PAUL FAIRBAIRN
AUTHOR
SHADOWS AND DUST
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From the dark imagination of acclaimed novelist Paul Fairbairn, come these eighteen tales of modern horror, alienation and urban decay -- stories to make a stranger of sleep and reveal our deepest fears in a cold, dead light:
An artist's sculptures may be more than lifelike, but she saves the worst of them for her ex-lover.
The owner of a shock-site finds that there are worse things in the world than even he can imagine.
In the dead of night, a mysterious couple abduct a child. But for what chilling purpose?
The horrors of war are starkly revealed to a young interpreter on his first tour of duty in Vietnam.
In secluded mountains, a forgotten stone circle holds an ancient secret too hideous to be named, waiting to be unleashed.
These and many other horrors are writhing in the darkness, among the shadows and the dust that are our lives. Approach them with caution...if you dare.
DARK PLACES
Jim seeks redemption. Kate seeks answers. Science and the supernatural collide when fate brings them together. But sinister forces want Kate back…before her horrifying secret is revealed.
Ex-doctor Jim Carter almost kills Kate Marlowe in a terrible accident, but he's drawn to her immediately. Is it because she reminds him of his long-lost daughter? Or is it because she claims to be in terrible danger?
Kate's past is almost as mysterious to her as it is to Jim, but that doesn’t stop it from catching up with her, and when it does, it throws both of their lives into terrifying turmoil. There are immensely powerful forces at work who want her back – at any cost.
In this compelling thriller, Jim and Kate are pursued across Europe by a relentless and merciless hunter. Before this desperate chase is over, they must finally face the past, and come to terms with life and death, with love and loss.
And with Kate’s horrifying secret.
THE MYSTERIES
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If memories could kill, would you dare remember to save the one you love?
Before reinventing himself as an artist, Jack Nolan was a firefighter. In a tiny burning bedroom, he encountered something that changed his life and almost killed him. He’s spent the last four years trying to recover, and now, with his wife Helen working in Greece, the memories of that horrifying night have reawakened dormant terrors in him.
But things are not as they seem in Greece either. At a site cloaked in secrecy, Helen, an archaeologist, has unearthed relics of the ancient rites known only as The Mysteries. When Jack arrives there to meet her, she is nowhere to be found, and his life spirals into chaos as he scours the country for her.
Forgotten deities demand remembrance. But some secrets should be kept forever.
ECCO HOMO
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Life is what we make it.
Jan was a great artist from the very beginning. But nobody could have known just what she was capable of.
Paul doesn’t leave London in disgrace exactly, though if he stays he’ll probably end up dead. So he returns to his home town, where he finds that much has changed. He also finds his way back to Jan, his first true love, and while she seems unchanged by time, their unspoken history – and the secret at its centre – threatens to tear both of them apart.
Paul Fairbairn’s off-kilter love story is a contemporary psychological thriller with its heart in the grand Gothic tradition. According to the author, about three-quarters of this tale are true – but he refuses to say which.
THE BOOKS