The Moor - Sam Haysom

It begins with a ghost story around a campfire. Teenagers out on a walking trip, trying to act brave in front of each other.But as the walk gets underway and the boys begin to fall out, odd things start to happen.Noises in the night. A severed rabbit's foot outside someone's tent.Soon, the boys begin to disappear.As panic sets in and a storm approaches, the remaining boys must band together to face a darkness not even the local ghost stories could help them predict.

Sam Haysom is a writer and journalist covering culture and entertainment for Mashable. He wrote the bulk of his debut novel, The Moor, during National Novel Writing Month in 2015. You can read all about his experience on Mashable's website. He's also written a number of short stories, one of which won first prize in a monthly competition run by the dark fiction website Spinetinglers.A graduate of Cardiff University, he grew up on the edge of the New Forest and now lives in London.You can follow him on Twitter @samhaysom.

"There's a delightful bit of sleight-of-hand at the heart of the novel that I particularly enjoyed." Owen King, co-author of Sleeping Beauties