Silverweed Road

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Crook has stepped on to the gore-slicked stage with a deliciously gruesome portfolio of twisty tales
DAILY MAIL

Plenty of creepy fun to be had
GUARDIAN

Theres a new horror behind every door
Welcome to Silverweed Road a once quiet suburban street where nothing is quite as it seems. In this macabre collection of twisted tales, were-foxes prowl, a swimming pool turns predatory, a haunted urn plots revenge, and a darts player makes a deal with the devil himself.

As the residents vanish one by one, a sinister mystery slowly unpeels, lurking in the Woods at the roads dead-end.

Creepy, chilling, and witty by turn, Silverweed Road deals in love, loss, isolation, loneliness, obsession, greed,and revenge.

Come take a walk through suburban hell. The neighbours will be dying to meet you

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A deliciously gruesome portfolio of twisty tales. Youll find shades of DahlBut what sets the stories apart is the visceral accuracy of the writing, which can infect a garden swimming pool with dread, or quite believably turn a man into a fox
DAILY MAIL

Terrifying
TIMEOUT

Clever, knowing, and sly
SAGA

This brilliant collection of stories includes murderous magpies, a sinister swimming pool, and brims with a a dark, witty sense of menace
BEST

Entertaining, quirky and more than a little hair-raising, this is a collection of stories which revels in atmospheric old-school horror
FANTASY HIVE

Short story and speculative fiction fans have a spine-tingling treat in store for them. SILVERWEED ROAD by debut Simon Crook is an intoxicating and chilling cocktail of J.G. Ballard, Roald Dahl, and Clive Barker. Impossible not to down it in one
Emlyn Rees, author of WANTED

Author Bio

Simon Crook has been a film journalist for over 20 years, travelling the world visiting film sets and interviewing talent for Empire Magazine. He is currently a film reviewer for Stylist. A new and exciting voice in domestic horror, he is perfectly placed to translate the recent successes of the genre from the silver screen to the written word - while adding something new and wholly his own.