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As I looked into the eyes of the old man with the big white moustache, I felt a wave of love and kindness emanating from him and experienced a strange sensation of comfort and joy. And also, a gut-churning shiver of unadulterated fear. Yet I’d never met him before and had no idea who he…
Ingram Hall was the most haunted house in Great Britain. As such, it attracted visitors from all over the world, because its ghosts and poltergeists were legion and newspapers reported on the happenings, as did TV reporters, who’d spent countless hours ‘ghost hunting’, often getting incredible footage of flying dinner plates, tables lifting up and…
“I can’t do it anymore! I’ve tried and tried and tried but I just can’t manage it. I feel like killing myself!” “Don’t be a jackass,” my friend and agent, Larry Taglin told me, his arm around my shoulders giving me a reassuring squeeze. “Steve, pal, did you think you’d go on doing it until…
All I could see was my friend Harry, straining to lift up the huge piece of rock, murderous hatred in his eyes as he prepared to smash it down onto my face to kill me. I was lying at the bottom of the mountain, in a gulley, in agony, unable to move because it…
“I’ve never fallen in love before, you see, mate, not hook line and sinker, like this. I had no idea what it was like. Now I know that Jane is the girl I want to spend the rest of my life with, no doubts, nor hesitations, this is it, mate, I’ve hit the jackpot.” I…
“It’s an utterly stupid, ridiculous thing to do! Och, away with you, you’ll just be making a fool of yourself.” Helen, the proprietor of Helen’s Investigations, was around my own age, had an attractive Scottish accent, a lovely face, long blonde hair, and one beautiful right hand. Her left arm ended at the wrist. …
“You really deserve this promotion, Michael, and it’s much more money too!” Have you ever thought back to a time in your life when you can pinpoint one day where one good thing led to another, so that you can truly say that it was the happiest day of your life? It happened to me…
“We’d like you to accompany us to the police station, please sir,” Oh no, not again! It was the story of my life. “Look here, Officer,” I explained to him as he led me to the waiting police car. “I’ve been here at the university all day, giving a long boring lecture about the decline…
“I’ll give you three weeks to pack up and clear out, then that’s it, the bulldozers will be on their way! Goodbye family home, hello luxury flats and lots and lots of luvverly money!” So saying, my brother Stan enthusiastically rubbed his hands together and gave that horrid rasping laugh that I had grown…
Plants were absolutely everywhere. On the windowsills, shelves, on the carpet, hanging from the ceiling, even in the toilet! The first time I saw Fiona’s plant-stuffed flat I was mesmerised. “I just adore plants, all plants anywhere and everywhere!” she declared, leading me downstairs to the garden, where she owned a small section of the…