Author: johnfleonard
It’s been a great night, but it’s getting late. You need to make tracks and cash isn’t king.No worries …all aboard the Night Service. It could be the last bus you ever catch.Every journey is a journey into the unknown, but this trip is an eye-opener, unlike anything that Luke and Jessica have ever experienced. They’re going to learn a few important lessons. Being young and in love doesn’t grant … love doesn’t grant immunity from the everyday awful …or the less ordinary evil that lurks in the shadows.There’s no inoculation from the horror of the world – it’s real…
It starts with reports on the news of an inland lake turning semi-solid.Surely, a media joke, some lame April Fool’s prank?The before and after pictures are vaguely ludicrous and oddly disturbing, the contrast stark and strange.First, darkly rippling water that hints at hidden depths. Slightly spooky and perfectly normal. Next, a putrid blotch of clotted sludge which bears little resemblance to … resemblance to anything aquatic.It isn’t a joke.And pretty soon, that greasy, sickening substance isn’t confined to an inland lake.It’s spreading. Flowing over fields and filling streets.Each morning brings a new revelation. Countryside denuded of life and towns empty…
Ever notice how some places don’t feel right? No rhyme or reason, they’re just unsettling, without you being able to pinpoint the cause.The vaguely suspicious demeanour of the locals. The pewtered quality of light. The old and indefinably alien smell that blows on the breeze …difficult to say for sure, but there’s definitely something.Bledbrooke is one of those places. It’s always been … been different to other towns.Quaint and quiet, a little backwater with a somehow dark charm all of its own. Once you get used to it, you wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.It’s not all sweetness and light…
Seeing a stranger die is the worst thing that Chris has ever witnessed. Picking up the dead man’s wallet is a mistake, a moment of weakness.That’s all it takes, one impulsive act, for reality to unravel.Because pocketing the wallet is only the beginning.Dark forces swim below the surface of the world…They change their shape but never go away…They find a way through… Chris Carlisle … way through… Chris Carlisle experiences an everyday horror. A morning starts out bad and gets worse.Wrong place at the wrong time and life takes a wrong turn.But even the blackest clouds have silver linings. He…
“Sentience? I’m just a throwaway toy, an inanimate object. How can I have thought and emotion? Opinion and experience? I’d shrug my shoulders if I could. The world is brimful of mystery.”All the kids adore Doggem, the class cuddly toy.They each get to take him home. Hug him and love him and show him their world outside of school.All they have to do in return is write his diary.It’s George Gould’s … diary.It’s George Gould’s turn and he’s going to introduce Doggem to a rather unusual family.Before we go any further, it’s worth pointing out that both the stuffed toy…
Vincent likes nothing more than rootling round second-hand shops in search of the interesting and unusual. Items that are lost and forgotten.Why not? He needs the diversion. Time on his hands and money to burn. His life is affluent and empty. Little on the horizon and memories tinged bittersweet.That’s all about to change. He’s about to find something that is perhaps better left unfound.CALL … unfound.CALL DROPS is a darkly swirling mix of horror and mystery that will stay with you long after the reading is done. It’ll maybe make you think twice about impulse buying, those moments when you…