FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2022 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR BEST HORROR
Summer, 1868. London's West End buzzes with a chaotic blend of affluence and moral decay, a place where high society and underworld meet. A valuable box from Transylvania, sealed tight, falls into unscrupulous hands. Its opening releases a vampyr, a wraith-like parasite that hides inside a host - whether young or old, man or woman - and thirsts for human blood.
For those who live and work around Holmwood's music hall, just off The Strand, the vampyr's arrival begins a nightmare of betrayal and death, and a race to return the creature to the grave before others of its kind come to pick the city clean.
The Eater Of Flies leaves traditional vampiric lore behind, offering a chilling Victorian gothic tale laced with crime, pitch-dark humour and, above all, rampant greed: for money, for power ... for blood.
PRAISE FOR RICHARD GADZ
'Gadz's depiction of Victorian London ... breathes with the life of the people who live in it' -Phantasmagoria Magazine
'There's such a fine line between writing a horrible character and making a character horrible to read. Gadz does this incredibly well.' -Horror Bound
'Gadz nails the Gothic sensibility' -Books, Bones, & Buffy
'Don't read this while eating' -Genevieve Jenner, author of Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives