The Dark

The Dark by Amanda Mason is out now (published October 8, 2026).

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The Dark

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The Dark Release Date: October 8, 2026

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‘Gripping and thoroughly eerie’ LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDY
‘Deliciously spinetingling’ ANNA MAZZOLA
‘The perfect ghostly web of claustrophobia and grief’ ESSIE FOX

A SPINETINGLING SEASIDE FOLK HORROR NOVEL, SET ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST AGAINST THE 1970s BLACKOUTS

When the lights go out
You can lose sight of what is real . . .

It is the 1970s. A young woman, Rosie, moves to a small remote seaside village, readying to welcome her first child. But with her partner working away on an oil rig, the house isn’t the sanctuary she’d hoped for – the situation made worse by the regular blackouts due to the ongoing miners’ strikes. And the villagers seem friendly enough, but some of them are taking an uncomfortably close interest in her pregnancy.

Before long, Rosie notices strange noises and unexplained shadows in the corners of the cottage. As her birth date moves closer and the blackouts intensify, her isolation begins to consume her until she feels that she is losing her grip on reality.

But Rosie isn’t the only one in the village who has cause to fear the dark . . .

‘No one writes the supernatural quite like Amanda Mason. In The Dark the hauntings are visceral, underpinned by folklore, an evocative setting and a beautifully observed cast of characters’ JESS KIDD, author of Little Spark and Things in Jars

‘Hugely atmospheric – I absolutely loved it’ ALISON LITTLEWOOD, author of The Hidden People

‘I couldn’t put it down’ ALLY WILKES author of All the White Space

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Genre: Horror

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