Horror, dragons, spooky hospitals: THESE ARE THE FACTS, PEOPLE!

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This week sees not one, but TWO smashing releases from Solaris - Greatshadow by James Maxey and The Faceless by Simon Bestwick! Out this week in the both the UK and the US, these two impressive tomes will blow your socks off - guaranteed!

And to celebrate, this week we'll be bringing you some interesting posts to whet your appetite, tickle your fancy and... stimulate other bits of you.

Here's the details of each book, but stayed tuned this week for juicy bits. Lots and lots of juicy bits!

Greatshadow
Book One of the Dragon Apocalypse

by James Maxey

£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-907992-73-5

$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978-1907992-72-8

Available as an ebook

Solaris is proud to present the first in a breathtaking new trilogy by one of its most popul ar authors: Greatshadow is the first book in the Dragon Apocalypse series by James Maxey, author of the Dragon Age series.

The Church of the Book has assembled a team of twelve battle-hardened adventurers to slay Greatshadow, the evil elemental dragon who spies through every candle flame, once and for all.

But tensions run high between the leaders of the team who view the mission as a holy duty and the superpowered mercenaries who add power to their ranks, who view this as a chance to claim Greatshadow’s vast treasure. If the warriors fail to slay the beast, will they doom mankind to death by fire?

A striking mix of adventure, fantasy and lurking menace, Greatshadow promises to be the beginning of a stand-out new series in 2012, written by a real master of the genre.

“…a book that feels like fantasy but is, at core, smart science fiction. It feels like — and is — a magnificent hero story.”

– Orson Scott Card on James Maxey’s Bitterwood

The Faceless

by Simon Bestwick

£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978- 1-907992-74-2

$8.99/$10.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978- 1-907992-75-9

Available as an ebook

In the Lancashire town of Kempforth, people are vanishing.

When two-year-old Roseanne Trevor disappears, the local kids blame ‘The Spindly Men.’ But even as Detective Chief Inspector Renwick vows to stop at nothing until she finds her, terrifying visions summon TV psychic Allen Cowell and his sister Vera back to the town they swore they’d left forever and local historian Anna Mason pieces together a history of cruelty and exploitation almost beyond belief.

Meanwhile, in the decaying corridors and lightless rooms of a long abandoned hospital, something terrible is waiting for them all.

In a chilling tale of contemporary small-town horror, Bestwick has truly evoked the terror of films such as The Orphanage and the writing of James Herbert, Adam Nevill and M R James.

“Simon Bestwick writes with great imaginative flair and an excellent grasp of colour and narrative pace.'”

– Daily Telegraph