Heidi Seek and other stories is published today..!

I'm very excited to announce the publication of my debut short story collection, Heidi Seek and other stories with Red Sail Press. From today, this is available as an eBook from Amazon here: Heidi Seek

and will be rolled out to all other e-reading devices during the next couple of weeks. But don't fret if you don't own a Kindle reader or i-Pad; the paperback will be available later this month. 

Heidi Seek and other stories is inspired by some of my favourite writers who wrote in the genres of mystery, imagination and horror: Edgar Allan Poe, M.R. James and Franz Kafka. Kafka is included because of his love of the nightmarish and surreal, James for his natural affinity with ghosts, and Poe for his psychological suspense and terror. As is mentioned in the foreword to this collection, each story explores the thin line between light and dark, good and evil, dream and nightmare. Lurking inside my book are ghosts and murderers, misfortunates, a penitent priest, and a curse that lasts more than a hundred years...not to mention a macabre doll with a life all of its own! But don't be too frightened; the collection is less of a gory bloodfest and more of a psychological horror book, appealing to a reader's innermost thoughts as well as their emotions. That way a story may linger longer in the mind...

Some of the stories have been published before in literary magazines, others are brand new, but even the previously published stories have been substantially re-written for the purposes of this particular book. For a flavour of one of the stories (the title story in fact), please click the link above and look inside Heidi Seek. 

And no, I'm not playing an April Fool's Day trick...!


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