Medi-Evil 3

In Victorian London, two robbers attack an old and mysterious theatre … a snowy Jacobean Christmas is marred by a series of bloodthirsty slayings … big-game hunters join forces to capture the leaping demon known as ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’ … crusading knights are stalked across the desert by an elemental force … intruders in an ancient barrow awaken an awesome, unstoppable entity.Five more stories of historical horror, fantasy and suspense by the two-times winner of the British Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award.The GaffWhen Bobber and Ketch, two vicious Victorian criminals, opt to rob the London ‘gaff’ of the weird Professor Feltencaft, they encounter more horror than they could ever have imagined.To Walk On Thorny PathsOn the eve of the ‘Bloodless Revolution’, political rivals are marooned together in a snowbound mansion. Soon they are dying one by one, as a nameless, non-human assailant begins to stalk them.A Plague On Both Your HousesColonel Thorpe is the deadliest shot in the British Empire. There isn’t an animal alive he hasn’t hunted. But even Thorpe is bemused when a young officer recruits him to track down Victorian London’s infamous leaping madman, ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’.The DestroyersAfter the destruction of Jerusalem in 1099, a band of crusaders crosses the desert in search of the Garden of Eden. Vengeance-seeking Saracens pursue them, along with something else – an indestructible monstrosity formed from the very elements of the Earth.ColossusWhen their cannonball tears into a grassy mound, a Napoleonic gun-crew realise they have opened an ancient barrow. A wealth of treasure and artworks await them inside, but so does a mysterious guardian, who will stop at nothing to protect the secret hoard.