On my “Stories” page, the first story you will see is “The Park” – a spooky story, which I wrote when I moved back into a town after living in country villages for years. When you go for a walk or a run on country paths, the local folklore of ghosts and unexplained animals comes to mind – the horrors of Borley rectory, the big cats of Dartmoor and the fae of special places and sometimes we slow to a cautious walk for no apparent reason, just an unsettled feeling or a sense of being watched. But the city also has its myths and monsters – some human, some less so. And so I wondered, as I passed through a brick-lined tunnel into an arboretum – what if……..

As we move between Halloween and Christmas and the time for such stories seems appropriate, I hope you will enjoy this little tale.