Splitting Man

A battle as old as time.

A gentle giant of a man, changed.

The living and the dead, allied.

Sarah, together with her husband, Tom, leads her newly formed paranormal investigation team, Haunted Hunters, to Dorchester, in Dorset. Local legend deems the place haunted but recent reports of activity are of a truly terrifying nature. What they find waiting for them is beyond anything they could have foreseen.

Caught in the middle of a supernatural battle that has raged through the ages, the team find themselves tested and doubting everything they thought they knew. As the forces of darkness threaten to rip apart the veil separating the living world from the dead, alliances will be formed and torn apart and the dead themselves will become allies. Will anyone survive? This time, not even the dead are safe.

Beware,

the Splitting Man is coming...

The Awakening

Rockdale in Nebraska is an ordinary town with an extraordinary secret, a secret that is unwittingly uncovered when local intern archaeologist Ash Wakehurst and Professor Hopkins discover a new chamber in the caverns behind Rockdale Falls. They can never imagine the catastrophic events that will follow, events that will impact Ash and the lives of everyone in Rockdale as they are caught up in an epic struggle between good and evil. When the truth about his past is unravelled, Ash must come to terms with his role in preventing a certain apocalypse while trying to keep those he cares about safe from harm. As the ancient prophecy threatens to come to pass and he becomes the hunted, Ash's fate is intertwined with that of the beautiful homicide detective Anya Chemarov and Rana, his mysterious new lover. Both women are prepared to fight to protect him, but it is a fight that threatens to cost them everything as evil sweeps across the town. It is a fight where choices must be made and sides chosen.

The Black Willows

A young man named Tommy goes missing in a dense, isolated and unforgiving forest located 45 minutes outside the small town of Jennifer's Ridge. Months pass and there is no trace of him, with his family stricken with grief and the local police having no luck on locating him. His older brother, Jason; and childhood friend, Pete, team up with the local rangers to comb through the forest and bring him home…but they are not alone, the shadows hide ancient evils as they march further into the abyss, the trees seem to reach out and grab them, trying to warn the men as they track through. But they use this fear to push on, to bring Tommy home…to not let the Black Willows claim him as its own.

The Evil Inside II

The green latex image of a rotting skull hung tightly to Frank Graham’s skin, his face a long since forgotten memory. A trickle of blood escaped from his dehydrated lips, a sign of organ failure and internal bleeding. There appeared no intake of oxygen, no rise and fall of inflating lungs. Inside the mask, two black pits hid demonic eyes, cold, merciless eyes, clamped shut.

Until a flicker, a single twitch, steadily, gradually...

The First Bride: Oblivion

Darkness, hate and deceit lay in the heart of London with corruption leaving devastation and human wreckage in its wake. Iuliana and the Countess head into a new era where power and vengeance reign supreme over the minds of heroes and villains alike. After receiving a formal request from a highly respectable member of society, they journey to London only to find death's friendly greeting waiting for them. Iuliana disappears and the Countess is tasked with the case of finding her, making her question not only her own sanity, but also the how strong her resolve is. Asylums, caves and mansions hold the fear and doubt that rattle within her mind and bloody hands leave her alone and bitter, as her mate becomes the property of an old nemesis.

The Ghost of Glencoe

The story of the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692 is still widely told around the Highlands of Scotland. The Campbell Dragoons came, asking for shelter from the Glencoe MacDonalds. They were fed and housed for two weeks before they arose one night and butchered their hosts in their beds.

Anna takes her two small sons to a cottage in Glencoe for the summer. She meets Calum, who is dealing with a crazed ex-girlfriend, Helena, but there is something more sinister lurking around Anna’s cottage. Her six-year-old son is talking to ghosts and Anna is having violent dreams, reliving the night of the massacre as Kirstin MacDonald, who died horribly from frostbite, screaming for her missing son, two weeks after the massacre.

With the help of an eccentric local historian and his sidekick, they try to save Anna’s son from Kirstin’s ghost, but things are not what they seem.

The Inheritor

An unknown inheritance can be a dream come true. But for Callum Hopkins, this dream descended into a dark nightmare.

