Bøger af Andrew David Barker

Set during the blazing English summer of 1976, recently widowed Heather Lowes moves into the house she was supposed to live with her husband.But now she is alone.Or at least, she thinks she is.It is a normal terrace house, on an everyday, run-down working class street, in a dying industrial town. A place that seldom sees the extraordinary.However, when Heather meets her new neighbours - the old woman next door, the kid from a few doors down - they all seem concerned that she has moved into the house at the end of Society Place. They seem to know something.Heather's nights in the house are troubled. She senses a presence, particularly on the stairs, and down in the cellar. She dare not go down there. As the sweltering summer rages on, Heather experiences supernatural turmoil that tests her sanity and pushes her understanding of reality to its very limits.She learns that there isn't just one ghost.There is a Nest of Ghosts that haunt, not just her house, but all the houses on Society Place. Heather also comes to learn of the Nest's interest in the baby growing inside her, and of the far-reaching consequences of the events of that summer and how they will still be felt into the first decades of the 21st century.

Where has the sonnet gone? Why don't poets write sonnets today? Fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme, where did it go? Well, poets do write them, but they don't usually publish whole books of them. What would it look like if someone did? What would those poems look like? In Joyce is Not Here: 101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets Andrew Barker scrupulously applies Shakespeare's favourite poetic form to the modern world to see what the sonnet can capture. Barker mostly eschews the authorial voice in favour of gloriously cynical characters who view their worlds in times of realization and change with a toughness and stoicism that helps them accept their situations. But there is tenderness here too, accessible reminiscences about the influences of music, television, theatre and film, poems where Blair, Trump, Kevin Spacy, Don Draper, Stanley Kowalski and Willie Loman make appearances. Andrew Barker has made Shakespearean sonnets for the modern world. Where has the sonnet gone? The sonnet is here!

"This book is my love letter to the horror genre. It is about what it means to be a horror fan; about how the genre can nurture an adolescent mind; how it can be a positive force in life.This book is set during a time when horror films were vilified in the press and in parliament like never before. It is about how being a fan of so-called 'video nasties' made you, in the eyes of the nation, a freak, a weirdo, or worse, someone who could actually be a danger to society. I wanted to address that. Show how a love - a pure love - for a piece of art can make a young man want to better himself; how being inspired by a certain film - in this case, The Evil Dead - can propel someone to want to break out of his class, out of his town and out of his limited prospects, and be set on a path of creating a life for himself. A positive, creative, and fulfilling life.This book is partly autobiographical, set in a time when Britain seemed to be a war with itself. It is a working class story about hope. All writers, filmmakers, musicians, painters - artists of any kind -were first inspired to create their own work by the guiding light of another's. The first spark that sets them on their way.This book is about that spark." - Andrew David Barker

A series of micro-collections featuring a selection of peculiar tales from the best in horror and speculative fiction.From Black Shuck Books and Andrew David Barker comes Winter Freits, the ninth in the Black Shuck SHADOWS series.