The Dark

From one of the most exciting recent talents in ghost stories comes a spinetingling seaside folk horror novel, set against the blackouts of the 1970s.

When the lights go out
You can lose sight of what is real . . .

It is the 1970s. A young woman, Rosie, moves to a small remote seaside village, readying to welcome her first child. But with her partner working away on an oil rig, the house isn't the sanctuary she'd hoped for - the situation made worse by the regular blackouts due to the ongoing miners' strikes. And the villagers seem friendly enough, but some of them are taking an uncomfortably close interest in her pregnancy.

Before long, Rosie notices strange noises and unexplained shadows in the corners of the cottage. As her birth date moves closer and the blackouts intensify, her isolation begins to consume her until she feels that she is losing her grip on reality. But Rosie isn't the only one in the village who has cause to fear the dark . . .

Praise for Amanda Mason

'A near-perfect ghost story' Guardian, on The Wayward Girls

'Satisfyingly unsettling, this is a hugely atmospheric novel that oozes with uncanny menace' Lucie McKnight Hardy on The Hiding Place

'Mason is one of the best ghost story writers around today' Jess Kidd

'A chillingly claustrophobic read' Daily Mirror, on The Wayward Girls

'A supernatural tour-de-force' Daily Mail on The Hiding Place