Designers have done away with those round, confounded nuisances that judder so badly when you hit a lollipop man, and all road-going vehicles now hover impressively a good couple of feet above the ground. Lollipop menīut it's in the area of private transportation that things have altered most noticeably. The good news is that Noel Edmonds is dead. Many things that nowadays we take for granted are radically different - the bad news is that the quality of television has deteriorated to the point that Bay-watch is looked on as hard-hitting social realism. That's not to say that people's lives are the same as they are today. Suits while robots do the washing up or allow you to have sex with them (while they're doing the washing up). People have not yet taken to walking about in Bacofoil In other words, it's the future, but not as you imagined it at the age of ten. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears.įull Throttle is out in hardback, trade paperback, eBook and audio download on 10th October 2019.Right, who's left? Oh, only you three. And tension shimmers in the sweltering heat of the Nevada desert as a faceless trucker finds himself caught in a sinister dance with a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in ‘Throttle’, co-written with Stephen King.įeaturing two previously unpublished stories, and a bevy of shocking chillers, Full Throttle is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche.
and other horrors that lurk in the water’s shivery depths.
In ‘By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain’, two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the water’s edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality. A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in ‘Late Returns’. In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including ‘In The Tall Grass’, one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.Ī little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in ‘Faun’. In the Tall Grass will be a Netflix film in late 2019. Packed with tales to keep you up at night, these are stories from a master of horror and include two collaborations with Stephen King. We now have a cover to show you for Joe Hill’s upcoming collection of short stories: Full Throttle - designed by Henry Steadman. If you’re after your next chilling read, look no further.
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