Andy Monk

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I currently live in Suffolk in the United Kingdom and am fortunate enough to be able to devote my time to my three great loves - writing, photography and daydreaming.

As a writer of dark speculative fiction I have published the following novels,

The King of the Winter, A Bad Man's Song, Ghosts in the Blood and the Love of Monsters which form the In The Absence of Light series - a dark vampire fantasy set in 18th century London

The five book Hawker's Drift series - set in a small town in what may, or may not, be the 19th Century American West and follows a disparate cast of characters and their interactions with the town's Mayor. Who may, or may not, be The Devil.

In the Company of Shadows, an ongoing series featuring separate stories set in
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Average rating: 4.31 · 769 ratings · 63 reviews · 27 distinct worksSimilar authors
Red Company (The Night's Ro...

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The King of the Winter (In ...

3.91 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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The Love of Monsters (In th...

4.68 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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The World's Pain: A Dark Jo...

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A Bad Man's Song (In the Ab...

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Ghosts in the Blood (In the...

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Empire of Dirt: A Dark Jour...

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The House of Shells

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The Burden of Souls (Hawker...

4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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The Sorrowsmith

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More books by Andy Monk…

Flown the Nest...

The Burden of Souls is now available in ebook and paperback editions from Amazon. The follow up, The Path of the World should be out next year. I'm currently doing a virtual book tour to promote the release of the novel.

Well, that's another one done and sent tottering off into the world!


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The Burden of Souls Dark Carnival The Paths of the World A God of Many Tears Hollow Places
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“We are all lunatics... ‘tis only the manner of our asylum that differs.”
Andy Monk, A Bad Man's Song

“There are no monsters in the world, only men and other beasts...”
Andy Monk, The King of the Winter

“It is not the love a man of God should feel. It is a dark, bleak, consuming love. It is a cold fire that withers me from within. A love based on lust and hunger, a love born of base instinct and animal craving. It is Mephistopheles’ love.”
Andy Monk, Ghosts in the Blood

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“There are no monsters in the world, only men and other beasts...”
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“It is not the love a man of God should feel. It is a dark, bleak, consuming love. It is a cold fire that withers me from within. A love based on lust and hunger, a love born of base instinct and animal craving. It is Mephistopheles’ love.”
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