Tales of the Talking Picture is a fabulous science-fiction fantasy novel by Tom Slemen about a boy who comes into possession of an old oval portrait of a woman named Rhiannon Tanglewyst, who happens to be a witch who has been trapped within the picture for centuries. Rhiannon tells Matthew and his troublesome girlfriend, a Goth named Christina, fantastical tales from the future and the past, from a grisly and terrifying account of what really happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste, to the strange mission of a secret agent who must face a chilling foe in the guise of a child? The imaginative...

In this compelling study of true crime, Liverpool's most popular author Tom Slemen recounts some of the most intriguing and baffling murders of Merseyside such as: The baffling case of the Victorian canned corpse The magistrate's beautiful granddaughter who was killed by a crazed admirer The condemned man who was hanged twice Frederick Deeming - the Rainhill psychopath who wiped out his own family and danced on their grave with his next victim The bizarre link between a South Seas cult and the housewife who was stabbed fourteen times in her Knotty Ash home by a killer who struck under the...

Welcome to the twenty-fourth volume in the legendary series of the Haunted Liverpool books. In this fascinating and chilling collection of over 40 spine-tingling stories, you will encounter real zombies, terrifying ghosts that physically inflict harm on the living, as well as an abomination known as "Long-Legged Alice" that is guaranteed to give you many sleepless nights. Cult writer Tom Slemen once again will make you question all concepts of logic and reality, and he will inform and entertain you with his inimitable style of storytelling which has now attracted a massive following of...

There are the usual mundane books about regurgitated mysteries and there are books such as Strange Mysteries, which boldly delve into the more offbeat mysteries of history, as well as mysteries of crime, space and time. Within this amazing collection of 65 mysteries you will read of the mysterious Zodiac Killer who terrorised the West Coast of the United States in the 1960s - who was he? And could he be finally captured by an amazing scientific breakthrough? In Strange Mysteries you will even be provided with a truly mind-boggling answer to that question we have all pondered from time to time...