The young Cornelius marches with the fifth legion to chastise the barbarian hordes of Dacia who dared cross Roman borders; He dreams of glory wealth and a later life of ease in the senate. But his life was to change; in a decisive battle the legion is crushed. The few survivors, fleeing to the carpathian mountains, harried by war bands; starving and dying from the extreme cold find that there is something more to fear. There is something stalking these mountains, something older and darker than simply death. Cornelius finds himself welcoming this darkness and becoming part of it. This is a...

Lisa is beautiful cool and self assured, she has a good job and the world at her feet yet for some strange reason she chooses Rob to be her lover. Rob is an everyday family guy recently divorced, in a stressful job but doing his best to make ends meet. when he meets Lisa he is just enthralled. But why would Lisa be interested in him? He feels flattered and thinks that there really is a connection between them... little does he know what Lisa really wants. Soon he will find out and soon he will weep again. He cannot help loving her.

This collection of two short stories and four novellas are all based around a river, they tell of hope and loss, tragedy and abiding love, despair and contentment. Much as the River shapes the characters by its presence so does it enter their lives and change them, often in ways they could not imagine. These are tales of magic and mystery, river sprites and faerie queens, were beasts, nymphs and dryads. They are tales of ordinary everyday people caught in situations not only beyond their control but their understanding. This Marvelous collection of short stories is brought to you from the pen...

As time passes, everything changes. The world, In which we live in is in turmoil, we stampede from one crisis to the next, never heeding the grand design, If indeed there is one. Imagine now that nothing changes but the now. The "now" we know here and today is the same as it always was, the same as it always will be. Has not the world always suffered from turmoil, are our lives not the same as those who have gone before us with little more than superficial differences? This is an explanation of time, the characters essentially the same though they live centuries apart, their thoughts, hopes...

I fell in love with a boy. He captured my heart and held it tight in his clasped hand, just as he held me. The boy loved me and was good to me, took care of me, looked after me and cared for me, he was my love and I his. But I was a river and could not be held. He was a man and could not let go of me, for he loved me, without shame, without boundaries yet with hope. I swore to be his answer and he swore to be my keeper and we became one in a marriage of love and necessity. We created life.

Everyone has "A Secret Inside," a place where no one goes, always hidden from others buried deep in the dungeons of thier soul. A perversion that they will not admit to, a longing to take someones life. A lust that lies unfulfilled, a wish to dominate, A desire to humilate and maim. Sometimes these thoughts haunt thier dreams, sometimes thier waking hours. It comes crawling up from the darkest depths of thier being, rising from its lair to hurt and damage destroy and maim. A new life together and a fresh start welcome Mae and Rob to thier new home in Argyll. In the Heartland of historical...

Rob Loves his wife and she was trying to stop smoking. He tried to help her by smoking only in the garden shed. Such a good husband but what else was he doing out in the shed as he was having a cigarette? What was he doing for those ten minutes he disappeared for every hour or so? What problems was he creating? She was just trying to stop smoking as every one should. He was busy summoning daemons. Despite his clumsy attempts at sorcery something has broken through the veil that separates this world from the next and it needs to feed. This classic novella from the pen of Raymond Walker and...

An Introduction to the poetry of Raymond Walker. Raymond Walker is the author of five novels, two compendiums of short stories and a book of poetry. He was born in 1962 and raised in Argyll before moving to Edinburgh to attend university. His love of the countryside, forests, mountains and the relics of his native Scotland are reflected deeply in his writing. His tales echo the dark past and history, the unknown places and wonders of Scotland at the point where reality dips into fantasy until nothing is quite as it seems. Not one to be pigeon- holed his books range from romances and ghost...

Into The dark depths of a Scots winter, A Pale Shadow Creeps. From Its tomb of stones and broken bones; It rises into the cold and forsaken night. This shade, has a dire purpose. For it to live again its place must be taken beneath The Cairn from which it rose. Whosoever wakened it or one of their choice shall take its place beneath the wet sod of the Argyll hills. Rob is too busy enjoying his new home. He worries about the novel that he needs to write, the money he needs to earn and the new love that he has found. Threats from shades, shadows or wraiths are not something he takes seriously....

A short novel or novella by the master of the horror tale. Raymond Walker. A tale of darkness and despair. A tale of Wonderous ruin caused by a simple human frailty. A cat and mouse game begins when a demon is summoned from the nether world by an inept sorcerer. The conflict takes place in his shed at night at he goes out to fuel his nicotine habit.