Hellraiser

This is the part of the site where you can read stories by some of Paul Kane's favourite writers. The list will be updated every month or so and will build into a brilliant showcase for new and established genre talents. Simply click on the story title to read.

 

 


A Deadly Gift

By Angela Clarke - Added December 2024

Stinkpit

By Daniel Carpenter - Added November 2024

Night Bleeds into Dawn

By Graeme Reynolds - Added October 2024

Ninth Life

By Stark Holborn - Added September 2024

Once

By Dave Jeffery - Added August 2024

Shadowheart

By Meg Gardiner - Added June/July 2024

They Shut Me Up

By Tracy Fahey - Added May 2024

The Warmaker

By Benjamin Spada - Added April 2024

Your Blood, My Bones

By Kelly Andrew - Added March 2024

X House

By J T Ellison - Added February 2024

Ones and Zeros

By Dan Coxon - Added January 2024

The Murder Wheel

By Tom Mead - Added December 2023

The Leaves Forget

By Adam Baxter - Added November 2023

Blood Crazy

By Simon Clark - Added October 2023

Midas

By Tyler Jones - Added September 2023

Teddy Bear's Picnic

By Phil Sloman - Added June 2023

The Hiding Place

By Amanda Mason - Added May 2023

The Lost Ones

By Anita Frank - Added April 2023

The Water Child

By Mathew West - Added March 2023

Freeze

By Kate Simants - Added February 2023

Truly, Darkly, Deeply

By Victoria Selman - Added January 2023

Alone With You in the Ether

By Olivie Blake - Added December 2022

The Exeter Incident

By David Watkins - Added November 2022

Green Lady

By Rachel Knightley - Added October 2022

The Vessel

By Adam L.G. Nevill - Added September 2022

A Child Alone With Strangers

By Philip Fracassi - Added August 2022

The Book of the Baku

By R L Boyle - Added July 2022

The Calculations of Rational Men

By Daniel Godfrey - Added June 2022

Full Immersion

By Gemma Amor - Added May 2022

All That Remains

By Paul M. Feeney - Added April 2022

The Wood Bee Queen

By Edward Cox - Added March 2022

Celeste

By Marie O'Regan - Added January 2022

Anna

By Sammy H.K. Smith - Added December 2021

The Room

By H. Adkins - Added November 2021

Shiver

By Allie Reynolds - Added October 021

The Sanatorium

By Sarah Pearse - Added September 2021

Sleepless

By Louise Mumford - Added August 2021

The Serial Killer's Wife

By Alice Hunter - Added July 2021

Girl in the Walls

By A.J. Gnuse - Added June 2021

The Jigsaw Man

By Nadine Matheson - Added May 2021

Mirrorland

By Carole Johnstone - Added April 2021

Inscape

By Louise Carey - Added March 2021

Girl A

By Abigail Dean - Added February 2021

Matryoshka

By Penny Jones - Added January 2021

We Begin at the End

By Chris Whitaker - Added December 2020

I Lie In Wait

By Amanda Brittany - Added November 2020

Fright Night

By John Skipp and Craig Spector - Added October 2020

Final Cut

By S J Watson - Added September 2020

Mummy's Boy

By J A Andrews - Added August 2020

Worse

By C.C. Adams - Added July 2020

Broken Silence

By Liz Mistry - Added June 2020

The Book of Koli

By M.R. Carey - Added May 2020

The Deep

By Alma Katsu - Added April 2020

The Firebrand

By Priya Sharma - Added March 2020

Lies Between Us

By Ronnie Turner - Added February 2020

The Perfect Widow

By A.M. Castle - Added January 2020

Mistletoe

By Alison Littlewood - Added December 2019

 

Black Summer

By M.W. Craven - Added November 2019

No Mercy

By Martina Cole - Added October 2019

The Spider Dance

By Nick Setchfield - Added September 2019

Here To Stay

By Mark Edwards - Added August 2019

 

Perfect Crime

By Helen Fields - Added July 2019

Degrees of Guilt

By HS Chandler - Added July 2019

 

No Way Out

By Cara Hunter - Added June 2019

 

The Innocent Ones

By Neil White - Added May 2019

 

You Die Next

By Stephanie Marland - Added April 2019

 

On My Life

By Angela Clarke - Added March 2019

 

The Anomaly

By Michael Rutger - Added February 2019

 

Red Snow

By Will Dean - Added January 2019

 

ghost

By Helen Grant - Added December 2018

 

The Corset

By Laura Purcell - Added November 2018

 

Steel Bodies

By Ray Cluley - Added October 2018

 

Little Eve

By Catriona Ward - Added September 2018

 

The Cabin at the End of the World

By Paul Tremblay - Added August 2018

 

