New York Times & USA Today bestselling author
J.F. Penn
Dark thrillers where history, myth and the supernatural collide with the present.
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Thrillers, dark fantasy, folk horror and adventure horror. Every story is grounded in a real place and a question history never answered.
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Stone of Fire
ARKANE book 1: meet Morgan Sierra and the institute beneath Trafalgar Square, where it all begins.
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Bones of the Deep
She stole their saint. Now the ocean wants her back. Deep-sea adventure horror on the open Pacific.
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Crime with a supernatural edge
Desecration
Dark London book 1: Detective Jamie Brooke and psychic Blake Daniel beneath the respectable surface of the city.
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J.F. Penn
J.F. Penn is the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers, dark fantasy, crime and horror: stories on the edge where history, myth and the supernatural collide. Oxford-educated in theology and psychology, she travels to the real places in her fiction, and the research trail runs through every book.
The research behind the fiction
Every story starts in the real world: a relic in a museum case, a legend attached to a place, a question history never answered. Two doors into the research.
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Relics, goddesses, secret libraries, anatomical museums, the Spear of Destiny: the history and places that became the books.
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Travel journals, photo-walks and interviews from the real places in the fiction, on J.F. Penn's travel site, Books and Travel.
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Original storyworlds with established readerships, available for option and adaptation. Loglines, comps and rights status for every title.
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