Bøger af Vanessa Hawkins

When orphan Cherie Rose realizes she's fallen in love with her ma mère's murderer, her obsession with serial killers begins. In an underworld rife with irrational impulse, shameless sexual acts, and slaughter, love is most profound in monsters. When Cherie finds herself in the welcoming embrace of the Circus of Sorrows, she believes she has finally found a home and a lover to rival her mother's killer: the Gray Man. But when her new partner, the flamboyant Ringmaster Manny begins to change, Cherie finds herself embroiled much deeper in the netherworld than she thought possible. A man in black, able to seamlessly blend into the shadows, appears one night in an ally. Wielding a bloody knife and gnarled grin, he guides Cherie into the depths of Gloryhill: a city of woe and violence. It is here she meets the Queen of Hearts, a burglar of men's desires and possibly the only one that can reveal the truth about Cherie's past. Will Cherie find her Gray Man? Or will her pursuit of monsters have her bloating alongside the Alabaster riverbank? In a world of nightmares, can dreams really come true?

Three horror novellas, three superlative authors - all in one big, fat, juicy volume!ENÛMA ELI¿ (When on High) - TERRY GRIMWOODThe Babylonian Creation story is a tale of monsters and cataclysmic wars. An epic saga dominated by the gods Tiamat and Mardak, bitter rivals who battle for supremacy over the unformed universe. It is a story replete with Minotaurs and scorpion men, dragons and monstrous blood-sucking demons.A myth, a fantasy... But when a traumatised ex-soldier rescues a young woman, washed up and barely alive on the shore of a sleepy English seaside town, the fragile borders between myth and reality begin to crumble and gods and their legions wake from their long-slumber.THE REMNANT - C. Bailey-BacchusWhen fifteen-year-old Bianca Baker is blinded by rage and hatred, her inner demons take control and turn an ordinary school trip into a horrific tragedy. Witnesses to her violent act, succumb to Bianca's aggression and agree to say events were a terrible accident. Sixteen years later, those involved find the past clawing its way from the shadows to haunt them, and this time there is no way it will stay buried.ALICE IN HORRORLAND - Vanessa HawkinsAlice is an 11 year old orphan living within the veins of industrial England. When she meets a mysterious gentleman with the power to turn into a white rabbit, she finds herself tumbling down a manhole into Horrorland.Here the creatures are strange and uncanny, lost in a revolution of madness. Drug addicted Caterpillars, grinning cats and homicidal Mad Hatters gambol around Alice like blood-drunk mosquitoes. However, at the center of it all is the Queen of Hearts: said to have given up her own a long time ago...Horrorland used to be so wonderful... Can Alice make it so again?