Jonathan Dunne

The Nobody Show is an accident waiting to happen... Old Castle (population 666 ... 665 ... 664) is a town ravaged by unemployment. The magic is gone and the economy is in the gutter, but newest dole statistic, Arthur Lawless, has a dream... Arthur wants to chase down his childhood dream to build his own circus. He makes it his mission to put on The Greatest Show on Earth - Old Castle's slice of Earth, at least...

The Nobody Show

BALLOON ANIMALS is a pilgrimage and road-trip of unusual dimensions. Follow me, Jonny Rowe, on a wild goose-chase from Ireland to the USA with my American grandfather's remains in my red birthday balloon. I use 'remains' in the loosest sense of the word: my grandfather, 45, puffed his last breaths of air into my birthday balloon before suffering a massive heart attack right there at my birthday party which becomes his deathday party. Feeling responsible for 45's death, and as a thank-you for filling Clinical Dad's void after leaving that questionable suicide note, I make it my quest to return 45 to his birthplace amongst the corn of Iowa, USA, suspended inside his soul-bubble. This journey might also help me with my identity-crisis ... I'm a genealogy student, by the way. And who knows, maybe I'll find love - I tend to find things when I'm not looking for them. Join me on a desperate race against time to unveil the truth as my birthday balloon begins to deflate and loose 45 forever to the wind.

Balloon Animals

Rosie

Living Dead Lovers follows the life and times of famed psychic-medium, half-Romani gypsy, Valentina 'Cabbage' Moone, from her mute infancy trawling the roads of Europe to a fiery-tongued, hard-drinking, speed-loving clairvoyant with a complete disregard for human life, including her own of late... Psychic-medium Cabbage brings forth more than she can chew with womanizing dead racing-car driver, Marty 'Magma' Molloy, who doesn't want to give up the chase. A twisted love-affair never meant to be. Necrophilia: that's what the sceptical call it. Romantics call it the yin-yang love between being and human being, light and, oh, so very dark. And her guardian angel Mr. Brick Shithouse makes it even more complicated...

Living Dead Lovers

Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG things: Alzheimer's and a 42 year-old Indian elephant called Sinbad. Mick and his elephant become overnight on-the-run, anti-hero legends when Mick, an old rebel with a cause, takes matters into his own hands.The Alzheimer's brings Mick something very special: an adventure he never thought possible with his dear old friend, Sinbad.

Hide the Elephant

Manuel Rivas

Books Burn Badly

The house is free...but it comes with a price. Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle where they move into a 200-year-old stately farmhouse...which isn't quite vacant. The Greene family realise they've become unwitting participants in a macabre contest where the farmhouse is first prize...or is it? Little do they know they're sharing their house with a sinister squatter that lingers in the fireplace, and likes to come out and play when the sun goes down. In danger of financial ruin, Molly goes public about the ominous presence in the house, never considering the repercussions of her actions.

The Squatter

It is always night in the cave. Take my cold hand. Weeks before young Fern Keegan sees the ghostly silhouettes in the river tunnel during the Old Castle floods, a deranged patient, Gabriel Bogdan, makes an outrageous claim nobody at The Hillside Psychiatric Hospital believes until it's too late. The river runs through it, and the river runs deep. My name is Daisy, but you may know me as Crazy Daisy.

Crazy Daisy

Welcome to Hotel Miramar, where the guests aren't guests. Journalist Dan Armstrong works for a struggling local newspaper. To save the tabloid from closure, Dan carries out one last assignment - the mysterious evacuation of the islanders from Crab Island, now an off-limits nature reserve. But Dan and his family soon learn the impromptu evacuation of Crab Island isn't the only mystery on the island. A living, breathing terror lurks on the desolate isle. The Armstrongs don't find a nature reserve, but a freak-of-nature reserve. Dan's story for the local newspaper goes 'viral' for all the wrong reasons. We hope you'll enjoy your stay at Hotel Miramar, a once-in-a-lifetime experience...

