Robert Holdstock

Jack Chatwin has visions, which leave tangible evidence - sounds and smells, which linger afterwards. What he sees are t… Jack Chatwin has visions, which leave tangible evidence - sounds and smells, which linger afterwards. What he sees are two primitive figures, with painted faces - Greyface and Greenface, a brother and sister. He calls them bullrunners. John Garth is a city dowser, searching for the mythical pre-Roman city of Glanum. He hopes to find an entryway to the elusive city beneath Exburgh, Jack's home town. And he thinks Jack's bullrunners may be connected to Glanum . . . Years later, Jack, now grown up, agrees to take part in experiments to investigate his bullrunners - until Greyface, the male, breaks free of Jack and takes corporeal form. The bullrunner kidnaps Jack's young daughter so Jack will force Greenface to follow her brother-husband, even against her own wishes. Though Greyface returns the daughter, he keeps a shadow of her, which takes on a life of its own. If Jack refuses to co-operate, the shadow will drain his daughter's vitality and personality - and her very future. The story of Jack's search for Greenface is interwoven with the connections between the bullrunners and the mystical city of Glanum in this resonant tale of ancient mythic wonder. read more

After the death of George Huxley, his sons take up his life's work. What they discover goes beyond conception for the wo… After the death of George Huxley, his sons take up his life's work. What they discover goes beyond conception for the wood is a place where myths gain flesh and blood, where love and beauty haunt your dreams and propel you into terrifing insanity. read more

In the Celtic tribal lands of Connacht, he came of age among the Druids and headhunters and the ghosts of the great Bron… In the Celtic tribal lands of Connacht, he came of age among the Druids and headhunters and the ghosts of the great Bronze Age people of Danann. He fought his savage, bloodthirsty way to the west, as a naked warrior who had rejected the tribal laws. And there Arthur, Warlord of the Britons, came to find him, to exploit his skill and invulnerability in the war against the Saxons. Yet Swiftaxe, the Berserker, wanted one thing only; to break the curse that condemned him to his life of frenzied violence and bloodlust. But until the might of the Saxons was destroyed, he would never be free . . . read more

The serenity of the countryside is shattered by the dark and brutal rituals of the past... The Satanists The undreamt-of… The serenity of the countryside is shattered by the dark and brutal rituals of the past... The Satanists The undreamt-of horrors of the night herald, for them, the promise of eternal life, despite the memory of one man's shattered body nailed to a cross. But the Messiah has been dead two thousand years. Now is the time of the Anti-Christ... read more