Ashley's tales of urban fantasy are intensely surreal, savagely satirical, subtly subversive, and despairingly funny. Possessed of a unique vision and a distinctive prose style, Ashley exposes the absurdities of modern British society like no other writer.

What is this lingering fear of insects, arachnids, arthropods, crustaceans and those that slither... is it a hangover from the survival battles in the savannah or does it go deeper and further back than that in our evolutionary heritage? Unchallenged, the locusts, the maggots, the worms, the flies, the aphids and the termites may consume and destroy all that we have and hold dear. Creeping, slithering, crawling horror, science fiction & fantasy stories by nineteen of today's top authors. David Birch, Gary Budgen, Adrian Cole, Storm Constantine, Andrew Darlington, Pauline E. Dungate, Dennis...