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Stephen Leather

The Wentworth Asylum, once used to house thousands of people, now lies abandoned. People insist it is inhabited by an ex-inmate who now chops down those who enter with her axe. After two teenagers turn up dead in the asylum, a television crew head to the asylum in the hopes of catching footage of the haunting. And to ensure their safety, Jack Nightingale is sent with them. But is it merely an axe-wielding murderer which awaits them?

Paul Thornley

Isis Publishing Ltd

Jack Nightingale - Short Stories

The Asylum

Finally with some time off, Jack Nightingale decides to take a scenic tour of some haunted sites on the American East coast. But when a strange doll is dumped in the road in front of him, what was meant to be a break for rest and relaxation turns into a battle for life and death; the doll is powerful, murderous and evil. And Nightingale may have unwittingly made himself its next target…

The Doll

Jack Nightingale is now living permanently in the US and Joshua Wainwrights has a job for him. Billionaire David Warner is being plagued by a ghost and Nightingale must get rid of it or he won’t close his business deal with Wainwright. So it is a stay in a haunted mansion for Jack, surrounded by scared or hostile staff and dealing with an obnoxious client. Even under pressure of time, Jack’s first concern is with the welfare of the ghost.

The Mansion

Somewhere along Route 74, Jack Nightingale takes a wrong turn, ending up at a nightmarish convention for serial killers. When things start getting out of hand, Nightingale has to step in to stop more blood being shed.

Wrong Turn

Tarot cards predict the future, right? Trust Jack Nightingale to find a pack that can change that future…and of course he “borrows” a card and signs a Latin contract he can’t read in his own blood. Can Jack and his long-time assistant Jenny McLean thwart the cards and destroy his and dozens of other contracts? Would anyone put money on a demon triumphing when Nightingale is on a mission?

The Cards

It’s been a long time since Jack Nightingale has taken confession. But repenting for his sins is not the only reason he has come to visit Father O’Grady – he needs him to perform an exorcism. Billy has been possessed by Bakka, a powerful demon who is Satan’s most loyal servant, and Jack must race to save the boy, and the world, from succumbing to the greatest evil imaginable.

Possession

In the middle of the night, two young infants start screaming in their bedroom as the temperature drops, the baby mobiles spin wildly and the room is filled with an aura of fear, panic and dread…Jack Nightingale is called to investigate these spooky goings on in the house of occult-metal rock star Jimmy Deadman and his health-crazed supermodel wife Mary Madison. To try and work out what’s going on and save the poor children from the haunting, he must delve into the history of the town, the house itself and discover the meaning of two mysterious, occultist lockets gifted to the babies on the day of their baptism.

The House on Gable Street

South London gangster Perry Smith doesn’t scare easy but when four of his associates are brutally ripped apart by a demon called Amy, he calls in Jack Nightingale. Nightingale thinks it’s a wind-up – the gang contacted the demon via an iPad app whilst on holiday. But before he knows it, he’s on his way to Fuengirola, with his assistant Jenny McLean, to send Amy back to where she came from.

Knock Knock

Jack Nightingale and his companion Jenny McLean travel to Dorset to help Laura, an old school friend of Jenny’s – mysterious footsteps have been appearing on Laura’s deck every night, leading from the ocean to her house. As the footsteps get closer day by day, Nightingale must figure out who they belong to, why they appear, and whether their owner comes in peace…

Watery Grave

Employed by wealthy widow Vivienne Creswell to find out more about her husband’s death, Jack Nightingale finds himself in Florida. Dan Creswell’s body was found in his 3rd floor apartment, ripped to shreds and with the footprints of a giant cat found at the scene. But he couldn’t have been killed by a cat…right?

Claws

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale has always dealt with unusual - and dangerous - cases. When a serial killer starts killing victims using Witchfinder methods of execution, Nightingale is asked to help. As the body count mounts, Nightingale realises that the killer is on a mission of revenge for acts committed four hundred years ago. And he and his assistant Jenny McLean are both on the killer's hit list.

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