Testimony

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His writing career began in 1990 when his first published short story Six Dead Boys in a Very Dark World won Fear magazine's Best New Author award. [4] It attracted the attention of agents and publishers.

But then, if you’re a writer, why wouldn’t you? Story telling is the same all over. Once you’ve mastered the new skill-set for a new medium, you’re drawing on the same natural ability wherever you’re employed: your ideas. When Bill and Liz Rich moved into an isolated farmhouse, it already had a reputation locally for being haunted. What they found there was far, far worse than their wildest imaginings…and it threatened their sanity and ultimately their lives. The scientific community which has provided the framework for our lives since early in the last century tells us this is all there is. We are at the mercy of strictly defined rules which allow no place for the paranormal. The torchbearers of this fundamentalist rationalism are, of course, ignoring the testimonies of everday people. Doctors, lawyers, secretaries, dustbinmen, shop workers and middle managers. People who are not unduly gullible, who live their lives fully in the “real” world yet who have experienced, or know someone who has experienced, something which cannot be explained away by those scientific rules. The truth is, in the quiet of our lonely rooms we can look deep inside ourselves and know that life is strange. That the rules aren’t so rigid. That things and thoughts and happenings creep around the shadows of our lives yet never enter the light. We would never admit it in public, of course. But in our hearts, we know… An immense work of scope and majesty. What appeals about the book is the author’s ability to deal in myth and to apply it to a modern story. . . . The story is gripping, the characters involving, and the main villain is a nasty piece of work.” – The Specusphere The Haunting of Hill House, which dropped on Netflix shortly before Halloween, is an amazing achievement, and not because of the scary elements (of which there are many).I want to tell you a true story. About ghosts, and things more terrifying than ghosts. I‘m a journalist, fully rooted in the real world. I write about foreign affairs and politics, economics, the arts, science, health, archaeology. Reality and evidence-based. Remember that. I work at my writing constantly. Five days a week, sometimes more. It’s my job, it’s my life. A book with my name on it may crop up once a year, sometimes with even longer breaks, so it’s easy to think I while away my hours drinking in the local pub or wandering the world, watching the clouds pass by. (I do both, just not all the time.) What you don’t get to hear about are all the pieces of work that never break surface, because: what’s the point? But here’s what I have been doing:

Should you read this book? If you have an interest in the supernatural, or are a Mark Chadbourn fan, then I would heartily recommend Testimony. I first heard about the case through a small piece in The Independent newspaper about the baffling power drain, which had been investigated by the local electricity company and independent experts. As a journalist, I was intrigued enough to get in touch with Bill for a follow-up. I wasn’t prepared for what I found. The ruined medieval Manor House in the garden with its private cemetery. (c) Elizabeth Udall Hellboy manages to convince Brad to talk to his father so that they could get into the Grant House. Since werewolves are also hunting the Kiss of Winter, Hellboy and Brad are barely inside when a fierce blizzard hits town. Even though the house is protected from werewolves, it is filled with spirits. Some of these spirits were benign, while others were malevolent. Some of the scenes here are scary, and you will be anxious to see what happens in this menacing house. Overall, this is an enthralling read with a great storyline, outstanding writing style, and well-developed characters. Odd stories. Perhaps unbelievable stories. Yet all of them were reported in British newspapers in the first half of 1995. They are just a tiny drop in the tidal wave of weirdness that sweeps over us every day of the year, all over the globe. Somehow, though, we persist in maintaining the illusion that in this age of high technology there can be no such thing as the supernatural. At least that is the view presented by much of the media. And after so many years of dumb, funfair ride horror, it was so refreshing to discover something that had real depth.Who Slays the Gyant, Wounds the Beast’ (in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, edited by George Mann, Solaris; also in Year’s Best Fantasy 8, edited by David G Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, Tachyon)