We are proud to announce the fifth chapbook in the This Is Horror Premium Chapbook series – Chalk by Pat Cadigan. Please (re)subscribe to the chapbook series here. We will announce details of the launch and pre-order soon. In the meantime, behold the wonderful cover art from Pye Parr and the chapbook’s blurb below.

Can you find seven dogs in this picture of a castle? How about two little girls in a relatively small neighbourhood?

Dee and Mary discover a way to hide in plain sight so that Dee doesn’t always have to go home and babysit or do household chores for her mother. For awhile, it’s great fun to sit apart from the rest of the world and watch them unawares. But it’s not exactly normal.

It hadn’t occurred to Dee and Mary that what they were doing would have consequences…

Pat Cadigan won the Arthur C. Clarke Award twice, the first time for Synners, the second time for Fools. She has most often been identified as one of the original cyberpunk writers – the Guardian called her The Queen of Cyberpunk – but she has actually written fantasy, horror, young adult, and non-fiction. Born in New York, she grew up in Massachusetts but spent most of her adult life in the Kansas City area, where she worked for ten years at Hallmark Cards, Inc., writing greeting cards, often in perfect iambic pentameter. In 1996, she packed up and moved to the UK. She now lives in gritty, urban north London with her husband, the Original Chris Fowler.

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• They Don’t Come Home Anymore by T.E. Grau
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