The Hollows

By Daniel Church,

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Shortlisted for the 2022 British Fantasy Horror Award.

In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to…

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Daniel Church is a new name in fiction but if The Hollows is anything to go by, we will be hearing much more from him in the future. This story is part horror and part crime – taking the best of both traditions and mixing them together in an unholy and mesmerizing brew. Someone needs to make a miniseries of this!

Set in the freezing cold of a Peak District winter, the author paints the scene so vividly we can actually feel the intense cold penetrating our bones and every fibre of our being as he takes us deep into…

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