House of Small Shadows (40 page)

Many thanks to my readers, Hugh Simmons, Clive Nevill, Anne Parry, and the late James Marriott, my editors Bella Pagan and Julie Crisp, Louise Buckley, Sophie Portas in publicity, and my agent
John Jarrold.

It would be ungrateful and inappropriate to not thank the writers, critics, publications and websites who have supported me and my books with some of the kindest words a writer could ever wish
to read. So my bony hands rise in salute to Gary McMahon, Eleanor Wixon, Simon Bestwick, Ramsey Campbell, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Stephen Volk, Johnny Mains, Sarah Pinborough, Reggie Oliver,
Joseph Delacey, Mathew Riley, Bill Hussey, Stephen Deas, Peter Mark May, Shaun Hamilton, Michael Wilson and This is Horror, Simon Marshall Jones, Ginger Nuts of Horror, Black Abyss, Jonathan
Oliver, Professor Danel Olson,
Rue Morgue
,
SFX
,
Wormwood
,
Black Static
, Eric Brown and the
Guardian,
Forbidden Planet London and Birmingham, Alt
Fiction, and The British Fantasy Society. Much thanks also to Facebook, for providing a medium for writers to meet their readers, their peers across the seas, and all those enthusiastic about
horror. Never has the world been so accessible without having to move.

Above all, to my readers, I thank you for your time and your patronage.

Adam Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the supernatural horror novels
Banquet for the Damned,
Apartment 16, The Ritual
,
Last Days,
and
House of Small Shadows
. He lives in Birmingham and can be contacted through www.adamlgnevill.com

By Adam Nevill

Banquet for the Damned

Apartment 16

The Ritual

Last Days

House of Small Shadows

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