Weird Tales From The Island City

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People are strange

...and so is this city!

9 stories ranging from the strange and fun to the weird and dark, all set in Portsmouth - the UK's only island city.

From hauntings both serious and comic, through a psychopath's hallucinations, a chance meeting with a mythical being, to inexplicable life-enhancing events, in these pages you will find:

• A spoiled aristocrat who faces a ghoulish come-uppance

• A secret world beneath the city's streets

• A mermaid and time-travelling cats

• A brilliant detective caught red-handed

• A crime investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle's ghost

• A killer forever on the run

• A journalist who makes a meal of himself

• A puppet who pulls all the strings

Be they historic fiction, modern comedy, horror or fantasy, these weird tales will keep you guessing all the way.

Includes 7 short stories and 2 novellas with one thing in common: the city where the action takes place!

Cover illustration "Eclipse" (c) 2023 Gerardo Silva