When Lemon Tree Players decided to present a production of Arnold Ridley’s famous thriller ‘The Ghost Train’, little did they realise that they themselves would e wrapped up in a murder mystery to rival that of any fictitious plot… This new comedy thriller was co-written by Nicholas Ridley, the real-life son of Dads Army star Arnold Ridley
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News – The Ghost Train directed by Nick at the Theatre Royal Windsor, 10-14 June
Stranded in the middle of nowhere, a group of travellers hear chilling tales of ‘The Ghost Train’ by the station master who warns them of an eerie train which haunts the line and causes death to anyone who witnesses it. Is there really a phantom train, or are there more sinister, earthly forces at work?
Continue reading »News – the 6th and final eBook in the SKAYNE series: 6. The Ground Outside, available now
Available now from celebrated author Jonathan Barnes (The Somnambulist, The Domino Men) is the sixth and final interconnected tale of spine-chilling terror to disquiet and entertain. SKAYNE – A series of six short ghost stories by Jonathan Barnes 6: The Ground Outside Now. When widowed ex-actor Peter Stockman rents a house in the countryside to nurse his grief
Continue reading »News – SKAYNE 4 and 5 – ghost story eBooks (EPUB) – available now
SKAYNE is a series of six short interconnected ghost stories by celebrated author Jonathan Barnes. 4: GH19 1958. British Intelligence agent Anthony Guist has been despatched to a guesthouse in the small seaside town of Chiding-on-the-Sands to meet a Soviet defector. Coolly unflappable until today and a dedicated sceptic, he is about to encounter a very different
Continue reading »News – SKAYNE 3. The Last Constitutional eBook (EPUB) published today
SKAYNE 3. The Last Constitutional is the third of six interconnected tales of spine-chilling terror by celebrated author Jonathan Barnes (The Somnambulist, The Domino Men). Summer. 1927. Ex-pat Freddy Illingsworth, in flight from England since the 1890s and now resident in Athens, takes a long walk every day at noon. Growing old and consumed by loneliness, he
Continue reading »News – Sci-Fi Bulletin reviews SKAYNE 2. The Tempelstone Gate
The malevolent influence of Godfrey Skayne stretches to a school immediately after the Great War… Jonathan Barnes’ sequence of ghost stories continues with this insidiously creepy tale which moves the story forward to the early part of the 20th century. Once again it’s a first person narrative, with a slowly-burning claustrophobic feel as the events
Continue reading »News – SKAYNE 1. The Library at Iffley Tower Audiobook available now
Available NOW from celebrated author Jonathan Barnes (The Somnambulist, The Domino Men) – the first of six brand new, interconnected tales of spine-chilling terror to disquiet and entertain. SKAYNE 1: The Library at Iffley Tower – Audiobook (MP3) ‘A delicious feel of both M.R. James and H.P. Lovecraft’ Sci-Fi Bulletin http://scifibulletin.com/books/horror/review-skayne-1-the-library-at-iffley-tower/ It is the end
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