Jimmy Cole imports cheap clothes and thinks he understands the cost of wanting things. In Cebu, he meets Marisol: clever, attentive, beautiful, and carrying an old story he is too charmed to hear. When he brings her to London, she slips easily into his warehouse, his flat, and his lonely life. But at night, something separates. A flying hunger moves across the rooftops, reaching through skylights and locked rooms, while a waiting body stands vulnerable in the dark. As deaths spread and love turns to fear, Jimmy learns that folklore is not superstition but warning. A tragic modern Manananggal tale about migration, desire, exploitation, and the parts of a person love refuses to see.
contemporary Gothic
The Night Trade
Gary Bell is bankrupt, exhausted, and finished with fine dining when Janet Finn offers him a way out: run a 24-hour franchise garage, shop and takeaway in Coldmere, a northern coastal town with steady passing trade and unusual night customers. The rules are simple. Keep the visible business clean, profitable and boring. Use the Black Book suppliers for the other locals. Never improvise kindness after midnight. What begins as a desperate second chance becomes a comic horror of product codes, loyalty cards, old rooms, hostile customers and franchise compliance. In Coldmere, hunger has a hatch, and Gary owns the rota.