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
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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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