The Evil Bones: Stories from the Dark Side

by David A. Sutton

Fourteen tales of supernatural horror, from award-winning anthologist David A. Sutton.

Travel the weird byways in St Ambrews Well , where evil bones wait for unwary youngsters in a Cornish village; in The Mutant's Cry , where shadowy characters in a sixties horror film become reality and in The House of Cats , in which a very strange building in Italy hides a dark ritualistic secret... And more... Supernatural spiders, underworld creatures in Venice, an unhappy woman who shape-shifts into a hare, a deluded ventriloquist and his monstrous dummy...

In describing the author's work, one reviewer wrote, “His stories display a profound commitment to the supernatural horror genre as a means of interpreting the world. The supernatural is not just a mechanism whereby people become dead (or undead) it’s a level of moral and metaphysical reckoning, a road we travel down in order to find the truth behind our experience”.

353 pages, Paperback

Published May 4, 2023

About the author

David A. Sutton is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, The International Horror Guild Award and twelve British Fantasy Awards for editing magazines and anthologies (Fantasy Tales, Dark Voices: The Pan Book Of Horror and Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book Of Horror). Other anthologies include New Writings In Horror & The Supernatural, The Satyr’s Head & Other Tales Of Terror, Phantoms Of Venice, Haunts Of Horror and Darker Terrors. He has also been a genre fiction writer since the 1960s with stories appearing widely in anthologies and magazines, including in Best New Horror, Final Shadows, The Mammoth Book Of Merlin, Beneath The Ground, Shadows Over Innsmouth, The Black Book Of Horror, Subtle Edens, The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Shadows, Psychomania, Second City Scares, Kitchen Sink Gothic, Phantasmagoria, Gruesome Grotesques, The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Shadows and The Ghosts & Scholars Book Of Folk Horror. His short stories are collected in CLINICALLY DEAD & OTHER TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL, DEAD WATER AND OTHER WEIRD TALES and EN VACANCES. He is also the proprietor of Shadow Publishing, a small press specialising in collections and anthologies.