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Club Medusa
After a traumatic end to their military careers, Gerry and Paul have rebuilt their lives as civilians. Two years later it now seems the spectres of their past are finally beginning to fade.
However, when Gerry has a crisis, a simple plan is agreed: meet up in Edinburgh’s Old Town, visit some old haunts, drink beer, talk things through – then go home. What could possibly go wrong?
More than anyone could imagine…
Drawn into a senseless brawl outside a night club, both men soon find themselves running for their lives in the oldest and most unpredictable part of town.
But when they accept an offer of refuge in a club neither can remember seeing before, they soon realise all the horrors of war are nothing compared to what lies ahead for them in Club Medusa…
Accent Reds: Club Medusa II
“What I remember happening next made no sense…”
Barely escaping the horrors of Club Medusa with his life, Paul Banning knows that he is now recovering in a medical room. Beyond that, all certainty ends.
Who are the mysterious, well-equipped medical team who wear no identification, and why are they so keen to get him back on his feet?
Why does he have such vivid memories of a series of gruesome murders, all committed on behalf of Club?
Why is he having recurring fever dreams about a spinning red room?
And why are so many alarm bells from his military past ringing with each new discovery he makes?
As Paul recovers from his injuries, he finds the nightmare which began for him in an Edinburgh backstreet is far from over. As he tries to separate his new reality from past nightmares, he finds himself working with dangerous people he doesn’t know, inside an organisation he can’t trust, in a race against time to track down one of the most gifted and deadliest members of the Club.
Which is exactly what she wants.
COMING SOON
The Fear Aesthetic: Club Medusa III
“Overall, I found the massacre had lightened my mood.”
Having been dealt a crippling blow by Teagan, the folio are now dispersed and regrouping in secret. Paul, Brown and Ash know they shouldn’t be alive after their showdown in the Pentland Hills, and yet they were deliberately spared.
But the showdown has changed the game. The folio’s hand is forced, and true agendas come to light which could be at odds with any claims that they’re the ‘good guys.’ Brown and Ash suddenly find themselves in a position where they must make a decision which could turn them renegade and place them in the same firing line as Paul.
Meanwhile the Club have all but gone to ground, save for the occasional flashes of intuition by Paul and the creeping realisation that now Facepaint is in charge, something truly ominous is being planned ‘down south.’
As tables turn, alliances shift, relationships blossom and fracture and a trail of high-ranking politicians and intelligence officers are found murdered in bizarre ways, it seems clear that the agenda for the next meeting of Club Medusa has already been set. And unless someone can stop them, it’s going to be a night that an entire nation will remember…
(Coming in late 2025)
Photo credit: Eduard Pretsi on Unsplash
Joey by David
But when do friends stop being imaginary? Is it when they suddenly start doing magic tricks in the real world? When they start showing the child how to control the world around them? When they begin to terrify parents for fun?
Surely that’s more than just imaginary?
Joey has been David’s imaginary friend since before he can remember. Joey might look, move and even smell weird – but only David can see him and only David can hear him.
This puts David in a place between the real world – and somewhere else entirely.
Somewhere that’s truly terrifying…