The collected works
Books After Dark
True hauntings. Ride-born nightmares. Fiction that refuses to stay quiet.
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Enter the attraction
Alton Towers Backstories
Independent, unofficial tales inspired by the legends, rides and shadowed corners of Britain’s most famous theme park.
Supernatural novella
Emily
On New Year’s Eve 1892, a lonely girl retreats to the attic while a storm rages above Alton Manor. Before the night is over, Emily’s strange friendship and cruel home life will unleash something the house can never forget.
Buy on Amazon ↗Science-fiction horror
Nemesis
Beneath Alton Woods, an ancient force sealed away for more than a century begins to stir. Bella and her friends are caught between a monstrous awakening and the secretive Phalanx determined to contain it.
Buy on Amazon ↗Supernatural folk horror
Th13teen
An archaeological dig beneath the Dark Forest awakens a blood-soaked ritual, thirteen bound wraiths and a woodland that no longer obeys the laws of time. The past was buried for a reason.
Buy on Amazon ↗These independent works of fiction are not affiliated with or endorsed by Alton Towers Resort or Merlin Entertainments.
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Reported encounters
Real-Life Paranormal
Eyewitness testimony, haunted history and folklore examined with a researcher’s curiosity and a storyteller’s eye.

Paranormal non-fiction
Haunted Yorkshire
Journey from ghostly hounds on the North York Moors to phantom highwaymen, poltergeists and voices that refuse to fade. Eyewitness accounts meet local history in a Yorkshire rarely seen by daylight.
Buy on Amazon ↗Paranormal non-fiction
British Ghosts and Where to Find Them
A map of the shadows that remain: haunted castles, forgotten roads, folklore and reported encounters explored through history, investigation and parapsychological theory.
Buy on Amazon ↗03
Where the veil thins
Paranormal Fiction
Supernatural mysteries, cursed places and characters who discover that some doors should remain closed.
Willow ValeA supernatural mystery
Supernatural mystery thriller
The Curse of Willow Vale
A fallen psychic, an English village and a mystery rooted in ghosts, ritual and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Willow Vale has waited a long time for someone to listen.
Buy on Amazon ↗04
Beyond the shadows
Other Fiction
Stories that step outside the paranormal without losing the tension, atmosphere and human mysteries at the heart of Nick’s writing.
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