The Outlaw's Ransom

By Jennifer Ash - Added July 2018

 

Scorched Earth

By David Mark - Added June 2018

 

One Little Lie

By Sam Carrington - Added May 2018

 

Sticks and Stones

By Jo Jakeman - Added April 2018

 

The Devil's Dice

By Roz Watkins - Added March 2018

 

The Chalk Man

By C.J. Tudor - Added February 2018

 

Black Wood

By SJI Holliday - Added January 2018

 

Blame

By Jeff Abbott - Added December 2017

 

The Ritual

By Adam L.G. Nevill - Added November 2017

 

The Burnings

By Julian Lees - Added October 2017

 

Rattle

By Fiona Cummins - Added September 2017

 

The Forgotten Girl

By Rio Youers - Added August 2017

 

The Final Hour

By Tom Wood - Added July 2017

 

Faking A Murderer

By Lee Child (from a story by Kathy Reichs and Lee Child in the anthology Match Up)- Added June 2017

 

Deep Down Dead

By Steph Broadribb - Added May 2017

 

Tattletale

By Sarah J. Naughton - Added April 2017

 

Relics

By Tim Lebbon - Added March 2017

 

Hekla's Children

By James Brogden - Added February 2017

 

Defender

By G X Todd - Added January 2017

 

Thin Air

By Michelle Paver - Added December 2016

 

The Last Days of Jack Sparks

By Jason Arnopp - Added November 2016

 

The Wrong Side of Goodbye

By Michael Connelly - Added October 2016

 

The Family Man

By T.J. Lebbon - Added September 2016

 

Vigil

By Angela Slatter - Added August 2016

 

Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?

By Paul Cornell - Added July 2016

 

The Steel Kiss

By Jeffery Deaver - Added June 2016

 

Splinter of Silence

By Val McDermid - Added May 2016

 

Time of Death

By Mark Billingham - Added April 2016

 

The Lie Tree

By Frances Hardinge - Added March 2016

 

Jonathan Dark or the Evidence of Ghosts

By A.K. Benedict - Added February 2016

 

School is Hell

By David Gatward - Added January 2016

 

The Leftovers

By Tom Perrotta - Added December 2015

 

A Painted Smile

By Frances Fyfield - Added November 2015

 

The Cilicium Pandoric

By Barbie Wilde - Added October 2015

 

Heartbreaker

By Tania Carver - Added September 2015

 

Someone Else's Skin

By Sarah Hilary - Added August 2015

 

Empire of Dust

By Jacey Bedford - Added July 2015

 

Overnight Stop

By Alison Moore - Added June 2015

 

The Scarlet Gospels

By Clive Barker - Added May 2015

 

Birdbox

By Josh Malerman - Added April 2015

 

The Long Twilight

By Ian Rankin - Added March 2015

 

The Missing and the Dead

By Stuart MacBride - Added February 2015

 

A Killing Moon

By Steven Dunne - Added January 2015

 

The Returned

By Seth Patrick - Added December 2014

 

Dead Men's Bones

By James Oswald - Added November 2014

 

The Wolves of London

By Mark Morris - Added October 2014

 

Newspaper Heart

By Stephen Volk - Added September 2014

 

Green Eyes

By Nicholas Vince - Added August 2014

 

The Boy With The Porcelain Blade

By Den Patrick - Added July 2014

 

The Killing Club

By Paul Finch - Added June 2014

 

Coat

By Maynard and Sims - Added May 2014

 

Last God Standing

By Michael Boatman - Added April 2014

 

Frozen

By Angela Slatter - Added March 2014

 

Lines of Affection

By Helen Marshall - Added February 2014

 

Barbed Wire Hearts

By Cate Gardner - Added January 2014

 

The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

By Martyn Waites - Added December 2013

 

Watched

By Kerry Wilkinson - Added November 2013

 

Westlake Soul

By Rio Youers - Added October 2013

 

The Devil in Red

By Alex Bell - Added September 2013

 

New Murders in the Rue Morgue

By Clive Barker - Added August 2013

 

The Sons of Tammany

By Mike Carey - Added August 2013

 

The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning

By Joe R. Lansdale - Added August 2013

 

The Vanishing Assassin

By Jonathan Maberry - Added August 2013

 

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

By Edgar Allan Poe - Added July 2013

 

Sherlock Holmes: Stuff of Nightmares

By James Lovegrove - Added June 2013

 

Mayhem

Poison

By Sarah Pinborough - Added May 2013

 

Poppet

By Mo Hayder - Added April 2013

 

The Silver Bough

By Lisa Tuttle - Added March 2013

 

Babylon Steel

By Gaie Sebold - Added February 2013

 

Seeing Nancy

By Nina Allan - Added January 2013

 

