By the author of Wulf, The Hoodoo Man and four other horror novels.

It’s time for ultra-successful horror author Jim Green to annually welcome six lucky winners to an ‘evening of terror’ on his private (Straker’s) island. Every year his old friend Davey Smith organises the competition for Jim’s fans in celebration of his newest book. Usually a happy time for Jim and his contented family, this year it’s all gone wrong. Writer’s block has left him feeling suicidal and his wife uneasy at finding herself less important than his work. And now the words are coming again, but he can’t stop them appearing on the screen, not even by turning off the computer. His muse has come home to roost. A well-told tale with some nasty scenes; ‘If you can imagine it, it can happen.’

Also available now is The Devil On May Street (Vista pbk, 381pp, £5.99), a Gollancz hardback last year. It’s the summer holidays, and Johnny Kane has seen a boy vanish into thin air. Cue gobbling things, tears in reality leading to demolished-in-the-seventies May Street, local teenage temptress Becky Sharp apparently going bonkers, teenage kicks, dogs, and deals with the devil. The earlier Black Rock has also been reissued as a paperback.