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> (06/11/2025) 'Blood on the Rooftops' - The third story in the Ghost Hunter Diaries has just been released. (NEW!)

> (03/11/2025) The 2nd Edition of 'Incubus' has just been released - with many enhancements to the original release.

> (03/11/2025) The 2nd Edition of 'Christmas Eve in the Orchard Room' has just been released - with many enhancements to the original release.

> (03/11/2025) The 2nd Edition of 'The St Mary Of Bethlehem Asylum For The Insane' has just been released - with many enhancements to the original release.

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Blood on the Rooftops (NEW!!!)

(The Ghost Hunter Diaries Book 3)

Release Date: November 6, 2025

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Supernatural, Short Story

Synopsis:

London, 1914.

The rain never truly stops over Park Lane.

When renowned investigator Frederick Cristo is summoned once more by the Crown, he expects another matter of espionage or deceit. Instead, he finds himself standing before the fading grandeur of The Thebes Hotel — a place of curious charm and darker reputation, where guests vanish and the very walls seem to breathe.

Together with Archibald Pratt, a young scholar with a restless mind and an heirloom of unsettling origin, Cristo begins to peel back the layers of secrecy surrounding the hotel’s history. But Thebes has a memory all its own — and some memories refuse to rest.

As the storm gathers over London, the two men are drawn into a labyrinth of forgotten faith, old guilt, and things too long preserved. What begins as an investigation soon becomes a reckoning — with the city, with the past, and with whatever watches from the rooftops.

A tale of Gothic mystery and spectral dread, where time falters, faith trembles, and even reason must bow to what endures.

A forgotten hotel. A vanished guest. Two investigators chasing a mystery the city itself refuses to remember.

Some buildings remember. Some never sleep. And some — like Thebes — learn to hunger.

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The Farogat Society

(NEW Edition!!!)

(The End of the World Book 1)

Release Date: October 15, 2015

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Fiction, Gothic Horror Mystery, Supernatural, Dark Suspense

Synopsis:

Second Edition

A hidden mansion. A vanished brother. A society older than the world itself.
Welcome to The Farogat Society — Book One in The End of the World series.

When Richard Falconer receives a troubling lead about his missing brother, it guides him to the overgrown gates of Shindon Manor — the home of the mysterious Farogat Society, an organisation founded in 1861 and whispered about only in fragments. What he finds inside is a world of polite smiles, twitching dinner guests, locked rooms, and a silence thick enough to choke on.

Richard expected eccentricity. What he uncovers is far darker.

Behind the warped hallways and too-perfect manners lie old rituals, clandestine experiments, and the quiet certainty among the members that the end of the world has already begun. The deeper Richard digs, the more he realises he may never walk back out — and he’s not the only one trapped within the Society’s grasp.

Meanwhile below the estate, Lucy Turner clings to life in the bowels of Ward 2, her memories fractured, her keepers disturbingly calm about the “treatments” they insist she needs. Her only hope may be a stranger she’s never met… a stranger already in far too deep.

As fires ignite, loyalties fracture, and an ancient presence begins to stir, Richard and Lucy find themselves entangled in something vast — a conspiracy that begins at Shindon Manor but reaches into the grave history of humankind itself.

Atmospheric, unsettling, and drenched in mystery, The Farogat Society is a gripping blend of gothic suspense, psychological horror, and slow-burn cosmic dread. The end of the world starts quietly… one door at a time.

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Incubus

Release Date: March 23, 2017

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Horror, Strange, Short Story

Synopsis:

Second Edition

Some doors never close. Some eyes never sleep.

Deep in the central Lowlands of Scotland, a mile from the River Clyde, the land once called Cadzow remembers what men have forgotten. During the Battle of Bannockburn, when Robert the Bruce looked to victory, something older slipped through the veil — a hunger that never died.

Centuries later, on those same haunted grounds, stands the Hamilton Grange Hotel.

Elegant. Remote. Built on history best left buried.

When Gregory arrives for a company seminar, he expects dull meetings and polite conversation. Instead, he finds locked doors, vanishing guests, and a woman whose smile hides something ancient.

And somewhere beneath the oak and stone, a bell begins to ring.

Because the ground remembers blood.

And the blind date has already begun.

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Christmas Eve In The Orchard Room

(The Ghost Hunter Diaries Book 1)

Release Date: December 6, 2016

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Supernatural, Short Story

Synopsis:

Second Edition

Some doors never close — even when centuries have passed.

