A press release from Severn House:

Severn House are delighted to announce that they have signed up acclaimed horror writer F G Cottam in a two-book deal with Caroline Michel at PFD.

The former editor of FHM magazine, Cottam is the author of six previous novels of supernatural suspense, including The House of Lost Souls, Dark Echo and The Colony.

Severn House will publish his new supernatural thriller, The Memory of Trees, in June 2013, and The Summoning, the first in a proposed dark fantasy trilogy involving an epic struggle between Earth and the shadow world, in December.