Beasts of England

“Every village has a story it doesn't tell its children. Beasts of England is a field guide to those stories.”

Beasts of England is an event anthology — eleven new short stories from some of the most distinctive voices in British weird, folk and horror fiction. Each writer was given one rule: pick a place you know and search the shadows.

The result is a national bestiary. A book that maps the country by its monsters, from a Cumbrian wood-thing with a hundred mouths to spring-heeled Jack outside a Surrey post office to whatever moves under the still water of Gormire Lake. Together they form a portrait of merry Albion that your tourist board would rather you didn't read.

Featuring stories from:

Dan Coxon @dan.coxon.author

Adam Nevill @adamlgnevill

Ramsey Campbell @r_campbell1990

Lucy Rose @lucyrosecreates

Tobi Coventry @tobicoventry

Matt Wesolowski @mattjwesolowski

Naomi Booth @naomi_r_booth

Leigh Radford @leighauthor

Dionne McCulloch @dionne_mcculloch

Matt Hill @matthillwriter