This is my second novella by Mr. Fry and very different from “Emergence.” Where “Emergence” was sort of Jamesian (at least in terms of the ambiguity of the supernatural aspects) and drew its interest from the interior emotional landscape of the characters, “Lurker” is in your face horror. Rip your face off horror is even more apt. Greatly enjoyed both novellas and will be following Mr. Fry’s career and wonder what the next book will be like. I hate to give away plots so I rarely discuss them but...

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Meg and Harry have moved to a quiet coastal town. It is lonely, cold, and sad... just like their marriage. Meg has quit her job and spends long days by herself. Thank you NetGalley and Dark Fuse Press for this title. What I liked most about this novella was the steady build of fear, paranoia, and panic. The atmosphere surrounds meg and closes in on her. So creepy and well done. At times it was a little slow, but the details were all a part of the story. Is it truly happening? Is it Meg's imagina...

I enjoyed reading this novella and exploring the setting in which it took place. The story was captivating and eerie. I felt for the woman who had gone through a hardship and her struggle with understanding her husband who wasn't very sympathetic. I think there were some twists and turns and i felt that descriptions were very Lovecraft; very surreal and creepy. However, i just felt like there was something more i wanted from this novella. Maybe it was too short for me, or maybe i wanted to know

This novella from Darkfuse starts out with a couple (Meg & Harry) who lose a child and decide to move to the England countryside to start over. When the husband is at work Meg starts seeing and hearing things. Not sure what's real, she decides to do some research on the town and old abandoned mine. Then things start to escalate. The story had that creepy Lovecraft feel to it. A good quick read, enjoyed the story a lot. I gave it 4 stars.

This was a strange, bleak story. A couple moves to the shore, after suffering through a terrible tragedy. They are trying to start anew and where else better to do that than by the sea?Meg's husband regularly leaves her to her own devices while he works hard to support the household. Something he never lets her forget. Meg decides to spend this time exploring her new surroundings, which happen to include some old mines.As Meg begins poking around her new neighborhood, things start to happen. Str...

What a weird read. Meg and her husband have different ways of dealing with the loss of their baby.But guess what? I did not care. Why? No light was shined on how loving and tender this couple was before the tragedy. If anything, Meg went on to describe her husband as standoff-ish unless he was getting some.Meg is losing her mind or is she? I'm going to say, yes. If she isn't then this story really went off the rails because the beasties seemed to be "showing" her things she pretty much knew were...

Gary Fry treads similar territory in Lurker that he visited in his fantastic Novel `The Conjuring House' also published by Dark Fuse. A move to the Moors, an imbalanced relationship and a missing child. Only this time it's a miscarriage. This novella also journeys into the realm of cosmic horror, though with its feet firmly planted down to earth.The author tricks you into believing you're simply following a plot, stitching together clues and trying to understand the importance of the backstory.

An ebook novella from DarkFuse , Lurker (2013) is a Lovecraftian story in the tradition of Ramsey Campbell; elegantly understated, intensely atmospheric and superbly horrific. Set in Whitby on the Yorkshire coast, the story follows Meg, a woman who has just moved into the area after suffering a tragic miscarriage. While her husband works long hours in the city, Meg is free to roam her new environs.And roam she does. Discovering the entrance to an abandoned mine, she unknowingly attracts the a...

What I did enjoy about this book was the very English feel, the raw northeast coastline which was a great setting for a somewhat disturbing tale involving Meg and Harry...escaping from the big city to a special little bolthole on the coast. As the story develops we learn that all is not well with Meg and Harry, they have a sadness from the past and Harry is keeping a secret into the future. If we add to this mix a frightening evil stretching back to the historical miners of the 19th century then...

Lurker is set on the North East coast of England near to Whitby, Meg and Harry have recently moved into a coastal cottage, more to escape the tragedy of losing their first baby than a holiday home, a fresh start for them both. Meg has given up her job to recover and Harry now has to add a substantial travel time onto his working day, often staying in the city after long days at work.Her trust wanes as she begins to suspect her husband is having an affair coupled with his selfish resentment that

Meg and Harry suffer the greatest loss of all and move to the countryside so Meg can try to recover. She struggles to keep her sanity as her loss haunts her and she starts experiencing strange phenomena. At first, she passes it off as neighborhood kids playing pranks and hallucinations but when she discovers a booklet in the library about the area, things start to fall into place for her. This is my second time to read a book by Gary Fry and he is quickly becoming a favorite author. He excels at...

Meg’s life has been rough lately. She suffered the loss of a child and is struggling to hold it together. Her husband is cheating on his corporate expense report and on Meg. Not a nice guy. Fortunately for Meg there is justice living in the old abandoned mine…Ok, maybe not justice, but there is an ancient evil creature that has risen and is going to take care of business. Is Meg’s mind playing tricks and her depression getting the best of her or is there really something deep in the mine that ha...

I love Gary Fry's novellas. They are the perfect length for this wonderful author to present his tale. Lurker had my attention first with that creepy cover and the story was equally creepy. Highly recommended.

Coming November 12th From Dark FuseThank you kindly to the author and Dark Fuse for the copy via netgalley.Meg and Harry have retreated to a remote cottage on the northeast coast of England to recuperate from the mental and physical stress of losing their baby. While exploring the ancient coastal landscape, Meg chances upon eighteenth-century quarry mines reclaimed by nature. But birds and butterflies aren’t all she finds.Oh my word. A short but incredibly creepy tale this, it actually did send

This is the story of Meg and Harry. Meg has had a breakdown following the loss of their baby. They have moved to the coast to get away from all the memories and to allow Meg to recuperate. Harry still commutes to work and often leaves Meg alone for extended periods of time. Things start to get creepy, and Meg begins to see things. Handprints on the house, bad nightmares and something lurking in the cliffs all play on Meg's fragile psyche.I liked this, but I didn't love it as much as others of Ga...

Meg and Harry have moved away from the city for a quieter life to try to deal with the death of their baby. Meg is left along most of the time as Harry must still commute to his city job to support them, something he constantly reminds her of.As she settles into her new surroundings she begins to explore the area around her cottage and comes across an abandoned mine, something about the mine unsettles her as well as strange sounds being heard at night and mysterious handprints appearing under he...

This novella has gathered such praise from my fellow horror aficionados, that it seems almost wrong to rate it low, but it didn't do a thing for me. I expected to like it, but it read so flatly, the language seemed mechanical like with some very odd word choices as if inserted at random by a prolific synonym finder. The main characters were neither likable nor sympathetic, trapped in a terrible marriage in a middle of nowhere, the husband takes to escaping into his work and the wife to escaping

This novella really packed a physchological punch!Meg and Harry move to the countryside after a devastating (to Meg, at any rate) loss. While Meg mentally battles to keep her depression at bay, events begin happening around her that she simply can not explain away. After exploring an old mine opening, she has the feeling that "something" just isn't quite right around her.Between dealing with her husband's increasingly condescending attitude towards her, a suspected affair, and research into the

Nobody can write about the psychological impact of fear better than Gary Fry. The fact that he has a PhD in psychology may account for a large portion of this skill, but his ability to turn out grab-you-at-the-throat fiction at the same time is probably due to whopping imagination that transcends his education.Lurker, the second work of his that I have read, is a prime example. This novella concerns a wife, Meg, and husband, Harry, still reeling from the loss of their baby. They’ve moved from th...