Regicide

by Nicholas Royle

Genres: Fantasy; Urban Fantasy; Horror

Synopsis

Carl meets Annie Risk and falls for her. Hurt by a recent relationship, she resists becoming involved. A chance find offers distraction. Carl stumbles across part of a map to an unknown town. He becomes convinced it represents the city of his dreams, where ice skaters turn quintuple loops and trumpeters hit impossibly high notes... where Annie Risk will agree to see him again. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams or the world of his worst nightmares? British Fantasy Award winner Nicholas Royle has written a powerful story set in a nightmarish otherworld of fathers and sons, hopes and dreams, love and death. ‘Menacing and uncanny’ The Guardian on ‘Mortality' ‘Immaculately sinister’ - TLS on ‘Mortality’ ‘A thoroughly satisfying, thought-provoking and beautifully realized work that will keep you pondering for days and will seep into your dreams’ - Infinity Plus on ‘Antwerp’

Release date: September 4, 2011

Publisher: Solaris

Print pages: 240