The Book of Almost Horror

By mark p

Poetry and Prose - a mixed bag.

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A Tale of Adam Maxwell- Farquhar

By mark p on Thu, 30 Aug 2018

I listened raptly to my father’s stentorian voice as he regaled me with tales from Dr James’ leather bound tome of ghost stories. I shivered at the...
Historical Fiction
Story
Certificate 15

The Lost House

By mark p on Thu, 30 Aug 2018

The Lost House was an aged tenement building which loomed above a street with no name in a dilapidated area of the city. The elders of the drinking...
Story
Certificate 15

They Wait

By mark p on Thu, 30 Aug 2018

Handwritten story by James Watson found within his personal effects. Transcribed for digital preservation by Jamie Watson. They Wait I watch the...
Horror
Story
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The Willing

By mark p on Thu, 17 Jan 2019

1976 Once off the bus, the feeling of excited anticipation that had been welling up inside John for days dissipated, to be replaced by a creeping...
Story
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Adam Maxwell -Farquhar (Tale 2)

By mark p on Thu, 07 Feb 2019

The Year of Our Lord 1899, Aberdeen I have been the priest in charge at St Peter’s for three years now and it has been a joyful experience thus far...
Story
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Master of the Macabre (Part 2)

By mark p on Sat, 09 Feb 2019

Ash stopped in the Prince of Wales, one of his favourite places. It was unusually quiet for a Thursday night; maybe late-night shopping had brought...
Story
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The Body of the House

By mark p on Sat, 16 Feb 2019

As Summer gave way to Autumn and the evenings gradually darkened, I would make my way back to the flat after an evening in the pub, my head swimming...
Story
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Lauren's Tale (2010)

By mark p on Tue, 05 Mar 2019

From: l.auren666@btinternet.com To nikkibea@aol.com Hiya Nicks, just one of my random nonsense e-mails! How’s things with you, coolio? Are you still...
Story
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MS Found in a Hotel Room

By mark p on Tue, 19 Mar 2019

In my part-time job as a chambermaid in hotels, I often find unusual things in the rooms I clean, usually stuff that I can just put in the bin and...
Story
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The Company Runs Itself

By mark p on Wed, 29 Apr 2020

Since the Lockdown started, what was it, four, maybe five weeks ago, Alan had lost all track of time , each day seemed to merge into the next. Like...
Story
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The Legions

By mark p on Wed, 03 Feb 2021

Its funny that I am writing my own story after all this time, it is a bit like the one entitled 'They Wait', which I edited for my uncle way back in...
Story
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The Vampire Walk

By mark p on Thu, 04 Feb 2021

The Vampire Walk Summer of 1981 the year we all left school and went our separate ways, a memorable summer for many reasons, lots of good music, end...
Story
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The Vampire Walk- Continued

By mark p on Fri, 05 Feb 2021

The Vampire Walk -Continued ( September 1981) Billy Ross lay slumped on the park bench in Victoria Park gazing up at the shadowy trees looming above...
Story
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Avian Incursion

By mark p on Sat, 19 Jun 2021

Graham had not slept properly for weeks, since the new neighbours had moved into the flat below just after the Pandemic hit the world. They were a...
Story
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Rampton- Chapter 2

By mark p on Mon, 05 Jul 2021

Rampton -Chapter 2 Then came the memories from 1976, flashbacks from the year of ‘The Willing’ as the other scouts had called it back then, when...
Story
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Rampton (Chapter 1)

By mark p on Fri, 06 Nov 2020

Clarke meandered through the church, ignoring the tour guides, and surreptitiously taking photographs with his small digital camera though the...
Unclassified
Story
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Like A Rolling Stone?

By mark p on Sat, 07 Aug 2021

March 2044 I cast my thoughts back in time and wonder to myself about the figure we called ‘The Victoria Vampire’ when we were youngsters in the...
Story
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Master of the Macabre ( Part 1)

By mark p on Sat, 09 Feb 2019

Shand sat in his gloomy flat, gazing at the raindrops going south across the window. Saturday night and here he was still smarting from the critical...
Story
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The Office Goth

By mark p on Sat, 11 Sep 2021

My name is Lorraine Denning, I am a retired office manager and I like to think, an amateur author, not published yet, but there are lots of websites...
Story
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Rampton - Chapter 3

By mark p on Tue, 05 Oct 2021

John Mitchell sat at the old mahogany desk in his cottage outside Cauld Village, he was working on his latest tale, one very much in the vein of M.R...
Story
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Rampton- Chapter 4

By mark p on Wed, 13 Oct 2021

It was raining in Aberdeen when he had driven out here, it rained there most months of the year, but once you travelled inland to Aboyne or Cauld, it...
Story
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Adam Maxwell-Farquhar (Tale 3) - A Voice from the Future

By mark p on Sat, 27 Nov 2021

The Year of Our Lord 1915 After years of being the priest at St Peter’s in Torry, Aberdeen, I felt a calling from the Good Lord God to minister to...
Science fiction
Story
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The Ghost House (Chapter 1)

By mark p on Tue, 28 Dec 2021

It was around Christmas 1973, at the time Alan and I used to take our radios to school on the day of the Radio 1 Top 20 rundown, when Slade were at...
Story
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The Ghost House ( Chapter 2)

By mark p on Tue, 04 Jan 2022

Christmas passed with a succession of relations visiting our house bearing gifts like the Three Wise Men in the Bible, only we got Broons books, the...
Story
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The Ghost House (Chapter3)

By mark p on Wed, 19 Jan 2022

I had actually seen a real ghost before , when I was 9 , in 1972, so had ‘one up’ on Alan. Dad and me were helping put up Christmas decorations in...
Story
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The Ghost House (Chapter 4)

By mark p on Mon, 24 Jan 2022

We were into late January now, and it was still cold, although the snow had gone and had turned to slush. I remember when I was six, I trudged to...
Story
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The Ghost House ( Chapter 5)

By mark p on Thu, 27 Jan 2022

The following day , I mentioned the light in the Ghost House to Mum and Dad at breakfast. Mum laughed saying ‘ You still like all that ghost nonsense...
Story
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The Ghost House - (Chapter 6)

By mark p on Tue, 01 Mar 2022

That night, I had a nightmare, the first one since I was in primary three, I woke up shaking at 3.25am, I could see the luminous hands of my Timex...
Story
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The Notes of Jenny Watson

By mark p on Mon, 18 Apr 2022

Extract from The Notes of Jenny Watson Dad’s last tale ‘Like a Rolling Stone ‘ came close to naming who he thought the Victoria Vampire to be- that...
Story
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Ghost House (Chapter 7)

By mark p on Wed, 20 Apr 2022

A week later, the second week of my grounding, I was watching ‘The Brady Bunch ‘on TV , just after school , when the phone rang. It was the ‘Wifie...
Story
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Welcome My Friends to The Race That Never Ends!

By mark p on Fri, 05 Aug 2022

I had been dreading this day for a while now. Today was the culmination of months of endless training. I had, in my time, run half marathons, full...
Science fiction
Story
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The Echo - (Adam Maxwell-Farquhar: Tale 4: Introduction)

By mark p on Fri, 05 Aug 2022

The Echo - (Introduction) After my experiences in France, I returned to Aberdeen, and being somewhat distressed by my experiences there, I was deemed...
Story
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