The Hollow Hills and other Strange Tales

Welcome to The Hollow Hills. Take a trip through eerie and uncanny landscapes. No map can guide you. In the title novelette, an undercover journalist joins an expedition deep into the woods in northern Spain. He hopes to prove that some bizarre, otherworldly photographs taken by the expedition’s leader were faked. Instead, he inexplicably finds himself running for his life to escape those ancient woods. In the short story ‘SONG OF SOIL’, New York singer Maria Caddas grows tired of being the support act on a tour of the UK with star-turn Ginny Rivera, and craves a song of her own to sing.  When the tour bus breaks down on a country road, and the entire entourage is forced to spend the night in a nearby village, Maria is offered an unusual solution to making her dreams come true. Meanwhile in 'PHANTOMS', a rock band on the brink of stardom need one final song to complete their debut album.  Serendipitously, singer Danny Hano is taken home after a gig one evening by a beautiful fan and introduced to a mesmerising ballad. When Benjamin's car breaks down on the Yorkshire Moors, in 'THE SECRECY OF THE HEART';, he's forced to go to an isolated house for help.  But he inadvertently finds himself caught up in an impossible situation.  After some rash behaviour results in him being forced to take part in a hunt out on the pitch-black moor, Benjamin is made him to confront his own innermost secrets and desires. We return to those same moors in ‘THE SILENCE OF THE HEART’, where a policeman goes door-to- door searching for the solution to his own devastating loss. Creepy, chilling, and witty by turn, the stories in this collection deal in love, isolation, loneliness, obsession, greed, and revenge. Come take a hike through the hollow hills. Whatever dwells here will be dying to meet you …