Bethan has spent years keeping the past buried. As an administrator in local government, she is good at systems, at process, at moving things forward. But when she is sent to persuade an old man to give up his home for a regeneration project, something begins to crack.Memories she has long ignored start to surface, of a girl called Lily, of laughter that was never kind, and of a moment in childhood she has never allowed herself to examine. As the days pass, the boundaries between h...

Where Now the Smile... Hymn Book Volume IIIn the hills and housing estates around Caerphilly, three people remain bound by a childhood they cannot fully escape.Glen moves between the respectable life he has built with his wife and children and the damaged one he shares with Janine and Alun. Janine rarely leaves her flat, carrying a silence that those around her do not know how to reach. Alun still walks the old paths through the hills, leaving strange offer...

In the glitch-haunted sprawl of DragonGrid—a cloud-shrouded megacity where Welsh valleys twisted into silicon nightmares—Draze clings to fragile shards of the past, echoes of loss pulsing through his wired mind like eroding code.But a shadowy job pulls him into forbidden depths, unleashing a devouring force: a rogue entity forged in war's forgotten fires, starving for the raw essence of human nightmares. As realities fracture and veils thin, Draze must risk it all to choke the beas...

In the shadow of Caerphilly's forgotten quarries, where ancient Welsh legends whisper warnings from the deep, Rhodri returns to claim his estranged uncle's crumbling estate. But what begins as a reluctant inheritance unravels into a nightmarish descent into "Weird Wales." A realm where glitches bleed into reality, and the knock-knock of mythical Coblynau miners echoes as a curse.Haunted by ghostly visions of his lost love and fractured family secrets, Rhodri uncovers a forbidden le...

In the misty valleys of South Wales, a man collapses on Aber's busy streets with a fatal wound, his final moments shrouded in dawn's eerie haze. Enter Inspector Price: a steadfast detective blending unyielding grit with profound compassion, navigating a world where toughness and kindness are the keys to survival.What begins as a suspected mugging near a shadowy cemetery spirals into chilling intrigue. Forensics uncover a premeditated strike, and a faded vintage photo awakens long-b...

In the South Welsh town of Caerphilly, the hills remember what the streets try to forget.Abigail, estate agent with deep family roots, carries a childhood scar and a restlessness she cannot name. Rhian, supermarket manager and member of a sprawling local family, feels the growing weight of every path she never took.They meet through the Caerphilly Warblers, a small birdwatching group that climbs the same mountain each week. As the five walkers move through wind-scoured ligh...

In the mist-shrouded valleys and forgotten corners of South Wales, the past doesn't fade—it bleeds through, whispering secrets that twist the ordinary into the uncanny. Hauntologies: Alpha, the first omnibus in David Rees-Thomas's acclaimed series, collects Volumes 1 and 2—Cleaners and Other Weird Tales and Unfinished Stories in a Seaside Town and Other Weird Tales—delivering eight tales of spectral dread and eerie introspection across over 200 pages, complete with a brand-new introduction...

Song in the Waves is an exciting collection of 5 science fiction tales.People at the edge of existence, people who have lost everything, and yet, people who hold so much hope.They struggle against a humanity which has lost the skill of understanding, and a cold universe, callous and indifferent.In the end, each of them reaches deep within to find a new way forward.Science Fiction Tales Volume 1

The South Wales valley's are steeped in dark mystery left over from the coal mines, the bleak landscape, and myths that reach further back than history itself.This collection includes 4 stories that explore the layers beneath the surface, and explore the weirdness within.Reality, nightmare, or a stranger truth? You decide.David Rees-Thomas has written many short stories in a variety of genres, including horror, mystery, science fiction, and even the occasional litera...

The King is a novella about family, about mushrooms, and about the paths they choose.

5 Tales of the weird and eerieThese are stories with strange edges. Science fiction, the grotesque, glitchy tales of weirdness!The Image Fix is is strange science fiction, 5 minutes into the future...Apocalypse in 7 Scenes combines obsessive advertising with some end of the world scenery...The Shape of Nature takes us deep into the dark ancient mysteries of South Wales, and the weirdness within...The Kraken ...

5 Tales of the weird and eerieThese are stories with strange edges. Science fiction, the grotesque, glitchy tales of weirdness!Shrooms, is a cozy catastrophe, a world where humanity scrambles to survive..Factory is Crawley's tale, a life of unrelenting servitude and weirdness..Telesphere gives us VR in the 1960s, and one woman's eerie adventures with the inner world.Substance to the Rumor is a short pie...