The Venus Complex

By Barbie Wilde - Added December 2012

 

Blood and Feathers

By Lou Morgan - Added November 2012

 

The Fading

By Christopher Ransom - Added October 2012

 

Talulla Rising

By Glen Duncan - Added September 2012

 

Dawn of the Dead

By George A. Romero and Susanna Sparrow - Added August 2012

 

Possessed

By Niki Valentine - Added July 2012

 

World War Z

By Max Brooks - Added June 2012

 

The Wicker Tree

By Robin Hardy - Added May 2012

 

The Exorcist - 40th Anniversary Edition

By William Peter Blatty - Added April 2012

 

The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor

By Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga - Added March 2012

 

77 Shadow Street

By Dean Koontz - Added February 2012

 

A Cold Season

By Alison Littlewood - Added January 2012

 

Black Flowers

By Steve Mosby - Added December 2011

 

Department 19

By Will Hill - Added November 2011

 

Stacy and her Idiot

By Peter Atkins - Added October 2011

 

Red-Wat-Shod

The Underground

By Jason V. Brock - Added September 2011

 

Zoo City

By Lauren Beukes - Added August 2011

 

The Ravenglass Eye

By Tom Fletcher - Added July 2011

 

Serial Killers, Incorporated

Vampire Warlords

By Andy Remic - Added June 2011

 

Dead Reckoning

By Charlaine Harris - Added May 2011

 

Kincaid - A Paranormal Casebook

By William F. Nolan - Added April 2011

 

Zombie Dawn

By Steve Feasey - Added March 2011

 

The Ritual

By Adam Nevill - Added February 2011

 

After-Image

By Mike Shevdon - Added January 2011

 

Pretty Little Dead Things

By Gary McMahon - Added December 2010

 

Paint It Black

By Joseph D'Lacey - Added November 2010

 

Thinning The Herd

By Michael Knost - Added October 2010

 

Emergency Exit

A Sad Affair In Verbatim City

Yulegrave

Once, In Aetullia

Wythersfield

By Liam Sharp - Added September 2010

 

Nightfall

By Stephen Leather - Added August 2010

 

Highborn

By Yvonne Navarro - Added July 2010

 

The Empire of Salt

By Weston Ochse - Added June 2010

 

Vampyre Labyrinth (Red Eye)

By G.P. Taylor - Added May 2010

 

Shock Rock

By Axelle Carolyn - Added April 2010

 

City of Dreams and Nightmare

By Ian Whates - Added March 2010

 

Messages

By Brett Alexander Savory - Added February 2010

 

Love Among The Lobelias

By Robert Shearman - Added January 2010

 

Triumff

By Dan Abnett - Added December 2009

 

The Harrowing

By Alexandra Sokoloff - Added Halloween 2009

 

Go Ask Elric

By Tad Williams - Added October 2009

 

Emma Baxter's Boy

Long Sunset

By Ed Gorman - Added September 2009

 

Newts

If I Only Had The Time

By Kevin J. Anderson - Added August 2009

 

The Strain

By Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan - Added July 2009

 

The Spy Who Haunted Me

By Simon R. Green - Added June 2009

 

Lost Boys

By James Miller - Added May 2009

 

Hater

By David Moody - Added April 2009

 

Passion Play

By Nancy Holder - Added March 2009

 

The Muldoon

By Glen Hirshberg - Added February 2009

 

Feeding Ground

By Sarah Pinborough - Added January 2009

 

The Wasp Factory

By Iain Banks - Added December 2008

 

Underneath

By Kealan Patrick Burke - Added November 2008

 

That Was Radio Clash

By Charles de Lint - Added October 2008

 

Infected

By Scott Sigler - Added September 2008

 

The Everlasting

By Tim Lebbon - Added August 2008

 

Fallen

By Tim Lebbon - Added August 2008

 

The Reach of Children

By Tim Lebbon - Added August 2008

 

Creepers

By David Morrell - Added July 2008

 

River Runs Red

By Jeff Mariotte - Added June 2008

 

The Reapers

By John Connolly - Added May 2008

 

Blasphemy

By Douglas Preston - Added April 2008

 

Coffin County

By Gary A. Braunbeck - Added March 2008

 

Variations On A Theme from Seinfeld

By Peter Straub - Added February 2008

 

Bubba Ho-Tep

By Joe R. Lansdale - Added January 2008

 

Generation Y

By Nancy Kilpatrick - Added December 2007

 

The Departed

By Clive Barker - Added November 2007

 

Ex Nihilo

By Stephen Volk - Added October 2007

 

Unmarked Graves

By Shaun Hutson - Added September 2007

 

Dead Men's Boots

By Mike Carey - Added August 2007

 

Grief

By Sarah Langan - Added July 2007

 

