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  • Published: 31 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781639105380
  • Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $40.00
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The Nightmare Man

A Novel





T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity.

T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity.

Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book’s release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life.

Detective Mills arrives at the scene of a gruesome murder: a family butchered and bundled inside cocoons stitched from corn husks, and hung from the rafters of a barn, eerily mirroring the opening of Bookman’s latest novel. When another family is killed in a similar manner, Mills, along with his daughter, rookie detective Samantha Blue, is determined to find the link to the book—and the killer—before the story reaches its chilling climax.

As the series of “Scarecrow crimes” continues to mirror the book, Ben quickly becomes the prime suspect. He can’t remember much from the night he finished writing the novel, but he knows he wrote it in The Atrium, his grandfather’s forbidden room full of numbered books. Thousands of books. Books without words.

As Ben digs deep into Blackwood’s history he learns he may have triggered a release of something trapped long ago—and it won’t stop with the horrors buried within the pages of his book.

  • Published: 31 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781639105380
  • Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $40.00
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Praise for The Nightmare Man

Praise for The Nightmare Man:
“[A] celebration of the genre . . . Fans of old school horror will want to check this out.”
—Publishers Weekly

“A clear heir to Stephen King . . . Stunningly clever, richly layered and perfectly paced.”
—Peter Farris, award-winning author of Last Call for the Living and The Devil Himself

“One of the best works of horror I’ve read in quite a long time.”
—Jason Offutt, author of The Girl in the Corn

“It's rare to find horror this original.”
—A. M. Shine, author of The Watchers and The Creeper

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