The Irk (A Manchester Folk Horror Novel)

Manchester buried the River Irk more than a century ago. It still runs beneath Victoria Station, through brick darkness the city chose to forget.

In 1964, Arthur Bell walked into the railway social club beneath the station for his eighteenth birthday and was never seen again. Now Callum Reed, eighteen years old and newly signed to the railway, has vanished within sight of the same station. When the river gives him back, the pathology is wrong, and in his pocket is a social club token that went out of circulation before his mother was born.

DI Helen Carver does not believe in stories. But every ordinary explanation fails in turn, and the evidence keeps pointing down, into the buried river where the city has always sent the things it wanted forgotten.

A standalone Manchester crime-horror novel: a police procedural that refuses, piece by piece, to stay one. EPUB, DRM free, delivered instantly.