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The Waiting Room
Age of steam writer Tom Westlake brings along his troubled sister Jessie to photograph the scene of a hideous railway accident that happened just after the second world war ended, the pivotal plot of his new book he hopes will put his sister on the road to emotional recovery and bring truth and recompense to lies and hidden secrets of those involved in the disaster. The thing is, ghosts from the past never go away, they like to find and haunt and play games with the minds of the disturbed souls who dare enter ‘the waiting room.’

The Oxblood Leather Wingback Chair
Mild mannered John Collimore thinks his wife is having an affair with their charismatic lodger. His procrastinated decision to take action without remorse or recompense has a devastating outcome for them all when he wires up the oxblood leather wingback chairs to serve as judge and jury over their liaison – the conclusion is electric.

Fantasma di Napoli
In the catacombs of Naples something evil lies buried. The year is1943 and the city has been liberated by the allied army as it moves into Europe. Two soldiers and their signorinas are stalked by the ghost of a vengeful spirit as pleasure and lust in the darkness of those underground passages is all they truly crave.

A Speck of Light
A celebrated mystic visits her son daily to help fight an evil presence that’s taking him on a growing journey of hate, death and mutilation in the darkest of hours. With a past life full of secrets and lies, he must find the truth to win a losing battle. Can he rid himself of the evil lurking inside? His mother knows it can be defeated but she’s been dead in the ground these past twelve years.

A Marcus Steadfast Vampire Tale – Sofia
Marcus seriously wounded in the Spanish Civil War finds love in the care of a beautiful nurse but comes face to face with the menace of his evil nemesis the Master and the German Third Reich in a bid to end the bloodshed of a war that is already lost.

Morgue
The morgue is a quiet respectful place where the dearly departed rest awhile? The trouble is Jacob Thursby has other plans and opportunities in his quest for the enduring love of a beautiful pathologist. It becomes a home for murder most violent and resurrection of friends newly departed.

Heartless at the Beach
The innocent taxi ride of a dying man turns into a cat and mouse game between the good deeds of the Lord and his nemesis the demon soul taker. Passion, desperation and the betrayal of a twisted woman brings this story to a bloody finale.

Butcher
Sebastian Stiles is the most eminent of surgeons, however, his greatest desire is to create an art form so magnificent as to amaze the wealthy socialites of London town. His faithful servant has no idea his murderous tactics result in the deaths of many innocent souls to fashion the perfect surgical art – living specimens have never looked so horrifying in their final throes of death at the hands of the butcher.

The Darkness is Consuming
A man lies asleep and dreaming in the bed of a familiar room, he is visited by people he doesn’t know and a boy he knows all too well and a host of evil creatures that come to terrorise him in the darkness of the night, until the blackness of pain and suffering evolves into light and joy as he visits a man of wisdom and peace in another world that should free his soul from his mortal body? But . . . what if it doesn’t – and he stays locked in the empty darkness of a forever box?

The Tattooist
A tattooist opens the door of his shop to a customer he recognises has a speciality in crimes of a distinct nature, yet vengeance has a sweetness and reward that can only be satisfied with the aid of an inking gun and a rainbow of colours. Upset a tattooist? I wouldn’t – well not If you know what’s good for your long-term health, the results could give a lifetime of joy to the originator and a world of pain and suffering to the recipient of his art.

A Marcus Steadfast Vampire Tale – The Master
After years of searching the wilderness of time, two old adversaries finally come face to face in the confines of a dilapidated caravan to settle a conflict that has raged between them for centuries. In this cat and mouse game of revenge and power, who will become the victor? Marcus? Or The Master?

Contamination of Spirit
On an innocent drive home, a man encounters a car wreck and fails to act with any kindness to the injured inside. The spirit of the woman returns to seek retribution for the drivers cold-hearted actions and ends with a spectacular finale and a sinister revenge for the dead.

Fearless Steve McQueen
In a dystopian world a lone survivors life hangs in the balance with suicide seemingly a perfect ending to escape the pain and fear of hunger, loneliness and the night time lust of blood thirsty creatures that roam the wilderness. ‘Cool’ Steve McQueen becomes the prisoners iconic hero as he plots to escape and search for an elusive Ford Mustang in a faraway land.

Christmas Ghost
A foolish winters journey risks life and limb for John and his daughter caught in a deadly blizzard with no hope of getting home. A stranger in a tractor and several strokes of unexpected good luck change the course of their fate. A visitation by an Angel in the dead of night puts John’s mind at rest that chosen souls need protection from death as there are many good deeds to perform before passing to the other side.

Vague Light in a Dark World
A brave and wounded soldier battered by war and death looks for everlasting peace hidden away from the rest of the world as a lighthouse keeper keeping his solitary watch on the violent sea and those that seek safe passage, his only friend a cat called Gratitude. A beautiful nurse brings hope, love and redemption to the lonely Keepers world, only for it to be ruthlessly stolen by a demon demanding penance for his crimes of war. Can a man not escape his grisly past, is there always a price to pay the reaper?

Heaven is a Place on Earth
A snowy Yorkshire Dales village, early morning, shimmering sunrise – a man walks to work pondering life and his infidelity and an unforgiving wife. Revenge is another word for death, retribution an adjective for collecting an insurance pay-out when illicit lovers plot their deadly game only to be haunted by the spirit of a murdered husband.
