Welcome back to the city - the scariest place on earth. Beware the dark alleys and very dead ends, for this is a world where even the most ordinary event takes a chilling turn and becomes the stuff of nightmares. Eight chilling new stories of urban horror.

Contents:

  • The Ladies' Man
  • Safe as Houses
  • Lost in Leicester Square
  • Deceiving the Lizards
  • Box
  • Cooking the Books
  • Jumbo Portions
  • Shadow Play
  • Epilogue
Published
1988
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Author

Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler is the award-winning author of over thirty novels and twelve short story collections, and the Bryant & May mystery novels, which record the adventures of two Golden Age detectives investigating impossible London crimes. His latest books are the sinister comedy-thriller Plastic, the memoir Film Freak and the haunted-house novel Nyctophobia. Other work includes the War of the Worlds videogame, a graphic novel and a Hammer horror radio play. He has a weekly column in The Independent On Sunday. He spends his time between London and Barcelona.