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Welcome to the town of Old Castle, where life isn't as it seems.

Single mom Molly Greene is forced to close her Michelin-star restaurant due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle, where they move into a free-of-charge 200-year-old stately farmhouse...which isn't quite vacant. The Greene family realize they've become unwitting participants in a macabre contest where the farmhouse is the first prize...or is it?

Rosie and Victor Ryan, real estate investors, land a massive sale to the mystery buyer of Wishing Well House. But the same night the Ryan family celebrate the sale, a bizarre accident robs Rosie of her mobility, freezing their idyllic life in tragedy.

Weeks before young Fern Keegan sees what she sees in the river tunnel during the Old Castle floods, a deranged patient, Gabriel Bogdan, makes an outrageous claim nobody at The Hillside psychiatric hospital believes until it's too late. Thirteen years later, a school tour in the local cave unravels into blind terror when the teachers and students realise they are not alone in the underground chasms of horror. The river runs through it, and the river runs deep.

BALLOON ANIMALS is a pilgrimage and road-trip of unusual dimensions. Follow me, Jonny Rowe, on a wild goose chase from Ireland to the USA with my American grandfather's remains in my red birthday balloon. I use 'remains' in the loosest sense of the word: my grandfather, 45, puffed his last breaths of air into my birthday balloon before suffering a massive heart attack right there at my birthday party which becomes his deathday party.

Living Dead Lovers follows the life and times of famed psychic-medium, half-Romani gypsy, Valentina ‘Cabbage’ Moone, from her mute infancy trawling the roads of Europe to a fiery-tongued, hard-drinking, speed-loving clairvoyant with a complete disregard for human life, including her own of late…

Journalist Dan Armstrong works for a struggling local newspaper. To save the tabloid from closure, Dan carries out one last assignment–the mysterious evacuation of the islanders from Crab Island, now an off-limits nature reserve.

The Nobody Show is an accident waiting to happen... Old Castle (population 666 ... 665 ... 664) is a town ravaged by unemployment. The magic is gone and the economy is in the gutter, but newest dole statistic, Arthur Lawless, has a dream... Arthur wants to chase down his childhood dream to build his own circus. He makes it his mission to put on The Greatest Show on Earth - Old Castle's slice of Earth, at least...

Atheist Dr. Jonathan Dunraven meets Jesus in a most nightmarish way. But Jonathan goes on to discover that the holy man is actually a wisecracking, miracle-making joker with a chilling dark side. Then there’s that peculiar one-legged crow constantly perched on his shoulder…or is it really a crow?

Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG things: Alzheimer’s and a 42 year-old Indian elephant called Sinbad. Mick and his elephant become overnight on-the-run, anti-hero legends when Mick, an old rebel with a cause, takes matters into his own hands.

Theodore Lambert is disillusioned with the world. But who cares? Theodores wife, Amber, is convinced that the end of the world is coming in the form of a giant asteroid. Needing a holiday, Theodore and his family find themselves living in a mystical island lighthouse on the wild Atlantic coast of Ireland, far away from the lunacy of the modern world. But not far enough, apparently....

When Gracie Doyle and her friends visit Old Castle's wrecking yard on Christmas Eve to say goodbye to their deceased friend Kelly Monroe, they unleash a malevolent force lurking within the eerie attraction known as 'The Kill Car'. Instead of finding closure, they open a mysterious portal to the supernatural world, plunging Gracie into a dark battle for survival as she grapples with twisted revenge and the murky boundaries between life and death.

Dead Ends is an eclectic potpourri of nine horrific tales, including two tales to be adapted for upcoming novels, Drive and Fireman.

On the night of a lunar eclipse, park ranger Bill Steward rescues a baby from a strange band of misfits on the misty moors of Old Castle's national park. Seven autumns later, Bill and his wife, Dorothy, discover a ghastly experiment in a treehouse and a mysterious medical prescription written in a childish scribble.

Weeks following a horrific accident, Jack wakes on a hospital bed with his bride-to-be’s heart pumping in his chest. In death, Jeanie has saved Jack’s life. What at first seems to be a gift beyond comprehension soon becomes a dark obsession for Jack. As long as Jack is alive, Jeanie won’t be dead. With every thump-thump of Jeanie’s heart, Jack is forever reminded that he owes his life to his dead lover. Unable to find closure, Jack decides to stop his borrowed beating heart...until Jeanie’s best friend and Jack’s arch-enemy, Ruthy, tells Jack an old fairy tale which changes his life forever.