Devil's Pocketbook

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, Ross Jeffery, comes a new terror…that of being held hostage by the thing we love the most.During the sleepy off-season in the picturesque seaside village of Polperro, Cornwall, Erik and Lara find themselves at the mercy of their grief. What was to be a time of healing from the loss of their daughter soon turns into a living nightmare when they find a pod floating in the water, containing a precious gift from the sea and foolishly decide to take it home.But what they’ve invited into their lives is something unnatural, something that mimics reality as they had hoped it would be. As reality gradually slips away from the couple, they soon realise they are contending with forces more powerful than the undertows of the ocean and just as inescapable. Their grief, like the sea, will drown them if they let it.With the unsettling folk undertones found in Robert Eggers’ films, The Devil’s Pocketbook shows Jeffery is a master of grief literary horror, sure to make your stomach twist.

Ross Jeffery is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated and 3x Splatterpunk Award-nominated author of Metamorphosis, I Died Too, But They Haven’t Buried Me Yet, Only The Stains Remain and Harvesting The Nightmare Fields. He is represented by Elizabeth Copps of Copps Literary Services and for Film and TV rights by Alec Frankel of IAG (Independent Artist Group) where several of his projects are in various stages of development. You can follow him on Bluesky @RossJefferyauthor.bsky.social or on Instagram @rossjefferyauthor. Ross lives in Newport, Wales, with his wife (Anna) and two children (Eva and Sophie).