The Beast You Are: Stories

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Three young men, part of an alleged ‘cult’, were convicted of this terrible crime, which they described as a ‘prank gone wrong’. But this isn’t a simple re-tread of an old tale – it’s an entirely modern slice of malicious mythology. Beast is a story of hidden truths, of secrets, of labels and masks and more than anything, of the most horrific manipulation and Matt Wesolowski once again manages to prove that the monsters we all fear are sadly very much real.

In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. It sounds impossible but for all its horrors, there is little that is lurid about the writing in Pity the Beast. Her country is never merely the backdrop for human dramas but a living, breathing entity, alive with the poetry of mules and skittering stone.That Elizabeth’s killers murdered her at least in part due to jealousy (the other reason being that one of them believed her to be a vampire).

Each ominous offering leads you on a compelling journey down dark paths and through stormy waters with a palpable sense of creeping unease that courses through the pages. But the questions that King wants to discover is why they killed her, and if possible, the men’s differing levels of culpability. Legend has it this vampire is female and originally from Siberia, so with the ‘Beast from the East’ snow storms and everything it’s not that difficult to imagine that the Ergarth vampire is back with a vengeance.Because the sheer brilliance of each experience with this series is something that nobody should miss out on.