"Resurrection Blues started with a dream about a harmonica; one that produces a beautiful sound - and calls the dead back to listen, just as the flute did in the tale of The Pied Piper. It's no secret that I love a ghost story, so after that it didn't take long for the other elements to come together.

Marcus plays in a band at a club, every night, to a disaffected audience that takes very little notice of the music. When he sees the harmonica in a store window, he has to have it, and is delighted when he finds the audience starts to really take notice of the band each night. Things are looking up. Pretty soon, he realises it's more than that - scattered in amongst the audience are ghosts that appear when he starts to play the new harmonica. One night, it brings his mother back - and she has a warning for him. If he keeps playing, he'll raise a monster, the ghost of a murderer, and it'll come for him as it did his own father. Marcus must revisit his past to find the key to destroying his nemesis, and in doing so free the ghosts the creature has enslaved since its own passing."

Published
May 29, 2025 (Black Shuck Books)
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Author

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…

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Black Shuck Books

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