Dark British crime & horror.
The DCI Toni Holden series
Liverpool police procedurals. The evidence never lies. The story built on it can.
A Common Source
Four women dead along the North Docks, one man's DNA at every scene, and a fifth killing committed while he sits in a police cell.
The Cold Chain
She vanished a year ago. Her body looks days old, arranged in her own bed, in a house kept too warm for the dead.
The dark shelf
Folk horror and worse, set in the real Britain: a Welsh valley, a buried river, a hospital ward.
Tŷ Brân
He followed a dating-app match to a cottage at the end of a dead-end track. The more he loves her, the less the world remembers he ever existed.
The Irk
Eighteen-year-olds are vanishing beside Victoria Station, sixty years apart. The evidence points below, to the river the city built over.
Ward C
She woke with NO VISITORS above her bed and no record she was ever admitted. Patients who ask questions are Resolved. Externally.
About
Medlock Holts publishes dark British fiction: folk horror and crime. No gloss, no comfort: real landscapes, ordinary lives, and something very wrong underneath.
Christopher Kennedy writes under the Medlock Holts imprint. A British Army veteran and lifelong army brat, he grew up on postings around the world before studying at the University of Salford. An early retirement, forced by a back injury, returned him to a first love he had never really put down: dark fiction, the bleaker the better. He lives in Lees, near Oldham.
Get The Last Bus to Sholver
Six dark stories from the North: a school wall in Werneth that remembers every name, a mill whose night shift never clocked off, and the last bus to Sholver, bound for a version of Oldham demolished decades ago. Around 94,000 words, free. You'll also get Dispatches from the Dark, about once a month. No spam.
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