The Sound of the Dark: A Gripping Folk Horror Unveiled

 The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church – Cover Reveal

Fans of Catriona Ward and Stephen King will find plenty to enjoy in this biting horror novel where not all is what you see…or hear…

The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church

28 October 2025 | PB | 9781836730194| £9.99/$18.99 |

Also available in ebook | Fiction | Fantasy | Dark Fantasy from www.angryrobotbooks.com

ABOUT THE BOOK: In 1983 experimental artist Tony Mathias began work on a new installation – it was to be a collage of visuals and sounds collected at an abandoned RAF base called Warden Fell. Various stories and rumours swirled around the place but Tony was interested only in the echoes of history. But soon after visiting the site to tape-record the sounds there, he returned to the caravan where he was staying with his family and killed his wife, his two children and then himself. Another dark twist in Warden Fell’s history?

But the past reaches out. Decades later Cally Darker, gets the chance to investigate the terrible story and perhaps even solve the mystery – a fantastic exclusive story for her true-crime podcast. Tony’s actress sister Stella is desperate for the mystery to be solved before she dies will do all she can to help and passes on the tapes left behind by her brother. But before long, Cally realises that Warden Fell has a far older and darker story to tell. Be careful what you listen to…

Set in the lonely and craggy Warden Fell in Lancashire, The Sound of the Dark explores loneliness, isolation, the physical and psychological damages of sensory overwhelm…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Daniel Church grew up in Manchester and still lives in the North of England with the love of his life. He loves nature, hills, woods, forest, lakes, rivers, the sea and dogs. He also writes horror fiction. His first novel, The Hollows, was short-listed for the 2023 British Fantasy Society’s Horror Novel of the Year, and The Ravening was published in September 2024. Find Daniel on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/dannythechurch.bsky.social

Praise for Daniel Church

“The Hollows grabs you by the throat from the first page and doesn’t let up. Church has crafted a masterful action-horror in which small town evil meets aeons-buried horror and the personal stakes are just as powerfully rendered as the cosmic ones.”
– James Brogden, author of Hekla’s Children

“Ellie proves a heroine worth rooting for and the Harper clan make for ruthless and formidable antagonists. This claustrophobic outing is sure to resonate with horror readers.”
– Publishers Weekly

“Daniel Church’s tale of a small community ravaged by unnatural forces – and the way its inhabitants fight back – is beautifully told, right from the first finely honed paragraph. It has a wonderfully atmospheric setting, fizzing dialogue and sharply drawn characters you won’t forget in a hurry.”
– A.J. Elwood, author of The Cottingley Cuckoo

“The Hollows combines human monstrousness and uncanny dread in a breathlessly suspenseful narrative. Startlingly violent, compellingly weird, it carries us through levels of fear to a climax of cosmic terror worthy of the classics.”
– Ramsey Campbell, multiple World Fantasy Award-winner

“The Hollows is an epically ambitious novel given a quality of intimacy by its depth of characterisation and secure rooting in location and season. Proof that folk horror can be not just sinister, but a white-knuckle ride of thrills.”
– F.G. Cottam, author of The House of Lost Souls

“It should please fans of folk horror such as The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy or the folklore-inspired crime fiction of Sharon Bolton’s stand-alone novels.”
– Booklist

“Folk horror meets small-town police procedural with a side of revenge and redemption as police constable Ellie and a likable group of ragtag helpers work together to stop the end of the world.”
– Library Journal

“Stormbound and suspenseful, The Hollows is a barnstorming rollercoaster of action and tension, set on home turf as if John Carpenter directed an episode of Happy Valley.”
– Stephen Volk, author of The Awakening