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Splasher
  • Published: 16 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529970364
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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Splasher

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16 July 2026
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16 July 2026
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Daphne meets How to Sell a Haunted House and Heads Will Roll in a dark, nostalgic sports horror.

Drown your ghosts… or die trying?

??Autumn 2006. Low-rise jeans are in, grunge is out, and all Spencer Brown should be worrying about is his new job as Assistant Swim Coach at Crestwood University. It’s been 10 years since that fateful night in the university’s wellness centre, but Spencer is determined to sink his skeletons and focus on a winning season for his team.?

?Until two swimmers are found dead in the pool the first night of training. While everyone assumes it was an accidentally tragedy, Spencer is overcome with an ominous sense of déjà vu – this isn’t the first-time blood was spilt in the wellness centre. As freak accidents turn into something more sinister, the pool echoes with the ghosts of Spencer’s past, this time demanding to be heard.
  • Published: 16 July 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529970364
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
Categories:

About the authors

Billie Host

Billie Host is the pseudonym for Morag Hannah and Erin Hardee, two geeky women living and writing together in Scotland. With backgrounds ranging from museum interpretation to web design, and from science communication to ghost tours, they are devoted to storytelling in almost every aspect of their lives and work. When they are not telling stories they can be found singing in choirs, foraging for fungi, and working on their 1880s fixer-upper. They also write historical speculative fiction as MK Hardy.
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Praise for Splasher

There's no lifeguard on duty to save readers from this chlorinated gorefest. Splasher is a cursed whirlpool of horror and heart, some still bleeding, swirling about the page in brilliant arterial character arcs and pathos. Just when you thought it was safe to hop back in the pool, you have Billie Host's haunted romp to drown in.

Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Had me gripped. It's SUCH a great read! Point Horror meets It Follows in this dread-soaked supernatural slasher, which brings new meaning to the term 'bloodbath'. With its queer heroes and ghostly mystery, this was equal parts eerie and evocative, and I loved every blood-dripping page. Obsessed.

Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll and Burn the Negative

This one goes on the shelf right between Night of the Dribbler and Aquaslash: nothing but a good time.

Stephen Graham Jones, NYT bestselling author of My Heart is a Chainsaw and I Was a Teenage Slasher

The perfect balance of campy fun, eerie dread, and chlorine-drenched mayhem.

Marcus Kliewer, NYT bestselling author of The Caretaker

Such a fun read - reminded me of Final Destination. Watery, spooky Y2K fun with a heart!

Ellie Graves, author of Maneater

With the ghostly vibes of classic horror’s yesteryears, Splasher by Billie Host takes the slasher novel to a new level, or, shall I say, to the deep end and back. I used to enjoy swimming, but now I’ll think twice before ever diving into a pool again!

J.H. Markert, bestselling author of Sleep Tight and Dig

As if plucked from the shelves of your local Blockbuster, Splasher is a glorious B-movie extravaganza reflecting the best of classic horror and 2000s nostalgia.

Benedict Anning, author of Atomic Coffin

An exciting venture into the world of competition swimming, Splasher is packed with 2000's era nostalgia and characters you can't help but love - or love to hate. I found Splasher to be a fun take on the slasher genre with viscerally gory moments that will make me second-guess jumping into the deep end of a pool.

Bonnie Quinn, author of the How to Survive Camping series