There's a darkness lying just under the surface of Julian Harris's young mind. He has bad dreams. Very bad dreams in which he sees himself rape and murder teenage girls. Sometimes they seem more like visions than dreams. More and more he fears his dr...
‘Psychopaths Ltd’ is a collection of prize-winning, criminally inclined stories that have been published in some of the best magazines and anthologies in the UK and US. The title story featured in an issue of the critically acclaimed Swill Magazi...
Survivors of a zombie apocalypse have carved out new existences on islands, only visiting the mainland to hunt zombies. But things start to go wrong. Zombies don't die as they should. Hunters go missing. A trip that's supposed to be fun turns into a ...
'"You're mine now," she breathed, her voice husky and low. "You know that, don't you?" "Yes." The word came out in a sigh. The dark, queasy thrill of surrender swept over me. Blood ran down my wrist onto the sheets and spread like an opening flower....
Can you ever atone for killing someone? Four years ago, Detective Inspector Harlan Miler killed a man in a drunken fight. Now - divorced, alone, consumed by guilt - the world outside his prison walls holds little for him. Until, mere days after hi...
Would you break the law to see justice done? A former prostitute turns to murder in order to take revenge on the men who abused her. Sheffield: a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man r...
Thirty years of fear. Thirty years of closed minds. It is all about to change. A Sheffield prostitute has disappeared. With no family to fight for her, she's just the latest in a long line of missing girls stretching back three decades. Nobody car...
She lay on her back with tears streaming from her eyes and blood from her chin, sobbing over and over to the night sky, 'I promised I'd look after her. I promised I'd look after her.' A trip to the cinema turns into a nightmare when a thirteen-year-o...
Some secrets are better left undiscovered. When a nine-year-old girl goes missing in Harwood Forest, the search for her brings back memories of an unsolved double murder some forty years earlier. Could the key to Erin Jackson’s disappearance lie...
What really haunts Fenton House? After the tragic death of their eleven-year-old son, Adam and Ella are fighting to keep their family from falling apart. Then comes an opportunity that seems too good to be true. They win a competition to live for fre...
You know, don’t you, that it’s not my soul the Devil wants, it’s yours? Two years ago the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, giv...
Deep in the forest is a cottage. A wicked witch once lived there, or so they say. Now a new family is moving into the cottage. Hazel and her daughter, Lily, are trying to start over after a tragedy. The cottage appears to be the perfect place for the...
How do you catch the uncatchable? There is a hotel. And in that hotel there is a room. And in that room something terrible happened… Hugh was only ten at the time. Twenty five years have passed, but he’s stuck in that moment. Every night ...
Close your eyes. He's waiting for you. There’s a darkness lurking under the surface of Julian Harris. Every night in his dreams, he becomes a different person, a monster capable of evil beyond comprehension. Sometimes he feels like something is...
Stalker. The word echoed in Jack’s mind. Is that what I am? Is that what I’ve become? Jack has it all – a beautiful wife and daughter, a home, a career. Then his wife, Rebecca, plunges to her death from the Sussex coast cliffs. Was ...
Run, run as fast as you can... On a summer’s day in 1998, a savage crime at an isolated Lakeland beauty spot leaves three dead. The case has gone unsolved ever since. The only witness is an amnesiac with a bullet lodged in her brain. The bullet...
A tiny spark flickered in her pupils. Her lips moved but no audible words came out. With one finger, she made a slight beckoning motion. Jack bent closer and she breathed woozily into his ear, “Who… am… I?” After the death of ...