Gothic Horror Tales

London is in the tight grip of a murderer stalking the docklands, preying on men, women and children, and William Woodes fears that he might be next. As he continues to report to the Morning Herald on the unfolding case of the Manning Murder, Mr Woodes is drawn ever closer to the Dockland Doctor whose murderous rampage is unrelenting. Determined to put an end to an end to the mystery, and free Lon...

Send us a textThe year is 1849. Darkness hangs over the streets of London in the wake of a grisly murder, and at the heart of it all is William Woodes, the foremost stenographer of the era. Tasked with the undesirable ordeal of recording the details of the Manning Murder for the renowned printing house in Black Friars, Mr Woodes’ literary wit propels him into the annals of history. But not everyth...

Send us a textWilliam Woodes is no stranger to the darkest side of London's docklands. A stenographer for the King's Printing House in Black Friars, he does not shy from the horror of London's worst, nor will he submit to the rule of its elite. In the wake of public outrage and fear which followed the Bermondsey Horror, Mr Woodes discovers a new evil which will quickly consume him.

Send us a textGeorge Rankin is no fool. He is educated, intuitive and daringly bold. But it is his desperate desire to dispel the fanciful and discredit the superstitious that leads him aboard a train ride from London to Norfolk. Little does he know of the evil that lurks aboard that train, a sinister presence which stalks the carriages and hungers for revenge. In time, he will discover that the v...

Send us a textThe English London and Northwestern Railway has never known a tale riddled by a terror so unforgiving as that which you will soon hear. Aboard a train of obscure repute, our story begins, crossing a grey landscape from London to Norfolk in pursuit of an unnatural ambition that would soon become the enduring bedrock of an infamous society possessed in its devotion to psychical researc...

Send us a textThis month, I'll be sharing a bittersweet yule time tale filled with joy, wonder and magic.

Send us a textThe Staircase is an introspective look into the anima of human mortality. You awake as a nameless character and must follow the spiral staircase in order to unravel the fibers of consciousness woven from your deepest fears. What truths are born before the ghostly vanity? What strings tug at your mortal coil?

Send us a textIn the final chapter of The Manor on the Moors, Peter Norrell will be forced to face his darkest fears, but he will soon discover that what he fears most of all is what lurks deep inside his heart.

Send us a textWhen another death surfaced in the little town on the moors, Mr. Norrell’s suspicions quickly turn on Grimwulf manor. With the ever elusive Mr. Grimwulf yet to make an appearance, he is determined to uncover the truth that hangs over the town like a ghostly fog… but what he uncovers is a secret far more disturbing than he could have ever imagined.

Send us a textWhen the ailing master of the manor on the moors commissions an autobiography to dispel a life-long mystery surrounding the Grimwulf name, Peter Norrell answers with apprehensive fervour. The quiet town of Ascott-under-Wychwood is a welcomed change for the London-based writer, who has not been back to the town ever since he was a boy. But there is something strange stalking the moors...

Send us a textOur first tale begins in the eighteenth century during a time when art and science burgeoned, propelling England into what would become the industrial revolution. Georgian England was a time of extremes, of radicalism and growth, poverty, and wealth, and most notably, of life and death. But even the brightest of sparks could not dispel the darkness that would soon terrorize the stree...