Ally Wilkes – författare

A vivid ghost story exploring identity, gender and selfhood, set against the backdrop of the golden age of polar exploration. Perfect for fans of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights and Michelle Paver's Thin Air.In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship of his hero, the world-famous explorer James "Australis" Randall, Jonathan may live as his true self-and true gender-and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers.When disaster strikes in Antarctica's frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, Randall's expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one is coming to rescue them.In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape...As the harsh Antarctic winter descends, this supernatural force will prey on their deepest desires and deepest fears to pick them off one by one. It is up to Jonathan to overcome his own ghosts before he and the expedition are utterly destroyed.

The Terror meets Yellowjackets as a disgraced Arctic explorer sets out on a voyage to track down his former crewmate, only to be confronted by the ghosts of his cannibalistic past; from the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of All the White Spaces. Perfect for fans of Michelle Paver and Stephen Graham Jones.William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition to find the fabled Open Polar Sea, in which his men only survived by eating their comrades, he returned in disgrace. A cannibal. A murderer.Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens - the man who's haunted his whole life - back home. But when the rescue mission into the frozen wastes becomes an uncanny journey into his own past, Day must face up to the things he's done.Aboard ship, Day must also contend with unwanted passengers: a reporter obsessively digging up the truth about the first expedition, and Stevens's wife, a spiritualist whose seances both fascinate and frighten. Following a trail of cryptic messages, gaunt bodies, and old bones, their search becomes more and more unnerving, as it becomes clear that - for Day - the restless dead are never far behind.

Be careful what you wish for. Whether searching for love, fame, money or revenge, remember that everything comes with a price. From stepping into an unknown in nature to ignoring the warnings of locals, to finding your perfect match or facing the hidden horrors of your past, beware. The thirteen stories in this brand-new anthology explore the dark side of human nature and take us into the hidden, terrifying recesses of a world we never see. Until it’s too late . . .

A twisting knot of historical horror about orchids, ghosts and the things that grow inside of us, from the Bram Stoker-award nominated author of All the White Spaces. Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Noah Medlock.1901. Minerva Sandford is an adventure-seeker, a botanist – and a reluctant wife. Part of a famous family of plant-hunters, she chafes at the formality and lack of autonomy in her chilly marriage, and is horrified by her sole ‘purpose’ being to produce a male heir. She leaps on the rare opportunity to join her husband Guy and cousin Dickon in the Amazonian jungle, searching for the fabled Belladonna orchids. No matter what the cost.But the jungle is unforgiving, and the more Minerva delves into the wilderness, the more she discovers that danger lurks in the shadows. The tight grip of a local rubber-baron rules over swathes of forest, and as her cousin begins to succumb to malaria, she finds herself unmoored and drifting closer to local plant expert, Ana. Following a secret map left by a dead man and haunted by the recent loss of a baby, Minerva begins to see things amongst the trees - a ghostly woman in green, plants moving in all too human ways. Is she too, succumbing to an illness? Or, more terrifying, is the jungle reaching out? And if so... why does it seem so hungry?