Awards

• Short-listed for Readers Choice Book Awards 2025 (United States)

Overview

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2022 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HORROR Summer, 1868. London's West End buzzes with a chaotic blend of affluence and moral decay, a place where high society and underworld meet. A valuable box from Transylvania, sealed tight, falls into unscrupulous hands. Its opening releases a vampyr, a wraith-like parasite that hides inside a host – whether young or old, man or woman – and thirsts for human blood. For those who live and work around Holmwood's music hall, just off The Strand, the vampyr's arrival begins a nightmare of betrayal and death, and a race to return the creature to the grave before others of its kind come to pick the city clean. The Eater Of Flies leaves traditional vampiric lore behind, offering a chilling Victorian gothic tale laced with crime, pitch-dark humour and, above all, rampant greed: for money, for power … for blood.

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9781917090032

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PRAISE FOR RICHARD GADZ 'Gadz's depiction of Victorian London ... breathes with the life of the people who live in it' -Phantasmagoria Magazine 'There's such a fine line between writing a horrible character and making a character horrible to read. Gadz does this incredibly well.' -Horror Bound 'Gadz nails the Gothic sensibility' -Books, Bones, & Buffy 'Don't read this while eating' -Genevieve Jenner, author of Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives

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Richard Gadz was bolted together many centuries ago, in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Carpathian mountains. Following a series of bizarre adventures he now lives in the UK, at Keynsham in Bristol, although he spends most of his time in a world of his own. He’s the author of the award-winning gothic chiller The Workshop of Filthy Creation, the highly acclaimed cosmic horror/urban crime novel The Burn Street Haunting, and, under his real name Simon Cheshire, the contemporary horror novel Flesh & Blood.

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