But Hart and Bowler don’t know why they’re there in the first place, and if they ever want to leave, they will have to find all the answers in order to understand the physics of the dead: What are the strange, glowing objects that pass across the sky? Who are the living people surrounded by a blue glow? What are their physical limitations in that place, and have they fully explored the possibilities of what they can do?
Time is running out; their afterlife was never supposed to be this way, and if they don’t make it out soon, they’re destined to end up like the others.
Insane, and alone forever …
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
Also By Luke Smitherd:
IN THE DARKNESS, THAT’S WHERE I’LL KNOW YOU
What Is The Black Room?
There are hangovers, there are bad hangovers, and then there’s waking up someone else’s head. Thirty-something bartender Charlie Wilkes is faced with this exact dilemma when he wakes to find finds himself trapped inside The Black Room; a space consisting of impenetrable darkness and a huge, ethereal screen floating in its centre. Through this screen he is shown the world of his female host, Minnie.
How did he get there? What has happened to his life? And how can he exist inside the mind of a troubled, fragile, but beautiful woman with secrets of her own? Uncertain whether he’s even real or if he is just a figment of his host’s imagination, Charlie must enlist Minnie’s help if he is to find a way out of The Black Room, a place where even the light of the screen goes out every time Minnie closes her eyes…
Previously released in four parts as, “The Black Room” series, all four parts are combined in this edition. In The Darkness, That’s Where I’ll Know You starts with a bang and doesn’t let go. Each answer only leads to another mystery in a story guaranteed to keep the reader on the edge of their seat.
THE BLACK ROOM SERIES, FOUR SERIAL NOVELLAS THAT UNRAVEL THE PUZZLE PIECE BY PIECE, NOW AVAILABLE IN ONE COLLECTED EDITION:
IN THE DARKNESS, THAT’S WHERE I’LL KNOW YOU
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
Also By Luke Smitherd:
A HEAD FULL OF KNIVES
Martin Hogan is being watched all the time. He just doesn’t know it yet. It started a long time ago too, even before his wife died. Before he started walking every day.
Before the walks became an attempt to find a release from the whirlwind that his brain has become. He never walks alone, of course, although his 18-month old son and his faithful dog, Scoffer, aren’t the greatest conversationalists.
Then the walks become longer. Then the other dog starts showing up. The big white one, with the funny looking head. The one that sits and watches Martin and his family as they walk away.
All over the world, the first attacks begin. The Brotherhood of the Raid make their existence known; a leaderless group who randomly and inexplicably assault both strangers and loved ones without explanation.
Martin and the surviving members of his family are about to find that these events are connected. Caught at the center of the world as it changes beyond recognition, Martin will be faced with a series of impossible choices … but how can an ordinary and broken man figure out the unthinkable? What can he possibly do with a head full of knives?
Luke Smitherd (author of the Amazon bestseller THE STONE MAN and IN THE DARKNESS, THAT’S WHERE I’LL KNOW YOU) asks you once again to consider what you would do in his unusual and original novel. A HEAD FULL OF KNIVES is a supernatural mystery that will not only change the way you look at your pets forever, but will force you to decide the fate of the world when it lies in your hands.
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
Also By Luke Smitherd:
Do Anything:
Tales of the Unusual
In DO ANYTHING, Luke Smitherd brings you two more Tales Of The Unusual:
CLOSURE: A winter walk in the woods seemed like a great idea to Gary and his wife, Carla. Until a duplicate Gary appears and kidnaps Carla, vanishing with her into thin air. Could the strange mechanical devices Gary’s duplicate leaves behind hold the answer?
YOUR NAME IS IN THE BOOK: When John was eleven years old, he came home to find a book he’d never seen before lying on his bed; one full of names, some belonging to people he knew, each with a single number behind them. That was John’s first glimpse into a darker reality than he could have ever imagined, and that mysterious book would go on to affect every facet of the rest of his life. And potentially, his death …
Available now in the Amazon Kindle Store
Also By Luke Smitherd:
He Waits – A Book of Strange and Disturbing Horror
Praise for HE WAITS:
“In the horror genre, familiarity absolutely does breed contempt, and Smitherd obviously knows this. Why else would he be so talented at expertly crafting stories that defy expectations? For me there is no greater joy than seeing an artist excel at his craft.” - Aintitcoolnews.com
In HE WAITS, Luke Smitherd brings you two more Tales Of The Unusual …
Quite literally, no escape. Because he’s always with you. And in the real world - the world of you, the reader - HE WAITS will stay in your mind in a way that you won’t expect …
PLUS THE SECOND STORY, ‘KEEP YOUR CHILDREN CLOSE’:
A campsite. A family holiday. A broken down car. And an approaching breakdown truck that is just the start of Shelley’s nightmare. By the time the sun sets, someone in that field will be dead, and Shelley must somehow make sure it isn’t one of her children … KEEP YOUR CHILDREN CLOSE is a story that you will find impossible to predict.
Available now in the Amazon Kindle Store
Also By Luke Smitherd:
How to be a Vigilante: A Diary
In the late 1990s, a laptop was found in a service station just outside of Manchester. It contained a digital journal entitled ‘TO THE FINDER: OPEN NOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!’ Now, for the first time, that infamous diary is being published in its entirety.
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It’s 1998. The internet age is still in its infancy. Google has just been founded.
Eighteen-year-old supermarket shelf-stacker Nigel Carmelite has decided that he’s going to become a vigilante.
