Front cover of Scuttler’s Cove by David Barnett, a coastal folk horror novel set in Cornwall.

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Scuttler’s Cove – David Barnett

Name: Scuttler's Cove - David Barnett
SKU: 1655
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When Merrin Moon returns to her Cornish home after her mother’s death, she finds a community transformed by wealthy outsiders and an ancient horror awakening beneath it.

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Overview
Synopsis

A seaside idyll with horror at its heart.

Merrin returns to the British coastal village of Scuttler’s Cove after years away, only to find that second-home owners and holiday lets have pushed many locals out. As tensions rise, strange events suggest that something much older and more sinister than a dispute over property is stirring beneath the village. Coastal folklore horror for fans of The Ritual or The Wicker Man.

All Nightmare Nook Books are selected by our chief Book Ghoul, Cat. Here’s how Scuttler’s Cove scuttled its way into the Nook:

“Folklore horror set on the Cornish coastline? I’m in! Scuttler’s Cove is a great combination of ancient folklore becoming entangled with more modern anxieties.”

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Brand new and ready to haunt.

Synopsis

The sea never forgets. The sea never forgives.

Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich.

Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by second-homers and rental companies, and the locals can barely afford to live in their own town.

It is a very different place for Merrin Moon, who left for university at the age of eighteen and never looked back. Now in her thirties, she returns to the Cove for the first time since, after the death of her mother.

She soon discovers that there are forces at play in the village that she could never have imagined. Is someone trying to drive out the second homers? And has their arrival started a chain of events none of them will be able to stop?

For something old and terrible is awakening beneath the town's hallowed ground. And with it comes a horror that the residents have fought for generations to keep a secret.

A dark and mysterious folk horror of the sea, and a timely exploration of the displacement of our modern moment, with a twist that will leave you reeling.