'Collected Ghost Stories' now contains in one ebook all the 23 linked ghost stories I have published previously on Smashwords and Draft2Digital. You can download the ebook for free from Smashwords, Apple, Fable, Barnes & Noble and others.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...

There's also a paperback version of the first 16 ghost stories - 'The Consul from Tunis and other ghost stories', available from Amazon, ebay and elsewhere.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ48ZD36

These ghost stories are more thoughtful than violent. They mix crime and history and the uncanny, and are told by eight different narrators, all old friends but with a wide range of backgrounds, from journalists and judges to clergymen and career criminals.

As one reviewer has said, these stories are "subtly disturbing tales, that will appeal to those who prefer their supernatural to be gore-free but suffused with discomfit and anxiety of the most sophisticated sort...They always feels authentically experienced rather than merely ‘well-researched’... The tales are structured as Chinese box narratives that disorient the reader just enough to leave you unprepared for the jolting manifestation of the uncanny: this is story-telling as conjuring, in both the obvious senses of the word."

The stories draw on places round the world where I've lived and worked. But all the characters are fictitious, even the ghosts. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

To find out more, watch the informative and entertaining review of 'The Consul from Tunis and other ghost stories' on the excellent 'For Whom the Book Tolls' podcast. It's a good introduction to these unusual ghost stories and is well worth watching in its own right.

https://writeoutloudblog.com/2024/12/...