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Darkest Day Rune The Bureau of Lost Souls

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First British Edition Little,Brown (1993)

Darkest Day
Jerry Gates is afraid of the dark.
It’s a phobia she’s never been able to come to terms with.
When a guest at the Savoy, where Jerry works, meets a bizarre death, a disturbing response is triggered in her. For the sake of her own sanity, she is forced to seek out the truth.
Jerry is led to a London family steeped in generations of blackmail and ritual murder. As her search progresses, she finds herself involved in a series of sensational killings that leave terrified city dwellers afraid to go out after dark.
With the body count soaring, Serious Crimes Division detectives Bryant and May find themselves caught up in a convoluted investigation involving rare art, computers, the theatre and a Victorian occult society. As a grotesque secret hidden within the Square Mile is revealed, the political repercussions threaten to damage the government.
A small band of brave souls is left facingg an ingenious and unstoppable evil in a battle of light and darkness. Just as Jerry’s deepest fears about the dark and her own sexuality are realised, the lights start to go out across the city...
This fast-paced horror thriller is a frightener of the first order. Darkest Day will ensure that you’ll never trust the dark again.

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Paperback - Century Hutchinson (1990)

Rune
London is in the grip of an epidemic. Across the city, people are dying in freak accidents. There doesn’t seem to be a connection, until some of the bodies yield puzzling strips of paper. Each one carries angular, indecipherable hieroglyphics.
Advertising executive Harry Buckingham, to his horror, is linked with several of the victims. His father, his secretary, even the thief who steals his car all die in horrific circumstances. Soon, he’s avoiding the police and following his own investigation What he uncovers is more frightening than anyone can imagine.
A multinational company has succeeded in combining sophisticated technology with ancient mythology. They call it confrontational marketing.
Harry calls it pure evil.
The Devil is loose in London. And only a handful of people know enough to stop the most hostile takeover bid of all time...
Rune, like Christopher Fowler’s hugely successful first novel Roofworld is an unholy fusion of horror, mystery and black humour. The sheer velocity of his storytelling and the vivid imagination at work here make Rune a masterpiece of urban menace.

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Paperback - Century Hutchinson (1990)

First British Edition Century Hutchinson (1990)

The Bureau of Lost Souls
The Bureau of Lost Souls is a collection of twelve linked tales of urban paranoia in which the stresses and strains of city life force lurking fears into the open and provide a catalyst for bizarre events. Christopher Fowler writes with black humour about desperate people in seemingly ordinary situations - workers in offices and friends in pubs, husbands and wives in apartments and houses. All of them the most unlikely, and therefore the most likely, people to find themselves trapped within their own personal, private visions of Hell.
‘a groaning board of the kind of horror fiction I thought nobody wrote any more - fans nostalgic for the old horror comics should be well satisfied’ Ramsey Campbell

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