Callum is conflicted. He can either seize a chance to find happiness, belonging and power or follow his family’s vows on a path of brutal consequences where only the strong will be left standing.

The Inheritor is a story about a family sworn to protect and serve a secret society and a village determined to avenge a cruel dark past.

The Vessel of Elseland

Dante is a struggling artist. His hopes and dreams are shattered by the world harshly looked down upon. Lost his job and tormented by his own demons. But he has more to fear. Something monstrous. Something much, much more…

Haunted by horrifying nightmares of a world that are beyond the senses of exquisite pleasure and pain imaginable. He slowly spirals down into his personal hell – breaking away any hope and his own sanity.

Plagued by questions of what is real and what is hallucination caused by his madness. In these moments, he would be aided him by the kindness of a mysterious redhead woman. But is she really a friend or a foe?

Dante will soon face the terror of his nightmares and his personal tormentors – triggering a dark path that would change his destiny forever.

Winter Tales

Threatening, gloomy skies. Dark, chilly days and even darker, colder nights. Whispering from the corner or the rustle of dead leaves? A vision of the future or your worst nightmare come true? A silly game or a portal into the unknown? Was that a creak on the stairs or just the wind whistling in the eaves? You don’t have to believe in ghosts to enjoy a ghost story. Between these pages, you will find ghosts of all kinds. Not all ghosts are scary as I set out to prove in some of these stories. Some of the spirits within are indeed dark and vengeful, while others are playful and helpful and one wants to be forgiven for a past sin, despite the cruelty and injustice he himself suffered. All the stories within are set during winter, at or near Christmas, when in many homes it is traditional to read or listen to ghost stories, so curl up by the fireside and read on. I hope you enjoy the ghostly tales inside this cover. Sweet dreams and sleep well!

Complex Hell

It's present-day Sunderland and a mysterious manuscript is discovered in the house of an evil spirit, leading the unwary reader to a tale of the sixties in North East England, where not everything is quite as it seems. Forbidden love, loss and a lifetime of pure evil lie in store for whoever dares turn the ageing pages further. In Devils Wood House the memory of the missing girl, Rose, waits desperately. Unfortunately for her, time is not on her side. Can her soul be saved or will the child be lost forever? "Richard Valanga writes about the Afterlife like nobody else today. He's the 21st-century Dante of the North." - Tony Barrell, The Sunday Times

Northern Souls

Eric leaves the funeral of his girlfriend, suspected of her murder, to commit suicide. Her ghost appears, telling him of demonic tribes fighting to seize control within the north-east of England. With his friends Taylor and Emma, he investigates these increasing and brutal attacks while the ghost of Grace visits Eric, imparting directions and clues. They confront and battle the unholy forces from Tynemouth to Gateshead and all around. Eric makes a pact with a group of demons in return for saving the soul of Grace. He is given unspeakable supernatural power as they see his use, though Eric soon struggles with the fury and dark hellfire within.The people from all around the north-east soon learn of many increasing murders, torturous killings and hideous deaths around them, and many take refuge in churches and temples. Taylor is distracted by a mysterious stranger, and Emma learns of a connection to events at Holy Island. With the friends separated while the bloody carnage mounts around the north-east, can the northern souls be saved?

The Lost Soul

Black eyes. Seeing eyes. Death eyes.As Keeper of the Dead, Sondra Carstairs can see, hear and feel souls that no longer walk among the living. Or she could when she was younger. But as an eighteen-year-old, Sondra ran from everything that it meant to be Keeper, including Anona Island, the home of generations of Keepers. Twenty-two years since Sondra ran from being Keeper, she receives an appeal from a lost soul which forces her to return and face the darkness of Anona. Anona, the home of the Keepers, is no longer a safe haven for anyone, including Sondra. And when she learns just what someone is prepared to do, she must decide whether becoming Keeper is worth stepping on the path she’d avoided for so long or not. For the Keeper protects. She protects the dead. She protects the living. Embracing the darkness within is Sondra’s only chance to survive.