A stylishly sick new voice in children's Gothic horror

WARNING: NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED!

Welcome to the very damp and woeful world of Tumblewater, home to a creepy collection of depraved characters. Meet a young boy punished most appallingly for picking his nose; a pair of devilish bakers with murderous intentions in their buns; and a dentist whose strange, colour-changing eyes belie his perfectly gleaming smile . . .

Horrifying tales for good children and fair warning for bad!

Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater as a young enthusiastic medical student. But the school is deserted building, his money is swindled from him, and he's framed for a crime. Desperate, scared and hungry, he agrees to help collect together a volume of local stories for a back-alley publisher. One by one, he hunts down the tellers of these grisly tales and records their words, but it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...

Stunningly presented with the most exquisitely bleak illustrations and positively dripping with the blackest of black humour, Grisly Tales from Tumblewater will delight fans of Neil Gaiman, Tim Burton and Roald Dahl.

Bruno Vincent worked as a bookseller and book editor before he became an author. He has co-author of the hugely successful "Do Ants have Arseholes?" and "Do Bats have Bollocks?" This is his first children’s book. His favourite horror stories are "The Signalman", "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Sandman: A Game of You". Bruno grew up in the countryside and now lives in a rainy city, where he hugs the shadows.