Weird Tales from the Island City: 9 Strange Portsmouth Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781913001063)

People are strange

...and so is this city!

9 stories ranging from the strange and fun to the weird and dark, all set in Portsmouth - the UK's only island city.

From hauntings both serious and comic, through a psychopath's hallucinations, a chance meeting with a mythical being, to inexplicable life-enhancing events, in these pages you will find:

- A spoiled aristocrat who faces a ghoulish come-uppance

- A secret world beneath the city's streets

- A mermaid and time-travelling cats

- A brilliant detective caught red-handed

- A crime investigated by Arthur Conan Doyle's ghost

- A killer forever on the run

- A journalist who makes a meal of himself

- A puppet who pulls all the strings

Be they historic fiction, modern comedy, horror or fantasy, these weird tales will keep you guessing all the way.

Includes 7 short stories and 2 novellas with one thing in common: the city where the action takes place!

Cover illustration "Eclipse" (c) 2023 Gerardo Silva