December, 1914. The Great War has begun to tear Europe apart. While men march to the front, two English scholars pursue their own battles — of reason, faith, and the unseen.

Dr. Frederick Cristo, a brilliant investigator of parapsychology, is summoned to a snowbound Scottish inn to examine strange disturbances in a room no guest dares enter. His friend and correspondent, Hector Ramsden of the Farogat Society — a secretive research institute under commission to the War Office — records the account through a series of chilling letters.

In the Orchard Room, Frederick uncovers a tragedy that has never slept: a jealous lover, a vanished bridegroom, and the echo of a death that refuses to fade. As the snow deepens and time itself begins to blur, science falters — and the boundary between the living and the dead grows perilously thin.

The Orchard Room is the first novel in The Ghost Hunter Diaries — a gothic series that blends supernatural mystery, early-twentieth-century science, and the quiet terror of a world on the brink of war.

Meticulously crafted and hauntingly atmospheric, it will enthral readers of Susan Hill, Michelle Paver, and Wilkie Collins — those who believe that even the most rational mind can be haunted by what it cannot explain.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

Gothic ghost stories set in Edwardian and World War I Britain

Epistolary fiction told through lost letters and journals

Atmospheric mysteries rich with history, grief, and the supernatural

Classic horror in the tradition of M.R. James and Sheridan Le Fanu

The Orchard Room — where the snow never melts, and the past never truly rests..

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The St Mary Of Bethlehem Asylum For The Insane

(The Ghost Hunter Diaries Book 2)

Release Date: January 12, 2017

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Supernatural, Short Story

Synopsis:

Second Edition

“There are places where science cannot reach, and minds it was never meant to understand…”

London, 1913. Parapsychologist and gentleman scholar Frederick Cristo receives a summons that will lead him into the darkest corridors of the human mind — and the crumbling heart of madness itself.

When a series of impossible murders shock the capital, Cristo is drawn to the infamous St. Mary of Bethlehem Asylum for the Insane. There he meets the imposing Dr. Reginald Bannister, whose ambition borders on obsession, and Malcolm Stracke — a broken scientist who claims he carries a curse from the East.

Within those walls, sanity unravels. Cristo encounters a power older than empire and far beyond reason: a spirit that travels through time, possessing the living to continue its terrible work.

As the dead begin to speak and the living begin to serve them, Cristo must confront the terrifying truth — that he too has become a vessel for the same unseen force that destroyed Stracke, and that his only ally may be the woman who helped to end him.

The St. Mary of Bethlehem Asylum for the Insane continues The Ghost Hunter Diaries — a Gothic series of haunted letters, fading ink, and forbidden knowledge, where every discovery exacts a cost and every revelation draws the reader closer to the veil.

Perfect for readers of: Susan Hill • Alex North • C.J. Tudor • Laura Purcell • Shirley Jackson

Series: The Ghost Hunter Diaries — Book II

Genre: Historical Gothic • Supernatural Mystery • Epistolary Horror

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Trouble On Mintaka

(The Arthur Dominic Chronicles Part 1)

Release Date: October 30, 2016

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery, Space

Synopsis:

Second Edition

Beneath the glow of Orion’s Belt, the colony world of Mintaka never sleeps. Towers rise a thousand feet into toxic skies, plasma cars weave between neon canyons, and the Council’s silent eye watches everything.

For Dominic, a weary mining engineer, life is routine — work, home, repeat — until strange vibrations begin deep beneath the planet’s surface. Machines fail. Creatures stir in the molten dark. And soon, what begins as a fault in the mines erupts into something far greater — something alive.

As the city above burns in artificial daylight, Dominic finds himself at the heart of a catastrophe no one can contain. In a world built on extraction and control, the question is no longer how much the planet can give… but how much more it can take.

A cinematic, atmospheric sci-fi thriller — part dystopia, part cosmic horror — Trouble on Mintaka explores humanity’s hunger, hubris, and the monsters waiting in the dark between stars.

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Colin

Release Date: September 25, 2017

Available on: Kindle

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Short Story

Synopsis:

Second Edition

He’s cute.
He’s cuddly.
He’s had enough.

When Colin decides to take his nine lives into his own paws, things get messy.

A darkly comic fable about freedom, frustration, and the dangers of baby-talk.

“I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.” - Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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