Chaz Brenchley sold World English language rights to two horror novels to commissioning editor Kate Lyall Grant at Severn House, in a deal negotiated by agent John Jarrold. The novels are “centered around a strange country house in the north of England that affects everyone who comes into contact with it—some for good, some for ill—in different time periods. The first book, provisionally titled House of Doors, will be set during the Second World War,” according to Jarrold. The first book is due to be published in September 2011.
Grant said: “I am thrilled to be reunited with Chaz Brenchley, whom I first came across at Hodder and who, I think, is one of the most talented—and underrated—British horror/fantasy novelists writing today. I’m delighted too to be able to celebrate my first deal with my former S&S colleague, John Jarrold.”