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F.G. Cottam is the award-winning novelist responsible for eleven paranormally themed thrillers including The House of Lost Souls, The Lazarus Prophecy and The Waiting Room.
His stories are atmospheric, imbued with a gathering sense of dread and made convincing by a detailed knowledge of history and folkloric myth. His books have been translated into 16 languages and his most recently completed project is his Colony trilogy, inspired by the present-day repercussions of an occult curse inflicted in revenge by a dying sorcerer.
F.G. Cottam was born and brought up in Southport in Lancashire, attending the University of Kent at Canterbury where he took a degree in history before embarking on a career in journalism in London. He now lives in Kingston upon Thames and his fiction is thought up over daily runs along the towpath between Kingston and Hampton Court Bridges.
ALSO BY F.G. COTTAM
Dark Resurrection: A Colony Novel
The Going and the Rise
An Absence of Natural Light
The Lazarus Prophecy
The Summoning
The Memory of Trees
The Colony
Brodmaw Bay
The Waiting Room
The Magdalena Curse
Dark Echo
The House of Lost Souls
This edition published in 2016 by Ipso Books
Ipso Books is a division of Peters Fraser + Dunlop Ltd
Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, London WC2B 5HA
The Colony Copyright © F.G. Cottam, 2012
Dark Resurrection Copyright © F.G. Cottam, 2015
Harvest of Scorn Copyright © F.G. Cottam, 2016
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Contents
The Colony
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Epilogue
Dark Resurrection
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Epilogue
Harvest of Scorn
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
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