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In the not too distant future, the Dark Continent has changed. It's become Federal Africa, with all of the old countries now united into one great nation. The separate tribes are gone, technology has boomed ... it is a very modern place.But if you think that it's completely changed, meet Lieutenant Abel Enetame of the Zimbabwe State Police Force, a single father with a great deal on his plate. He doesn't only have the usual crimes to deal with, murders, assassinations, kidnappings. There are violent Black Supremacists. There are fanatics like the Tribalists, who want to take the whole place back to the old days. And there are egotistic billionaires and power-crazy politicians.And when those kinds of people start getting their hands on brand-new devices that can do startling things, like change the past, for instance ... well, that's when the sparks really start to fly. Because the future of the whole of modern Africa might well rely on one police detective."Man, this guy can write " - Ed Gorman."A terrific storyteller" - Graham Joyce."A terrific writer. A unique and eloquent voice" - editor John Pelan.

"Far too many would-be writers greet a problem with a weary groan and then give up. What I'm offering is a complete, holistic approach to writing that will see your work improve and hopefully become a little easier too. And I am throwing in a good handful of small techniques, little tricks, and other food for thought."Are you struggling to find your own voice as a writer? Or maybe you're producing work, but few people are interested? Learn the different ways you can suspend your audience's disbelief. Discover techniques such as putting 'markers' in a reader's mind, and how to put the influences round you to good use. Find out about pitfalls like the 'false start' to a story. Should you have a go at copying your favorite authors? Why ought you listen to your inner voice, and what exactly does that mean?This book explains how the process of writing really works and helps you find your own way through it, with pages of analysis and serious advice, all gleaned from decades of professional experience and with examples from the best fiction of Stephen King and Susan Hill. This extended 2nd Edition contains the brand-new chapters HOW TO DEFEAT SELF DOUBT and FIVE SURE WAYS TO HELP YOUR FICTION SELL. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tony Richards has spent forty years writing fiction for leading genre publications such as Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Isaac Asimov's SF, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, The 3rd Alternative, The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, Armada Ghosts, and Midnight Street. His novels have been published by Pan MacMillan, Telos Publishing and Headline Books in the UK, and Schusters, HarperCollins, Tor Books and Dark Regions Press in the United States. His latest two - eighth and ninth - collections of short stories are currently in print, with a ghost novel out shortly and a new crime novel due in early 2017, and his work has been shortlisted for the HWA and British Fantasy awards."A master of the art" - Black Static magazine."Whether his story is set in a modern Canadian city or a remote location in Africa, you'll see not only the sights and sounds, but also smell and taste the air. In short, you'll be transported. Tony Richards always gets it right; whenever he's writing about a place he's convincing. And that's what we call a writer's writer" - editor and publisher John Pelan.

The Pan Book of Horror, the Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, and the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories all started in the UK in the Sixties and continued through into the middle 1980s. But all three were tremendously successful paperback anthology series, massively popular and well-remembered to this day.Here are Tony Richards' contributions to those books, the stories that helped make his name in the field of supernatural and horror fiction, along with tales from other magazines and anthologies of the time, each with its own introduction, and even a newer piece of fiction from Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror."A hell of a writer, one of today's masters of dark fiction" - Horror World."He's every bit as good as the best you'd care to mention" - Amazon Reviews.

AN AWARD-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR TAKES YOU ON A TERRIFYING, STARTLING TOUR OF LOVECRAFT COUNTRYAnd they are all here ... the Great Old Ones, the Deep Ones, Dagon, Gol-goroth and the Shoggoth, half-human mutants, horrific marine beasts and all the other chilling denizens of the Cthulhu Mythos, brought to life again in one story and four short novels.The Death of Vanessa FellA wealthy publisher heads north to help console a grieving friend from college days, little knowing he is on a journey out beyond the very gates of Death, into a realm occupied by ancient beings and cruel gods, where madness, terror and betrayal reign.The Darkness in the HarbourAn infantry captain from the First World War finds himself marooned while traveling through the Far East, abandoned on a tramp steamer that lies moored in the waters off Hong Kong. Except he soon suspects that he is not alone, and his investigations lead him to a tragic tale of loss and to a truth far deadlier than any he has known before.The Orphanage at TrellareeIn a sleepy little Irish coastal town, a huge dark building - the Menningdale Orphanage - hangs above the rooftops like some threatening cloud. And when the newly-arrived local doctor tries to find out more about the place, he finds himself plunged into a world where human beings have no place and timeless forces are at work.The Shadow Out of LondonIn the near-future, that great capital city lies in ruins and is viewed with dread. But when two neighbors start to realize that a new danger has sprung up in the place, they set off to confront it, never once guessing at the true appalling nature of the horror that has now arisen there....and then there is THE HOWLING TERROR.

The year is 1923.Jay Sinclair - heir to the Sinclair diamond fortune - moves to Sauquill Island off the coast of Providence, searching for the peace and solitude he needs to complete his new novel. But Sauquill is a troubling place, very quiet and calm one moment, frightening the next.Visitors keep disappearing. Loud screams can be heard at night. And it all centers around Jay's new neighbor, a notorious and wealthy Russian poetess who throws wild parties at her house.Nothing is quite what it seems. A net is being spread. A spell is being cast ... but not by any human being. The Great Old Ones are at work here, bending our minds to their will. They are coming back to claim our world. And Jay finds out he has become a helpless and unwitting pawn in their deadly, brutal plans.Another Old One is arriving from the stars. And once that monstrous deity is here, the world will fully know the mastery of Cthulhu.

Cold blue eyes were all around him, dozens of pairs of the things. And the silhouettes behind them startled him so much he couldn't even scream. Gangling, starved-looking shapes, angular in the extreme, the limbs no more than skin-wrapped bone, ribs showing through on the emaciated torsos, fingers very long and tipped with claws. They all had ragged mops of hair that looked pitch black in the cyan light. And under those were faces that embodied the word hunger, with their sunken cheeks and jutting fangs.They started moving in on him.When you go to sleep, where else do you go?In Boston, a mother and her small boy form a dangerous bond. In ice-bound Lapland, something very old and lethal lurks behind the darkness and the snow. What is hunting people down in modern-day Manhattan? If the sun doesn't come up tomorrow morning, then what happens next? Horror World calls Tony Richards "one of today's masters of dark fiction," and these new tales will show you why. Welcome to a world where dreams don't come true, nightmares do.