his hatred for the Russians.
Schrodek wanted his son to gain an Iron Cross and he needed Kessler's help to get it. But the sergeant would not co-operate and the seal was set on a ferocious antagonism between Kessler and his superior. A confrontation which threatened the men of Sledgehammer too.
Amidst the horrors of armed conflict, a battle of another kind was to take place. A battle of wills. And it was to end with Kessler encountering something which would test even his courage to the limit.
From the 1985 paperback
DRIVEN BACK BY RUSSIAN MIGHT
The men of Assault Section Sledgehammer knew that they were the toughest unit in Hitler's army; and that they would bear the brunt of the fight against the Russians in the desperate spring of 1943. But they could never have forseen that a confrontation between the ruthless Major Schrodek and their own Sergeant Kessler would pose as great a threat to their survival.
Schrodek had a scheme to gain his son an Iron Cross. Kessler refused to co-operate. A refusal that would lead to a deadly battle of wills - and end in an encounter that would test even Kessler's courage to the limit.
The Iron Cross. The most coveted medal in the German army. Men fought, lied, cheated and killed to possess one. But the men of Assault Section Sledgehammer were not impressed with medals, they were concerned only with survival. And Kessler, broken from the rank of sergeant, cared only about regaining his stripes and his dignity.
Amidst the hideous carnage on the Eastern front, Kessler and his men endured the savagery of the fighting and the threats of their vicious superior, Colonel Schrodek. For to him, the Iron Cross meant everything. He had set about ensuring that his cowardly son received one, even if it meant destroying the men of Sledgehammer.
Fighting amongst themselves, ordered to halt a massive force of advancing Russians, Kessler and the others faced their most hazardous mission yet. And betrayal was just the beginning...
April 1943; the S.S. begin their bloody campaign of terror designed to rid the Warsaw Ghetto of Jews, a campaign which will result in the deaths of thousands of men, women and children.
On the Eastern Front, Kessler, now restored to the rank of sergeant, continues his battle of wills with his ruthless superior, Schrodek. But the officer was prepared to make a deal. The men of Sledgehammer were to be given two weeks out of the front line. For risking their lives in a suicidal mission they were to be rewarded. Little did they realize that the scheming Wehrmacht officer would see them transported into the living hell of the Warsaw Ghetto, there to fight a war of conscience as well as combat. Plunged into a battle for survival, they would also be forced to confront their own beliefs. Until they found Malek the Jew, who promised them a fortune in gold if they would spare his life.
The gold lay in the heart of the ghetto itself. Attacked by rebels and S.S. alike, the men of Sledgehammer faced their bloodiest battle yet. Could there be any survivors...?
Autumn 1943: All along the Eastern Front the Russian armies were pushing back the beleaguered German forces. On the banks of the Dnieper river, Kessler and the men of Assault Section Sledgehammer waited for the battle which could destroy them. Forced to scavenge food, stealing from the dead, these battle-scarred veterans were no strangers to depravity. They had no illusions about the horrors of war...
But when two reporters from Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry arrived, Kessler and his men found they had another foe beside the mighty Russian forces - the insidious lies and treachery of the Nazi journalists. But finally, as they experienced a savagery which they could scarcely have imagined, even these men began to realise the truth. And when the Russians finally attacked, Kessler and his remaining troops found themselves faced with a task more dangerous than any they had yet encountered...
In the bloodstained snows of the Russian winter, Anatole Boniak had seen his parents murdered and his village destroyed by SS Captain Josef Kleiser; but his desire for revenge had been thwarted. However, he and the Cossacks he rides with now find that they are faced once more by the ruthless Wehrmacht officer.
As the German army retreats, they continue their campaign of terror against the people of Russia. But Kleiser and his men realize that there is more to be gained by capturing three high-ranking Russian officers, especially when one of them promises a fortune in gold to the ruthless Nazi if his life is spared.
The Russian generals must be saved, but it will take men of extraordinary courage to do it - men like Boniak and the Cossacks. For Boniak it is another chance for revenge, but he finds that there are others close to him who want vengeance, and the enemy is not always German...
No Survivors
It is 1943 and, on the Eastern Front, the Russian armies are hurling back Hitler's troops, among them the men of Sergeant Rolf Kessler's Assault Section Sledgehammer. Withdrawn from the bloody retreat, these veteran troops are sent to help crush the rising inside the Warsaw Ghetto. But, once there, they discover that hidden somewhere in that hell-hole is a fortune in gold. In their attempts to retrieve it, they face a new enemy and a savagery the likes of which even they not encountered before...
Forged In Fire
The Iron Cross. Most coveted medal in the German army. Normally a symbol of valour. There are those who seek to acquire it by any means. The commander of Assault Section Sledgehammer is determined his cowardly son should have one and demands that Kessler and his men help. In the living hell that is the retreat from Russia, these two men clash while, all round them troops and civilians are slaughtered in the incredible carnage. Yet still the personal battle between Kessler and his superior goes on until it seems they will all perish in a Russian counter-attack that appears unstoppable. Will anyone survive...
Taken By Force
Trapped on the banks of the Dneiper river, Kessler and his men wait for the battle that may destroy them. Forced to scavenge for food and steal from the dead, these battle-hardened veterans have no illusions about the war. But then two reporters from Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry arrive and Kessler discovers that the insidious lies and treachery of these Nazi journalists are as potent a foe as the mighty Russian army. When the attack finally comes, the men of Assault Section Sledgehammer find themselves in a situation more dangerous than anything they have yet encountered...