Paperback | 80 pages | Preorder – arriving May 8th

In ‘The Bell Witch’ by Ella Newell, bereaved sisters become the focus of a dreadful speculation that their mother is a witch, causing harm and death to her own kin and community. Is she really just a bereaved and desperate woman? And what is that black dog-like creature seen at the edge of the forest whose footsteps skirt the threshold of their house? In ‘The Choir Loft’ by Henry Martin, a church warden hears footsteps up above in the choir loft – a place that should be inaccessible, shut off after a tragic accident 12 years earlier. In Steven Sheil’s tale, ‘The Sun, The Sea and the Shore’, Cassie, a good swimmer, on a family holiday at the beach, leaves her husband and sons on the beach to go for a swim but soon becomes disorientated by what she can see on the shoreline. No sign of her family any more, except their lone beach umbrella. Have they really just left her out there, and how long has she been? ‘Lost and Found’ by E.J. Braithwaite is a short and terrifying tale of guilt and the ghost that simply won’t let you leave without it… Catrin Kean’s story ‘Queen’ is a tale of grief and friendship where the supernatural weaves itself into the natural world and the story sings with a haunting and uncanny magic. In ‘Holy Thursday’ by Mario Senzale, each year, on Holy Thursday, a gargoyle on the church comes alive. The townsfolk must placate it with an ‘offering’ but surely not little Lucy’s older brother? In Benjamin Brittain Wignall’s story ‘Ms. Rachel’s Replacement Organs’, Mary Kennedy gets the job offer of her dreams, to work for geneticist, Josef Morrow, growing artificial human tissue, quickly and cheaply. Excited that all her studies were not in vain, she goes to her interview, where she realises exactly how this human tissue is growing. In ‘Cradle to Grave’ by K.E. Redmond, a photographer is asked to take some ‘product’ shots for a businessman selling ‘body doubles’ called Matthew’s Mannequins, and this one, seems a little too real… In Allison Pottern’s story, ‘Soul Candle, Living Light’, the only surviving daughter in a family gripped by grief, is haunted by the spirits of her dead siblings. When her mother gives birth to a baby girl who starts to display symptoms of a terrible sickness, she undertakes a powerful ritual to try to help her sister to live.

ISBN-13:  978-1-0684437-2-5 | ISSN: 2514-815X