Ah, Christmas! A holy feast, and a riot of fun and frolics. Candy canes, mistletoe, firelight glinting on the tinsel. But it’s an eerie time too, the woodlands dead and filled with frost, the darkness of the longest night unending. Old enmities resurface, ancestors return, dire warnings echo from beyond, and ancient beings lurk in the grey and icy mist, measuring men by the goodness of their souls, and often finding them wanting …
The savage hunt in Bowland Forest
The cannibal hag of Altstadt
The patchwork horror of Alsace
The festive impalement in Prague
The uninvited guest at Stanwick
The murderous toys of St Petersburg
The dark tormentor in the Tower of London
Includes terrifying tales by Peter Coleborn, Joanna Corrance, Raven Dane, Steve Duffy, Jan Edwards, Paul Finch, Christopher Harman, Sheila Hodgson, Keris McDonald, Reggie Oliver, Tony Richards, Rosie Seymour, Sarah Singleton, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth, Ian Whates and Gavin Williams.
PRAISE FOR THE TERROR TALES SERIES
‘Consistently entertaining and effectively flesh-creeping, Terror Tales of Chaos certainly does what it says on the tin. For innovative frights and new twists on the familiar, do visit these experts!’ Roger Keen
‘An authorial banquet of familiar faces’ Benjamin Kurt Unsworth, Ginger Nuts of Horror
‘The best horror stories canonical horror can provide … Original, compelling, and edgy horror fiction can be had with style, beautiful background settings, and careful control of language and imagination. If you agree, then look no further. Terror Tales of the Mediterranean is the quality fiction you’ve been searching for!’ Milt Theo
‘Terror Tales Of The Home Counties is an excellent anthology, bringing together 15 stories of supernatural woe with 14 short articles about the mythology of the Home Counties that has inspired such storytelling. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. If you live in or visit on holiday, a part of the UK that has been covered by another in the Terror Tales series, I’d warmly encourage you to have a look.’ Patrick Mahon, SciFi Crow’s Nest
‘(Terror Tales Of The Scottish Lowlands is) by turns shocking, thrilling, poignant and maudlin, but with a pervading undercurrent of resilience and tenacity so typical of Scotland as a whole, all-in-all, this volume would be a great little addition to any Fortean library.’ C M Saunders, Phantasmagoria Magazine #20
‘In the Terror Tales series, the fiction is interspersed with “true” stories of real horrors written by editor Paul Finch so you get a lot for your money … As with any rich collection of stories not entirely dissimilar in nature, Terror Tales Of The Scottish Lowlands is best taken in small bites, like haggis.’ Eamonn Murphy, SF Crowsnest
‘A top-quality anthology … if you are a fan of short stories, especially the British variety, then this anthology is well worth closer inspection.’ Tony Jones, Ginger Nuts of Horror
‘Terror Tales of Cornwall, for me at least, has three levels as there are good stories, very good stories, and excellent ones.’ Joe X Young, Gingernuts of Horror
‘According to Finch, the mission of this anthology series is to “reclaim the dark heart of Britain’s literary legacy”. The best stories here do that. Befitting our present state of contagion anxiety, the creatures and dark forces that move through these tales are disturbingly indistinct and insidious.’ William Brown, Horrified
‘(Terror Tales of the Scottish Lowlands) is a smorgasbord of a book, a large spread of toothsome (in some cases toothy) stories all with their own particular flavours, and some are very stong meat indeed.’ Tina Rath, Ghosts & Scholars
300pp approx. B-format paperback original anthology.
ISBN: 978-1-84583-275-9
Published 31 October 2026
Cover by Neil Williams
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Former police officer and journalist Paul Finch was a script-writer on The Bill and now, as a best-selling crime novelist, is the author of the very popular DS Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg and DC Lucy Clayburn novels (the first one of which made the Sunday Times Top 10 list). He is also widely published in the horror and fantasy fields, having written Doctor Who scripts for Big Finish and winning the British Fantasy Award twice for his short stories and novellas. He has also now edited 16 volumes of the Terror Tales series.
Paul is a native of Wigan, Lancashire, where he still lives with his wife and business partner, Cathy.
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