All the Fiends of Hell

A night of red sky and ringing bells brings catastrophe on a biblical scale to Britain. Within hours the infrastructure and the society that ran the country are gone, and the survivors are left with two options: hide, or try to outrun the infernal creatures that now hunt across the land.

Karl is an ordinary man with no particular direction in life, and he is one of the few who live through that first night. He sets out south with two orphans in his care, following a rumor that the sea may offer a way out.

What he finds on the road is worse than what he left behind, and the world around him keeps changing into something he does not recognise. The creatures are not a fixed threat. Their numbers and their kinds grow.

Karl also has to deal with human malevolence as well as the monstrous kind. Reaching the coast means going to the very end of the country, and to the end of his own endurance. He is pushed into actions that would have been unthinkable a few days earlier.

This is apocalyptic horror, told from the point of view of a reluctant survivor on the run. It is bleak and relentless in tone, with the dread of a land gone hostile and the constant pressure of pursuit.