Wildwood

📖 The Scoop

Welcome to the creepy, spine-tingling Immortal Tales – a series of dark, sexy fairy-tale retellings from the master of British contemporary gothic horror Sarah Rayne, perfect for fans of TERRI WINDLING, ANGELA CARTER, ANNE RICE, LAIRD BARRON and BROM.

“Rayne spins eerie yarns within yarns like a latter-day Isak Dinesen or Wilkie Collins” KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Equal parts Daphne du Maurier, Josephine Tey and Ruth Rendell . . . Rayne possesses superb story-telling skills” US MYSTERY GUILD

“Highly enjoyable mainstream horror fare from a genre veteran” BOOKLIST

“Rayne writes with panache and imagination” KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Rayne is a fine writer, a sure-handed plotter and skillful character builder” BOOKLIST

“Colorful characters and a mastery of slow-burning suspense” KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Rayne perfects the craft of deftly chosen details, simmering suspense and chilling surprises” KIRKUS REVIEWS
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A dark re-telling of the Little Red Riding Hood tale from critically-acclaimed British horror author Sarah Rayne: a single mother’s life takes a sinister turn after learning her late husband had a dark secret relating to an old legend originating from England’s wildwoods . . .

Professor Piers Adair is haunted by sinister memories of his childhood, eventually compelling him to search for a strange inhuman group of people whose macabre history is bound up with a centuries-old legend. He traces them to a remote Scottish island, but it’s only when the darkly charismatic leader leaves the island that Piers begins to realise he is being lured increasingly closer to the legend’s grisly heart . . .

In London, single mother Felicity Stafford is struggling to come to terms with the recent death of her husband, Connor – coping with his debts, and also with a chilling autopsy report: Connor’s blood fits no known human classification.

When a young man with the same dangerous charm as Con enters her life, Felicity and her young daughter become threatened by a past mysteriously entangled with an ancestral Derbyshire family who once guarded England’s forests from a fearsome enemy . . .

This lush, suspenseful fairy-tale retelling in the Immortal Tales series is the perfect read if you enjoy werewolf novels and gothic horror with twists and turns that will keep you up all night.


READERS ARE HOOKED ON THE IMMORTAL TALES:

“I am enjoying this series. If you have a taste for the gothic it's for you . . . Very atmospheric and entertaining” Suspense Fan, 5* Amazon review

“Sarah Rayne's writing is always beautiful. I want to read more stories by her” 5* Amazon review

“Another superb book from a superb writer” Julie B., 5* Amazon review

“An amazing read. Sarah Rayne keeps the reader in suspense until the very end” Amazon Customer, 5* Amazon review

“Holds you captive every step of the way . . . you won't be disappointed” B.B. Norman, 5* Amazon review

“If you like to be pleasurably frightened, then this is the book for you” Greg O'Rilla, 5* Amazon review

THE IMMORTAL TALES:
1. Thorn
2. Changeling
3. Wildwood

Genre: Fiction / Horror (fancy, right?)