Temple Fall

COMING SOON: A macabre and chilling supernatural gothic horror about a group of teenagers cursed to die on their 18th birthday. Perfect for fans of Clay McLeod Chapman, The September House by Carissa Orlando and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Release date: 17 February 2026
Binding: Paperback

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Flynn heads with her boyfriend, Jackson, and a group of their friends to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history. Breaking in for a night of drinking and teenage debauchery they instead find themselves trapped in a strange nightmare after a joke seance goes wrong. Suddenly forced into strange acts and behaviours outside their character, the tight-knit group starts to fall apart – and then Jackson falls to his death.

In the aftermath Flynn must confront the traumas of her childhood, her upbringing in captivity with her mother who suffered from crippling paranoia and OCD. As a foster child she has been forced to make her own place in the world, to forge a new family out of the few scraps of hope and compassion she has been offered in her life. And everywhere she looks she sees the ghostly figure of a Victorian woman, that no one else can see.

The woman that pushed Jackson.

Reeling from the tragedy the group find themselves split apart, each grieving and trying to survive on their own. But when they start to die, one-by-one, on the very second of their 18th birthday, Flynn must keep them all together to keep her found family alive. And she must dig into the lost secrets of her family past, to stop the curse being passed down to the next generation again.

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Praise for Temple Fall

  • The Gothic vein pulses strong in Boyle’s latest, where a cursed cast of characters, one-by-one, meet their untimely fates, and where all the trappings of Victorian horror are polished and made modern. Notable for Boyle’s keen ear for dialogue and chilling descriptions. Strongly recommended – Ronald Malfi, New York Times bestselling author of Small Town Horror
  • The parched halls of Temple Fall feed off the reader like the best modern haunted houses out there, making this black-as-pitch book a worthy addition to your bookshelves alongside the likes of David Mitchel’s Slade House and Marcus Kliewer’s We Used to Live Here. – Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
  • A creeping, clutching tale of doom and darkness inexplicably bound with hope and heart, Temple Fall will draw you into its hallowed halls and hold you there forever. – Delilah S. Dawson
  • Told in beautiful prose and with gripping characters, Temple Fall is a vicious gothic wonder. Foster child Flynn and her young, wounded friends try to stay together to survive, but the house and the dead woman inside won’t permit it. So, they’re caught in a looping nightmare of death and dread as Flynn is forced to confront her family’s darkest secrets if anyone is to survive. – Richard Kadrey, author of Sandman Slim and many more
  • A clever, mind-bending, frankly terrifying haunted house mystery, Temple Fall will delight fans of Mike Flanagan’s TV infestations … It serves up delicious scares and sinister, hallucinatory set pieces, but it’s the emotional truth at the center of it that’s going to haunt readers the longest: there’s nothing in life perhaps more frightening than those fleeting, burning years when you stop being a child but you are not an adult yet, and the future feels like a black maw ready to eat you up. – Andrea Morstabilini, author of A Blood as Bright as the Moon
  • Like any great haunted house, Temple Fall is mysterious and labyrinthine, offering fresh surprises and terrors at every turn. The perfect read for a stormy night in a strange place. – Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
  • Dark, persistent and unnerving, Temple Fall is an entrancing ghost story that gets under the skin with creeping dread. The reader is taken on a spectacularly twisted journey where generational trauma, disturbing histories and emotional scars have all left deep and terrible wounds. This is Picnic at Hanging Rock meets The Haunting of Hill House. I was absolutely bewitched! – Heather Davey, author of The Ghosts of Merry Hall