From award-winning author, Mike Bennett, comes Hall of Mirrors: Tales of Horror and the Grotesque. Here you will find stories of Hell and damnation, ghosts, madness, murder, vampires, bizarre hair restoration disasters, and ... pigeons, among other things. Hall of Mirrors is a collection of modern…
Meet Underwood and Flinch as they cross the Mediterranean on a foggy night. Are they being followed? And if so, by whom? And who should be more worried, the hunter or the hunted? A vampire short story that whets the reader’s appetite for the novel, Underwood and Flinch (also available at Podiobooks).
Lottery winner, Jim Haslet finds himself caught up in a nightmare when he and his wife are kidnapped by people who don’t want his money, but his bizarre winning technique.
Henry and Maureen find a very unusual cockroach in their apartment. Have they discovered a new species? This could be their passport to fame and fortune … or the beginning of something horrific
Benny is late for a hold-up: it’s a hot day, he’s stressed-out, and the large replica handgun in his waistband keeps jabbing at his genitals. Unfortunately for him, his discomfort is only just beginning.
Ken Chase is a real estate agent who won’t let anything come between him and the maximum possible profit from a house sale – not even ghosts.
An unpleasant comedy featuring two men and a dog. When Duncan fails to pick up after his dog, an unusual stand-off ensues.
Madness and horror abound as Hair and Skin comes to its conclusion.
Millionaire, Charles Mason, has a grotesque idea for a hair transplant that stops one step short of horrific ... but fortunately, his personal surgeon is sick enough to take the extra steps necessary to make Charles’s dream come true.
Vernon ‘Badger’ Brock goes on a pigeon hunt armed with a rubber flashlight, a cat basket, and a loaf of white bread. A game of cat and mouse ... sort of, with direful consequeces for the loser.
Richard Meacher has a dark and terrible desire that he’s managed to keep secret … until now.
If you go down in the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise – Alec Bingham is murdering his wife. He’s got it all worked out. But there are some things in the woods that even the most careful planning can’t anticipate.
An urban horror story. Edith, elderly and alone and living in an inner-city council block, finds herself the victim of a gang of hoodie-wearing children. She believes they are monsters. Something her son, Martin, finds incredible ... until he encounters them for himself.
A tale of two men in a grave. Jack starts a series of increasingly unpleasant events when he makes a pass at suspected “wrong boy”, Dave. What ensues is a black-comic nightmare.
Geoffrey Leech burns in the fires of Hell. When he makes a deal with the Devil, Geoffrey sees more than a chance to ease his suffering – he sees a chance to save his soul. But Satan is not to be easily cheated. Will the Devil get his due, or can Geoffrey escape the horrors of Hell to find his own salvation?