David Peak

• Jan-1988
• / General Fiction
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This is Kate's diary, the fiction of her life, scribbled at dawn in her garden shed. Strong yet helpless, full of laughter in the teeth of despair, she spares herself nothing as she charts the shifting, incandescent landscape of her imagination....

• Apr-1990
• / General Fiction
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Who is Keziah? She hardly seems to know anymore. After long blank years in the company of drink-sodden Paul, her personality has been all but blotted out. Then a crisis forces her to confront the world again. Toying with memories of a...

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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It's tricky being the wife of one man and having almost continuous erotic thoughts of another. One day obtuse Derek may get hold of Kate's diary and realize who he's really married to.
Scribbling at dawn in her garden shed as if it will save her...

• Nov-2012
• / Horror
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In the distance, a darkness, and within, a glowing--just out of reach. A pulsing mass of bone and tissue is discovered beneath a sofa; gigantic mosquitoes haunt feverish dreamscapes; a man lives inside the body of a giant, buried in the blood-soaked ...

• Apr-2013
• / Suspense
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Decades ago, Dan and Grace Robertson encountered a childhood legend: Bicycle Bob. Some say he's an insane drifter with a taste for blood. Others call him evil made flesh and claim his touch will poison your soul. Some say he’s just another country ...

• Mar-2016
• / Fantasy
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'Without my perception of it, the world cannot live.' This truism lies at the heart of "Miss Woo Country", a darkly comic, thoughtful and meticulously observant novel. Taking place in just one moment on an ordinary day in a care facility, the chair-b...

• Feb-2017
• / General Fiction
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Who's watching who? And why? Where does romance fit into all this? Spend this year's holiday in the unnerving streets of David Peak's most recent, grimly humorous novel Curious Things Etc, where all is as it seems, but it would a...

• May-2017
• / General Fiction
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It's tricky being the wife of one man and having frequent erotic thoughts of another. Let's hope Derek never gets hold of Kate's diary and realises who he's married to. Kate's imagination is rich in humour, yet so dangerously intent o...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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Jim has never really felt well. Some would call him a hypochondriac. Happily for him, his most recent symptoms do cause his GP genuine concern. Admitted to hospital for further investigation, and unwittingly allowing his wife to enh...

• Apr-2018
• / Horror
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It's been years since the groundbreaking debut of black metal band Angelus Mortis, and that first album, Henosis, has become a classic of the genre, a harrowing primal scream of rage and anger. With the next two albums, Fields of Punishment and Te...

• Apr-2018
• / Literary
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• Nov-2018
• / Literary
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• Feb-2020
• / Literary
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• 2021
• / Literary
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• Apr-2021
• / Horror
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Phantom limbs, porous realities, and strange reflections shifting in black glass. The thirteen stories included in David Peak's decade-spanning collection explore how memory affects place and place affects memory, the traumas that haunt bodies like g...

• Mar-2022
• / Horror
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A brilliant and flayed slice of Midwest gothic. While one might find traces of Poppy Z. Brite or Michael McDowell here, The World Below is wholly its own beast. Peak laces the classic premise of feuding, cursed families with high-potency LSD, forming...