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Scratch Moss
The most original folk horror novel of the year from the author of Withered Hill
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‘An agile and compelling storyteller’ Nick Cutter1865. Coal lies beneath Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get to it. But something else lurks below, something dark and evil.1905. Reverend George Ackman has never known such godless people as those of Scratch Moss....
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A small community in North Yorkshire is haunted by an evil presence as it deals with the devastation of Thatcher's privatisation of the coal mining industry
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‘An agile and compelling storyteller’ Nick Cutter
1865. Coal lies beneath Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get to it. But something else lurks below, something dark and evil.
1905. Reverend George Ackman has never known such godless people as those of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in?
1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. On his visit to Scratch Moss, he finds only misery and death.
1985. The miners have lost. Thatcher reigns supreme. And in the shattered community of Scratch Moss, rumours resurface about Red Clogs, a terrible presence in the land below.
2025. Divorced, fifty-something writer Joe returns to his hometown of Scratch Moss for the funeral of his father. Soon the memories of Joe’s teenage years, and the horror that blighted the community, come flooding back…
A devastating, five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781835984963
Publisher: Canelo
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canelo
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
David Barnett is an author, journalist and comic book writer based in West Yorkshire. He writes in a range of genres for various publishers, works for a wide variety of press outlets including the Guardian, Independent and BBC, and in comics has written for DC, 2000AD and more.
Also by David Barnett
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