Beyond City Limits...

there are no eyeless, crawling things in this town, no vampire slumbers unseen behind the rusting rails of the city necropolis.

Here are only car parks, and nightclubs, and taxi cabs. The pavements are bright and thronging, people laugh and telephones ring.

But there is another world within the city, where reality may suddenly skip a heartbeat, where for a moment there is no recognition of the face in the mirror.

For in the very ordinariness of the city there lurks its biggest terror...

Christopher Fowleris the author of more than forty novels (fifteen of which feature the detectives Bryant and May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit) and short story collections. The recipient of many awards, including the coveted CWA Dagger in the Library, Chris has also written screenplays, video games, graphic novels, audio plays and two critically acclaimed memoirs,PaperboyandFilm Freak. His most recent book isThe Book of Forgotten Authors, drawn from his Invisible Ink columns in theIndependent on Sunday.Chris divides his time between London's Kings Cross and Barcelona. You can find out more by visiting his website and following him on Twitter.