New Releases by Graham Joyce

Doogie''s new girlfriend is hot, but what''s with the weird behaviour, freaky parents and the super-human intelligence? And was that really a forked tongue he saw or did he imagine it?

Cursed by the elderly recluse whose home she and a friend were creeping through late one night, fourteen-year-old Caz soon finds her life disintegrating and realizes she must find a way of lifting the curse--or at least understanding its power.

Ever since the joyriding accident, Matt''s life has been hell. His brother Jake is dead, and Jake''s girlfriend Jools has been hideously scarred. Only Matt escaped the crash unharmed--or so it seems. Because now Jake is back, haunting Matt''s every step, appearing out of thin air. Of course no one else can see him. Jake is an hallucination. But every time Matt tries to remember exactly what happened that night, his brain shuts off. This is a problem when you''re in school, with your family, or behind the wheel of a "twocced" car--and it''s why Matt gets sent to a counsellor. Finally, desperate to return to a normal life, Matt decides to reconstruct the events of the accident. But can he survive a second time?

A tale of secrets and miracles

A fast-paced, sassy, supernatural thriller from the critically acclaimed author, Graham Joyce

Une ferme restaurée de Dordogne, au cœur de l''été. James et Sabine sont venus y passer deux semaines de vacances méritées, en compagnie de leurs deux filles Beth et Jessie et de trois amis anglais. Mais ces congés tournent vite à la tragédie ; en quelques jours, la toile de mensonges que tous ont patiemment tissée autour de leurs vies se déchire. A mesure que les relations des adultes s''enveniment, la petite Jessie paraît de plus en plus perturbée et fait des commentaires équivoques et effrayants. Car l''un des membres du groupe lui donne en secret d''étranges leçons. Qui est ce mystérieux instructeur ? Quel but obscur poursuit-il ? L''atmosphère est tendue, sensuelle et inquiétante. L''orage approche... Un roman fascinant sur les secrets de l''âme humaine, du mensonge au refoulement, et que la presse britannique a comparé à D.H. Lawrence et P.D. James pour son suspense et la qualité du traitement psychologique.

"Of those writers who stoically refuse to trudge along horror fiction''s well-worn path, Joyce, with British Fantasy Awards to his credit for Requiem and The Tooth Fairy, has perhaps had the most success. And now we can add to that list The Stormwatcher... For this remarkable, fine and almost unclassifiable book is a complete breath of fresh air, even considering his past achievements. The story is simply (!) the interaction of a group of somewhat dysfunctional friends during a two-week holiday in a lonely cottage in the Dordogne region of France. The group comprises James and his French wife, Sabine, and their two young daughters - Beth and the confused Jessie -plus James''s one-time colleague Matt and his wife, Chrissie ... and, just to make things interesting, the sultry Rachel, another work-chum of James and one with whom he has shared considerably more than the occasional business meeting. As the story progresses we discover that one of the party - an unnamed instructor whose identity is kept hidden until the end of the book - is engaged in secret lessons with the impressionable Jessie, for reasons not immediately clear. Meanwhile, courtesy of a nicely-realized series of tense-changed flashbacks, we learn more of the instructor''s background and an almost symbiotic relationship in which both she and her lover speak only lies to each other. All the time, Jessie grows more intense and confused while, around her, other members of the party grow, by turn, increasingly belligerent or subservient, manipulative or malleable, paranoid or confident. And underpinning the sequence of events is an intense feeling of primal sensuality evoked both by the environment and an approaching storm (its progress cleverly interjected into the proceedings by a series of half-page chapters explaining meteorological behaviour) and by the behaviour of the adults as their feelings for each other - and their protectiveness and confusion at the antics of and comments from young Jessie - swirl and eddy." Signed by the author. This is the only US edition. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Fantasy.

A dramatic departure for the prize-winning author of "Indigo"--an exquisitely written, multifaceted wartime saga of identity, connection, and emotional endurance centering on an unforgettable English family during and after the Second World War.

