Ghosts and Hauntings

Miles buys an old farmhouse and hears relentless window taps each night, far beyond creaking floors or groaning pipes. Determined to find a logical reason, he unearths unsettling secrets that bring up past tragedies. As the mystery deepens, he fears something malevolent lingers in the darkness. If he can’t solve the puzzle, he may become only a short footnote the farmhouse’s long history.

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Struggling artist, Rob, has come to London to make his name. However, moving into a flat in an old house, he finds himself with some unwanted attention of the supernatural kind.

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When Ben promises to show his cousin, Ellen, a ghost, the pair set in motion a series of events that lead them into a terrifying encounter. Yet, within her fear, Ellen finds a purpose, and it is to find out what Millicent Van Curren, shot by her lover, wants from them.

Author's Note: For Phantom Love, my inspiration is a church yard in a little village in the Kent countryside called Wittersham. When I was a girl, my father was the rector of Wittersham and the primary school I went to was right next to the churchyard. There was only an open railing between us and what was a largely wild area. And, in the long grass, there were lots of rather dramatic tombs. One I remember vividly was made up of a large sarcophagus, broken in places and surrounded by brambles and a rusty fence. There was one time when a bunch of us were daring each other to stick our hands in the dark holes made by the breaks in the stonework.

I was never brave enough, but that dare is where the start of this story came from, so I hope you enjoy Ellen and Ben's tale.

Let me tell you about Molly Barley, or Miss Molly to her younger fares. Molly is a clippie, a bus conductress on the number 42 bus. She joined her London bus route in the sixties and has witnessed all the changes in the following decades. Devoted to her job, there’s never been ‘Mr Right’, but Molly doesn’t mind; her regulars, her fares, as she thinks of them, have been her family.

Enjoy this light-hearted story over a cup of tea or coffee as we follow Molly from her younger days through important moments of her career and introduce you to some of her favourite fares.

New friends should be breathing, right?

While launching into student life, Shani has to deal with the challenges of moving into a crumbling old house, getting to know her housemates, and the heady desires of new love. all the while, struggling with an unnerving backdrop of shadows and presences only she can sense.

After one crap A-level, Shani got her place at uni through the clearing process, so everything was very last-minute. Thus, she's ended up at the university's 'last chance saloon', a huge, but rundown old townhouse that maintenance seems to have forgotten. Still, beggars can't be choosers. At least she can afford the rent, and for that she's willing to put up with her new neighbours, the ones she can see, and the ones she can't.

But are the shadows that haunt the corners of this crumbling residence going to be as tolerant of Shani and her oblivious housemates?

Enjoy novelette, The Lodger, over a cup of coffee, or are you brave enough to read it by candlelight?!

Mina has only been an Ensign Navigator on the interstellar cruiser, Queen Elizabeth VI, for two weeks, so everything is exciting and new. She counts herself lucky to have been assigned to the same ship as her little brother, Alistair, and she doesn’t want to do anything to jeopardize their posting. It’s an easy mission, a charter flight to Aurelia Prime to celebrate the primeversary of the discovery of Carbon Prime, the reason everyone can travel between the stars.

Yet something is not right and Mina senses the wrongness. That feeling is confirmed when one of the descendants of the pioneers who discovered the miracle fuel is found dead in her cabin, frozen to death by a coolant leak. At least, that is what their leaders are saying. Mina doesn’t believe it. It must be something to do with the strange, impenetrable vessel encased completely in Carbon Prime that has suddenly appeared in their path and is now shadowing them to Aurelia Prime?

No longer trusting the superiors who only seem interested in their glorious history, Mina and Alistair look to lower ranks to investigate what is really going on. Something is bad in the history of Aurelia Prime; something is missing from the official records. Can Mina find out what it is in time to save all on board the QE VI?