The Absence

It was a tragic accident. That's what his family told Joe Nightingale, but the boy is tormented by sinister visions of his mother's death.

Seven months after the fatal car crash, the Nightingales learn they have inherited an old house from a distant relative, the reclusive Muriel Sutton. Hoping to escape the shadows of the past, they decide to spend the summer at Daecher's Mill. But darker shadows await them...

Who are the guests that have been brought here over the years? Why did the late Muriel Sutton murder her little sister, Alice? And what is the connection between Joe and this lonely Fenland millhouse? Something is moving in the attic. It looks and sounds like a little girl, but its eyes are old and its voice runs like water...

It is a weaver of shadows. A creature of Absence...

Praise for Bill Hussey:

"Bill Hussey is the new Clive Barker." – Sarah Pinborough, author of The Taken

"Bill Hussey deserves to sit alongside Ramsey Campbell as one the UK's finest spinners of ghost stories" – Bookgeeks

"A new master of horror." – Fatally Yours

"A strong new voice in crime and horror." – Rue Morgue

"One of the best debuts in years." – The DarkSide Magazine

"A master of psychological terror." – Speculative Fiction Junkie