The devastating consequences for each of them lead to a battle of wits only the strongest will survive. Being thrown together on a rainy London street is another matter, and rather than what she needs, Annie gets what she wants. Wake as a patient she would have got that. What Annie really needs is help, and if she’d met Dr. Michael Wake is an ambitious psychiatrist whose perfect family life is derailed when a chance meeting with a young woman ignites his dark side. Threshold is a dark, psychological horror/thriller set in the UK, written with fellow horror author, Steve Emmett.Īnnie and Michael’s lives are worlds apart.

My shortest story, so far, The Dark Heart, has been published on The Crypt online magazine from Ghost Orchid Press. The Dark Heart Click to read The Dark Heart My short story Safe Harbour has been included in Sanitarium Magazine and also in Massacre Magazine Issue One And they did take photos, but there was a fault with the camera. “- given the amount of time the place has been empty! It simply needs updating. “He probably means there’s an embalmed cat bricked into the fireplace.” “Do you think you can keep your imagination under control? The agent said it was remarkably well preserved-” Like it’s a complete wreck with water running down the walls… blood stains on the carpet…” Marie closed her eyes and shuddered. “The cobwebs, rat droppings, dust and rotten floorboards? There must be a reason they had no photos of the interior on the website. “Do you think the estate agent has chickened out?” Not long now and I’ll be held softly in his arms and loved in a way I have only briefly tasted but often imagined.Ī ‘desirable property in need of updating’ clings on to its past, and a young couple’s future together is irrevocably changed.Ī short ghost story (approx 4500 words) Excerpt: I can hear my own breathing, my own heartbeat, over the wind whipping through the canopy of trees above me. I press my fingers first against the wound, then against my lips, tasting the ferrous stain on my skin. Twisted branches snatch at my face, scratch my cheek, draw blood.

Leaves whisper conspiratorially as I brush past. A few steps farther and I will be lost forever.įallen twigs snap beneath my feet.

A few steps farther and I will be embraced by the forest, wrapped in the musty smell of decay, held in its damp caress. Excerpt:Ī few steps farther off the path and I will be consumed by the dark. When night falls we can venture into danger within the safety of our dreams – where nothing can really touch us… or can it? One woman’s insidious fantasy threatens everything, but some nightmares are simply too good to resist. Dark Fiction A Dark Miscellany – a series of short horror and ghost stories Dreaming, Not Sleeping Click to view on Amazon

Massacre Magazine by Julia Kavan