Bøker av Ryan Coull

Dottie Hawthorn is a popular schoolteacher whose marriage is on the brink of collapse. Her husband, Billy, who drinks excessively and uses drugs, seems intent on intimidating her and causing her pain. When she falls pregnant, however, Dottie feels this might be the one chance they have to save their ailing relationship. But this is the beginning of the end for her and Billy, as events begin to take a disastrous and violent turn. For Dottie, the only solution is to end the relationship and move on; but Billy has other ideas, and he'll do anything to stop her leaving him, even if it means murder.

A collection of darkly disturbing tales, ranging from old-fashioned horror to magic realism, and everything in-between.Ryan Coull has published stories in the The New Writer, Firstwriter, Scribble magazine, and Storgy magazine. His story 'Garage 54' won the Swansea & District Writer's Circle competition in 2015.

'A Grave Temptation' is a collection of twenty-four dark and emotional fictional short stories which delve into everything from mystery to the supernatural, from tales of the sinister to tales of the heart. In them we meet a little girl who sees disaster on a tragic scale . . . the undertaker who keeps a terrible secret in his funeral home . . . a grief-stricken drunk driver who lives each day haunted by a terrible mistake . . . a young boy who stumbles on something terrible in the woods while walking his dog . . . a nurse returning home from her shift to find horror has come to visit . . . the doctor whose affair with a young woman leads to his demise ... and much more.