Dark British crime & horror.
Ordinary places. Uncomfortable truths. Something very wrong underneath.
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Six books. Thirty-six glimpses into the dark.
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Available nowWard C
A British Hospital Horror Novel
Kate Mercer wakes in a hospital bay with a head wound, one eye that will open, and a call bell that rings with nobody on the end of it. The board above her bed says NO VISITORS. Nobody will tell her who wrote it, because according to the records, nobody did.
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Available nowThe Last Bus to Sholver
Six Dark Stories from the North
Six stories. Six places you can stand in today. Six people who wrote down what happened to them because nobody would have believed it said aloud.
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Ebook forthcomingA Common Source
By Christopher Kennedy
A woman walks home through the Liverpool dockland rain and does not arrive. She is the first. She will not be the last.
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Ebook forthcomingThe Cold Chain
By Christopher Kennedy
Eleanor Cawley vanished from her own front door a year ago. This afternoon her cleaner found her upstairs, in her own bed, under a duvet drawn up to her collarbones, as though she had come home at last and simply lain down.
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Ebook forthcomingTŷ Brân
By Christopher Kennedy
Tŷ Brân — "Crow House" — is the last cottage on a dead-end track in the green silence of mid-Wales.
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Ebook forthcomingThe Irk
A Manchester Folk Horror Novel
Manchester buried the River Irk more than a century ago. It still runs beneath Victoria Station, under the concourse and the glass roof, through brick darkness the city chose to forget.
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About
Medlock Holts publishes dark British fiction: folk horror and crime. No gloss, no comfort: real landscapes, ordinary lives, and something very wrong underneath.
Christopher Kennedy writes under the Medlock Holts imprint. A British Army veteran and lifelong army brat, he grew up on postings around the world before studying at the University of Salford. An early retirement, forced by a back injury, returned him to a first love he had never really put down: dark fiction, the bleaker the better. He lives in Lees, near Oldham.
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