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Stay gathers together 100,000 words of reviews, plus short fiction by John Clute, and was originally published to coincide with Loncon3 (the 2014 World Science Fiction Convention) at which he was one of the Guests of Honour.

Also included is a complete reprint of the text of The Darkening Garden.

Poke Tohola, a Seminole Indian, is on to a smart racket. His formula is that fear is the key that unlocks the wallets and handbags of the rich. But Chuck, a cop-killer at 18, and Meg, beddable but dumb, don’t work to formula. The three of them turn Paradise City into Panic City. Then Detective Tom Lepski lumbers in …

‘An old master on top form’ Sunday Telegraph

Like most bank managers, Dave Calvin had acquired an irresistible charm that he could switch on whenever he felt the necessity. Underneath it he was cold, calculating, brutal – a perfect murderer.

For years he had waited – watching an endless stream of money pass through his hands – knowing that a risk was only worth taking if the reward was justified. And a $300,000 payroll was justification enough – even for murder …

In life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.

Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they were sending to the electric chair in a week. And he would have stayed out of it, if he’d known what his chances were of coming out alive …

WINNER OF THE DRACULA SOCIETY’S CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT AWARD

There’s a deserted house on Roman Road.

They say it has a dreadful secret.

Is that why Andrei can’t stay away from it?

Something stalks his family at night, and the threat looms of the father he has never known. Andrei wants to be ordinary, but he’s living a nightmare.

Writing as Ann Halam, award-winning author Gwyneth Jones delivers a story of the creatures that haunt the darkness, and the monsters that don’t stay there . . .


You can find out more about Gwyneth’s writing as Ann Halam here: http://www.gwynethjones.uk/HALAM.htm

In the huge termite-hills of cities that dotted the dead world of Killibol it seemed that nothing could ever change. Each city was enclosed and self-sustaining, in a stasis fixed by the one reality of power: the protein tanks in which organic nutrients could be processed to provide food.

But gang-leader Becmath was a man with a vision: to build an empire for himself without breaking this stasis. His lieutenant Klein recognised Becmath’s genius and stayed faithful to him even when they were forced to travel Killibol’s arid surface in a desperate search for the lost gateway to Earth. He stayed faithful through murder, treachery and countless adventures. Only when Becmath’s schemes reached incredible fulfilment was he able to realise that he had been serving an egomaniac and a monster . . .

The Knight boys are bad news – everyone in the neighbourhood knows it. But when Diesel make friends with Martin Knight, she wonders if maybe people aren’t right about them at all.

After Martin dies in a joyriding accident, Diesel is devastated. She finds herself spending more time with Martin’s brothers, becoming obsessed with making sure Martin finds rest somewhere he feels safe. Except, the past doesn’t seem to want to stay in the past, and Martin doesn’t seem to want to stay dead . . .

A spine-chilling teen horror from award-winning writer Gwyneth Jones under the pseudonym Ann Halam. You can find out more about the fiction Gwyneth wrote as Ann Halam here: http://www.gwynethjones.uk/HALAM.htm

Miranda Brand was uneasy even before the train left to take her to stay with her army cousin in divided Berlin. Then a story of a missing fortune in war-looted diamonds, told to pass the time on the journey, brings back nightmares of her past. And causes murder.

This is dazzling entertainment from a master of suspense.

There is only one Jenna Starborn . . .

A baby harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus.

A girl scorned by the only family she has ever known.

A woman bold enough to seek her own way, strong enough to stay true to herself, and brave enough to follow her heart – wherever in the universe it may lead her . . .

Arriving home one night, Ronnie Bart, an English journalist, finds a woman in his apartment. She is wearing only his dressing gown and eating the remains of his breakfast. Her stay is brief, for she is soon arrested by the police, accused of murdering a young man.

Trying to prove her innocence, Bart is drawn into a complex and dangerous affair.

Sid Shanley couldn’t stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup – no attachments, no trails, no explanations. But now a girl has caught up with him. Her name was Paula – and a million dollars lay behind her strange invitation …

Blackmail was a dirty business and Donald Lam liked to stay clear of it. But for his partner, Bertha Cool, no business was too dirty to handle at the right price. And the price for this job was certainly right.

What was wrong, though, was a payoff for pictures that weren’t worth a dime, a free dinner that cost the blackmailer his life, and more than a couple of double-crosses that framed Donald Lam quite neatly for a charge of murder …

It was just a routine case. All Bertha Cool had to do was help a fellow in a jam – a $20,000 jam.

