Danny was scared – as scared as only a four-going-on-five-year old whose active imagination sees monsters and murderers lurking behind every object that swam in and out of sight amongst the thick, clinging...
Two crude friends are whiling away their summer holidays from University in their local corner shop. Their days consist of mocking the customers they serve, and planning their extra-cirricular activities, with...
Three years after the Risers took over cities and people, the military has finally started to begin rebuilding after some of the infection seems to be controlled. But how controlled has it become? Tony, now...
THREE CHAPTER BOOK PREVIEW: After the horrifying experience of fleeing for their lives, Linda Carter and her sister, Laura, are on a mission to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. However, they never expected...
Stories in this issue: “The Lives and Spacetimes of Thornton Excelsior” by Rhys Hughes (actually eight stories in one!); “The Daylight Witch” by Jim Steel; “Off and On Again” by Alison Littlewood;...
Three French Hens is a collection of short stories based on titles of well-known christmas carols, ditties and hit singles. Includes - "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Fang Teeth" - a vampire get a bit more...
April 13, 2012: MASSIVE CORRECTIONS DONE! ... THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S BOOK! Written in the Gothic tradition and with the most delicate of language, there are still startling visual scenes you don't want to...
This is a preview from my upcoming collection of short stories.(Word count 1986) What happens when your fear rules your life. Johnny has lived with one fear all his life, can he conquer it now?
Joe has an issue to raise with his bank, but there is a little problem, in that Joe is dead. Now some would say that death rather inhibits one's capacity to make a complaint to your bank, or indeed to anyone....
A Randy Carter story. Randy Carter and old and now very strange friend Richelle Pickman undergo a phantasmagoric odyssey into the realm of nightstallions and the Elder Ones. In a battle between ghasts and nightgaunts,...
Victoria Frankenstein is a driven researcher. So much so that she creates a breakthrough: a living woman. Thus begins her descent into horror, as she begins to understand just what she has done and the tragedy...
Second short story in my Pandora's Children Book 1: In the Chair collection. This is a preview of the story. To read the entire thing, as well as the first short story, "The Devil's toothache", search for Pandora's...
"Saga of a Middle-Aged Vampire: A Short Story" is a short vampire tale of about 7,000 words. Valerie is a vampire and her life is not going well. After two hundred years of marriage, her husband has left her...
THREE CHAPTER BOOK PREVIEW: After the abrupt death of her father, Laura Carter and her sister are shipped off to England by an uncle they barely know. They are taken to a large house in Annesley to begin a life...