Six tales of horror and the macabre by Edmund Glasby.
On a visit to Venice, tour company adviser Michael Harper witnessed a disturbing scene - police officers dragging a burnt and bloated corpse from the canal.
But this wasn't the first incident. Three other corpses had also recently been retrieved from the same spot. They all had severe burn marks on their bodies. They all had drowned.
The local opinion was that they had been murdered. The latest victim had been a shady antiques dealer who had stored his stock on the island of Poveglia: long-abandoned and off limits on account of having been used in the Middle Ages to burn the bodies of plague victims, many of them cremated whilst still alive.
Contemplating a scheme to plunder the dealer's stock, Harper was about to find far more than he bargained for.
Also included in this collection:
The group gathered for the reading of a will get the shock of their lives... A man undergoes a hideous transformation... The night shift in a morgue takes a deadly turn... In an English village on All Hallows Eve, an ancient evil reawakens.
As penance for past deeds, Edmund Glasby grew up in Morecambe and studied Egyptian Archaeology at University College London and Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford - Morecambe provided him with a better education. He started writing short fantasy/horror stories and eventually Disciple of a Dark God after finishing university. He is married with a five-year-old son who bears an uncanny resemblance to Damien Thorn from the 1976 film The Omen.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
On a visit to Venice, tour company adviser Michael Harper witnessed a disturbing scene - police officers dragging a burnt and bloated corpse from the canal.
But this wasn't the first incident. Three other corpses had also recently been retrieved from the same spot. They all had severe burn marks on their bodies. They all had drowned.
The local opinion was that they had been murdered. The latest victim had been a shady antiques dealer who had stored his stock on the island of Poveglia: long-abandoned and off limits on account of having been used in the Middle Ages to burn the bodies of plague victims, many of them cremated whilst still alive.
Contemplating a scheme to plunder the dealer's stock, Harper was about to find far more than he bargained for.
Also included in this collection:
The group gathered for the reading of a will get the shock of their lives... A man undergoes a hideous transformation... The night shift in a morgue takes a deadly turn... In an English village on All Hallows Eve, an ancient evil reawakens.
About Edmund Glasby:
As penance for past deeds, Edmund Glasby grew up in Morecambe and studied Egyptian Archaeology at University College London and Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford - Morecambe provided him with a better education. He started writing short fantasy/horror stories and eventually Disciple of a Dark God after finishing university. He is married with a five-year-old son who bears an uncanny resemblance to Damien Thorn from the 1976 film The Omen.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
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