Hotel Miramar

Dead Ends is an eclectic potpourri of nine horrific tales, including two tales to be adapted for full-length upcoming novels, Drive and Fireman Dead-end Tale 1: Drive A battered black Audi Quattro in Old Castle's scrapyard has become a morbid attraction for the town's youth since 17-year-old Kelly Monroe's life was taken in that tomb-on-wheels. Kelly's three best friends make the mistake of paying the scrapyard a nocturnal visit to say a final goodbye. This short story is going to be developed as a full-length novel with the same title slated for late 2024 Dead-end Tale 2: Hanna Hanna, the old woman living at the top of the building, isn't who her neighbours think she is, and there's an odd smell coming down the pipes from her flat. Dead-end Tale 3: The Dark Web There's something in the attic spinning a dress of silk for Jessica. Dead-end Tale 4: The Dare Norman Childers is a suspense writer suffering from writer's block. One sleepless night, he notices something strange in the park across from his apartment. He finds himself being a character in his own novel, but he needs to find out how the story ends. Dead-end Tale 5: Yucky! Widow Slater is a haunted woman who cannot escape her past. Thinking she is losing her mind, she makes a strange confession. Dead-end Tale 6: Bad Blood Baby Starkweather was born with a quirk - he only drinks blood - which is a growing problem for his foster mother. And as little Starkweather grows, so does his thirst. Dead-end Tale 7: The Taxi Driver Jake Montgomery suffers a terrible shock when he discovers his daughter Eva is allergic to nuts. Panicked, Jake flags down a taxi to take them to the hospital. The strange taxi driver is determined to get her to the hospital on time...no matter the consequences. Dead-end Tale 8: Crossbreed When the Mackenzie family set off on their yearly camping trip, they did and didn't know they would and wouldn't be returning home. Dead-end Tale 9: Fireman When Max Power received the alert message on his pager, he expected it would be a night like any other night. He was wrong. This short story is going to be developed as a full-length novel with the same title slated for late 2024

Dead Ends

Jack shares his fianc�e Jeanie's heart in more ways than he would care to admit...Weeks following a horrific accident, Jack wakes on a hospital bed with his bride-to-be's heart pumping in his chest.In death, Jeanie has saved Jack's life...What at first seems to be a gift beyond comprehension, soon becomes a dark obsession for Jack. As long as Jack is alive, Jeanie won't be dead. With every thump-thump of Jeanie's heart, Jack is forever reminded that he owes his life to his dead lover.Unable to find closure, Jack decides to stop his borrowed beating heart...Until Jeanie's best friend and Jack's arch-enemy, Ruthy, tells Jack an old fairy-tale which changes his life forever.Jack finds himself living a fairy-tale in a fairy-tale, where matters of the heart and time know no bounds.

Hearts Anonymous

From the author of The Squatter creeps a new horror, Billy's Experiment, #1 New Release in British Horror Fiction @ Amazon... On the night of a blood moon eclipse, park ranger Bill Steward saves a newborn baby on the misty moors of Old Castle's national park, changing the course of his and the infant's life forever. Seven autumns later, Bill and his wife, Dorothy, discover a ghastly experiment in a treehouse and a mysterious medical prescription written in a childish scribble. Bill realises what he'd observed on the moors seven autumns ago wasn't what it seemed. Who was saving who, exactly? Just as Bill's eclipse is beginning, so, too, is Billy's.

Billy's Experiment

The house is free but it comes with a price... Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle where they move into a free-of-charge 200-year-old stately farmhouse...which isn't quite vacant. The Greene family realise they've become unwitting participants in a macabre contest where the farmhouse is first prize...or is it? Little do they know they're sharing their house with a sinister squatter that lingers in the fireplace and likes to come out and play when the sun goes down. Financially broke, Molly decides to go public about the ominous presence in the farmhouse, hoping to cash in on the phenomena, never considering the repercussions of her actions.

Hearts Anonymous is a modern-day fairy-tale trapped in a medieval fairy-tale...Jack shares his fiancée Jeanie's heart in more ways than he would care to admit...Weeks following a horrific accident, Jack wakes on a hospital bed with his bride-to-be's heart pumping in his chest.In death, Jeanie has saved Jack's life...What at first seems to be a gift beyond comprehension, soon becomes a dark obsession for Jack. As long as Jack is alive, Jeanie won't be dead. With every thump-thump of Jeanie's heart, Jack is forever reminded that he owes his life to his dead lover.Unable to find closure, Jack decides to stop his borrowed beating heart...Until Jeanie's best friend and Jack's arch-enemy, Ruthy, tells Jack an old fairy-tale which changes his life forever.Jack finds himself living a fairy-tale in a fairy-tale, where matters of the heart and time know no bounds.

He has come to the island to get away from the world, but now the world is coming to the island...Theodore Lambert is disillusioned with the world. But who cares? Theodore's wife, Amber, is convinced that the end of the world is coming in the form of a giant asteroid.Needing a detox holiday, Theodore and his family find themselves living in a mystical island lighthouse on the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland, far away from the lunacy of the modern world. But not far enough, apparently...

Lighthouse Jive

Dublin's underworld is run by the Doherty family, a clan of brothers harder than the Rock of Cashel and darker than a pint of Guinness. The head of the clan, Malcolm Doherty, has infiltrated all levels of public office and rules the city's criminal landscape without mercy or compassion. Gerald O'Brien is the incorruptible cop on the Dohertys' trail, obsessive and indefatigable, yet unable to bring them down. Nathan Corbally is a neglected and abused youngster. Raised by a monstrous father, Nathan steals to survive. When he steals a piece of clothing belonging to the Dohertys, he sets of a chain of events that will pit him against the rulers of Ireland's underworld. Three lives, steeped in violence, are about to clash in a violent grab for absolute power.

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