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I’ve reached the final days before publication. It feels rather strange to see a story that began with Arctic silence, an isolated motel, and an old question about justice becoming a real book. White Silence, Red Justice is released on 16 July.

Proofreading the Berit Anna chapters today. She may be the heart of the book: a woman trying to avoid a calling that has been waiting for her since birth.

One thing I keep noticing on this final pass is how much of the story is really about silence — what people refuse to say, what the snow hides, and what the dead don’t forget.

Today I reached the Furuness Motel chapters again. This is where the long threads finally begin to knot together.

I’m doing the final proofread of White Silence, Red Justice now. It’s strange revisiting a book at this stage — not quite mine anymore, but not quite the reader’s yet either.

It’s rather nice, and slightly strange, to read this now it’s out in the world.

Reading this again now it’s out in the world feels slightly strange.

👁 Last chance! Dead Easy vanishes at midnight.
Grab it now before the nightmares start whispering…

🦇 Still free! 14 chilling Poe tales made modern, clear, and terrifying.
Only one more day before the shadows close in…

🎃 It begins! Dead Easy: Edgar Allan Poe Retold is FREE today on Amazon — just in time for Halloween!
👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHG53BZH

Halfway through launch week! Dead Easy is still just 99¢ — the cobwebs are gone but the terror remains…

Launch day! 🎉 Finally reading my own book Dead Easy: Edgar Allan Poe Retold. Poe’s creepiest tales — now in plain English. Just 99¢ this week (Sept 9–16). #horror #gothicfiction #EdgarAllanPoe

Poe’s 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' is often called the first detective story — long before Sherlock Holmes.

The narrators in these stories aren’t just unreliable — they’re utterly unhinged. And that’s half the fun.

Today’s update: translating 19th-century paranoia into 21st-century nightmares. Poe would’ve loved it.

What I love about Dead Easy is how the horror hits faster. You get straight to the madness, murder, and Poe’s eerie brilliance.

I’ve been neck-deep in The Pit and the Pendulum — and even in modern English, that swinging blade makes your skin crawl.

Who knew The Masque of the Red Death could feel even more chilling with plain English and a sharper pace?

Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is still a masterclass in insanity. In this version, the guilt bleeds through in every line.

Just finished modernising The Black Cat — it’s still creepy as hell, just easier to understand now. The narrator? Definitely mad.

Finished. The Bell Tower Suite took more from me than I expected. If you’ve read it, let me know what you thought.

The Bell Tower Suite traps more than spirits. It traps cycles—revenge, grief, and ghosts that return every hundred years.

Everything changed when the portrait became clear. The judge was no stranger after all…

What’s worse than a ghost? A ghost who used to be a judge. With unfinished business.

Quote: “The rat’s face was a miniature human effigy, fixed with the vilest mania that had animated him in life.” 🐀

Lightning over the Cloud Estate. Shadows moving on their own. The smell of candle wax and fear.

Sibyl’s past haunts her more than the mansion does. A childhood in Africa. A promise never to let anyone she loves die again…

You might say I have an affinity for spirits,” said Mortimer. “Infinity?” said Bert. “That’s a lot of booze, mate.” 🍷