My sincerest thanks go out to the reviewers who supported Cunning Folk, not least Jim Moon at Hypnogoria, James Grainger of the Toronto Star, Paul Holmes and The Eloquent Page, Sadie ‘Mother Horror’ Hartmann and Ashley ‘Spookish Mommy’ of Nightworms, Janine Pipe and Cemetery Dance, Gavin Kendall, Steve Stred and Simon Paul Wilson at Kendall Reviews, Joe Scipioni at Horror Bound, Tony Jones at Gingernuts of Horror, Anthony Watson at Dark Musings, Michael Wilson, Bob Pastorella at This Is Horror, Janelle Janson at She Reads with Cats, Mers of Harpies in the Trees, Read by Dusk, Simon Avery, Marc’s World of Books and the many other generous and avid readers and reviewers of my horrors at Instagram and elsewhere online.

Finally, my thanks to all readers of The Vessel. The entire ritual of writing these horrors and publishing them would be futile without you. You all remain the most important people in the room.

Copyright

The Vessel

by Adam L. G. Nevill

Published by

Ritual Limited

Devon, England

MMXXII

© Adam L. G. Nevill

This Edition © Ritual Limited

Cover design by The Dead Good Design Company Limited

Cover artwork by Samuel Araya

eBook formatting and conversion by ebook launch

ISBN 978-1-7397886-2-9

About the Author

Adam L. G. Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is an author of horror fiction. Of his novels, The Ritual, Last Days, No One Gets Out Alive and The Reddening were all winners of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel. He has also published three collections of short stories, with Some Will Not Sleep winning the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection, 2017.

Imaginarium adapted The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive into feature films and more of his work is currently in development for the screen.

Books by Adam L. G. Nevill

Novels

Banquet for the Damned

Apartment 16

The Ritual

Last Days

House of Small Shadows

No One Gets Out Alive

Lost Girl

Under a Watchful Eye

The Reddening

Cunning Folk

The Vessel

Short Story Collections

Some Will Not Sleep

Hasty for the Dark

Wyrd and Other Derelictions

More Horror Fiction from Adam L. G. Nevill and Ritual Limited.

More Horror Fiction from Adam L. G. Nevill and Ritual Limited.

Available in print, audio and eBook at major book retailers.

Cunning Folk

No home is heaven with hell next door.

Money’s tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.