Titan Books Ltd

The Pale House Devil - Richard Kadrey

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives?one dead, one living?hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross and Lucy A. Snyder.Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries?one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires them on behalf of wealthy landowner, Shepherd Mansfield, to track and kill a demon haunting a mansion in remote northern California. As Ford and Neuland investigate the creature they uncover a legacy of blood, sacrifice and slavery in the house. Forced to confront a powerful creature unlike anything they?ve faced before, they come to learn that the most frightening monster might not be the one they''re hunting...

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