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A Short Story from The Other Places
Arthur Hesketh has spent his working life following railway lines, timetables and rules. But on one final assignment before retirement, he is sent on a special working to the abandoned Bellwether glassworks.
What waits there is not part of any timetable.
Special Working is a haunting companion story to Bellwether, exploring grief, love, memory and the strange places that open when the past refuses to stay behind.
A Short Story from The Other Places
At a natural burial ground, the earth is moving the dead. Beneath the frozen orchard, an investigation into displaced coffins reveals that the explanation is stranger, older and considerably less comfortable than vandalism.
Beneath Saint Mere ends here, but elsewhere the strange events continue in The Listening Ground, a standalone novel from The Other Places.
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AI-narrated audio edition
A measured, atmospheric female narration with a distinctive, intimate delivery.
A distinctly British male narration with an articulate, conversational character.
A Short Story from The Other Places
The Crown Electric Picture House has been open for less than a month when something impossible appears in a local film.
Set in 1937, The Pictures Were Wrong is a historical uncanny mystery and a prequel to Persistence of Vision, where the distinction between what has happened and what the pictures show begins to slip.
A Short Story from The Other Places
October, 1936.
The Plover has not yet reached the quay — but the quay has already taken her weight.
As unexplained events spread between ferry, landing and island, Samuel Keir must keep an essential service running without pretending he understands what is happening.
A Shadow Casebook Short Story
London, 1982. Detective Constable John Williams and Professor Marcus Tremane investigate a series of attacks that refuse to make ordinary sense.
Set thirty years before The House of Cain, this standalone supernatural mystery reveals the case that first brought Marcus and John together.
Experience the complete story in your preferred narration. Listen online or download a copy to keep.
AI-narrated audio edition
A measured, atmospheric female narration with a distinctive, intimate delivery.
A distinctly British male narration with an articulate, conversational character.
A Shadow Casebook Short Story
In the aftermath of war, two sisters move through a world of ruin, ambition and the dead. Isabella and Antoinette are bound by blood, sharpened by loss, and willing to do what others will not.
Set in 1099, The Names of the Dead is a dark historical prequel to The Key of Angels and a standalone Shadow Casebook short story.
Experience the complete story in your preferred narration. Listen online or download a copy to keep.
AI-narrated audio edition
A measured, atmospheric female narration with a distinctive, intimate delivery.
A distinctly British male narration with an articulate, conversational character.
A Shadow Casebook Short Story
In the aftermath of war, Archie comes home carrying a secret that belongs to another man.
Set before the events of The Veiled Past, The Man Who Came Home is a dark historical prequel about friendship, fear, guilt and the terrible cost of choosing self-preservation.
A Shadow Casebook Short Story
A television crew arrives at Harrowfell hoping to turn a recent tragedy into compelling paranormal entertainment.
The False Track is a standalone Shadow Casebook short story set after the events of The Huntsman’s Due, blending supernatural mystery, moral compromise and the eerie indifference of something ancient moving through the modern world.