Steven Savile's popular fantasy stories embrace all aspects of the fantastic. Be it the wonder of magical realism, the darkness of the macabre, or the mythological, these stories have one thing in common: faith. Savile offers up tales of hope and wonder in equal measure, whilst treating sadness as a long lost friend. Nothing in his world is quite as it seems. The world you think you know isn't the world you're about to enter. Everything you think you've learned about life is about to be unlearned. These are stories of love. These are stories of loss. In some you will find redemption, in others the simple act of memory is treacherous and cannot be trusted. But in all of them there is an aching sense of loss and love. Savile's stories here speak to the part in all of us who still dares to fall in love again after a broken heart. "Savile packs more imagination into a short story than many writers manage in a full novel." Hellnotes "Stories about life and death by a man who has clearly consorted with devils." TM Wright, bestselling author of A Manhattan Ghost Story "One of the most seriously creepy pieces it has been my pleasure to read in a long time." -- Charles de Lint, on Remember Me Yesterday. "A modern fantasist of the first order. Watch as Savile carves a niche for himself in the literature of the new millennium." -- Tim Lebbon "Troubling, moving, curiously gentle, and a pleasure to read all the way through." -- Ed Gorman. "Lyrical, passionate and poignant." -- Tom Piccirilli. "Savile manages to successfully evoke a wonderful sense of atmosphere and place, while contemporaneously managing to constantly build the conflict and tension, and swiftly move the action forward"-- Fear Zone
Author Biography
Steven Savile has written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval, Stargate, Warhammer, Slaine, Fireborn, Pathfinder, Arkham Horror, Risen, and other popular game and comic worlds. His novels have been published in eight languages to date, including the Italian bestseller L'eridita. He won the International Media Association of Tie-In Writers Scribe Award for his Primeval novel, SHADOW OF THE JAGUAR, published by Titan, in 2010, and The inaugural Lifeboat to the Stars award for TAU CETI (co-authored with Kevin J. Anderson). SILVER, his debut thriller reached #2 in the Amazon UK charts in the summer of 2011 and with over 50,000 copies sold at the time was among the UK's top 30 bestselling novels of 2011. His latest books include HNIC (along with the legendary Hip Hop artist Prodigy, of Mobb Deep) which was Library Journal's Pick of the Month, and the follow-up RITUAL, forthcoming from Akashic Books in the US, and has recently started writing the popular Rogue Angel novels as Alex Archer, including Grendel's Curse, Celtic Fire and Death Mask. Steve also writes young adult science fiction as Matt Langley. Matt's debut novel Black Flag is published by Cambridge University Press in September 2014 and is their first original novel in the 700 year history of the press since it was given the Royal Charter by Henry VIII. He has lived in Sweden for the last 17 years.
