THE HOUSES ARE QUIET. IT IS THEIR RESIDENTS WHO ARE SCREAMING... "No-one could be that unhappy and be alive..." A chambermaid's seemingly innocent request is granted, an act of kindness that has dire consequences for the guest at THE ELMS, MORECAMBE....
When I was first asked to contribute to Exotic Gothic 3 (which was to feature Gothic-influenced stories in non-Gothic environments), I agreed without really thinking about it," Unsworth explains, "and then spent a long time struggling, trying to work...
Debut novelist Simon Kurt Unsworth sends the detective novel to Hell. In The Devil's Detective, a sea change is coming to Hell ... and a man named Thomas Fool is caught in the middle. Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked...
Thomas Fool -- the resilient investigator doomed to catalog Hell’s atrocities in Simon Kurt Unsworth’s stunning debut, THE DEVIL'S DETECTIVE -- is back. The man with no memory of who he was or what led to his damnation is now in command of the ...
Black Shuck Shadows presents a collectable series of micro-collections, intended as a sampler to introduce readers to the best in classic and modern horror.In The Martledge Variations, Unsworth offers three tales featuring paranormal investigator Ric...
In Diseases of the Teeth, the fourth collection of short stories by World Fantasy Award nominated author Simon Kurt Unsworth, you will find pirates facing craft that are prepared to defend themselves, hills awash with rain and blood, phobias that wal...
A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.
From Black Shuck Books, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Benjamin Kurt Unsworth comes Uneasy Beginnings, the twenty-first in the Bl...
This is the world out of the corner of your eye. From seaside towns seen from the other side of an unhappy morning to the mysteries of things floating in sunlit pools, from a gentlemen's club where discussion centres around a cursed ruby to the ghost...