"I hate ghosts I've played follow-the-leader with a bunch of dead men, fronted up to a demon with all my runes round the wrong way, been half strangled by a book illustration, nearly killed by a bunyip in a launderette washing machine. So when Raissa invited me to a seance I was sure was a fake but turned out to be real, I knew there could only be trouble for Ernie Pine. And there was-wedging a witch, an apprentice magician, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and me all too literally between the Devil and the deep blue sea..."

"Curl up in bed with a warm cuppa one night and start reading. The tea might help keep away the chills Kennett's stories will cause, but I doubt it ..." Marty Young, Australian Specfic In Focus "Kennett weaves a beguiling atmosphere through that holds the attention unerringly until the culmination of the tale. He has a knack for environment and ambience that he brings to bear with each and every story." Peter Worthy, Black Books ezine Two bush walkers hear a rain-sodden forest speak at midnight in "The Dark and What it Said." M.R. James is revisited in "Anningley Hall, Early Morning" and...