Welcome to the second jam-packed volume of Tales of the Weird by the internationally recognized expert of the supernatural - Tom Slemen. In this new collection of strange, uncanny, intriguing and downright terrifying stories, you will read of the Grim Reaper who might have claimed the lives of two world-famous pop stars and many other unfortunate people in the heart of London. You will also read about the shadowmen who can stop your heart, secret roads and rainbow bridges, terrifying plagues of gigantic rats, and the sinister thing which resurrects people from history – including Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI. If you have a stout heart and strong nerves, allow Tom Slemen to regale you with tales of real-life werewolves, scheming doppelgangers, mysterious “Machine Elves”, timeslips, ghouls that seek horrific vengeance on men who cheat, and even a story which will make you doubt your very own existence! From teleportation secrets to a mysterious being that tried to entrap a girl in a nightmare world, you will read of horrors and intrigues across the world which will send a tingle down your spine and give you nightmares.
Tom Slemen is a Liverpool writer, columnist and broadcaster, known foremostly as the author of the best-selling Haunted Liverpool series of books which document paranormal incidents and often unsolved or unusual crimes in his home town of Liverpool, past and present. --from the author's website
This is the second book in the Tales of the Weird series. Author Tom Slemen has more unusual tales to thrill, delight and chill you. These tales come from around the world, unlike the Haunted Liverpool series. Truth is often stranger than fiction, this book helps to reinforce that. The tales were fascinating as usual. I read this book using immersion reading. R k Meyer does a decent job with the narration, but his dry reading lacks the emotion this book needs. I prefer the wonderful Nigel Peever, who handles accents so well. This type of book should be narrated by a Brit.
Hands down one of the best books on the paranormal I've read in years. The stories were unique, as I had never before read a single one of them...and I read quite a lot of true stories of the paranormal. I'm going to download the first Tales of the Weird now.