Robert Lautner

‘Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction’ GILES COREN, THE TIMES ‘Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER ‘Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century’s first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG Before there was Jaws, there was… QUINT You already know the end of his story: now find out where it...

Outstandingly weird and memorable GUARDIAN Deliciously creepy NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies… These stories from eighteen masters of the craft will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams, and redefine terror. An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally – but at what cost? A young woman's workplace affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover's wife...

Uncannily brilliant… a book to be swallowed whole EVIE WYLD Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence THE TIMES Before there was Jaws, there was… Quint You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the...