Allan R Watson

Long before God created the Garden of Eden, there was another, much older garden, where the Seraphim and Cherubim waged war upon each other with such cruelty that God saw fit to destroy his first creation and make a new paradise.Abandoned to rot and decay for countless millennia, only the twisted an...

‘….And Other Stories’ is a collection of weird and wonderful tales involving dead people fighting in funeral parlours, apple trees with mystical biblical powers, red devils plotting petty misdemeanours, sex potions gone wrong, door-stepping Satanists, DIY trepanning clubs, renegade shadows, and comp...

When Harry Flanagan accepts an invitation to spend a dull Sunday evening ghost-hunting in Glasgow’s notorious Hagen Castle, the last thing he expects is to be caught up in a brutal double murder when two of his fellow ghost hunters are slain in a grotesque fashion. It gets all the more troublesome w...

Twenty years ago, Ewan Wallace was lead singer in Solomon Grundy, a band on the threshold of the big time when a practical joke went badly wrong, resulting in a fourteen year old girl in Poland murdering three of her school friends before attempting suicide. The girl, Karina Maciek survived as a dis...

The village of Carapace was unravelling. Strand by strand. Thread by thread. As the weave teased itself apart, the underlying pattern of the community was subtly altered. The effects were small at first. Trivial things. Small portions of bad luck, ill health and misfortune. The type of things that h...

Matt McVey, his wife Teri, and their two young daughters Denise and Alice, are spending their summer holiday in St Andrew’s on the east coast of Scotland. This will be no carefree holiday however. Six weeks prior to the trip Teri discovered Matt was having a casual affair and kicked him out. Languis...

A collection of curiously dark tales including the vengeful victims of a serial killer, dead wives reanimated for domestic chores, diesel trains possessed by demons, lusty inflatable crocodiles, haunted Christmas cards, corpses posing as movie stars, and a rapist killer with senile dementia. From th...