There are a few problems: how is he going to even find crime to fight on the streets of Derbyshire? How will he create a superhero costume - and an arsenal of crime-fighting weaponry - on a shoestring budget? And will his history of blackouts and crippling social inadequacy affect his chances?
This is Nigel’s account of his journey; part diary, part deluded self-help manual, tragically comic and slowly descending into what is arguably Luke Smitherd’s darkest and most violent novel.
What do you believe in? And more importantly …should you?
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
Acknowledgements
At the time of writing, the following people wrote a nice Amazon or Audible (.com or co.uk) review of How To Be A Vigilante: A Diary. Thank you so, so much. As someone still fairly unknown in the book writing game, those reviews mean everything. I’m only using the names you put on your reviews, as these will be ones you’re happy to have associated with my work… I hope:
451, A. D. Hall, , Adams Family, AgirlWaiting, Amazon Customer, Angel Colin, Angela Wallis, Anne, Bakerstreet, Barbra, Beet Nixon, BigDog, bladerunner, Blanchepadgett, Bodornic, BoneyD, booknerdsbraindump, Booky Lorra, BSM, CaryLory, Cheryl, chrisbobs, CJ, ClaireyClaireyclaire, Cliffnook2000, ConMar62, Crippsy, DaveC, David Plank, DavidAllan, drac, Drew, Elliot Brown, Emma Shawcross, G. Parlee, Ged Byrne, Gex, Gilaine, Glen Gilchrist, helen, Henry, I. Burke, James Liston, Jamie Greenwood, Jan Fisher Sylvester, Janice Clark, Jason goldsmid, Jason Jones, Jayg324, jek, Je
remy A. Smith, Jinny, JoanneG, Jon Perry, Jonny Barr, Julie Blaskie, K. Edwin Fritz, Kelly Howard, Kelly Jobes, Kelly Johnson, Kelly Rickard, Kelly Woodward, L Durden, Lorna, Louise Smith, M. Iddon, Mark Say, Megan Hodgkins, Metalhead, Michael Bigwood, Michelle Kennedy, Miss S.A. Munn, Mr Lee Hopkins, Mr Matt Norgrove, Mr R.A. Dennis, Mr. C. F. Gilbert, Mrs Hill, Mrs Kindle, Nita V. Jester-Frantz, P W R Wilcox, P. Conde, Pamela Goodlad, Pammarshall04, PAUL DENNIS, Paul Hopkinson, Paul Korhonen, Pixel, R. GILL, Rachel Jane, Rebekah Jones, Robert S. Kaplan, Rosalie Jenifer James, Sarah H, SciFiFan, Silversmith, Simon, simon211175, Sir Lister, Steph in Nottingham, Stephen, Steve Blencowe, Steven, stu_999, Sue Phillips, swebby, Tamsin White, tejadab, TerryF, The Fro, Tino1440, TonyM, trev, Troy Linehan, Uncle Lou, UnionJack, Valkyrie
Patreon Posse:
Michelle McDonald, Mike Hands, Patricia Mussone, Frank Larocca, Sherry Diehr, Dean Bones, Michelle Kennedy, Rob Dennis, Marty Brastow, Steve Blencowe, Becky Brock, Glenn Curtis, Pete Hughes, K. Edwin Fritz, Kathy Logan, James Phoenix, Barbra Smerz, Richard Carnes, Jeremy Smith, and Barbara Haynes
Sincere thanks to Sophie, Henna, and Laurence at Audible for giving me my first big break. It won’t ever be forgotten.
Current list of Smithereens with Titles (see afterword on how to get yours):
Emil: King of the Macedonian Smithereens; Neil Novita: Chief Smithereen of Brooklyn; Jay McTyier: Derby City Smithereen; Ashfaq Jilani: Nawab of the South East London Smithereens; Jason Jones: Archduke of lower Alabama; Betty Morgan: President of Massachusetts Smithereens; Malinda Quartel Qoupe: Queen of the Sandbox (Saudi Arabia); Marty Brastow: Grand Poobah of the LA Smithereens; John Osmond: Captain Toronto; Nita Jester Franz: Goddess of the Olympian Smithereens; Angie Hackett: Keeper of Du; Colleen Cassidy: The Tax Queen Smithereen; Jo Cranford: The Cajun Queen Smithereen; Gary Johnayak: Captain of the Yellow Smithereen; Matt Bryant: the High Lord Dominator of South Southeast San Jose; Rich Gill: Chief Executive Smithereen - Plymouth Branch; Sheryl: Shish the Completely Sane Cat Lady of Silver Lake; Charlie Gold: Smithereen In Chief Of Barnet; Gord Parlee: Prime Transcendent Smithereen, Vancouver Island Division; Erik Hundstad: King Smithereen of Norway(a greedy title but I’ve allowed it this once); Sarah Hirst: Official Smithereen Knitter of Nottingham; Christine Jones: Molehunter Smithereen Extraordinaire, and Marcie Carole Spencer: Princess Smithereen of Elmet.
Table of Contents
Novellas
The Man On Table Ten
What Is The Black Room?
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
A HEAD FULL OF KNIVES
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
Do Anything:
Tales of the Unusual
Available now in the Amazon Kindle Store
He Waits – A Book of Strange and Disturbing Horror
Available in both paperback and Kindle formats on Amazon and as an audiobook on Audible.
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