In Times of Want and Other Stories
A little boy is captivated by a storyteller in the local library, but finds the tale has teeth; a psychiatrist tries to help a patient terrified of change, only to discover that was the least of her worries; a young couple find themselves stranded in a remote monastery in a tale of witchcraft and murder; a young journalist is attacked in a deserted underground station, only to be rescued by a mysterious stranger; something dark waits in a haunted playground, calling for someone to play with... Ghosts, witches, and all-too-human monsters wait within these pages...
Hersham Horror Books brings you Marie O’Regan’s second short story collection, where you’ll find a clutch of stories that will stick with you long after reading...
Introduction by bestselling author Sarah Pinborough (13 Minutes, Behind Her Eyes).
Afterword by Johnny Mains (Dead Funny, Best British Horror).
Cover art by Edward Miller.
Marie O'Regan
Marie O'Regan is an award-nominated writer and editor of horror and dark fantasy fiction, and her short fiction has been published in such places as The Alsiso Project, When Darkness Comes, Terror Tales 2, Terror Tales of London among others - her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published in 2006, and she is also the co-editor of Hellbound Hearts (Pocket Books), The Mammoth Book of Body Horror and Carnivale: Dark Tales From the Fairground (PS Publishing) along with her husband, Paul Kane, and the solo-edited anthology The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women. Marie and Paul's non-fiction interview book, Voices in the Dark, was published early in 2011. Excerpts of her fiction together with details of where it can be found are elsewhere on this site. Marie is also currently Co-Chair of the UK Chapter of the Horror Writers' Association.
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