Called "a sharp, short, terrifying adventure" by "Kirkus Reviews, " Graham Joyce''s latest novel is a literary page turner, as a father searches for his missing daughter in the hothouse atmosphere of Thailand.

La quarantaine bien avancée, une femme dont il est séparé, des enfants partis vivre leur vie : Danny se sent amer et solitaire. Et lorsqu''il apprend que sa fille Charlotte a été arrêtée en Thaïlande pour trafic de drogue, il décide de partir sur place pour la ramener à la maison. Mais quand il arrive à la prison de Chang Mai, un nouveau mystère l''attend : la jeune femme incarcérée n''est pas sa fille, juste quelqu''un qui lui a " emprunté " son passeport dans un village à la frontière de la Birmanie. Accompagné de son fils, devenu pour lui un étranger, et d''un ami de pub, Danny s''enfonce alors dans la jungle du Triangle d''Or, infestée de gangs, de trafiquants. Mais lorsqu''il finit par retrouver sa fille dans un village reculé, il découvre que celle-ci est sous l''emprise des esprits de la montagne...

Finally available in America: the debut novel from the author of The Tooth Fairy and Dark Sister It began as an experiment in college--a seemingly harmless investigation into "lucid dreaming," the ability to control one''s dreams. But they stayed too long on Dreamside, and now, ten years later, the dreams have returned--returned to upend their adult lives. The dreams of youth fade, if you''re lucky. If not, they can consume you . . . and will.

monde de la publicité, Kim et Mike, un couple d''Anglais, décident de tout quitter pour aller s''installer en Grèce, dans une superbe villa sur l''île de Mavros. Mais si les jours s''écoulent tout d''abord tranquillement, une atmosphère étrange, presque surnaturelle, s''installe peu à peu. Des animaux tout droit sortis de l''Antiquité apparaissent. Et puis, il y a ces voix qu''ils ont l''impression d''entendre directement dans leur tête, et dont ils n''osent se parler. Il y a enfin, caché dans la falaise, cet étrange bain, d''eau ; claire et chaude, si chaude qu''on la dirait venue. des Enfers, et dans laquelle on oublie tout...

As executor of his father''s will, Jack Chambers has two duties. The first is to publish a manuscript on invisibility. The second is to track down the mysterious woman who is the sole heir.

Alex and Maggie think they live in an ordinary townhouse, until they discover a diary containing secret Wiccan herb-lore--and awaken a malevolent force they can''t control.

After Sam Southall looses his first tooth and places it under his pillow, he awakens to the tooth fairy sitting on his windowsill. But it is not the same tooth fairy from legend.

En Angleterre, ce n''est pas une petite souris qui vient chercher les dents de lait des enfants, mais une fée. Seulement, quand, cette nuit-là, le jeune Sam Southall se réveille et la découvre assise au bord de son lit, "Quenotte" n''a plus rien du personnage rassurant et sympathique des contes. Est-elle bien réelle ou juste le produit de son imagination torturée ? Et dans quelle mesure est-elle responsable des catastrophes à venir ? Car, de ce jour, la fée malveillante va accompagner Sam tout au long de son enfance, puis de son adolescence, jouant sur ses craintes, ses désirs et ses frustrations, semblant n''apparaître que pour le faire s''enfoncer un peu plus dans son cauchemar.

Par delà l''horreur, à travers les siècles, elle lui tendait la main...et Menaçait ses enfants. Alex et Maggie Sanders mènent une vie des plus ordinaires, jusqu''à ce qu''ils Découvrent au fond d''une vieille cheminée inutilisée le journal de Bella. A première vue, celui-ci paraît bien innocent : une liste de breuvages et de Simples pour soigner les petits maux de tous les jours. Mais Maggie est très vite convaincue que derrière les mots se cache Un sens destiné à elle seule. En essayant quelques recettes, elle pénètre dans un monde mystérieux auquel Elle n''avait jamais cru, celui de la sorcellerie. Et quand la défunte Bella revient, en quête d''une paix qu''elle n''a pas Trouvée dans la tombe, Maggie sent qu''elle risque de perdre la raison et De détruire toute sa famille.