Geoffrey Sleight

Tom Roberts has been aware from childhood that mysterious events once occurred at his grandfather's remote country house, but has no idea of exactly what happened there. Years later, when he spends a short break at the property, the horrifying past comes vividly to life, as ghosts rise from their graves to reveal deeply buried family secrets.

A young couple's hiking holiday turns to terror, imprisoned in a house where the only guests are ghosts, waiting for the newcomers to join them in a horrifying death.

The plan was for Ben and Eleanor to put business life behind them and spend idyllic days living at an old farmhouse in beautiful countryside. The reality became a living nightmare, with ghosts in the evil farmstead driving them towards insanity and trapped into suffering the same horrors of its grisly past.

Growing up in the bomb ravaged setting of London's east end, just after World War 2, young Tony Selby's parents want a better life for their son. His ex-RAF father plans to get Tony into higher education and lift him out of the poverty that surrounds. But his uncle has plans for the boy to join him in a lucrative criminal life. The scene is set for a story of crime, love, betrayal and revenge, as Tony's life unfolds into adulthood.

TERRIFYING, ghostly visitors destroy the peace of Simon Turner on his first night in the old country cottage he's inherited. Suddenly awoken in the pitch dark, he sees a violent struggle between the unearthly spectres. Curses fly and a young woman tells him he must discover the secrets hiding in the cottage. Simon begins to unravel a series of grim events that took place in the property, leading to the shattering revelation of his family's horrifying past - lurking in the depths of Dark Secrets Cottage.