Bøker av David Conway

"THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE IS THE ONE THAT ACHIEVES MADNESS ... " Tokyo. A serial killer known as the Doll Maker is stalking the streets of Kabuki-cho, preying on the prostitutes that work in the city's notorious red light district. Obsessed with obscene fantasies and terrifying visions of an apocalyptic holocaust, the killer is a divinely-inspired psychopath whose crimes incorporate elements of the occult, Buddhist doctrine and kabuki theatre. Takeshi Harada, a disgraced former police officer, is hired by a powerful yakuza crime boss to track down the elusive killer. Embroiled in a cycle of sex, violence and murder, the investigation leads Harada through the neon netherworld of the Tokyo vice trade -- its love hotels, image clubs and pink salons -- culminating in a life-and-death confrontation with the Doll Maker ... and a final chilling act of bloody, symbolic justice. " ... the most powerful and distinctive writer of horror fiction since Clive Barker ... " -- Grant Morrison, author of Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles, Doom Patrol, The Filth, Wonder Woman and JLA.

TOKYO NEON INFERNO. Tokyo. An eruption of madness and murder exposes a legacy of evil whose roots lie in an unspeakable atrocity perpetrated during the darkest chapter of Japanese history. Enlisting the aid of Yuki Horiuchi, a gifted young psychologist, Inspector Koichi Sakamoto investigates a wave of bizarre, ritualistic killings committed by a mysterious woman known only as Taro. Steeped in the esoteric symbolism of the occult, the inquiry uncovers a hidden world of secret societies, political conspiracy and horrific medical experiments. And when he finally uncovers Taro's true identity Sakamoto is drawn into a dramatic confrontation with the killer and the sinister forces that have driven her fatal crusade -- a bloodbath of death and desire ... and the ultimate realisation of his own inevitable destiny.TOKYO GOTHIC combines the subversive conventions of the Japanese ero-guro style with elements of the noir detective genre and European grand guignol to create a startling and flamboyant tour de force of explicit cross-cultural horror.

PORNOGRAPHY + POLITICS = POWER. An eruption of sacrilegious slaughter -- a symbolic reign of terror unleashed by a mysterious assassin known only as the Samaritan -- exposes a vicious underworld of sadistic depravity, ritual obscenity and quintessential evil lurking beneath the civilized veneer of metropolitan London. Investigating the slayings with the help of Dr. Cassandra Stark, an enigmatic and brilliant psychiatrist, Detective Inspector James Verlaine is plunged into a hellish nightmare of snuff pornography, political corruption and a labyrinthine conspiracy dedicated to a monstrous totalitarian agenda. And when he finally discovers the Samaritan's true identity Verlaine must confront the insidious power wielded by a secret elite -- and a sinister new technology designed to enslave the minds of millions ...

"David Conway is the most powerful and distinctive writer of horror fiction since Clive Barker ... " -- Grant Morrison, Arkham Asylum, The Invisibles, The Filth. " -- An authentically Lovecraftian marriage of contemporary science and the cosmic ... " -- Ramsey Campbell. "Metal Sushi drags HP Lovecraft's piscatorial congeries squirming and thrashing into Blade Runner dystopia to tremendous effect ... " -- John Coulthart, World Fantasy Award Winner, Lord Horror, Reverbstorm, Hardcore Horror. "In Metal Sushi Conway treats the unification of Gothic and science fictional impulses as a chimerical marriage with the potential to produce an unprecedented new form ... " Mark P Williams, Gothic Science Fiction: 1980-2010. "Like a hybrid monstrosity spawned from an unholy alliance between William Burroughs, Ignatius Loyola and the Marquis de Sade, David Conway's stories will take you to a dimension of absolute nightmare ... " DM Mitchell, A Serious Life, The Seventh Song of Maldoror

Lila's Kenyan village is suffering a terrible drought, until she saves the day by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows...