The Tales from the Inferno volumes were truly something that I enjoyed creating.

Whereas writing a full novel can be fun and complex, so too can making a short story or novella. Why spend 100,000 words telling a captivating story when it can be told in 25,000, or even 500 words?
That is what I loved about writing these volumes. Being a fan of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood and the podcast Anthology of Horror, I have always liked short and snappy horror that chews you up and spits you out.
But the stories aren’t all ghouls and ghosts. Far from it. Some are a very select version of hell, in that of a life gone wrong. Not only that, in my work as a police officer, I quickly realised that we don’t need to be scared of monsters under our beds. They are around us all the time.

The first volume contains three stories, the second has six, and then there is the mammoth collection Into the Nightmares, which includes all of my chilling works in one place and offers great value for money for those who want a lot of story to go through.

One of my favourite stories to write was a tale named The Ghost in the Mist, about a man who goes to war, then makes a deal with the Devil for his safe return. The story is based on the old English folklore song The House Carpenter and explores the nature of love and life after death.

Then, we have more claustrophobic tales, such as The Night Shift, and other disturbing stories like Lorna.

They say, ‘Write what you know.’ All I know is monsters, and the kind of monsters that smile at you at work and pass you in the street day to day.

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