Thing of the Shore

Tom Fletcher

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PAN MACMILLAN
01 April 2011

Horror & ghost stories; Cult

A terrifying tale set in a malevolent call-centre that just might be alive - affirming Tom Fletcher as the dark master for the zero-hours generation.

When Artemis Black is assigned to manage a call-centre on behalf of a mysterious multinational corporation called Interext, the isolation and remoteness of the place encourage him to implement a decidedly unhinged personal project, installing what purports to be cutting-edge AI technology, with a real, 'human' voice, on the automated answering systems.

As a result of Artemis' actions, one of his employees, Arthur, becomes aware of an intangible landscape inside the labyrinthine systems of the call-centre - a landscape in which he can feel some kind of otherworldly consciousness stirring and in which, perhaps as a result of his father's increasingly alarming eccentricities, he feels that he could find his recently deceased mother.

Arthur takes refuge in this belief as his father, his job, and his house slowly deteriorate around him. He begins to conflate the mysterious, interstitial region that exists down the phonelines with the sea, as that was where his mother drowned. In a way he is right - Artemis' meddlings have attracted something, it is just not as benevolent as he thinks . . .

By: Tom Fletcher
Imprint: PAN MACMILLAN
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9781849161367
ISBN 10: 1849161364
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.fellhouse.wordpress.com/

Tom Fletcher is a young author (in his twenties) who has already made a name for himself thanks to spine-chilling readings of his work at Manchester's monthly live lit event, 'There's No Point in Not Being Friends'. He has published a number of his short stories in a three-author anthology, Before the Rain. This is the second book in the series that began with The Leaping.

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'Fletcher's follow up to the excellent horror novel, The Leaping, is equally brilliant if not better ... At this rate Tom Fletcher's name will be up there with Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell in no time' Quazen. Quazen

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Thing of the Shore

Tom Fletcher

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