Necroscope: The Touch

By Brian Lumley - Added June 2007

 

Wildwood Road

By Christopher Golden - Added May 2007

 

Another Chart of the Silences

By Chaz Brenchley - Added April 2007

 

First, Catch Your Demon

By Graham Joyce - Added March 2007

 

Chocolate

By Mick Garris - Added February 2007

 

The Secret of Crickley Hall

By James Herbert - Added January 2007

 

Hannibal Rising

By Thomas Harris - Added December 2006

 

Lisey's Story

By Stephen King - Added November 2006

 

Eat Me

By Scott Nicholson - Added October 2006

 

Spear of Destiny

By Jaspre Bark - Added September 2006

 

Death Hulk

By Matthew Sprange - Added September 2006

 

Culled

By Simon Spurrier - Added September 2006

 

The Empty Room

By Tim Lebbon - Added August 2006

 

Broken

By Kelley Armstrong - Added July 2006

 

Abraham's Boys

By Joe Hill - Added June 2006

 

Cuts

By F Paul Wilson - Added May 2006

 

Camelot

By Graham Masterton - Added April 2006

 

Waking

By David A Sutton - Added March 2006

 

Clearly Dead

By Simon Clark - Added February 2006

 

  Late Night Pick-Up

By Peter Crowther - Added January 2006

 

Boxing Day

By Peter Crowther writing as Nick Hassam - Added December 2005

 

Cat and Mouse

By Ramsey Campbell - Added November 2005

 

Wild Things

By Teri A. Jacobs - Added October 2005

 

Completist Heaven

By Kim Newman - Added September 2005

 

Losing It

By Mark Morris - Added August 2005

 

We Can Get Them For You Wholesale

By Neil Gaiman- Added July 2005

 

The Diminished

By Conrad Williams - Added June 2005

 

More Bitter Than Death

By Michael Marshall Smith - Added May 2005

 

The Penitent

By Stephen Laws - Added April 2005

 

The Honey Ward

By Andrew Hook - Added March 2005

 

Hated

By Christopher Fowler - Added February 2005

 

The Brother

By Tony Richards - Added January 2005

 

Time Bleeds On

By Andrew Humphrey - Added December 2004

 

We Die Young

By Nelson Stanley - Added November 2004

 

Between...

By Des Lewis - Added October 2004

 

The Fear

By Elizabeth Peake - Added September 2004

 

Guts

By Christopher Fulbright - Added August 2004

 

Lullaby

By Steve Lockley and Paul Lewis - Added July 2004

 

Waiting For The Call

By Stuart Young - Added June 2004

 

Swish

By Tade Thompson - Added May 2004

 

Speckled Jim

By Christopher Teague - Added April 2004

 

The Unbearable Being of Light

By Jeffrey Thomas - Added March 2004

 

Sleepwalkers

By Marion Arnott - Added February 2004

 

In the Shadow of the Nodding God

By Richard Gavin - Added January 2004

 

Poor Diedra

By Tim Meads - Added December 2003

 

In the Bathroom

By D. Harlan Wilson - Added November 2003

 

Samedi's Child

By Marie O'Regan - Added October 2003

 

Schism

(Extract)

By Steve Gerlach - Added September 2003

 

The Heart of Darkness

By Eddie M. Angerhuber - Added August 2003

 

Cain's Moon

By Susanne S. Brydenbaugh - Added July 2003

 

Exploration

By Steven Deighan - Added June 2003

 

The Hungry Ones

By Joe Rattigan - Added May 2003

 

The Afterthought

By Sarah Crabtree - Added April 2003

 

They Wait

By Simon Bestwick - Added March 2003

 

Pretty Enough

By Suellen Luwish - Added February 2003

 

Scar Tissue

By Neal Asher - Added January 2003

 

Chalice

By Sue Phillips - Added December 2002

 

Whizz

By Paul Finch - Added November 2002

 

Dead Eye

By Amy Grech - Added October 2002

 

The Journeyman

By David Price - Added September 2002

 

Decay

By Quentin S. Crisp - Added August 2002

 

Trophy

By Shannon Riley - Added July 2002

 

Beachcomber

By Robert D. Rowntree - Added June 2002

 

Soul Searcher

By Derek M. Fox - Added May 2002

 

Make it Rock & Roll

By Lisa Negus - Added April 2002

 

Living Doll

(Extract)

By Peggy J. Shumate - Added March 2002

 

Sibling Rivalry

By Hertzan Chimera - Added February 2002

 

The Power

By Paul Melniczek - Added January 2002

 

To Make You King

By Mark West - Added December 2001

 

The Mask

By Alison LR Davies - Added November 2001

 

Behind the Painted Face

By John B. Ford - Added October 2001

 

 

   

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