Tales of Crow Series

For Jun Matsumoto, a school trip to the remote study camp of British Heights is hardly his idea of a good time. Akane, the love of his life, hates him, and he's rooming with Ogiwara, the school bully.   Things get even worse when a dose of bad Christmas turkey makes most of the students sick, and suddenly Jun and a handful of others are left cut off from civilization as the snow closes in. Pretty soon the power has gone off, and a strange, birdlike creature begins terrorizing the guests.   If Jun thought the school trip could get no worse, he'd be wrong. As the students group together with the other remaining guests, suddenly their understanding of danger turns on its head.   There are creatures out in the woods, and they're hungry for human flesh…   The Eyes in the Dark is the first in a new series from Chris Ward, the acclaimed author of the Tube Riders Series

A penny for your thoughts, sire…. Twenty years ago, after thwarting an invasion that threatened to engulf the whole of Europe, the enigmatic but deadly Professor Crow limped away from a remote Siberian town and disappeared. Now he is back, reappearing in Britain in 2034, where the mysterious Maxim Cale is making a bid for control of a country in turmoil. In the quiet Somerset town of Cheddar, teenager Patrick Devan is looking for his missing brother, Race, while his girlfriend, Suzanne, is in great danger after her own father's abrupt disappearance. As Patrick and Suzanne flee the brutal Department of Civil Affairs, Professor Crow sets his plans in action. But when their paths cross, there will be no escape, as the unpredictable master of robots plans to wreak havoc on the world one last time…. The Dark Master of Dogs is the final book in Chris Ward's enthralling Tales of Crow series, a blend of dark fantasy, dystopia, and science fiction which fuses into the world of Chris Ward's critically acclaimed Tube Riders. THE COMPLETE TALES OF CROW SERIES: 1 - The Eyes in the Dark 2 - The Castle of Nightmares 3 - The Puppeteer King 4 - The Circus of Machinations 5 - The Dark Master of Dogs ALL BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW

A group of stranded tourists, a missing billionaire, and a dead woman in the woods, killed by some kind of giant bird. As lights blink on and off in the seemingly deserted Heigel Castle, it appears that Professor Crow is back ... Seven years after the tragic events at British Heights, Jun Matsumoto is now lead singer for Plastic Black Butterfly as they tour across Europe. Their shows bring them to the quiet Romanian town of Heigel, where a series of brutal animal killings have been followed up by the murder of an old local woman. The clues point to Jun's old nemesis, Professor Crow. Despite the danger, Jun is unable to resist the chance to take revenge on the man who left so many of his friends dead. However, Professor Crow has his own scores to settle ... The Castle of Nightmares is the second in Chris Ward's Tales of Crow series, following on from The Eyes in the Dark, and continued by The Puppeteer King and The Circus of Machinations.

Once-human monsters, giant robot spiders, human statues and a madman with a thirst for destruction … Professor Kurou is back and more dangerous than ever. After five years of incarceration, Jun Matsumoto is released from a mental hospital. With his hatred for Professor Kurou still consuming him, he enlists the help of some old friends and tracks his nemesis to Barcelona, where he hopes to rescue Ken Okamoto's missing daughter, Nozomi. Kurou, however, has a masterplan that will not only destroy one of the greatest landmarks in mankind's history, but bring war to an entire nation. Jun must battle not only ghosts from his past and his own failing mind, but a man who is now the undisputed Puppeteer King…

War is coming against an unknown enemy. For five long years, Professor Kurou has been in hiding, a wraith haunting the streets of the remote Siberian mining town of Brevik. Victor Mishin is a small-town inventor who needs help. An unstoppable, inhuman army is approaching the town, and the townsfolk face total annihilation at the hands of an evil even greater than the one than walks among them. For at the head of the army is a man who will stop at nothing to see Professor Kurou dead.

TALES OF CROW - THE COMPLETE SERIES VOLUMES 1-5 AVAILABLE TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME. #1- The Eyes in the Dark #2 - The Castle of Nightmares #3 - The Puppeteer King #4 - The Circus of Machinations #5 - The Dark Master of Dogs From a mountainous study camp in Japan, through the wilds of Romania, the political upheaval of Barcelona, the bleakness of a Siberian ghost town, and finally into a near-future Britain at the beginning of a nightmare ... one man has been at the centre of it all. If indeed you could even call him a man... Dark genius of robotics and genetic engineering, megalomaniac and callous prankster, Tales of Crow follows the rise of Professor Kurou from an orphaned nobody to someone capable of making and breaking countries, and then charts his dramatic fall. From Chris Ward, acclaimed author of the Tube Riders series, Tales of Crow is an adventure unlike any other, a tour de force blend of dystopia, black humour and horror. A penny for your thoughts, sire, the Crow is coming ....