È il 2055 e ormai è troppo tardi: cambiamento climatico, guerre, carestie e una nuova grande estinzione di massa segnano il rovinoso appassire della vita sul pianeta, un disastro annunciato di cui nessuno ha voluto riconoscere le avvisaglie. Cleo è testimone della tragedia dalla sua casetta nel sud dell'Inghilterra. Ormai è vecchia e stanca e l'entità della catastrofe così grande che nemmeno sente di percepirne più l'orrore. Eppure, sa che dietro il collasso ecologico si nasconde qualcosa di più antico, un'entità talmente inconcepibile da aver influenzato la vita sul pianeta solo scegliendo di dormire per un po'. Ma il sonno del titano è finito, e mentre la natura morente ha ricominciato a cantarne il nome, la comunità in cui Cleo vive inizia a cambiare. Adam Nevill usa la consolidata tradizione dell'orrore cosmico per ridefinire l'agentività dell'essere umano di fronte a disastri ecologici su larga scala e dare una forma alla minaccia esistenziale di una fine improrogabile.

Katrine è una giornalista di moda e costume: abituata a occuparsi soltanto delle mete di villeggiatura del Devon. Qui si è trasferita per ripartire dopo le ferite del suo passato burrascoso a Londra. Non può non rimanere turbata dalle rivelazioni degli archeologi riguardo le barbare usanze degli umani che abitavano un tempo quei luoghi, e dei loro riti gelosamente conservati nelle caverne di Brickburgh. Helene, invece, vive con la madre e la figlia, lontana da quei luoghi: ma è proprio vicino alla scoperta della nuova grotta che suo fratello Lincoln ha collezionato misteriosi suoni sotterranei, prima di gettarsi da un ponte sei anni prima. Fra voci di piantagioni di droga e nuovi avvistamenti del leggendario popolo rosso, sembra che chiunque abbia indagato in questo remoto angolo di mondo sia sparito. Un idillio campestre dove i forestieri non sono i benvenuti, e dove si crede che un potere infernale dimori sotto terra. Un'influenza soprannaturale al di là del tempo, che solo una persona disperata potrebbe sognarsi di affrontare. Ma per salvare loro stesse e coloro che amano, a Kat e Helene non rimane altra scelta: la loro condanna è arrivata prima ancora che se ne rendessero conto.

THE RITUAL - NEVILL ADAM - Pan

When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she's just happy to find an affordable room for rent that's large enough not to deserve her previous room's nickname, "the cell." The eccentric -- albeit slightly overly-friendly -- landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren't great, but they're stable. Or at least that's what she tells herself when she impulsively hands over enough money to cover the first month's rent and decides to give it a go.

But soon after she becomes uneasy about her rash decision. She hears things in the night. Feels them. Things...or people...who aren't there in the light. Who couldn't be there, because after-all, her door is locked every night, and the key is still in place in the morning. Concern soon turns to terror when the voices she hears and presence she feels each night become hostile. It's clear that something very bad has happened in this house. And something even worse is happening now. Stephanie has to find a way out, before whatever's going on in the house finds her first.

Adam Nevill's No One Gets Out Alive will chill you straight through to the core -- a cold, merciless, fear-inducing nightmare to the last page. A word of caution, don't read this one in the dark.

A reissue of award-winning horror author Adam Nevill's first novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King and M. R. James

Few believed Professor Coldwell could commune with spirits. But in Scotland's oldest university town something has emerged from the shadows and is stalking the streets. Now, the young are being haunted by night terrors and those who are inflicted are disappearing. This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do a rootless musician and burned-out explorer have of surviving an entanglement with a ruthless, supernatural evil and the secretive cult that serves it? This chilling occult thriller is both an homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacy modern tale of diabolism and witchcraft.

Some doors are better left closed—a sophisticated, spine-chilling horror novel from the author of Last Days

In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in and no one comes out, and it's been that way for 50 years, until the night a watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and is drawn to investigate. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. Soon after, a young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumors claim Lillian was mad, but her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building, and that the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying.

This collection of stories from some of horror fiction’s best authors will glue you to the page, but watch out; it may leave you too afraid to take the metro to work.

In deep tunnels something stirs, borne on a warm breath of wind, reeking of diesel and blood. The spaces between stations hold secrets too terrible for the upper world to comprehend and the steel lines sing with the songs of the dead.

Jonathan Oliver has collected together some of the very best in new horror writing in an themed anthology of stories set on, and around, the New York subway, the London underground, the Metro and other  places deep below.

Some doors are better left closed—a spine-chilling horror novel from a new talent

In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in and no one comes out, and it's been that way for 50 years, until the night a watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and is drawn to investigate. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. Soon after, a young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumors claim Lillian was mad, but her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming, evil force still inhabits the building, and that the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying.