Sophie Duncan

Three spine tingling horror stories with ghosts that will haunt your nightmares.

Curse of a Banshee - magical crime scene clean-up is a low fae job, doesn't require much magic and, if you know what you're doing, isn't dangerous. So B is expecting an ordinary night 'at the office' when she deploys her team on a large tidying job in the middle of an English woodland. However, when she rescues a djinn boy from the criminals trying to enslave him, her own djinn and banshee heritages mean her own life and those of her team are put in mortal peril.

Two stories for lovers of horror and curses: If Wishes Were... by Natasha Duncan-Drake and Happy Families by Sophie Duncan.

Is it a symptom left from his brain haemorrhage, or a guilty conscience that is making Tristan McCall see things no-one else can?

Forced out of the police by scandal and illness, Tris is trying to rebuild his life through the renovation of the home he hopes to share with Xander, his husband. A sprawling Gothic pile, Berwick House is in need of attention, but Tris soon realises the attention is not all one way. Faced with a presence in the house only he can sense, Tris must decide if his damaged brain is playing tricks on him, or if Berwick House really holds a dark and dangerous message from beyond the grave.

Two short stories of the spooky kind created for All Hallows Read 2013.
The Visitor by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Ruderbaker by Sophie Duncan

The Hidden War has been raging unseen my normal eyes for generations and Zac Kithrall, demon-seer, and Damon Wulfres, demon-raiser, have grown up on opposite sides of it. Now they must work together, but Zac can't remember why.

The bargain has been sealed, Umi is now a vampire and belongs to Hieron as his concubine. Yet, Hieron cannot reconcile himself to the secrecy behind his new slave, it makes him dangerously angry and the vampire lord lives up to his warning to Umi that he will be cruel.

Hieron, vampire lord of Harkham, is unaccustomed to visitors in his private bedchamber unless he has expressly invited them. Such an unsolicited intrusion should mean the interloper's death.

This is a two story horror anthology created for All Hallows Read 2012.
Catcher of Souls by Natasha Duncan-Drake
Some Things Are Stranger... by Sophie Duncan

Meet a university rock band with a lupine secret and an alien with cat ears and a tail, among other young protagonists in this volume of short stories and novelettes.