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F. G. Cottam Books

    This author explores how writing can transport readers to other worlds, freeing them from mundane concerns. Their university studies provided time to deeply consider the mechanics of the novel and literary theories like Hemingway's iceberg principle. Fascinated by history, their work often incorporates paranormal elements, allowing the past to resonate shockingly and convincingly in the present. While acknowledging potential disappointments, the author fully embraces the responsibility for their work, whether it succeeds or fails.

    The Waiting Room
    The Auguries
    Dark Echo
    The Lucifer Chord
    The Magdalena Curse

    • The Magdalena Curse

      • 324 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.0(32)Add rating

      It only takes a couple of visits to convince Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft that Adam Hunter is not just having bad dreams. He’s a child possessed. His father is desperate: adamant that his son’s affliction is the result of a curse he incurred in the depths of the Amazon, where a badly misguided military operation ended in a terrifying and macabre encounter. There he met two women—one who placed the curse and the other with whom any hope of saving his son resides. Mark Hunter leaves the Scottish Highlands to beg help from the mysterious woman, leaving his son in the care of Elizabeth—who is about to discover there are equally dark secrets on their own doorstep. And in her blood . . .

      The Magdalena Curse

    • The Lucifer Chord

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.8(152)Add rating

      Researcher Ruthie Gillespie is writing an essay on Martin Mear, lead singer with Ghost Legion, the most decadent rock band on the planet, before he disappeared without trace in 1975. Just what did happen to Martin Mear? It's when Ruthie's enquiries lead her to a derelict mansion on the Isle of Wight that events take a truly terrifying turn.

      The Lucifer Chord

    • Dark Echo

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.7(722)Add rating

      A brilliant new thriller, combining old evil and modern terror, by the author of THE HOUSE OF LOST SOULS.

      Dark Echo

    • The Auguries

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.6(90)Add rating

      An unexpected lunar eclipse. A poisonous fog that cripples the capital. Statues that weep blood.As the catalogue of calamities mount, fear and paranoia provoke rumours of terrorist attacks. But from whom?History professor Juliet Harrington is an authority on sixteenth-century mysticism and a long-time believer in the existence of the Almanac of Forbidden Wisdom, a potent spell-book legend insists was compiled in that period by a cabal of powerful occultists. Its magic is summoned though only at disastrous cost, signalled by The Auguries. Juliet is convinced that the recent plague of disasters means someone reckless is using the book - and she has little time left to stop them.

      The Auguries

    • The Waiting Room

      • 294 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.5(86)Add rating

      Martin Stride is a retired rock star, enjoying the quiet life with his young family on their beautiful estate. On the edge of his grounds lies a derelict Edwardian railway station waiting room once used to transport troops in The Great War. Silent for many years, it has become a playground for Martin's children but now they won't go near it. Strange occurrences in the waiting room lead Martin to seek the help of TV's favourite ghost-hunter Julian Creed. But Creed's psychic ability is a fabrication to gain viewers. He doesn't believe in the paranormal. Until he spends a night in The Waiting Room.

      The Waiting Room