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<p>Seven tales to intrigue, entice, and unnerve. </p> <br> <p><i>Black Ice: collected stories</i> is a compendium of dark fantasy, magic realism and horror that blurs the boundaries between myth and reality, imagination and nightmare.</p> <br> <p>In <i>The Red Man</i>, an archaeological dig unearths a secret that should have stayed buried. <i>Black Ice</i> sees an Arctic trucker stranded at the mercy of an unforgiving nightmare, while <i>Glaistig of Glenmuir</i> and <i>The Night Shift</i> explore ancient tales of the Fae, brought unnervingly into the contemporary world.</p> <p><i>Ghost of a Kiss</i> and <i>Thirteen Maidens</i> explore the mysteries of place and local legends, from stone circles to the wildness of the Cornish coast and, in <i>Chiaroscuro</i>, an art history student's obsession with a painting changes his life in the most unimaginable of ways.</p>