A COLLECTION by James Cooper
CATEGORY Horror
PUBLICATION DATE  September 2026
COVER ART  Ben Baldwin
PAGES 330
EDITION Trade Paperback
ISBN  978-1-80394-610-8

Strip the world of its colour and only horror exists . . .

When you run out of road, all that remains is to journey into the dark . . .

What you might find there is anyone’s guess. For a world without light is shadowy, uncertain, a nightmarish examination of the soul.

Dig deep and you might see members of an arctic research station spiralling out of control; an ageing astronaut finally revealing the true nature of the moon; an exorcist’s assistant attempting to reconcile his faith; and the pressures driving a normal working man to the very rim of sanity and beyond.

Take a trip into the curious universe of James Cooper’s Solitary Creatures and you will sift through the ashes of 18 devastating new tales, each one designed to distort  your accepted perspective of the world.

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“James Cooper’s dark imagination is a given, but what always draws me to his stories are his characters. Real and human and often strange, they live in that curious hinterland just on the other side of the printed page, and they linger with you long after you close the covers of his books. Don't miss them.”     —Norman Partridge, author of Dark Harvest

CONTENTS

• ONLY SCREAM AT THE END
• MOON MEN
• NOTHING SPECIAL
• IF, WHEN, NEVER
• SICK PUPPY
• PORTABLE TYPEWRITER, BARELY USED
• THE EXORCIST’S ASSISTANT
• HAPPY BUNNY
• THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK
• THE GADABOUT
• WHAT WE LET FALL
• SWEET MOTHER
• THE KILLING OF AN ORDINARY MAN
• CONTINUE FROM THE BEGINNING
• THE BUTLER
• YOUR TERROR IS A SOURCE OF COMFORT
• THE DERANGEMENTS
• ONE LAST STORY