THE GARGOYLE'S DISPLEASURE

The two boys glared at each other across the vitreous reflector. Smmek and Dedsi. Their hatred for each other was tangible, a choking smog o...

It happened in the neutron blast. Boom. I was thrown onto the staircase. I went downstairs and realised after a while that this was my past....

Ada was waiting for Norman to come round. He always came on a Friday night with a little extra something for her. Tonight was going to very ...

The man began his day sweeping dried leaves from his verandah, the fallen messages from the mountain ash. Autumn and Winter had passed and S...

Gregory looked in the mirror. His reflection was viscous.  He rubbed his eyes. Jesus, I've got to stop drinking on Fridays! His colleagu...

The old Don was fed up with Christmas before it had even begun. The colleges were closed, the porter's retired for the holiday and the c...

They're everywhere ghosts. And they like to mess with us. I think of them as cartoons of the dead,  Animations from the grave. Adverts i...

Twas but a flicker in the tallow flame burning in the window. I lit it so that he may find his way home. Thank the Lord God. It was nothing ...

She wandered into the Museum that day. It was freezing cold that New Year's Eve and raining outside in the dead of Winter. Shaking herse...

  October hardens like a scab. Two devils, dancing, demand again the Beast spew up the Samhain, its festival, its Hell ...

The winter of 1971 was as bitter as the grave and as long as any anyone could remember in Snowdonia.  Snow fell and blanketed the villages a...