Пол Финч – лучшие книги

Как и было предсказано, армии всей Вселенной собрались у Трензалора. Лишь одно стояло между планетой и её уничтожением — Доктор. Лишь одно стояло между Доктором и новой Великой Войной Времени — его имя. В течение девятисот лет он защищал Трензалор и крошечный городок Рождество от войск, готовых его уничтожить.

Некоторые события тех ужасных лет хорошо задокументированы. Но большая их часть оставалась покрыта тайной и мраком.

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Англия, день завтрашний. Страна в глубоком экономическом и моральном упадке; близится катастрофа. Новый Фестиваль Британии - беспомощная попытка поднять дух нации, все равно что пир во время чумы или оргия на пожаре. В Южном Лондоне специально под грандиозное действо расчищается площадка, сносится церковное кладбище. Из разрытых могил выбирается средневековый "зомби-вирус", называемый в просторечии "погибелью". Вот уже первые его жертвы, обезумев от голода, на кровавых зубах и ногтях понесли заразу дальше. И даже в смерти человек больше не находит упокоения - вирус обладает сверхъестественной способностью поднимать на ноги мертвых……

Как и было предсказано, армии всей Вселенной собрались у Трензалора.
Лишь одно стояло между планетой и ее уничтожением - Доктор.
Лишь одно стояло между Доктором и новой Великой Войной Времени - его имя.
Девять столетий он защищал Трензалор и крошечный городок Рождество.
Некоторые события тех ужасных лет хорошо задокументированны. Но большая их часть оставалась покрыта тайной и мраком.
До этого момента.

Some time after leaving UNIT, Liz Shaw calls the Doctor to Cambridge University, where scientists are experimenting with time dilation. The device hurls them to the year 2014, and a meeting with Richard Beauregard, heir to the Beauregard estate.

But there's something rotten at the core of this family... The seeds of a political movement that believes in a new world order.

The Sentinels of the New Dawn are stirring. And its malign influence will be felt for centuries to come...

On Leisure Platform 9 gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. It’s a place where you won’t want to win the wrong game.

With Rory kidnapped by a brutal crime lord, the Doctor and Amy infiltrate a deadly contest where fugitives become the hunted. But how long before they realise the Doctor isn’t a vicious mercenary and discover what Amy is up to? It’s a game that can only end in death, and time for everyone is running out.

‘A fast-paced, terrifying journey.’ RACHEL ABBOTT

‘A born storyteller.’ PETER JAMES

A stranger is just a killer you haven’t met yet… The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller returns with the next big thing to hit the shelves. If you haven’t discovered Paul Finch yet, this book will have you hooked.

Unknown, alone, and fearing for your life: as PC Lucy Clayburn is about to find out, going undercover is the most dangerous work there is.

But, on the trail of a prolific female serial killer, there's no other option – and these murders are as brutal as they come. Lucy must step into the line of fire – a stranger in a criminal underworld that butchers anyone who crosses the line.

And, unknown to Lucy, she's already treading it…

Dark, gritty and ALWAYS edge-of-your-seat. Paul Finch will leave fans of Rachel Abbott and MJ Arlidge gasping for more.

Рапорт сержанта полиции, наряд которого в ходе наделенных «специальных полномочий» выполняют задачу по оцеплению старой церкви, под которой находится старый склеп. В ходе исполнения обязанностей, сержант удрученно приходит к выводу, что круг его обязанностей существенно расширился. И дело не в том, что стрелять можно в людей. Дело теперь в том, что трудно понять, кто люди?

Eine Serie tödlicher Unfälle im Süden Englands macht Detective Mark Heckenburg misstrauisch: Kann es sich bei einer Reihe derart skurriler Unglücke noch um einen tragischen Zufall handeln? Oder hat Heck es tatsächlich mit einem Mörder zu tun, der Schicksal spielt? Sein Verdacht, die vermeintlichen Unfälle seien makabere Inszenierungen, bekräftigt sich mehr und mehr. Doch mit jedem Schritt, mit dem er sich dem Killer nähert, droht er selbst sein Opfer zu werden …

The really unexpected thing lay on the other side of the door—a cave, or at least the entrance to one; a narrow cleft in the bedrock of the mountain, without doubt of natural origin. Its walls were smooth, but slimy and rippled, while its roof was low and jagged with stalactites. It angled sharply down, the dull light penetrating far enough into it to show a right-hand turn about thirty feet along, beyond which there was only blackness. A dank subterranean breath flowed out, redolent of deep-earth chasms and underground lakes. Water dripped in the furthest depths.’ Rob and Gina’s dream house in the Derbyshire Peaks seems perfect in every respect; until a furious pounding awakens them in the middle of the night. It seems to be coming from behind the locked door in their cellar; a door which leads into a vast network of underground caverns, which at first appear empty. Before long, however, the couple realise that the caverns have their own inhabitants; ones who won’t be kept out merely by a wooden door . . . Welcome to the world of Paul Finch: a world in which the ordinary and the everyday are rarely what they seem, and where the forces of the past are constantly intruding on the present. It's a world in which an innocuous-looking holiday camp turns out to provide a vacation from hell, where the search for an elusive book raises spectres from the past, and where a ruined castle exerts an inexorable pull over those unfortunate enough to visit. It is, in short, a world where nothing can be taken for granted; something the characters of these stories only realise when it is far, far too late. Paul Finch’s stories have appeared in numerous small press publications on both sides of the Atlantic. Ash-Tree Press is proud to be presenting, in After Shocks, the first collection of supernatural tales from one of the most exciting contemporary writers in the field. CONTENTS: Introduction; The Knock at the Cellar Door; The After Shock; Devils of Lakeland; The Magic Lantern Show; The Wolfman’s House; Eleanor’s Garden; A Night on Dragon Rock; February; Teresa’s Torment; To the Castle; The Altar; August; The Hotel on the Borderland; The Punch and Judy Man; September; The Dandy Dogs; Enemy Ours; The Fimbulwinter. Jacket painting is by Tony Patrick

