The Department 18 script won the British Horror Film Festival Best New Screenplay Award 2013.It is based on the first two novels in the series. The Eighth Witch is based on the novel of the same name. Department 18 is a secret government unit that investigates paranormal and supernatural events in Britain, and also spreads out internationally. The full Department 18 story can be found at the author's website www.maynard-sims.com Black Cathedral is Department 18 book 1 Night Souls is Department 18 book 2 The Eighth Witch is Department 18 book 3. The novels are all available on Amazon. They are...

A mystery thriller of pace, suspense and fast moving action. James is shot by a clown. Sara's house is broken into. Mason is killed for what was stolen. What is so important about a few letters? Why is Sara's brother behaving so secretly? When James becomes embroiled in the police murder investigation it is time for him to step away from his ordinary life and act in extraordinary ways. Only by beating the criminals at their own game, and by staying one step ahead of the police, can James hope to get to the bottom of the mystery - and to stay alive. Let Death Begin is another thriller from the...

Through The Sad Heart is the latest thriller from the productive Maynard Sims writing team. This is the story of Ben Black who is an ordinary man plunged into a world of global espionage, crime and secrets by the actions of his father and brother. Through greed, his family become involved with shady businessman Antony Valkaris, a man well known to British Intelligence. Ben is forced to take extraordinary measures to safeguard his family, and his own life, as the world he has known explodes into action through bombs, guns and lies. Excerpt He didn't see the second one until the iron bar he was...

The Maynard Sims Library presents the finest in traditional English ghost stories and unsettling tales of quiet fear. Echoes Of Darkness are short stories of ghosts and quiet dread. Previously only available in limited edition hardcover the book is now released in e-book and paperback. "Echoes Of Darkness, by Maynard and Sims, offers us such a deceptive collection of darkness, creating through subtle prose and grande imagination a variety of shadows. There lurks beneath the finely crafted eloquence of their words an energy - a joyfully perceptive rush of power- that combines universal themes...

The Maynard Sims Library presents the finest in traditional English ghost stories and unsettling tales of quiet fear. Incantations is a book of horror stories. Previously published more than twelve years ago it is now available in the digital age. "Economical nightmares of atmospheric subtlety and stark physical horror, Incantations is appropriately titled, suggesting a raw sense of occult power and the process of summoning demonic energies into another plane of existence. Maynard and Sims conjure horrors by first establishing the believability of natural, objective places and people. Their...