Before You Sleep

Before You Sleep gathers three horror stories drawn from Adam Nevill’s first short-story collection, SOME WILL NOT SLEEP. The book includes two ghost stories and a tale of ancestral demoniac horror, each built around nightmarish visions and ghastly spectres that disturb sleep. Settings and images recur: a big white house on the hill where angels are said to appear, a house whose children have left but whose toys remain, and the home of a first-time buyer slowly occupied by a confused and vengeful presence. Together the pieces introduce the kinds of hauntings and uncanny events that populate Nevill’s early work.