фэнтези

современная зарубежная литература

ужасы / мистика

мистика

героическое фэнтези

Something appalling lurks under the streets of London. Something that has survived for centuries, thriving on pain and hatred and grief.And with another terrorist bombing campaign in the City, there's plenty to fuel such an appetite for evil.Rachel Young has moved to the capital to work in one of the major hospital's Intensive Care Units: it's a desperate job at the best of times, and now is not the best of times.Despite a happy marriage to Nick and a successful three-year recovery from past traumas, Rachel senses that the skin of normality over the abyss is about to erupt, and the glimpse of an old adversary lurking among the homeless people further increases her fears.Roxanne – Angel of Death, Angel of Mourning – has returned from the Void…

Angels of Mourning

CLINICIANSA word that will come to haunt Casualty Sister Rachel Young through the dark nights ahead.CLINICIANSA word she hears from a terrified patient, brought dying into her department after driving a stolen car straight into a brick wall. Still trying to escape from someone who has surgically mutilated his brain.CLINICIANSHe isn’t the first; he won’t be the last. People are disappearing in the darkness: the lost ones, with no shelter from the night. Those that are found again have hideous post-operative injuries.CLINICIANSFor centuries they have pursued their cold and merciless quest for knowledge, leaving death and mutilation in their wake. And tonight they have come for Rachel Young. for her, they have a special role …

Night Sisters

INTO THE DARKFran has come back to face her ghosts: the fears she buried four long years ago. If she confronts the creatures from her nightmares, she’ll know that they were only in her mind. Her best friend and the man she loves are waiting, and spring in sunny Oxford seems to light the way ahead. But on Salisbury Plain she meets a living shadow and finds she is destined for a darker road.Martin is still challenging his demons: the phantoms that he’s glimpsed and can’t forget. Before his eyes they swarmed out of a medieval star chart and vanished in the night without a trace. He has unleashed the Ravensbreed: a band of ruthless warriors, sworn to defend their ancient kingdom in its darkest hour. The world has moved on, and yet the land still needs them. Beyond the peaceful English fields, old enemies are gathering again.From city streets to wild woods, among outcasts and resisters, Fran and Martin must join the Ravensbreed in their final, desperate war – a long and bloody struggle which, if lost, will plunge their country and everyone they love into a brutal New Dark Age.

John Pritchard