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This author crafts horror stories as a personal escape, a space where the complexities of the real world can be distilled into solvable problems. Their academic journey, including multiple master's degrees and a PhD in Creative Writing, deeply informs their approach, with a doctoral thesis exploring the use of local landscapes to generate supernatural Gothic horror. This fascination with the intersection of place and the uncanny permeates their creative practice, embedding terrifying scenarios within the fabric of familiar environments. Their published short stories and debut novel hint at a body of work that masterfully blends atmospheric settings with unsettling narratives.

2015
Checkmate
416 pages
15 hours of reading
5.0(1)Add rating
Pestered by constant phone messages from a girlfriend who disappeared ten years ago, pushed around by a petty boss, short on friends and money, it's no wonder Mack looks forward to his Friday night chess games with the local priest. But when he's asked to demolish a wall beneath the chapel and a local girl goes missing, Mack finds he's playing a game far more treacherous than chess. He quickly realises he has no idea who, or what, he's up against. Checkmate is a darkly Gothic, supernatural horror story of guilt, revenge and history repeating itself.

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