Christopher Fowler 
Bureau of Lost Souls 
Short Stories

A collection of twelve darkly disturbing, twisted stories from the author of Roofworld, Spanky and the acclaimed Bryant and May novels. But don’t expect to read about vampires, werewolves, or ghouls or ghosts, or dolls coming to life or brain-eating zombies. And as for lake-dwelling demons, malevolent spirits, misogynistic slashers or children locked in attics, you can forget them…Instead, here you have twelve stories of desperate people in seemingly ordinary situations – workers in offices, friends in pubs, husbands and wives in apartments and houses. All of them the most unlikely – and therefore the most likely – to find themselves trapped within their own personal, private, unimaginable, nerve-fracturing, bizarre and yes, deadly visions of Hell…