Stain: Stigma; blemish; a discolouration by foreign matter; an ugly blot; an indelible mark; a dark reminder of something unpleasant. From the pen of Paul Finch, nine flights of tortured imagination to see you through the long winter nights: The fictional curse that became a mind-shattering reality ... The ancient entity that roamed the desolate wood ... The maniac who liked to melt womens' faces ... The movie-makers who sought the most blighted town they could, and found it ... Tales of chilling horror set in a contemporary and recognisable world. That is Paul Finch's speciality. In his own words, he likes to describe hideous events that could be taking place in the very next street to your own. He draws on his real-life experience as a police officer and journalist to portray a modern society literally plagued by evil. Sometimes it's the evil to be found in Man, but most often it's evil of a far less common-garden variety. In this latest collection of his stories (which includes three brand-new novellas), the supernatural is at least as prevalent as the everyday. At any moment the calamitous past might invade the powder-keg present; around ordinary corners may lurk the most extreme horrors of myth and magic; everywhere his characters look - down road and path, in town and country - there's something different, something not quite right, something that's less normality and more an aberration. Yet this isn't grue, these aren't chills of the in-yer-face variety. That's not Finch's style at all. In this book heads will roll and the blood will run red, but the enemies of mankind are often only heard or half-glimpsed. It's his quest to keep you wondering, keep you guessing, keep younervously turning the pages. Read on, we dare you ... Paul Finch, a TV and movie script-writer by trade, is no stranger to prose. To date, he has had nearly 300 stories published on both sides of the Atlantic, most in the horror, fantasy and sci-fi genre. His first collection, Aftershocks, won the British Fantasy Award for 2001.

EIGHT POWERFUL NOVELLAS AND NOVELETTES, INCLUDING TWO WINNERS OF INTERNATIONAL HORROR AWARDS

From the icy wastes of the Russian Steppes to the grimy backstreets of industrial north England, from the depths of the ocean abyss to a forgotten corner of inner London, Paul Finch brings you eight stories about monsters that will guarantee you never dismiss the notion of 'mystery beasts' again.

The Old North Road The Tatterfoal
CALIBOS
Hag Fold
The Retreat
Kid
Red in Beak and Claw
Crow-Raven

Contains the novellas:

THE BLOOD MONTH & TWILIGHT IN THE ORM-GARTH.

Introduced by Mike Ashley. Jacket Art by Richard Gray.

THE BLOOD MONTH In 1030 AD, King Olaf of Norway, a Christian Viking, driven from his homeland two years previously, returns with a small band of warriors, and attempts to overthrow the pagan administration set up in his absence by the ruthless King Sveyn of Denmark.

TWILIGHT IN THE ORM-GARTH It is the spring of 1070, and the Norman baron, Dagobert of Caux, is celebrating his fiftieth birthday at his stronghold, Wulfbury Castle, on England’s eastern coast. But this will not be a happy occasion. For a fearsome being is also headed for Wulfbury, a being whose hellish appearance and brutish nature encapsulate all that once was savage and barbarous about ancient, pagan Britain.

Out of print from the publisher. 220 copies printed in total. Publisher no longer in business.

In this dynamic new collection, Paul Finch draws on fact, legend, and myth to create five terrifying tales spanning the length and breadth of Great Britain, from the mountains of Snowdonia to industrial Lancashire, and from northern Scotland to a run-down district o Liverpool. Readers will encounter the shape-shifting Baobhan Sith and the horrifying 'Red Clogs'; search for the monstrous afanc of Wales; be haunted by the spectres of a war long past but not forgotten; and, in the spectacular title stry, take part in a treasure hunt that goes terrifyingly wrong. Walkers in the Dark is Paul Finch at his hard-hitting best, and a collection that will haunt you long after the last page has been turned.

PAUL FINCH is a former police officer and journalist, now turned full-time writer. He first cut his literary teeth penning episodes of the British TV crime drama THE BILL, but has also written extensively in the field of animation, contributing numerous scripts to various children's television shows. However, Paul is probably best known for his work in horror, and his numerous collections and short stories have been published on both sides of the Atlantic. His first collection, After Shocks (Ash-Tree Press, 2001), won the British Fantasy Award, and he again won the award in 2007 for his novella Kid. In 2007, Paul won the International Horror Guild Award for his story 'The Old North Road'. A second Ash-Tree Press collection, Ghost Realm, was published in 2008. Paul lives in Lancashire, northern England, with his wife Cathy and his children Eleanor and Harry.

CONTENTS: The Formless; Season of Mist; Fathoms Green and Noisome; Golgotha Way; Walkers in the Dark; Story Notes.