House of Small Shadows
August Derleth Award nominee 2014.
They watch you while you sleep...
Catherine’s last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top antiques publication saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and now things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself – to catalogue the late M H Mason’s wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and puppets. Rarest of all, she’ll get to examine his elaborate displays of posed, costumed and preserved animals, depicting bloody scenes from World War I.
When Mason’s elderly niece invites her to stay at Red House itself, where she maintains the collection, Catherine can’t believe her luck. Until his niece exposes her to the dark message behind her uncle’s ‘Art’. Catherine tries to concentrate on the job, but M H Mason’s damaged visions raise dark shadows from her own past. Shadows she’d hoped therapy had finally erased. Soon the barriers between reality, sanity and memory start to merge. And some truths seem too terrible to be real...
Adam Nevill
Adam L. G. Nevill has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews. He has published short stories and is the author of another nine novels written under a pseudonym. He currently works as a commissioning editor for a London publisher, overseeing more than seventy books a year, including novels, fiction anthologies and memoirs.
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