But it didn’t stay a routine case for long. All of a sudden Bertha’s client had a fistful of anonymous letters, a missing wife, and a body in his basement. Bertha Cool had her hands full. The only problem was, her hands were tied – and the murderer’s were very, very busy.

When Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield goes to stay with his friend Wendover, mysterious goings-on in the boathouse he owns soon attract the duo’s attention. Lights go on and off, strangers come in and out, and a game warden is found murdered nearby.

And as they work to solve the crime, a second body is dredged up from the lake …

‘Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction’ Spectator

Fenris isn’t a hell planet, but it’s nobody’s bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he’s being cheated of wealth he’s risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution.

Life on Earth was intolerable – and yet Man had stayed there, his dreams and potential suffocating under the dead weight of bureaucracy.

The stars were attainable – thanks to the Infall Drive – but only a few heard the call of deep space. Some had already gone to colonise a new world. The second ship was ready at last. Ready to escape the Earth’s prison; ready to seek refuge in deepest space. But it wasn’t only freedom that awaited it…

They told Lisa she was the daughter of an American aristocrat and an Italian princess both of whom died shortly after Lisa’s birth. They told Lisa she was heiress to a vast Boston fortune, and that her American family cherished her and wanted her to stay with them.

At first Lisa tried to believe it all. Then she tried to separate the truth from the lies. Finally, she would know one thing for sure. Somebody or something was out to destroy her …

Helena Sebright is given a three-month job in the newly independent African state of Uyowa. She is to escort a seven-year-old girl to stay with her grandparents there, and to bring her back to her parents, in England, at the end.

It seems a lucky break. But Helena is not to know she will become involved in a dangerous criminal enterprise. Against the background of a disintegrating state and imminent bloody revolution, Helena finds herself caught up in a series of mysteries, catastrophes – and gruesome deaths . . .

When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing holiday in Gulmarg, a resort high above the fabled vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an amusing but uneventful stay. But the discovery of the grotesque corpse of grey-haired, sociable Mrs Matthews casts a dark shadow over the party. On learning the real truth about her death, Sarah is plunged into a deadly intrigue of secret messages, mysterious rendezvous – and murder.

A delicious blend of menace and romance set against the background of M. M. Kaye’s beloved India.

The countryside is hundreds of feet deep in snow, and a small community is managing to exist in the bell-tower of a church, just above the snow level. For sustenance they make journeys to the shops of the village far below by tunnels. They also stay alive by hunting the ferocious and telepathic bear-like animals known as Pals.



The individuals in the small group are brilliantly portrayed, in turn defeatist, boastful, querulous, selfish and generous. They are obsessive, they argue; but when danger threatens, as it often does, they immediately band together in their common fight for survival.

Is the story of 21st Century Earth – a world where work is forgotten, where the masses fight boredom with trank pills and telly, and where it is almost impossible to leave the social class you were born in. You could break the class barrier only by hiring yourself out as a mercenary to fight in the prime-time wars that are fought to keep the telly-viewing public satisfied. That is the only way to move up the ladder – if you could stay alive long enough.

While John and Kirstie Raven are in Paris they come across an old college friend of Kirstie’s, Kirk Cameron. Learning he is coming to London in an attempt to raise some funds, Kirstie insists he stay with them on their houseboat in Chelsea.

What Cameron doesn’t tell his hosts is that he has agreed to help a casual acquaintance in a little ‘industrial espionage’: and what Cameron hasn’t been told is that he is to be involved in robbing a safety deposit box . . .

When both his holiday plans and love affair collapse, London doctor Charles Mackinnon agrees to act as locum in Skye, looking forward to a peaceful stay. However, within hours of his arrival he witnesses someone being thrown off a distant cliff into the sea.

When the body of Jamie Gillespie is discovered in the water, the police remain sceptical of his report, and he begins to doubt what he saw. Then a pregnant, disabled woman disappears, and Charles finds himself drawn into a primitive ritual of superstition and violence.

Whenever Felix, Virginia Freer’s estranged husband, reappears in her life, murder does too. Even when temporarily incapacitated by an accident, Felix brings mystery with him.

This time it concerns Holly, orphaned daughter of a famous actress, who had come from Rome to stay with Virginia’s friends, the Brightwells. Holly has disappeared, believed kidnapped, and distraught Ann Brightwell is prepared to sell her valuables to meet the ransom demand. But Felix senses something odd about the kidnapping and is convinced the ransom shouldn’t be paid . . .