IN LEPPINGTON DEATH ISN’T ALWAYS FOREVER… 'A master of eerie thrills' Richard Laymon David Leppington has returned to the town of his birth to investigate the possibility of a job as a GP - and also to learn more of its history. Bearing the same name as the town, the Leppington family used to be prominent members of the community. But the clan has dwindled to a sole uncle who is more loner than town leader. In this small, isolated town, people are affected by a horrendous condition. It’s Quiet. Unassuming. A forgotten backwater. Yet beneath Leppington’s streets terrifying creatures stir. Driven by an ancient passion that has become an obsession. United in their burning hunger. They share an unending craving that will leave them in a coma unless they consume blood. They are the Nosferatu. And they have the power to drain your will to resist. To drain it so utterly that you will cheerfully, gladly, eagerly surrender yourself to their sharp, brutal teeth. Then a terminally ill man plans an act of vengeance: to set the dead against the living, so that the whole world might experience the misery the townspeople have endured for years… Vampyrrhic is a chilling horror-thriller that brings the well-known terror of vampires to the hitherto unspoiled lands of Northern England. Praise for Simon Clark: ‘Simon Clark is not an author to let you down — the blood doesn’t flow through his text so much as pump arterially into the reader’s face’ — SFX ‘To say that Simon Clark is the best novelist to emerge this decade is self-evident. Simon has simply outgrown genre restrictions’ — Andrew Darlington ‘The hottest new purveyor of horrific thrills currently working on these shores’ — Big Issue Born in 1958, Simon Clark lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Darklands 2, Dark Voices 5 and The Year’s Best Horror Stories (four times). He has published a collection of short stories, Blood and Grit, and four earlier novels, Nailed by the Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker and King Blood. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2. Venture Press is a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK’s leading independent digital publisher. We are committed to the discovery and rediscovery of immensely talented authors in the SFF genre, and continue to push boundaries in search of great literature. Join us as we venture across universes and unknown landscapes – past, present and future. Sign up to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/1LUVI4n Follow us on Twitter @venture_press Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1NnFow7
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IN LEPPINGTON DEATH ISN’T ALWAYS FOREVER… 'A master of eerie thrills' Richard Laymon David Leppington has returned to the town of his birth to investigate the possibility of a job as a GP - and also to learn more of its history. Bearing the same name as the town, the Leppington family used to be prominent members of the community. But the clan has dwindled to a sole uncle who is more loner than town leader. In this small, isolated town, people are affected by a horrendous condition. It’s Quiet. Unassuming. A forgotten backwater. Yet beneath Leppington’s streets terrifying creatures stir. Driven by an ancient passion that has become an obsession. United in their burning hunger. They share an unending craving that will leave them in a coma unless they consume blood. They are the Nosferatu. And they have the power to drain your will to resist. To drain it so utterly that you will cheerfully, gladly, eagerly surrender yourself to their sharp, brutal teeth. Then a terminally ill man plans an act of vengeance: to set the dead against the living, so that the whole world might experience the misery the townspeople have endured for years… Vampyrrhic is a chilling horror-thriller that brings the well-known terror of vampires to the hitherto unspoiled lands of Northern England. Praise for Simon Clark: ‘Simon Clark is not an author to let you down — the blood doesn’t flow through his text so much as pump arterially into the reader’s face’ — SFX ‘To say that Simon Clark is the best novelist to emerge this decade is self-evident. Simon has simply outgrown genre restrictions’ — Andrew Darlington ‘The hottest new purveyor of horrific thrills currently working on these shores’ — Big Issue Born in 1958, Simon Clark lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Darklands 2, Dark Voices 5 and The Year’s Best Horror Stories (four times). He has published a collection of short stories, Blood and Grit, and four earlier novels, Nailed by the Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker and King Blood. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2. Venture Press is a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK’s leading independent digital publisher. We are committed to the discovery and rediscovery of immensely talented authors in the SFF genre, and continue to push boundaries in search of great literature. Join us as we venture across universes and unknown landscapes – past, present and future. Sign up to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/1LUVI4n Follow us on Twitter @venture_press Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1NnFow7