Drone: A Weird Horror Novella

By Dan Howarth

ONCE YOU HEAR IT...

Gallagher's life on the island should be idyllic. Yet his scenic, remote farm turns a meagre profit and provides little distraction from his vices.

When a strange noise infects the island's inhabitants, Gallagher's rural life is infiltrated by tension and unease. His neighbours become unpredictable and dangerous, threatening the fabric of island life beyond anything Gallagher has ever known.

As the community descends into fear and violence, Gallagher finds a way to silence the sound, but is this slice of peace worth the terrible cost?

Praise for Drone

What 28 Days Later did for London, Drone does for the rural north. Rooted in working-class poverty and the deep-seated antagonisms of farming communities, it's fast-paced, brutal and scary as hell. Yet another reminder that Dan Howarth is a rising star to watch.

Dan Coxon - World Fantasy Award winning editor and author of Come Sing for the Harrowing

Dan Howarth goes from strength to strength with each new book, and this is a superb work of anxiety-inducing horror. Possibly Howarth's most tense story to date - medical anxiety, bubbling fury, and subtle socio-political commentary that will drop your jaw and keep it on the floor. Simply fantastic

Kayleigh Dobbs - author of The End and owner of Happy Goat Horror

The subtle, subjective apocalypse of Drone is an eerily plausible nightmare that lingered in my mind and left my ears ringing.

Tim Major - British Fantasy Award-winning author of Hope Island

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 173840319X
• ISBN13: 9781738403196
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Northern Republic
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"