Paul Holbrook

At night, troubled alcoholic Billy Kane fears what lurks in the shadows, forcing him to run further from the painful memories of his past. As he spirals, his Mum, Mary, struggles to find a way to help him, but an emotional encounter with Joanne could be the salvation both her and Billy need. As the pressure mounts, with Billy on the brink, will Mary and Joanne make it to him before the dark Wolf that stalks him finally sinks its teeth in.

Two creative but impressionable kids hatch a plan to purchase their first packet of cigarettes, whilst clinging on to their prized possession; an impossible-to-get shiny gold football sticker.

An internet predator gets more than he bargained for when arranging to meet his prey in person.

A single mother struggles to bond with her apathetic child; born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite.

Jim is a lonely septuagenarian who has been to too many funerals and said goodbye to too many friends. Struggling and aimless, he begins to conceal his ailing well-being from his doting wife, finding solace watching a local grassroots football team. Jim’s levels of fandom start to border on obsession as his wife begins to question his strange behaviour...

A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in a disturbed Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner demons of a violent past, the underworld's retribution on his last connection to humanity, a daughter and grandchild leads to a descent of fury and violence that not even the brutality of gangland is prepared for.

The story kicks off on Hartcliffe council estate in Bristol during the early 1980s. It follows Steven Knight, a working-class boy who has his motorbike stolen the day he buys it. Teaming up with his scoundrel friends he desperately tries to track it down before it's gone for good.

The beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhuman appetite, the seemingly harmless couple who are serial killers, and the home-alone woman who is petrified someone is out to kill her. These terrifying tales come together in one anthology.