Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide by William Hussey (author)

Jake could now see the demon fully. Its body was a mass of steely sinew, its arms roped with muscle. Six fingers sprouted from its hands, each ending in lethal talons. The thing did not possess a nose; instead a large hole, bubbling with green mucus, occupied the middle of its face. Mr Pinch’s tongue flickered between his teeth and slurped across his fat lips. He was hungry.

A boy was sacrificed to keep the door closed: to bar the Demontide. But the evil never died. It only waited. And now it’s come for Jake… Jake Harker is an outsider, a loner whose nose is always in a horror comic. That is, until the horror stops being fiction. The night when the Pale Man and his demon Mr Pinch stop Jake on a dark, deserted road. That night, under a tree called the Demon’s Dance, Jake will learn the true meaning of terror. An ancient evil is awakening…