Secret Lives of the Dead

Name: Secret Lives of the Dead
Author: Tim Lebbon
ISBN: 9781835413555

by Tim Lebbon

336 pages2025Titan Books LimitedISBN 9781835413555

Mystery

About this book

A dark folk horror tale of a deadly family curse, crime and murder that is sure to turn your blood cold, from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Netflix’s The Silence. When Jodi, BB and Matt decide to burgle a derelict country home as a thrilling dare, they become embroiled in a twisted legacy of supernatural terror. There are rumours of a bizarre curse hanging over the hoard of antiques and jewellery within the house. And unbeknownst to the others, one member of the trio has darker motives for breaking into the property. Lem is a brutal man obsessed with a gruesome family legend. He is determined to right the wrongs of the past and lift the curse placed on his bloodline. By completing the work of his father and bringing a bizarre selection of scattered relics back together, he hopes to be free of the malign influence that has hounded every generation of his family for two centuries. Across a single day a deadly pursuit will culminate on the desolate, storm-swept Crow Island, and those involved are given cause to wonder… can believing in a curse deeply enough bring its own bad luck?

Publication Details

Publisher: Titan Books Limited
Published: 2025
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781835413555
Language: en

About Tim Lebbon

Tim Lebbon is a talented, highly-respected author, and the winner of the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2006) for Dusk (Bantam Spectra, 2006), the first of his “Noreela” fantasy saga. It was followed with the release of Dawn (Bantam Spectra, 2007), and 2008 sees the publication of Fallen. Mr. Lebbon is the co-author with Christopher Golden of the novel Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (Cemetery Dance: May 2008; Bantam Spectra, May 2008). He also wrote Hellboy: Unnatural Selection (Pocket Books, 2006), and The Everlasting (Necessary Evil Press, March 2007; Leisure Books, May 2007). Mr. Lebbon is also the author of The New York Times-best-selling novelization of the terrifying horror movie 30 Days of Night (Pocket Star, 2007), which is on the short-list for a “Best Novel (Adapted)” Scribe Award in the category of “Speculative Fiction”. The Second Annual Scribe Awards is presented by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, which acknowledges and celebrates excellence in licensed tie-in writing, and will be presented at the San Diego ComicCon in July of this year. Several of his novels and novellas are currently in development as movies.