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A new chiller from multi award winning author of over 50 novels, winner of the New York Festival Radio Award for Best Drama Special and Festival Radio Awards.That Which Stands Outside is a horror novel inspired by Nordic folklore. After Todd Kingston rescues Yrsa Helgerson from muggers one rainy London night, their resulting friendship quickly develops into a romance. When Yrsa’s mother dies, Todd accompanies her back to her childhood home, an isolated Nordic island. The reception they receive there is one of suspicion and hostility. The islanders believe Yrsa to be a child of a mythic race called the Jötnar, a claim which Yrsa dismisses as superstitious nonsense. But as the island is rocked by a series of devastating events, Todd finds himself caught up in a terrifying battle, one which possibly threatens the future of the world itself.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
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Morris has written and edited over fifty novels, novellas, short story collections and anthologies. His script work includes audio dramas for
Doctor Who,
Jago & Litefoot and the
Hammer Chillers series. His most recent work includes the
Obsidian Heart trilogy (
The Wolves of London,
The Society of Blood and
The Wraiths of War), the original Predator novel
Stalking Shadows (co-written with James A. Moore), the official novelization of the Doctor Who
60th anniversary special
Wild Blue Yonder,
new audio adaptations of the classic 1971 horror movie
Blood on Satan’s Claw and the M.R. James ghost story
A View From a Hill, a 30th anniversary short story collection
Warts And All,
and, as editor, the anthologies
After Sundown,
Beyond the Veil,
Close to Midnight and
Darkness Beckons.
Blood on Satan’s Claw won the New York Festival Radio Award for Best Drama Special, and
A View From a Hill won the New York Festival Radio Award for Best Digital Drama Program, and was also awarded Silver at the 2020 Audio & Radio Industry Awards. Mark has won two British Fantasy Awards, and has also been nominated for several Stokers and Shirley Jackson Awards.
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That Which Stands Outside is a horror novel inspired by Nordic folklore. After Todd Kingston rescues Yrsa Helgerson from muggers one rainy London night, their resulting friendship quickly develops into a romance. When Yrsa’s mother dies, Todd accompanies her back to her childhood home, an isolated Nordic island. The reception they receive there is one of suspicion and hostility. The islanders believe Yrsa to be a child of a mythic race called the Jötnar, a claim which Yrsa dismisses as superstitious nonsense. But as the island is rocked by a series of devastating events, Todd finds himself caught up in a terrifying battle, one which possibly threatens the future of the world itself.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
