Bøker av James Stoorie

AFTERWITCH IN THE CITYTen years have passed since Felicity 'Tea' Greene was forced to flee her rural hometown of Blight, pursued by a baying mob and persecuted as an 'AfterWitch'...During the intervening decade, Tea has worked hard to build a new life in the city, honing her occult skills and trying her best to forget her bad experiences. But can she ever truly escape the past, this longing to contact those she lost? After all, if she has made such a clean break, why is she drawn to the séances of a shady spiritualist group and their star medium, Mr. Forest-Wood? Rather than the comfort she was seeking, Tea instead receives an otherworldly message from 'Nanny Joan', the recently deceased guardian of her estranged cousins, pleading for her to reach out to them. Yet she has not visited the twins in years; they never really liked each other. In fact, Tea always dreaded staying over in their old dark house. So why return now? Especially as she is sure her childhood visits ended abruptly due to something bad happening, something so upsetting she has blocked it from her mind ever since. Although...weren't there rumours that the house was haunted? As Tea battles to piece together long buried memories, and master the triggers to her mental health, she begins to realise the only way to move forward is to go back one final time. To confront whatever it was that so frightened her in the past...

AFTERWITCHFelicity 'Tea' Greene is a new kind of witch, an 'AfterWitch', although she may not yet know it.Living in the isolated rural village of Blight, Tea feels bored and frustrated, yet every time she attempts to leave the village, something goes wrong. At first the reasons appear accountable, mundane: her mum falls sick with an undiagnosed illness, she fails her mock driving test and she can't catch a bus in an area where public services have been drastically cut.Yet, after a while, Tea begins to suspect there may be more to it than that. Could there be a conspiracy to prevent her from leaving, to stop her joining her sister in the city? But why would the locals want to keep her imprisoned in the village? After all, she had never exactly been popular. Is Tea the victim of black magic, or are her fears unfounded, triggered by her mental health issues?'AfterWitch' is a new kind of witch story - a teenager's struggle for identity and her fight against the oppressive forces who want to 'take back control'.

All Hail 'The Stag Nation'! In the beginning, there was our 'Book Of Joy'. A diary of our earliest deeds, our first impressions of the dark. But somewhere in the distant past this precious gift was stolen from us, substituted by cruel sleight of hand. Quick! Throw away that thing you have been reading! It is nothing but a 'Book Of Sorrow' and, believe me, you don't want to read any more of those! Come my friend, follow me, and we will recover your 'Book Of Joy'. Yes, that first chapter missing from all of our stories, a journal of the vague years. Let me be your corpse candle, your marsh light, your hand of glory through the darkness... James Stoorie takes you on a pagan's process through a folk horror heritage that we all share yet, until now, have forgotten.

Thirteen terrifying tales of the supernatural. Things you dare not even imagine. Modernised updates of the traditional ghost story, the vampire, the phantom hitch-hiker, the imaginary friend, the witches coven. An uncanny landscape of haunted high rises, haunted hospitals, haunted holiday cabins, haunted show homes, haunted music festivals, haunted bird sanctuaries. Think Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood in the 21st Century! An animated film of lead story 'Heirlooms' is currently in production (a tale of school children who inadvertently summon up Peg Prowler, a predatory Victorian ghost)