Cold Calling by Haydn Wilks
American Psycho meets Crime and Punishment on the Cardiff call centre circuit.
You spend your days staring into a computer screen, trying to sell life insurance to young couples with new babies. You spend your nights staring into a computer screen, extracting filth from and injecting bile into the internet. You still live with the same dickhead housemate you went to university with. Your only respite from computer screens are nights spent getting smashed with him at student bars, watching him prance around, trying to pull much younger girls. Your life sucks and you suck at it. One drunken night, you try something new. Something terrible. But something that brings you new energy, new drive, new desires. You start eating the young.
What Reader’s Say
” I’ve been reading horror fiction since I was a pre-teen, and this was the first story in years to really shock me. ” – Denny McBride, Amazon.com
“Haydn Wilks gives us a brutal and biting look at a dirty corner of modern life. In the vein of Brett Easton Ellis and perhaps even Irvine Welsh, he illustrates how empty life today can be and gives us a very polished – albeit disturbing – story. ” – Mary S. Griffin, Amazon.co.uk
” Warning … read at the peril of your own sanity. ” – Booklover, Amazon.com
“This is hands down, one of the best Horror/Psychological Thrillers I’ve read in quite some time.” – William Bitner Jr., Goodreads.
“Haydn’s writing is brilliant, he effectively expresses the mind-set of the depraved, the dialogue is realistic and raw, the pacing compelling and perfectly crafted, and whilst the story is pretty damn sick I had to continue reading.” – Spencer, Goodreads.
“The prose is tight, edgy and authentic. Prepare to be shocked. If you are tired of the very safe and predictable style of so much modern literature go on this journey to the margins of life in Cardiff.” – Thomas Harte, Goodreads.
“This is a beautifully crafted descent into darkness, a measured deterioration of all that is right. So much new literature is poorly written, but this uses language to draw you in and spit you back out again. Something it accomplishes in the blink of an eye, impossible to put down.” – Tony, Goodreads.


