Unhallowed Gifts, Laura Purcell
Unhallowed Gifts, Laura Purcell
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Synopsis

A collection of twelve spine-tingling short stories of cursed curios that bring misfortune, madness and death upon their owners, penned by modern masters of the weird and uncanny.Sometimes your possessions own you. Delve into twelve terrifying stories that reimagine a tradition that stretches back over a century to W.W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.”Discover the antique brooch possessed by a malignant spirit; the sewing needle that demands a bloody sacrifice; a cardboard cutout animated by the restless dead; a secret so unholy that even its likeness has the power to send people mad. Unhallowed Gifts proves that fear comes in many forms—and not all gifts are given with your best interests in mind.

About Laura Purcell

LAURA PURCELL is the author of The Silent Companions. She worked in local government, the financial industry and a bookshop before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Colchester, the oldest recorded town in England, with her husband and pet guinea pigs. Fascinated by the darker side of royal history, Laura has also written two historical fiction novels about the Hanoverian dynasty.

About Dan Coxon

Dan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer based in London. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards (six times), with Writing the Uncanny (co-edited with Richard V. Hirst) winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Nonfiction 2022. His anthology Being Dad won a Saboteur Award in 2016. His short stories have appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including Shakespeare Unleashed, Beyond the Veil, Fiends in the Furrows III, and Great British Horror 7: Major Arcana. He runs a proofreading and editing service, working with both publishers and private clients. 

About Eric LaRocca

Eric LaRocca is the Bram Stoker Award®–nominated author of several works of horror and dark fiction, including the viral sensation, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. A lover of luxury fashion and an admirer of European musical theatre, he can often be found roaming the streets of his home city, Boston, for inspiration. For more information, visit EricLaRocca.com.

About Daisy Johnson

Daisy Johnson is the author of the short-story collection Fen and the acclaimed novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.

About John Langan

John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and two collections of stories, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. With Paul Tremblay, he coedited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. He’s one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine.

About Paul Tremblay

Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the author of Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. He is a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies.

About Robert Shearman

Robert Shearman is a British television, radio, stage play, and short story writer. He is best known for his work on the popular Doctor Who series, for which he has written several audio dramas.

About Charlie Higson

Charlie Higson is an acclaimed novelist, TV producer, and actor. He started writing for television after university and went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. His novels include the million-selling Young Bond series and the incredibly successful horror series, the Enemy. Charlie lives in London. He doesn’t do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.

About Liam Gerrard

Liam Gerrard is an award-winning voice artist with over fifteen years of experience working in every field of the voice industry, as well as a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor. A 2017 Audie Award nominee, he has narrated numerous audiobooks in a wide range of genres and styles.

About Mark Sanderlin

Mark Sanderlin is a talented voiceover artist who has worked on numerous audiobook projects.


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