Scuttler's Cove: A chilling, unputdownable folk horror thriller

by David Barnett

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The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives…

Scuttler’s Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries… until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich.

Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by second-homers and rental companies, and the locals can barely afford to live in their own town.

It is a very different place for Merrin Moon, who left for university at the age of eighteen and never looked back. Now in her thirties, she returns to the Cove for the first time since, after the death of her mother.

She soon discovers that there are forces at play in the village that she could never have imagined. Is someone trying to drive out the second homers? And has their arrival started a chain of events none of them will be able to stop?

For something old and terrible is awakening beneath the town’s hallowed ground. And with it comes a horror that the residents have fought for generations to keep a secret.

A dark and mysterious folk horror of the sea, and a timely exploration of the displacement of our modern moment, with a twist that will leave you reeling.

  • ISBN13 9781804367537
  • Publish Date 13 February 2025
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Canelo
  • Imprint Canelo Horror
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 368
  • Language English