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Bleed For Me
What’s scaring a girl and her mother so much at Christmas… and what’s the purpose of a sinister parade on a different holiday celebration?... What does a travelling salesman find so enticing about his hotel room’s sea view?... What’s so terrifying about some uncovered bones?... What lurks at the crowd’s edge, and who is collecting victims one fateful night? A riveting collection of stories by award-winning #1 bestselling author/editor Marie O’Regan (In Times of Want, The Last Ghost and Other Stories, Celeste), which comes with an introduction by World Fantasy Award-winning author Angela Slatter (Vigil, The Path of Thorns, The Bone Lantern, The Cold House) and cover art by Adrian Baldwin.
This one is guaranteed to draw blood.
“Marie O’Regan knows what makes a good story, she especially knows what makes a good horror story, and it’s a pleasure – a deep, dark pleasure, a bit like boarding the ghost train – to read some of them here.” – Angela Slatter (The Path of Thorns, The Bone Lantern, The Cold House), from her introduction to Bleed For Me
‘I’m incredibly impressed. It’s beautifully crafted, elegant work. She’s extraordinarily talented.’
(Clive Barker – Hellraiser, Nightbreed, The Last Illusion; best-selling author of Books of Blood, The Hellbound Heart, Imajica, Sacrament, Abarat)
‘Marie O'Regan writes punchy and vivid short fiction in which the reader is disarmed and then dismayed with almost surgical ruthlessness. Nothing here can be trusted; not the world you know, nor the people around you, nor the ground on which you stand. Not even, when she's got you backed into a corner, that final hiding place you call your self.’
(Stephen Gallagher – Oktober, Chimera, Lifeline, Eleventh Hour, Crusoe; author of White Bizango, The Spirit Box, The Kingdom of Bones)
‘Marie O’Regan’s stories are deliciously, satisfyingly nasty, and it’s refreshing to read someone who so obviously relishes the genre concocting her unique tales with vigour and lack of pretentiousness.’
(Muriel Gray – bestselling author of The Ancient and Furnace)
'Marie O’Regan brings a much-needed female perspective to the modern dark tale; her hard-edged spin on traditional horrors makes her a genuine talent to watch.'
(Christopher Fowler – Bestselling author of Old Devil Moon, Ten Second Staircase, Roofworld)
‘Marie O’Regan’s stories contain a slow burn intensity that really get under the skin. They offer slivers of domestic life where moments of brutality are never far away. This is a stormy, feral and darkly beautiful collection by a powerful new writer.’
(Conrad Williams – author of The Unblemished, One, London Revenant, Game and The Scalding Room).
‘A delicious batch of tightly written, shivers-up-the-spine chillers.’
(Kelley Armstrong – author of Bitten and Haunted on Mirror Mere)
‘A very satisfying read and if you are looking for imaginative story telling that is disturbing and sexy at the same time, then like me you will enjoy this book.
This one is guaranteed to draw blood.
“Marie O’Regan knows what makes a good story, she especially knows what makes a good horror story, and it’s a pleasure – a deep, dark pleasure, a bit like boarding the ghost train – to read some of them here.” – Angela Slatter (The Path of Thorns, The Bone Lantern, The Cold House), from her introduction to Bleed For Me
‘I’m incredibly impressed. It’s beautifully crafted, elegant work. She’s extraordinarily talented.’
(Clive Barker – Hellraiser, Nightbreed, The Last Illusion; best-selling author of Books of Blood, The Hellbound Heart, Imajica, Sacrament, Abarat)
‘Marie O'Regan writes punchy and vivid short fiction in which the reader is disarmed and then dismayed with almost surgical ruthlessness. Nothing here can be trusted; not the world you know, nor the people around you, nor the ground on which you stand. Not even, when she's got you backed into a corner, that final hiding place you call your self.’
(Stephen Gallagher – Oktober, Chimera, Lifeline, Eleventh Hour, Crusoe; author of White Bizango, The Spirit Box, The Kingdom of Bones)
‘Marie O’Regan’s stories are deliciously, satisfyingly nasty, and it’s refreshing to read someone who so obviously relishes the genre concocting her unique tales with vigour and lack of pretentiousness.’
(Muriel Gray – bestselling author of The Ancient and Furnace)
'Marie O’Regan brings a much-needed female perspective to the modern dark tale; her hard-edged spin on traditional horrors makes her a genuine talent to watch.'
(Christopher Fowler – Bestselling author of Old Devil Moon, Ten Second Staircase, Roofworld)
‘Marie O’Regan’s stories contain a slow burn intensity that really get under the skin. They offer slivers of domestic life where moments of brutality are never far away. This is a stormy, feral and darkly beautiful collection by a powerful new writer.’
(Conrad Williams – author of The Unblemished, One, London Revenant, Game and The Scalding Room).
‘A delicious batch of tightly written, shivers-up-the-spine chillers.’
(Kelley Armstrong – author of Bitten and Haunted on Mirror Mere)
‘A very satisfying read and if you are looking for imaginative story telling that is disturbing and sexy at the same time, then like me you will enjoy this book.
355 pages, Paperback
Published January 9, 2026
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