The Sound of Darkness

The Sound of Darkness

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

Alone in his Luton flat, Murat 'Mat' Yildiz finds his living room light has blown, and he is unable to go in. There is a distinctive sound in the darkness that he has wanted to hear since childhood - but growing up in the Jubilee council estate, Pagham-on-Sea, has left him with some gnarly memories of what lurks in the estate's dark corners. Murat relives a memory from 1998, but what did he really see in the darkness that night, and is it time for him to face his fear?
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Thirteenth

Thirteenth

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

Lovecraftian horror meets kitchen sink drama in this darkly funny tale of toxic families, eldritch body horror and female rage.Katy Porter is the thirteenth child of a thirteenth child in an inbred family of eldritch horrors, and her own eventual metamorphosis will change her into a creature that hungers for her family's flesh.All Katy wants to do is finish college and go backpacking with her mates, but as her changes creep ever closer and her protector is horribly murdered, that's not looking too likely.Katy needs allies, but she's stuck with her oldest brother, a drug-addled playboy, and her eyeball-eating cousin, whose idea of protecting her involves abduction, dark rituals, and encouraging her homicidal side.If anyone is going to survive Katy's transformation, scores need to be settled and fears need to be faced - and Katy is not the only one who needs to face them.A witty, dark and utterly bewitching eldritch family...
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The Day We Ate Grandad

The Day We Ate Grandad

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

Three possible futures. Two versions of the apocalypse. One chance to save the world.Wes Porter, a severely depressed insanity-inducing playboy, is detoxing from hallucinogens that have unlocked his ability to see versions of potential futures - and he's just foreseen two ways the world could end. Normally, Wes would leave the hero bullshit to somebody else, but he can't abdicate responsibility this time... not when both those apocalypses might be his fault.With some prompting from a mythological bard-prophet who may or may not be real, and a lot of assistance from his monster-eating baby sister who desperately wants to move out of his apartment, and their soothsayer cousin who has his own demons to fight, Wes attempts to save [his] world... but have his poor decisions doomed them all?THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is the third book in the Pagham-on-Sea series. It is a dysfunctional family cosmic horror novel for fans of WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES, and...
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The Crows

The Crows

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

Her fate is sealed. Her death is inevitable...Carrie Rickard, leaving an abusive relationship back in London, tries to escape her past by throwing herself into her restoration project: Fairwood House, known to locals of Pagham-on-Sea as The Crows.Unable to resist as it whispers to her, Carrie's obsession only grows when she discovers it was the site of a gruesome unsolved murder. As she digs deeper into the mystery, she awakens dark and dangerous forces.Cue an introduction to her foul-mouthed neighbour, Ricky Porter, who is as obsessed with The Crows as Carrie is, and who has several secrets of his own. Not least of which are what's really under his hood, and what he's got in the cellar...A chilling gothic horror novel of haunted houses, eldritch monsters and things that go bump in the night.
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The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre

The Sussex Fretsaw Massacre

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

It's Halloween night and anxious, inexperienced Olly Wilson has been hired to drive five obnoxious people to a political party conference, but is hopelessly lost. Meanwhile, in a nearby manor house in the middle of nowhere, human-passing eldritch horror Ricky Porter wants to see his own future, but the ritual involves human sacrifice. The omens tell him five unfortunate souls are doomed to die before midnight - but his living, sentient house (and queerplatonic partner) just wants a quiet night watching films and bans him from taking their deaths into his own hands. When Olly and his five passengers show up on the doorstep unexpectedly after some car trouble, bodies are already doomed to hit the floor - and Olly's life is about to change forever.
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The Reluctant Husband

The Reluctant Husband

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

When Nathan Monatgue Porter, occultist and civil servant, catches the attention of Sir Jack Sauvant, he is invited to Sir Jack's Sussex country house to attempt some grisly magical experiments. Little does he know that it is Sir Jack's maid, Deirdre Wend, who actually holds the key to forbidden knowledge - but she won't give it up unless he takes her to the pictures first. A Lovecraftian pastiche for fans of Clive Barker and Ray Bradbury, a standalone prequel to The Crows.
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Overexposure

Overexposure

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

When Charlie, an affluent, award-winning photographer, catches sight of a glamourous man at a party and immediately forgets what he looks like, she has to see him again. And again. And again. Getting close to the eldritch stranger whose image evades her memory begins to take its toll, and as a bond forms between them, Charlie's obsession threatens to consume her. Is enforced separation the cure, or it already too late? OVEREXPOSURE is a one-shot psychological horror short with Weird elements, which contains a scene of on-page self-mutilation, gore, and features mental health deterioration. Reader discretion is advised.
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Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Volume 1

Folklore of Pagham-on-Sea Volume 1

C. M. Rosens

C. M. Rosens

A companion book to The Crows that stands alone as a short volume of folk stories and urban legends from Pagham-on-Sea, East Sussex. Featuring local variants of English folktales, as collected by Rev. J. D. Allardyce (1832-1920); extracts from Fairwood House: A History by Harold Bishop (Basingstoke University Press: Basingstoke, 1987) and an extract from Harold Bishop's translation of Chronica Majora, the anon. 12th century chronicle of Fairwood Abbey are reprinted with kind permission....Disclaimer: this is a work of original fiction, and all 'folktales' and 'extracts' are fictitious, as are the collectors and authors mentioned. A real-life English folktale called The Rose Tree does exist, but the version found here is a fictional variant written for the world of Pagham-on-Sea, All Rights Reserved.
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