The Roads Less Travelled

What’s that sound coming from the walls?

Who is the mysterious stranger chasing a bounty hunter across a Wild West terrain?

Why is a famous boxer so scared before the biggest fight of his career?

Why is a man suddenly finding bits of his body are vanishing?

And why are two others so frightened of Christmas?

Find out in another clutch of stories by award-winning and # 1 bestselling author Paul Kane (Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Before, Tempting Fate), including one of his PL Kane crime mysteries, a brand new modern Carnacki adventure and an early bonus tale only just uncovered. With an introduction by award-winning author and screenwriter Philip Fracassi (Gothic, Boys in the Valley), cover photography from Michael Marshall Smith (The Straw Men, The Intruders), plus the script and audio download for Bounty, this book is bound to set you on the right-or should that be wrong?-road.

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＂Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned.＂ - (Clive Barker - Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone, and The Scarlet Gospels)

＂Paul Kane’s lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that’s very much fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows and the cracks in the pavement.＂ - (Mike Carey - Bestselling author of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the Gifts, Fellside, The Boy on the Bridge, and Infinity Gate as M.R. Carey)

＂Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out and serves them up in these deliciously dark tales.＂ - (Kelley Armstrong - Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Spell Bound, Thirteen, and The Boy Who Cried Bear)

＂Paul Kane is a name to watch. His work is disturbing and very creepy.＂ - (Tim Lebbon - New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin in the Woods, The Silence, and Among the Living)

＂His stories not only, at his best, put him neck and neck with Ramsey Campbell and Clive Barker, but also in the company of greats like Machen and MR James. You don’t rest easily after reading a Paul Kane story, but strangely your eyes have been somewhat opened.＂ - (Stephen Volk - BAFTA winning screenwriter of Gothic, Ghostwatch, Afterlife, The Awakening, and Midwinter of the Spirit; author of The Parts We Play, The Dark Masters Trilogy, and The Good Unknown)

＂He stands out as one of the better writers I’ve read.＂ - (Eternal Night)

＂Wonderfully dark and satisfying.＂ - (Dark Side Magazine)

＂Kane is best when taking risks with his bizarre flights of imagination.＂ - (SFX Magazine)

＂Kane is a highly regarded author whose influence can be felt across the genre, with a large and notable body of work behind him.＂ - (Starburst Magazine)

＂The hype is very real... Fall under the thrall of the new king of horror.＂ - (Mass Movement Magazine)

＂A legendary horror writer.＂ - (This is Horror)