How To Contact The Living
The living and the dead have finally made contact. Turns out that was the easy part.
Detective Owen Hoath spent his life chasing dangerous people, never thinking he would end up a victim, choking to death on his own blood in the house of the infamous Cherry Tree Killer. Now, trapped between this life and the afterlife, Owen is desperate for justice, for one last chance to put right what went wrong - and maybe find a little peace.
Amateur paranormal investigator Wil Tagg has spent his life chasing ghosts, never thinking one would chase him, let alone get his attention by attacking him in a public restroom. When Owen makes contact, Wil can’t resist the opportunity to finally study a real spirit, even if it means helping Owen close his last case. But what begins as a thrilling supernatural partnership quickly spirals into something far more sinister.
As Wil is pulled deeper into the mystery of Owen’s death, he discovers that the living aren't always who they appear to be — and the dead can't be trusted either. With a killer on the loose and Owen's restless spirit growing more desperate by the day, Wil has to decide who to trust before he becomes the next victim.
How To Contact The Living is a darkly comic paranormal thriller about learning that in this life or the afterlife, the most dangerous lies are always the ones we tell ourselves.
Release Date: 8 October 2024
ISBN: 978-1-0687222-0-2 (E-book)
ISBN: 978-1-0687222-1-9 (Paperback)
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MAW
Seasons pass...leaves fall...daylight fades...but family is forever.
MAW is a haunting Autumnal horror novella set in the Scottish Highlands. It is a story about family, about the distances between us and the ties that bind us.
When Maisie receives a call for help from her grandmother Cora, she returns reluctantly to the remote country house in which the woman she and her sister know as Maw raised them in their mother's absence. It's Oct 30th and it's bad enough she was back just a few weeks ago for Maw's birthday and wasn't planning on returning until Christmas - and only then if she couldn't come up with a good enough excuse - it also means she's probably going to miss the Halloween party she was looking forward to in Edinburgh. With night closing in, she arrives to find Maw missing and her granduncle Jordie, Maw's older brother, bedridden and acting even more mental than usual.
As she waits for Maw to return and explain just what the hell is going on, she finds Maw's phone, left behind, and also her journal, which contains some very worrying entries about the strange events unfolding in this house perched on the edge of the wilderness.
MAW combines folk and cosmic horror, a little gore, a touch of humour, and a meditation app that is most definitely NOT user-friendly.
For MAW'S initial release (from Oct 10th 2025 until Dec 31st 2025) as part of a special charity collaboration with Indie Reads, 100% of sales will be donated to RED CROSS UKRAINE and UNICEF'S GAZA CRISIS EMERGENCY APPEAL. I strongly encourage you to visit their websites, learn more about their life-saving work, and see what you can do to help.
Release Date: 10 October 2025 (Exclusive to indiereads.org)
13 Stories
COMING SOON
Nightmarish creatures send humanity into hiding within the earth’s depths. A lonely soldier on a WWII battlefield dreams of going home. The past returns to a haunt a suburban couple.
Thirteen short stories bubbling over with punks, cowboys, ghosts, rogue yoga balls, half-price séances, and sibling discord. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wish there were thirteen more.
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