Showing results by publisher "Fourth Estate" in Horror

'MAGNETIC, CLAUSTROPHOBIC, WICKEDLY ALIVE' LUCY ROSE, AUTHOR OF THE LAMB 'IF STEPHEN KING, OTTESSA MOSHFEGH AND JOHN WATERS HAD A BABY – ITS THIS BRILLIANT BOOK' JODIE HARSH 'HORNY. GORY. RELATABLE.' KIRSTY LOGAN FLATMATES ARE HELL… 'Massimo lived here now. And things had begun to happen...

Merryn grew up on the wilds of Bodmin moor, raised by her mother and her aunt in an old farmhouse. Here, the locals never leave the village, fear for the future of their farms and cling desperately to the folkloric tales that are woven into their history. Except Merryn, who has escaped to Manchester for university, briefly untethering herself from her past. When Merryn returns home for the memorial service of her ex-girlfriend Claud, she finds her childhood home stranger and more secretive than ever. She’s sure that her mother is hiding something.

An audacious, inventive debut and a cult classic in the making, from a thrilling new talent in fiction. Martha is a trans woman and the picture-perfect Los Angeles housewife, though she is concealing her identity even from her own husband. When she is struck down by a mysterious illness, she...