Demon: The bone-chilling, addictive bestseller (Six Stories Book 6)
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Scott King investigates allegations of demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered by two young children. Book six in the spine-tingling, award-winning Six Stories series.
‘Matt’s books are fantastic’ Ian Rankin
‘An exceptional storyteller’ Andrew Michael Hurley
‘Matt Wesolowski is taking the crime novel to places it’s never been before’ Joseph Knox, author of True Crime Story
'A stunning new episode of the powerful Six Stories series. A masterful storyteller, Matt Wesolowski is my go-to writer for literary horror' C J Cooke, author of The Lighthouse Witches
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In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world.
Twelve-year-old Sidney Parsons was murdered by two boys his own age. No reason was ever given for this terrible crime, and the ‘Demonic Duo’ who killed him were imprisoned until their release in 2002, when they were given new identities and lifetime anonymity.
Elusive online journalist Scott King investigates the lead-up and aftermath of the killing, uncovering dark stories of demonic possession, and encountering a village torn apart by this unspeakable act.
And, as episodes of his Six Stories podcast begin to air, and King himself becomes a target of media scrutiny and public outrage, it becomes clear that whatever drove those two boys to kill is still there, lurking, and the campaign of horror has just begun...
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‘Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction’ Benjamin Myers
‘Matt’s real skill is in finding a deeply human story and twisting it with the paranormal, touching the reader and scaring the wits out of them’ Chris MacDonald
‘One of the most exciting and original voices in crime fiction’ Alex North
‘A wonderful writer’ Chris Whitaker
‘I’ll be rereading these books forever’ Sublime Horror
‘The master of horror, of mixing folklore with urban myth and real life. Terrifyingly good’ Louise Beech
‘A taut and gripping tale that deftly skewers the perfect balance of crime, thriller and horror. Intriguing, disturbing and impeccably crafted – I was riveted from the first page’ Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Dead Relatives
Praise for the Six Stories series:
**Longlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year**
**Winner of the Capital Crime Best Independent Voice Award**
’A captivating, genre-defying book with hypnotic storytelling’ Rosamund Lupton
‘Original, inventive and dazzlingly clever’ Fiona Cummins
‘Daisy Jones and the Six gone to the dark side. I couldn’t put it down’ Harriet Tyce
‘Bold, clever and genuinely chilling with a terrific twist’ Sunday Mirror
‘Insidiously terrifying, with possibly the creepiest woods since The Blair Witch Project’ C J Tudor
‘Frighteningly wonderful … one of the best books I’ve read in years’ Khurrum Rahman
‘Disturbing, compelling and atmospheric, it will terrify and enthral you in equal measure’ M W Craven
‘A dark, twisting rabbit hole of a novel. You won't be able to put it down' Francine Toon
‘First-class plotting’ S Magazine
‘A dazzling fictional mystery’ Foreword Reviews
‘Readers of Kathleen Barber’s Are You Sleeping and fans of Ruth Ware will enjoy this slim but compelling novel’ Booklist
For fans of Serial, The Conjuring, C J Tudor, Fiona Cummins, Sarah Pinborough and Catriona Ward
Matt Wesolowski
Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has been published in numerous UK- an US-based anthologies such as Midnight Movie Creature, Selfies from the End of the World, Cold Iron and many more. His novella, The Black Land, a horror story set on the Northumberland coast, was published in 2013. Matt was a winner of the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in 2015. His debut thriller, Six Stories, was a bestseller in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, and a WH Smith Fresh Talent pick, and TV rights were sold to a major Hollywood studio. A prequel, Hydra, was published in 2018 and became an international bestseller. Changeling, the third in the Six Stories series, will be published in 2019.
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Reviews for Demon
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have enjoyed every book in this series. I enjoy very few series and I think one of the strengths of this is that every book can also stand alone as well as the podcast format which allows us to discover the story along with the narrator.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5There are more twists, turns, creepy, emotional, sad, scary things about this book than you can imagine...checking all your boxes if you are a fan of horror and crime, and physiological thrillers. The story the author weaves is addictive and cleverly joined together by the end of the book. His skill at doing this is nothing short of phenomenal. There's a positive message in this book. It's asking people to check facts. To take a step back and think, before commenting on a situation they don't fully know about, no matter how tragic. We are all sometimes too quick to judge. With social media the way it is it's a platform to allow people to take the role of judge, jury and executioner. It's way too easy to join in and hate, We can all sometimes use a little more kindness and understanding. The book asks us to think about all the possibilities and angles before hitting that "Send" button. You will likely find yourself pondering the whole nature versus nurture debate, and who wouldn't? The author has made sure that this story is far from that simple.