Bøker utgitt av Mantle Community Arts Ltd

Joseph Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, had extensive deformities and earned a living as an exhibit in freak shows and fairgrounds, horrifying the public with his appearance. Later he became a medical curiosity and something of a celebrity, meeting royalty and members of London society. Treated as a monster, he was actually a gentle and thoguhtful soul. His life was the inspiration for this collection of short stories about outsiders of all kinds, and their tormentors. The tales range from realistic fiction, through horror, science fiction, humour and fantasy, but they all contain characters who are in some way separate, different, alone. Some might appear monstrous, some embrace their otherness or rise above it, and some do terrible things. But as we see how they are treated by the mainstream we may ask, 'Who are the real monsters here?'

An anthology of strange sea tales from inspiring writers across the UK, including Joanne Harris's folk tale The Selkie.It Came from Beneath the Waves spans genres, with the post-apocalyptic weirdness of Carmen Marcus's Bight, Tomcat and the Moon, the contemporary horror of Tim Major's Eqalussuaq and the New Zealand set historical fiction of The King Tide by Alex Reece Abbott.The stories uncover the secrets, strangeness and peculiarity of what lies beneath the surface of everyday existence.Come and find out what lies beneath the waves!

What can Father Divine do when a nun confesses a disturbing secret?Bill has always lived in his parent’s basement. Nothing odd about that... is there?How can Eleanor bear watching her old love Paul, hidden as she is at the bottom of his garden?How can Sarah’s suddenly bottomless bag be full of bees?What can forgotten gods do? Go clubbing obviously.The stories in this book explore secrets, doomed relationships, and madness, inspired by the sad fate of the first Mrs Rochester in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Deranged and hidden away by her husband, Mrs Rochester haunts the corridors of Thornfield Hall, and eventually destroys it.The authors were not required to write directly about Mrs Rochester, Jane Eyre or the Brontës, but all the stories had to contain a deep, dark secret, insanity or ill-fated love.And what a wild mix they came up with. Some of the stories in this book are fantastical and some are realistic. Some are set in the past and others are contemporary. There’s a wide mix of genres. But they all have a hint of the gothic and a tinge of strangeness. Just the thing to read while hidden away in your own attic... 

Fifteen brilliant writers evoke uniquely haunted characters; from the waxwork maker in Victorian Whitechapel who receives help from a terrifying source, to the lawyer who once met two schoolboys on the beach, and finds them still there twenty five years later; from a doomed puppeteer performing his last show in a mysterious village to a little girl eternally waiting for a missing fire engine. What Haunts the Heart weaves together stories of lost love, regret, bad decisions, madness, secrets, obsession and redemption. Some people are haunted by what is in their own heads ... And some are haunted by ghosts.The writers include Graham Joyce, Ray Robinson, Emma J. Lannie, Annabel Banks, William Gallagher, Brian Ennis, Richard Farren Barber, Liz Kershaw, Pascale Presumey, Fiona Joseph, Reen Jones, J. T. Seate, Fran Hill, Scotty Clarke and Tom Johnstone.