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 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 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 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...

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...

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...

Set in South Wales.Danny is returning to his hometown for his father's funeral.But, Danny doesn't want to go. And, when he finally arrives, the world he knows will be shattered forever.The strangeness has settled on this never changing town, and Danny has to find out why, before it's too late, before it devours him, and everything he once knew.

6 Tales of the weird and eerieIn the shadows of the ordinary, the eerie awaits.What if ironing a shirt unraveled your reality? In this haunting collection of weird and eerie short stories, David Rees-Thomas plunges readers into worlds where the mundane twists into the uncanny. From a husband's desperate denial of his wife's disappearance amid steaming fabrics, to a woman's paranoid visions sparked by gasoline fumes that unlock miraculous, and terrifying, int...

This short is the first in a series of stories about a young Japanese woman named Satori.It follows her struggles in a near future Japan where her home town of Osaka has been destroyed and quarantined.She is forced to reconsider many of the truths she once held dear.She has also heard rumors that her brother may yet be alive...The story runs to about 5500 words and is the first in a projected series.

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

These hauntologies are stories of the weird and the supernatural. They can be read in any order, and many are set in South Wales. For horror, weird, supernatural, and literary tastes. This is volume 2.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 examines the weirdness within....