Unhallowed Gifts
By Laura Purcell, Matt Hill, Muriel Gray, Jeremy Dyson, Evelyn Hollow, Dan Coxon, Eric LaRocca, Lucie McKnight Hardy, various authors, Daisy Johnson, John Langan, Paul Tremblay, Robert Shearman, and Charlie Higson
Read by Charlie Albers, Mark Sanderlin, Liam Gerrard, Christopher Tester, Joe Hempel, and Kate Walsh
Unabridged
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Available on 09/29/2026
ISBN: 9798236001908
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Available on 09/29/2026
ISBN: 9798236001892
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Available on 09/29/2026
ISBN: 9798236001915
| Category: | Fiction/Horror |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A collection of twelve spine-tingling short stories of cursed curios that bring misfortune, madness and death upon their owners, penned by modern masters of the weird and uncanny.
Sometimes your possessions own you.
Delve into twelve terrifying stories that reimagine a tradition that stretches back over a century to W.W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Discover the antique brooch possessed by a malignant spirit; the sewing needle that demands a bloody sacrifice; a cardboard cutout animated by the restless dead; a secret so unholy that even its likeness has the power to send people mad. Unhallowed Gifts proves that fear comes in many forms—and not all gifts are given with your best interests in mind.
Author
Author Bio: Laura Purcell
Laura Purcell is an award-winning former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex, with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of novels including The Silent Companions, which was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick, and The Shape of Darkness, winner of the inaugural Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Book of the Year. Her short stories have been included in The Haunting Season and The Winter Spirits anthologies, which were both instant Sunday Times bestsellers. She also wrote Roanoake Falls, a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter. Her novel The Whispering Muse was the 2023 winner of The Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award.
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Author Bio: Matt Hill
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Author Bio: Muriel Gray
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Author Bio: Jeremy Dyson
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Author Bio: Evelyn Hollow
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Author Bio: Eric LaRocca
Eric LaRocca (he/they) is a two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award winner. Named by Esquire as one of the “Writers Shaping Horror’s Next Golden Age” and praised by Locus as “one of strongest and most unique voices in contemporary horror fiction,” LaRocca’s notable works include Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Everything the Darkness Eats, The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories, and You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood. His upcoming novel, At Dark, I Become Loathsome, will be published in January 2025. The book has already been optioned for film by The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus. He currently resides in Boston with his partner. For more information, please visit EricLaRocca.com.
Author Bio: Lucie McKnight Hardy
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Author Bio: various authors
Author Bio: Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson is the author of the short-story collection Fen and the acclaimed novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.
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Author Bio: John Langan
John Langan is the author of the novels The Fisherman and House of Windows and two collections of stories. The Fisherman won the Bram Stoker Award and This Is Horror Award for superior achievement in a novel in 2016. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. He he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine.
Author Bio: Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the author of Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. He is a member of the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and his essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly online, and numerous year’s-best anthologies.
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Author Bio: Robert Shearman
Robert Shearman is a British television, radio, stage play, and short story writer. He is best known for his work on the popular Doctor Who series, for which he has written several audio dramas.
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Author Bio: Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson is an acclaimed novelist, TV producer, and actor. He started writing for television after university and went on to create and star in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. His novels include the million-selling Young Bond series and the incredibly successful horror series, the Enemy. Charlie lives in London. He doesn’t do Facebook, but you can tweet him @monstroso.
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| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Horror |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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