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How far would you go to protect your family from the unhinged stalker next door?

In the run-down Welsh seaside town of Ffrynt, an ageing population struggles to maintain their quiet and responsible way of life.

Daere is no exception. She’s not the sort to troll online book stores, or stalk the object of her affection, or to harbour grim secrets.

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28 February 1992: Summoned by a dead-of-night telephone call wherein police inform him that his beloved sister Kate is missing, Welsh-born Reed Ivory travels from California to Wales.

Reed’s aggressive brother-in-law Lewis insists Kate ran off with the guitarist in her band. Though Reed is certain Kate, who’d finally got up the courage to leave...

One wrong step can lead to disaster...

Just before Christmas, as wealthy and independent OAP Miss Twelvetrees prepares to step into the bustling streets of Ffrynt, she never could have predicted the adventure that awaited her. Or that her life was about to be turned upside down. Literally.

Through a series of mishaps, Miss Twelvetrees finds...

A collection of ‘quiet’ horror stories, the companion volume to Sometimes Dead. Among them you will find:

• Murderous memories of insanity, and a Christmas long-past
• The fate of the real boy Pinocchio when he slips up
• Another unwanted tour on RMS Titanic
• A washed-up writer discovers too late that the dead lie as much as the living
• The end of the...

A party séance in London goes horriby wrong...

Join the band on HMS Titanic for one last dance...

A famed writer’s sideline is the kind of food pets love best...

A damaged American travels to Wales to discover the meaning of ghosts...

Facing up to reality if you’re a celeb can be Hell...

Originally published in magazines (notably...

This holiday season, release your inner Scrooge.

Eirlys Stephens has always longed to write, but before her husband Mason ran off with her best friend Hazel, between his demands and those of Eirlys’ spoilt daughter Natasha, she never had the time. This Christmas she decides to ditch the Laura Ashley tablecloth, turkey crown, and Christmas pud to...

What happens when home, the place where they have to take you in, no longer exists? Leonora has come to England for love, but when her relationship fails and her father won’t let her return home, she finds herself having to take a position as mother’s help to the creepy Dr Nye and her husband.

This horror novella (a short novel) is based on the...