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Cult supernatural writer and investigator of the paranormal Tom Slemen brings you 25 strange and spooky stories about the creepy side of Christmas in The Angel of Twelfth Night. As the title suggests, those enigmatic but awe-inspiring beings known down the ages as "angels" are featured in this book, but you will also meet the fallen angel, Lucifer.

Welcome to the third volume of Tales from the Weird by one of England's top cult writers on the supernatural - Tom Slemen. In this disturbing but thought-provoking book, you will hear about real-life paranormal nightmares set in places ranging from Liverpool to Los Angeles, Alaska to Australia, and New York to New Brighton.

Thirty-one strange, but true tales to make your flesh creep, to intrigue you, and to give you sleepless nights - all from the pen of Tom Slemen, one of England's top writers and researchers of all things supernatural. Amongst the 31 tales, you will hear about the bizarre, but terrifying creature who terrorised people in Victorian times in Liverpool's Pellew Street. What was he? Man, beast, or some freak of nature hybrid?

It is always an event when Tom publishes a new book and this one is definitely no exception. In this chilling volume of more than 30 chapters - with many chapters containing more than one story - you will meet the Faceless Bride of Lime Street and you will also be introduced to Anfield’s unknown ghostly woman before visiting the creepy establishment known as The Devil’s Arms, where everything is just too good to be true. You will not find the usual hackneyed stories of supernatural cliché in this volume.

The Red Fiend of Bold Street, The Black Elves of Bloody Acre, The Old Man in the Carpet, Strange Creatures from the Bootle Caverns, and the sinister legend of the Devil's Bridge in Mossley Hill where, it is alleged, John Lennon sold his soul in return for 20 years of global fame and undreamt-of fortune...just some of the tales in this phenomenal book by Liverpool's most popular writer - Tom Slemen. Beasts, Banshees, and Bogeymen is just further proof that Tom Slemen is the unrivalled master storyteller of the supernatural.

Welcome to the 24th volume in the legendary series of the Haunted Liverpool books. In this fascinating and chilling collection of over 40 spine-tingling stories, you will encounter real zombies, terrifying ghosts that physically inflict harm on the living, as well as an abomination known as Long-Legged Alice that is guaranteed to give you many sleepless nights.

Welcome to Haunted Liverpool 31 - another classic volume of stories about the supernatural from cult writer Tom Slemen. In this audiobook you will listen to dozens of accounts concerning incredible timeslips, terrifying shape-shifters, scheming witches, bizarre and frightening demonic entities, real-life bogeymen, creepy things we are not supposed to know about, and amorous ghosts.

Haunted grandfather clocks, dragons, witches, wizards, ghosts, metaphysical foes, enigmatic robot dolls, battling leprechauns, stone-age girlfriends, and Jesus arriving in Liverpool on a steam train are just some of the amazing goings-on in this Tom Slemen audiobook, which can be listened to by little people from 12 to 120!

In this compelling study of true crime, Liverpool's most popular author Tom Slemen recounts some of the most intriguing and baffling murders of Merseyside. This fascinating book is a must for all readers of true crime in general and Liverpudlians and Merseysiders in particular.

Over 45 spine-chilling and thought-provoking tales from one of the greatest writers in the realm of the supernatural - Tom Slemen.

Welcome to Haunted Liverpool 18 - an amazing book that leaves other works on the supernatural light years behind. Once again, that master of mystery and the supernatural, Tom Slemen, takes us on a tour of the Liverpool nobody knows; a Haunted Liverpool in which you will be confronted with such creatures as the child vampire Amelia, who haunts a house in Norris Green, and the Werewolf of Abercromby Square which terrorized two security guards...

Haunted Liverpool 26 will challenge your most basic perceptions about the universe you live in, and undermine your assumptions about reality itself. Liverpool and the Northwest of England is teeming with ghosts, witches, fallen angels, timeslips, test-tube supermen, weird reptilian humanoids, and some of the weirdest and most nightmarish apparitions in the paranormal sphere.

If you are brave enough to attempt to try and contact the dead, this is the book for you. In this controversial work by Tom Slemen - the internationally recognized expert on all things paranormal - you will be shown how to use a ouija board, hold a séance, and you will even be told how you can build a chamber to contact the dearly departed.

There are the usual mundane books about regurgitated mysteries, and there are books such as Strange Mysteries which boldly delve into the more offbeat mysteries of history, as well as mysteries of crime, space, and time. Within this amazing collection of 65 mysteries you will read of the mysterious Zodiac Killer who terrorized the West Coast of the United States in the 1960s - who was he? Could a new scientific breakthrough finally unmask Zodiac?

Ghosts, ghouls, witches, spectres, demons, the Grim Reaper, vampires, leprechauns, the Devil, as well as a host of other supernatural beings - along with the odd unsolved murder thrown in for good measure – all to be found within the pages of this unique first volume of Tom Slemen's work. Thirty-six stories that will haunt your mind and delight your dark side, all from the pen of one of England's greatest writers on the supernatural – Tom Slemen.

In this groundbreaking investigation into the unsolved Whitechapel Murders case of 1888, Tom Slemen uncovers a shocking possibility - that the Jack the Ripper murders were executed by a military-trained assassin hired by the British Intelligence Service.

In The Twelve Ghosts of Christmas, you will even be chilled by the stories in the introduction to the book, never mind the devilish dozen true tales about eerie time slips, gory premonitions, heart-stopping exorcisms, heartbreaking tales of lost love, graveyard tricksters, and sinister old hags. Listen to a story about the devil that tempted a bishop with pleasures of the flesh in "The Missing Room" and of the titanic, ominous force that turned a 3,000-ton ship upside down and sent its crew of 75 into limbo, never to be seen again.

Tales of the Talking Picture is a fabulous science-fiction fantasy novel about a boy who comes into possession of an old oval portrait of a woman named Rhiannon Tanglewyst, who happens to be a witch who has been trapped within the picture for centuries. Rhiannon tells Matthew and his troublesome girlfriend, a Goth named Christina, fantastical tales from the future and the past....

With romance and Valentine's Day as a backdrop, hear these dozen tales about ghosts, witches and a variety of weird entities, as well as unearthly and often cruel twists of fate in times and places that range from Liverpool, to London, from 1960s San Francisco and the heart of England's countryside in modern times as well as the Victorian era.

The Space Mariners tells the story of two 16-year-old school-leavers dismissed as unemployable no-hopers who hang around a spaceport in an effort to obtain a job, only to find themselves embroiled in an adventure involving a disgraced captain of a gargantuan space-freighter that vanished under very mysterious circumstances, a planet-hopping vagrant stowaway, and an Irish double-crossing space pirate named Blood who has claimed an unknown paradisiacal world for his own.