‘….And Other Stories’ is a collection of weird and wonderful tales
involving dead people fighting in funeral parlours, apple trees with
mystical biblical powers, red devils plotting petty misdemeanours, sex
potions gone wrong, door-stepping Satanists, DIY trepanning clubs,
renegade shadows, and computer games from from another universe. This collection also includes the award winning short story, ‘Home-Koming’.Cover photography and artwork by Caitlin Sagan.
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'1-2-3-4' Twenty years ago, Ewan Wallace was lead singer in Solomon Grundy, a band
on the threshold of the big time when a practical joke went badly
wrong, resulting in a fourteen year old girl in Poland murdering three
of her school friends before attempting suicide. The girl, Karina Maciek
survived as a disturbed cripple in a grim east European mental hospital
where she grew into a perverse, half human creature whose hobbies are
electro-shock therapy, self mutilation and writing hate filled letters
to Ewan. Now Karina Maciek is dying and on her way to Glasgow for
revenge.Cover Artwork by Caitlin Sagan
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'The Garden of Remembrance' Matt McVey, his wife Teri, and their two young daughters Denise and Alice, are spending their summer holiday in St Andrew’s on the east coast of Scotland. This will be no carefree holiday however. Six weeks prior to the trip Teri discovered Matt was having a casual affair and kicked him out. Languishing in his brother’s spare room, Matt is resigned to the fact of inevitable divorce and losing his daughters when out of the blue Teri contacts him and suggests they go ahead with holiday. This, she explains will be a chance to see if there is any possibility to work things out between them. There are conditions - they will not share a bed and he is not to use their daughters as bargaining chips. Matt is desperate to mend the marriage and promises to move heaven and earth to make things right. At first the signs are good he will succeed in getting Teri to take him back. But what Matt hadn’t reckoned on is the unseen passenger who travelled to St Andrew’s with them. A shadowy, long forgotten figure from Matt’s past.
Cover Painting by James Gorman
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'Carapace' heralds
the return of the late lamented multi-character, horror genre -
complete with buckets of blood, gallons of gore, gratuitous violence and
frequent descriptions of dubious sexual practices. This is the sort of
novel where you don’t so much suspend your disbelief as put it into
cryogenic storage. This is Whisky Galore meets Night of the Living Dead.Cover photography and artwork by Caitlin Sagan.
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'Dreaming in the Snakepark' Long before God created the Garden of Eden, there was another, much
older garden, where the Seraphim and Cherubim waged war upon each other
with such cruelty that God saw fit to destroy his first creation and
make a new paradise.Abandoned to rot and decay for countless
millennia, only the twisted and malformed dreams of mankind now wander
through its poisonous wastelands, trapped like wasps in a jar. But they
are not alone. One of the ancient Seraphim survived the wrath of God,
and has finally found a way out of his nocturnal prison. Only one
man can halt the fallen angel’s trail of bloodlust and slaughter – the
very same man who can also hand the Seraphim the key to wiping out
mankind. The mean streets of Glasgow are about to become a battleground
of a type never seen before.Cover photography and artwork by Caitlin Sagan.
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A collection of curiously dark tales including the vengeful victims of a serial killer, dead wives reanimated for domestic chores, diesel trains possessed by demons, lusty inflatable crocodiles, haunted Christmas cards, corpses posing as movie stars, and a rapist killer with senile dementia.Cover photography and artwork by Caitlin Sagan.
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'Invergallus' Published as Strachan McQuade.These five tales are centred around the local café, The Boggin’ Spurtle, where the tartan juke-box is dedicated to a selection of Scottish musical legends such as Sir Harry Lauder, Kenneth McKellar, Moira Anderson, and Sydney Devine. Feel free to waste your money on badly brewed coffee and overpriced buttered scones served to you with a scowl by the proprietor, Sannox and his sluttish waitress, Flirty Fiona. You can even have a wee flutter on the one-legged fruit machine, but don’t expect to win any money. No-one ever does.
Written by the internationally acclaimed Reverend Strachan McQuade (author of the multi-award winning opus - Breeding Habits of the Fulvous Whistling Duck), these tales delve into areas probably best left untouched……… by anyone.
Cover photography and artwork by Caitlin Sagan.
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When Harry Flanagan accepts an invitation to spend a dull Sunday evening ghost-hunting in Glasgow’s notorious Hagen Castle, the last thing he expects is to be caught up in a brutal double murder when two of his fellow ghost hunters are slain in a grotesque fashion. It gets all the more troublesome when the killer appears to be targeting the remaining members of the ghost hunters, picking them off one by one. Then a multi-millionaire movie star, Chaz Mogg, becomes obsessed with the murder-spree and claims to have knowledge the killer is an assassin from a fabled hidden world known to the initiated as Monochrome. To complicate matters further, a shadowy figure who calls himself the Administrator, and who might just be the most powerful man in the world, is also taking a keen interest in the proceedings.
Monochrome is an amalgam of disturbing chiller, cabalistic mystery and religious fantasy bound together with dark wit and devilish humour - Where infernal killing machines rub shoulders with broken-demons, metaphysical stormtroopers, murderous clerical lackeys and garrulous ghosts.
It feels like history is repeating itself when out-of-favour detective Will Harlan gets summoned to a crime scene in the village of Brackenbrae after a young girl is found hanging in the woods.
Five years ago Harlan headed up the investigation of an identical murder in the same woods; a mishandled investigation that effectively destroyed his credibility as a detective. The new case immediately takes a bizarre twist when the body is identified as the same girl found hanging in the woods five years ago.
The following day a local man commits suicide and the police find more dead girls hidden in his basement. The case seems open and closed.
Until the killing spree begins.
Harlan finds himself drawn into a dark world where murder is a form of self-expression and human life treated as one more commodity to be used and discarded.
The only clue that links everything is a large oil painting of ‘Sagittarius A’ – a massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy orbited by thirteen stars daubed in blood with the words –Heart Swarm
'Wasp Latitudes'Against a background of brutal attacks on people and property by a rag-tag group of homeless men whom the media quickly dub Berserkers, DI Will Harlan is juggling with a head-in-a-bucket patricide, a lethal wife-swapping session, a sex-tape scandal involving the Royal Scottish National Orchestra - and perhaps most discomfiting of all - a spate of late night phone calls from his favourite serial killer, Howie Danks.
As the wife-swapping investigation spirals into a glut of cold-blooded slayings carried out by a mysterious pair of killers known as the Wasp Queen and the Priest, Harlan has to look into the past where a cold case may contain uncomfortable answers. But it’s in the present where the real danger lies as he follows a twisted path of mind control and madness leading to a cruel land some call the Wasp Latitudes.
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